Japan's Top-Down Policy Process to Dispatch the SDF to Iraq

Japanese Journal of Political Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-91

  Shinoda, Tomohito ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

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EID: 67649810222     PISSN: 14681099     EISSN: 14740060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1468109905002070     Document Type: Article

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