Drawing Belgium: Using mental maps to measure territorial conflict

Territory, Politics, Governance

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-51

  Reuchamps, Min ^a   Kavadias, Dimokritos ^b   Deschouwer, Kris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; Federalism; Language; Mental maps; Territory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954566607     PISSN: 21622671     EISSN: 2162268X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2013.814549     Document Type: Article

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