Case study methods: Design, use, and comparative advantages

Models, Numbers, and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 19-55

  Bennett, Andrew ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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