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Reconstituting Political Order in Europe, East and West

Robert Bideleux

Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 3 - 16

Swansea University Author: Robert Bideleux

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/15705850802699953

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This article reappraises key features and implications of the EU supranational civil legal order, a civil association which now encompasses over 500 million Europeans (about two-thirds of Europe’s inhabitants, depending on how Europe is delimited). This new order has greatly enhanced security, stabi...

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Published in: Perspectives on European Politics and Society
ISSN: 1570-5854 1568-0258
Published: 2009
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