Security Flashpoints: Oil, Islands, Sea Access and Military Confrontation

CO-AUTHORS Myron H. Nordquist

PUBLISHER

Martinus Nijhoff

DATE

1998

John Norton Moore & Myron H. Nordquist, eds., Security Flashpoints: Oil, Islands, Sea Access and Military Confrontation, Martinus Nijhoff (1998).

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