Building Terrorism Resistant Communities: Together Against Terrorism
- ISBN-10
- 160750006X
- ISBN-13
- 9781607500063
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 349
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01-01
- Publisher
- IOS Press
- Authors
- S. Ekici, A. Ekici
Description
"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Together against Terrorism: Building Terrorism Resistant Communities, Washington D.C., USA, 26-27 September 2008."--T.p. verso.
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