'Events dear boy, events': Terrorism and security from the perspective of politics

Critical Studies on Terrorism

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-120

  Neal, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

events; politics; securitisation; security; terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859728397     PISSN: 17539153     EISSN: 17539161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2012.659919     Document Type: Article

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