Fifty-year disturbance: The armed forces special powers act and exceptionalism in a South Asian periphery

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-270

  McDuie Ra, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMED FORCES; HUMAN RIGHTS; MILITARY GOVERNMENT; MILITARY INTERVENTION; PERIPHERAL REGION; POLITICAL POWER;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70449373372     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584930903108911     Document Type: Article

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