Eu Human Rights Policies: A Study in Irony

ISBN-13: 9780199268962 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 240 str.

Andrew Williams

Opis

The EU's human rights policies are plagued by double standards: it applies radically different approaches in its external and internal operations. In this book, Andrew Williams reveals the nature and scope of this bifurcation and the resultant discrimination, and argues that the ironical condition revealed undermines both the EU's commitment to human rights and its moral credibility.

Recenzje

Williams takes a fresh and thought-provoking look at this much scrutinised area. From the outset, theere can be no doubt as to Williams' deep commitment to the pursuit of human rights protection. He sets about his task with passion , developing a sophisticated these which probes the very foundations of the EU's human rights agenda... This is a stimulating book which should give practitioners and policy makers, as well as those engaged in study of European institutions and policy-making, considerable pause for thought.

O autorze

Andrew Williams is Lecturer in Law at the University of Warwick.