Conditions of intergovernmental armaments cooperation in Western Europe, 1996–2006

European Political Science Review

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-33

  Thiem, Alrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

armaments cooperation; defence policy; European Union; fuzzy set analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011454878     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773910000251     Document Type: Article

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