Place, politics and 'scale dependence': Exploring the structuration of Euro-regionalism

European Urban and Regional Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 231-253

  MacLeod, Gordon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; REGIONAL POLITICS; REGIONALISM;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032884950     PISSN: 09697764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096977649900600304     Document Type: Article

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