From Cotonou to EPA light: A troubled negotiating process

Beyond Market Access for Economic Development: EU-Africa Relations in Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 21-37

  Elgström, Ole ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 77649223358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203876589     Document Type: Chapter

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