Information warfare: Peering inside Pandora's postmodern box

Library Review

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 279-295

  Cronin, Blaise ^a,b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer security; Information control; Security; Terrorism; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032070768     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005600     Document Type: Article

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