Nato as an external driver of institutional change in post-communist countries

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 279-297

  Melnykovska, Inna ^a   Schweickert, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Governance; Institutional change; NATO; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958107043     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2010.532941     Document Type: Article

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