Articles: Integrating the past: Regional integration and historical reckoning in central and Eastern Europe

Nationalities Papers

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 481-506

  Gledhill, John ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective remembrance; Czech republic; European regional integration; Poland; R omania; Transitional justice

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL SYSTEM; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

CZECH REPUBLIC; POLAND; ROMANIA;

EID: 80053135517     PISSN: 00905992     EISSN: 14653923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2011.580733     Document Type: Article

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