| Loại tài liệu | Tư liệu ngôn ngữ (Sách) | | Chỉ số ISBN | 9783211311332 | | Mã ngôn ngữ | eng | | | KJE5132 E84 | | Tên tác giả | Williams, Andrew J | | Thông tin nhan đề | EU human rights policies : A study in irony / Andrew Williams | | Xuẩt bản,phát hành | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004 | | Mô tả vật lý | 219 p. ; 25 cm
| | Tóm tắt/chú giải | The academic literature on the human rights law and policy of the European Union has burgeoned over the past decade, and in particular in the last rour or five years since the project of drafting a Charter of Rights for the EU was initiated. At the same time the attention paid by the EU institutions to the topic has increased, with the enactment of anti discriminations legislation, the development of external human rights and democratization policies, the proliferation of annual reports on human rights within and outside the Union, and the agreement recently reached on the desirability of EU accession to the European Convention on Human rights. 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. Despite recent constitutional arrangements, human rights remain an ambiguous and complex subject in the European Union. Human rights issues may have become increasingly relevant to the life of the EU over the past thirty years but there has been an institutional reluctance to mould a unifiedhuman rights policy worthy of the name. Nevertheless, the EU's practices have not been constructed randomly: they have evolved within discrete policy realms along coherent narrative lines. From the arguably mythical basis that the EU was founded upon a general principle of respect for human rights; policies and practices have developed along two distinct paths. Internally, within the EU, human rights are contingent. Scrutiny is erratic and even casual, and enforcement is left to the courts and independent agencies. Externally, in the EU's interactions with non-members, however, the story isvery different: human rights are broad in concept. Collective notions of rights are accepted and promoted. Scrutiny can be intrusive and effective, and systems of enforcement, increasingly severe in scope and strength, have been applied. This bifurcation has direct implications for the EU's constitutional structure and its future human rights activities. It suggests that, through human rights language, conditions for conflict rather than integration have arisen, and that a system of double standards has been instituted. Williamstherefore argues that the EU's claims to a credible human rights policy are suspect. This book examines the nature and scope of the bifurcation and explains its origins and development. In doing so it questions orthodox interpretations and provides a radical new reading of the EU's human rights law and practice. At its heart, the book claims that without a fundamental reappraisal ofthe basis upon which the EU responds to human rights, it will remain plagued by this ironical condition
| | Từ khóa | 1. Civil rights. 2. European Union countries. 3. Human rights. |
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