The European External Action Service and agenda-setting in European foreign policy

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1316-1331

  Vanhoonacker, Sophie ^a   Pomorska, Karolina ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; European External Action Service; European Foreign Policy; High Representative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883489112     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2012.758446     Document Type: Article

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