"A good investment?": State sponsorship of terrorism as an instrument of Iraqi foreign policy (1979-1991)

Governmental support for nonstate actors designated as terrorist organizations is not only a policy that carries significant international and domestic costs; it further poses a theoretical challenge to structural realist thinking about alliance politics in international relations. By debating, firs...

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Main Author: Kirchner, Magdalena (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 27 Mar 2014
In: Cambridge review of international affairs
Year: 2014, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 521-537
ISSN:1474-449X
DOI:10.1080/09557571.2013.839629
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2013.839629
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