Energy security, normative dilemmas, and institutional camouflage: Europe's pragmatism

Politics and Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 611-635

  Wood, Steve ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Osteuropa Institut Regensburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEMOCRACY; EUROPEAN UNION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK;

EID: 66949161559     PISSN: 15555623     EISSN: 17471346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2009.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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