Al-qaeda's innovative improvisers: Learning in a diffuse transnational network

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 555-569

  Jones, Calvert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85044799376     PISSN: 09557571     EISSN: 1474449X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09557570601003205     Document Type: Article

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