Law and International Religious Freedom: The Rise and Decline of the American Model

ISBN-13: 9780367886097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 116 str.

Pasquale Annicchino

Opis

This book analyses the rise to prominence of international religious freedom within the context of US foreign policy showing how this has also influenced other states and the EU. It compares and contrasts the emerging Western consensus with other notions of religious freedom as shaped by religious laws and other geopolitical actors.

Spis treści

Introduction

Part I: The United States and the International Religious Freedom Act

Chapter 1: The first freedom

Chapter 2: Background and genesis of the International Religious Freedom Act

Chapter 3: The International Religious Freedom Act

Part II: Religious Freedom in the External Relations of the European Union

Chapter 4: European Union law and religious freedom

Chapter 5: Protection and promotion of religious freedom in the external relations of the European Union

Chapter 6: Reception of the United States model in the experiences of several European countries

Part III: Religious Freedom as a Foreign Policy Instrument: Problems and Perspectives

Chapter 7: A return to the collective aspect of religious freedom? Different religious perspectives on the construction of law

Chapter 8: The impossibility of religious freedom?

Postscript

O autorze

Dr Pasquale Annicchino is a Visiting Fellow in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy and a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute on Religion and International Studies, Cambridge, United Kingdom. His research interests are in the areas of Law and Religion, Comparative Human Rights, National Security Law, Legal Theory, and European Union Law and EU External Relations. He has published widely on these and related areas.