Private Security and the Public-Private Divide: Contested Lines of Distinction and Modes of Governance in the Stockholm-Arlanda Security Assemblage

International Political Sociology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 408-425

  Berndtsson, Joakim ^a   Stern, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 83055180300     PISSN: 17495679     EISSN: 17495687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00142.x     Document Type: Article

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