Stopping Wars and Making Peace: Studies in International Intervention

Co-author(s)

Reisman, W. Michael

PUBLISHER

Brill

DATE

2009

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Kristen Eichensehr

Kristen Eichensehr & W. Michael Reisman, eds., Stopping Wars and Making Peace: Studies in International Intervention, Brill (2009).

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