Cities on fire: Social mobilization, state policy, and urban insurgency

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1623-1649

  Staniland, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

civil war; ethnic conflict; insurgency; Iraq; Northern Ireland; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149389149     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414010374022     Document Type: Article

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