Asymmetric war and asymmetric peace: Real realities and media realities in the middle east and the western balkans

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward Terrorism and Genocide

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-142

  Shinar, Dov ^a   Bratic, Vladimir ^b  

^a NETANYA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b HOLLINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric conflict; Ethnopolitical conflict; Globalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960519023     PISSN: 17467586     EISSN: 17467594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17467586.2010.531034     Document Type: Article

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