Bureaucratization or Strengthening of the Political?: Estonian Institutions and Integration into the European Union

Cooperation and Conflict

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 137-156

  Raik, Kristi ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; democracy; discourse analysis; EU Eastern enlargement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996261610     PISSN: 00108367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010836702037002974     Document Type: Article

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