Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-63148-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 497 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in EU Law

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 EU and the framework of international law, and compares minority rights in the older Member States including France, Germany and the UK, with newer Eastern European states.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shoraka, Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Öffentliches Recht (inkl. EMRK)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.