WHY ARE SOME DEMOCRACIES MORE TARGETED BY TERRORISTS THAN OTHER DEMOCRACIES?
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عنوان ژورنال: Русская политология – Russian Political Science
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2541-965X
DOI: 10.51180/rps.2020.15.2.013