One voice, one message, but conflicting goals: Cohesiveness and consistency in the European Neighbourhood Policy

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1033-1049

  Börzel, Tanja A ^a   van Hüllen, Vera ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actorness; cohesiveness; European Neighbourhood Policy; European Union; single voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902826786     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2014.912147     Document Type: Article

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