Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union

ISBN-13: 9780415491259 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str.

Kirsten Shoraka

Opis

The end of the Cold War has ushered a restructuring of the institutions of the European Community, culminating into its enlargement to Eastern Europe, under the aegis of economic integration, democracy and human rights.

This book examines the development and the role of human rights in the European Union, from its inception as an economic co-operation project to an organisation of European States with a political agenda that goes beyond its borders. It argues that human rights have become an important component of the foreign policy of the European Union and that this role has grown from the inception of the Union through the Cold War and thereafter onto the process of enlargement of the Union. The book goes on to analyse the EU’s policy on minorities, as a particular example of human rights. It considers the level of their protection within the framework of international law, particularly with regard to enlargement and compares minority rights in the older member states including France, Germany and the UK, with newer Eastern European states.

Spis treści

1. Overview  2. A Background to the Establishment of Human Rights in the Law and Policies of the European Union  3. The Common Foreign and Security Policy as an Instrument of Human Rights Policy  4. The EU and the Protection of Minority Rights in Europe Chapter  5. Minority Rights in the Member States

O autorze

Kirsten Shoraka has a PhD in law from the London School of Economics and worked as legal advisor for Fair Trials International, Office of Fair Trading, German Institute of Human Rights, the German Foreign Office and the Social Democrat Party in the German Parliament.