East Asian relative peace - does it exist? What is it?

Pacific Review

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 503-526

  Kivim̈aki, Timo ^a  

^a Nordic Institute of Asian Studies   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Battle deaths; Definition of peace; East Asian peace

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE PROCESS; PEACEKEEPING; REGIONAL SECURITY; SECURITY THREAT;

FAR EAST;

EID: 77955625125     PISSN: 09512748     EISSN: 14701332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2010.496001     Document Type: Article

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