From bombs to banners? the decline of wars and the rise of unarmed uprisings in East Asia

Security Dialogue

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 219-237

  Svensson, Isak ^a   Lindgren, Mathilda ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

conflict; nonviolence; unarmed uprisings; violence; war

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959250215     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: 14603640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010611407105     Document Type: Article

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