Illicit markets, weak states and violence: Iraq and Mexico

Crime, Law and Social Change

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 323-336

  Williams, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 71449090161     PISSN: 09254994     EISSN: 15730751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10611-009-9194-0     Document Type: Article

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