Societal responses to terrorist attacks

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 35, Issue , 2009, Pages 167-189

  Spilerman, Seymour ^a   Stecklov, Guy ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coping; Economy; Israel; Northern Ireland; Resilience; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149119597     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-120001     Document Type: Article

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