Cleaning-up the Arctic's Cold War Legacy: Nuclear Waste and Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation

Cooperation and Conflict

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-36

  Sawhill, Steven G ^a  

^a FRIDTJOF NANSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

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EID: 84996225921     PISSN: 00108367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00108360021961986     Document Type: Article

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