Towards a theory of external democracy promotion: A proposal for theoretical classification

Security Dialogue

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-96

  Wolff, Jonas ^a   Wurm, Iris ^a  

^a Frankfurt am Main Research Center Transformations of Political Violence   (Germany)

Author keywords

foreign policy; international security; peace building; war

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953250631     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: 14603640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010610393551     Document Type: Article

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