Governmentality and EU Democracy Promotion: The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights and the Construction of Democratic Civil Societies

International Political Sociology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 349-366

  Kurki, Milja ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 83055180301     PISSN: 17495679     EISSN: 17495687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00139.x     Document Type: Article

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