Democratic states and authoritarian firewalls: America as a black knight in the uprising in Bahrain

Contemporary Politics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 331-346

  Ambrosio, Thomas ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arab Uprisings; authoritarian persistence; Bahrain; black knights; US foreign policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903476709     PISSN: 13569775     EISSN: 14693631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2014.911497     Document Type: Article

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