Crisis mapping intelligence information during the libyan civil war: An exploratory case study

Policy and Internet

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 24-39

  Stottlemyre, Steve ^a   Stottlemyre, Sonia ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF STATE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arab Spring; Crisis mapping; Intelligence; Libya; Military; Social network; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876739853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/poi3.9     Document Type: Article

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