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Barbarians ante portas or the Post-Communist Rule of Law in Post-Democratic European Union

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Czarnota, A. (2006). Barbarians ante portas or the Post-Communist Rule of Law in Post-Democratic European Union. In: Sadurski, W., Czarnota, A., Krygier, M. (eds) Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3842-9_13

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