Managing donor perceptions: Contextualizing Uganda's 2007 intervention in Somalia

African Affairs

Volumn 111, Issue 444, 2012, Pages 404-423

  Fisher, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACEKEEPING; PERCEPTION;

SOMALIA; UGANDA;

EID: 84864402871     PISSN: 00019909     EISSN: 14682621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/ads023     Document Type: Article

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