The region-building approach revisited: The continued othering of Russia in discourses of Region-building in the European North

Geopolitics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-71

  Browning, Christopher S ^a  

^a Danish Center for Human Rights   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICS; REGIONAL POLITICS; REGIONAL SECURITY; SECURITY THREAT; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION;

(NORTH); EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0037368220     PISSN: 14650045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714001005     Document Type: Article

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