Privatizing the politics of protection: Military companies and the definition of security concerns

The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 19-33

  Leander, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 84905933376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203002780     Document Type: Chapter

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