Narrative-based production of state spaces for international region building: Europeanization and the Mediterranean

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 415-431

  Jones, Alun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Europeanization; Geopolitical narrative; Mediterranean; State spaces

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; GEOPOLITICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL ORGANIZATION; REGIONAL POLITICS; STATE BUILDING; TERRITORIALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 33751097712     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00484.x     Document Type: Article

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