Rewarding Human Rights? Selective Aid Sanctions against Repressive States

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 791-803

  Nielsen, Richard A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL AID; NATION STATE; POLITICAL REPRESSION;

EID: 84890221709     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: 14682478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/isqu.12049     Document Type: Article

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