Diasporas and conflict societies: Conflict entrepreneurs, competing interests or contributors to stability and development?

Conflict, Security and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-143

  Brinkerhoff, Jennifer M ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79958095495     PISSN: 14678802     EISSN: 14781174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2011.572453     Document Type: Review

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