The European external action service: A pivotal actor in EU foreign policy communications?

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-94

  Bicchi, Federica ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

consular cooperation; CoOL (Consular Online); COREU (Correspondence Europ enne); EU delegations; European External Action Service (EEAS); European foreign policy; information gathering; information processing; political reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855676773     PISSN: 18711901     EISSN: 1871191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187119112X614666     Document Type: Article

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