How powerful are transnational elite clubs? The social myth of the World Economic Forum

New Political Economy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 321-340

  Graz, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELITE POLITICS; GEOPOLITICS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POWER RELATIONS;

EID: 0344440885     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1356346032000138041     Document Type: Article

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