How to be a 'front-runner': Norway and international climate politics

Small State Status Seeking: Norway's Quest for International Standing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 126-145

  Lahn, Bård ^a   Rowe, Elana Wilson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS NUPI   (Norway)

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EID: 84942544867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315758817     Document Type: Chapter

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