An ever closer fusion? A dynamic macropolitical view on integration processes

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 267-299

  Wessels, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1111/1468-5965.00060     Document Type: Article

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