Placing blame: Making sense of Beslan

Political Geography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-15

  Ó Tuathail, Gearóid ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geopolitics; Indiscriminate geographies; North Ossetia; Russia; Terrorism; Violence

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; GEOPOLITICS; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; TERRORISM;

ALANIA; BESLAN; CAUCASUS; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 62849088198     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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