State power and autocratic stability: Armenia and Georgia compared

The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Enduring Legacies and Emerging Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 103-123

  Way, Lucan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203027905     Document Type: Chapter

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