Climate change and the European Union's leadership moment: An inconvenient truth?

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 923-943

  Parker, Charles F ^a   Karlsson, Christer ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 77955724109     PISSN: 00219886     EISSN: 14685965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02080.x     Document Type: Article

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