European Union Meets South Korea: Bureaucratic Interests, Exporter Discrimination and the Negotiations of Trade Agreements

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 492-507

  Elsig, Manfred ^a   Dupont, Cédric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84859510508     PISSN: 00219886     EISSN: 14685965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2011.02243.x     Document Type: Article

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