Not peace, not war: The myriad spaces of sovereignty, peace and conflict in Myanmar/Burma

Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 91-114

  Grundy Warr, Carl ^a   Dean, Karin ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

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