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Tracing leadership: the ECB’s ‘whatever it takes’ and Germany in the Ukraine crisis

Magnus G. SchoellerCentre for European Integration Research (EIF), Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1095-1116 | Published online: 19 Jul 2019

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