Partnership in peril?: Images and strategies in EU-ACP economic partnership agreement negotiations

External Perceptions of the European Union as a Global Actor

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-149

  Elgström, Ole ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84899189700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203866917     Document Type: Chapter

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