'Arm' versus 'pillar': The politics of metaphors of the Western European Union at the 1990-91 Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 106-127

  Luoma Aho, Mika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

EU; Metaphors; Political symbolism; Transatlantic debate; WEU

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742288599     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350176042000164325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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