Evaluating the Legacies of State-Building: Success, Failure, and the Role of Responsibility

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 174-186

  Tansey, Oisín ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; NATIONAL POLITICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATE BUILDING; UNITED NATIONS;

LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUNDA ISLES; TIMOR; TIMOR-LESTE;

EID: 84896396798     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: 14682478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/isqu.12094     Document Type: Article

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