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Economic Integration versus National Sovereignty: Differences between Eastern and Western Europe*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

John Pinder
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THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, NEW TECHNOLOGIES ARE bringing greater specialization and scale of production, and hence more need for interdependence among the economies of nation states. Nowhere is this need more keenly felt than in Europe, both East and West.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1989 , pp. 309 - 326
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1989

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