Full Description
With the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, the profile of human rights issues has greatly risen in relation to EU policies, whether internal or external. The EU has thereby made the commitment to ensure that all its actions are compliant with human rights, and seek to promote them. Yet, the EU's commitment has come under scrutiny, not only for its ground-breaking character, but also because recent events have put it to the test.
This volume has been designed to take stock of these developments, to comprehensively discuss the conceptualization and operationalization of the EU's commitment to human rights throughout the EU's relationships, policies, actions and legislative activity, and to critically assess its outcome. This title is divided into four parts: 'Framework' presents the issues related to human rights promotion by the EU; 'Actors' delves into the relationships that play a part, at home or abroad, in regards to human rights policies and judgements; 'Policies' takes a case-study approach and systematically reviews a range of EU internal and external policies to assess their human rights impact and implementation; and finally, 'Strategies' provides an integrated assessment of the design and implementation of the EU's commitment to human rights.
This book brings together essays from around the world, each discussing different aspects of EU commitment, and evaluating the extent to which the EU is delivering on it. Each chapter provides an introduction to the state of affairs, discusses opportunities and challenges, and provides recommendations. As such, it is an essential reference book on human rights policies throughout the EU and their impact throughout the world.
Contents
Herman Van Rompuy: Forward: a union of values
Jan Wouters, Anna-Luise Chané, Manfred Nowak: The European Union and human rights: law and policy - an introduction
Framework
1: Jan Wouters: From an economic community to a union of values: the emergence of the EU's commitment to human rights
2: Eva Maria Lassen: Factors enabling and hindering the promotion and protection of human rights by the EU
3: Lorena Sosa and Alexandra Timmer: Conceptual underpinnings of the EU's commitment to human rights
4: Chiara Altafin, Karin Lukas, Manfred Nowak: The normative framework of the EU's commitment to human rights: the Treaties, the Charter, Member States' constitutional traditions, and international law
5: Monika Mayrhofer: The EU's institutional human rights architecture
Actors
6: Jan Wouters: The EU's engagement with its Member States on human rights
7: Anna-Luise Chané: The EU's engagement with the United Nations on human rights
8: Jakub Jaraczewski, Wladyslaw Józwicki, Zdzislaw Kedzia: The EU's engagement with the Council of Europe and the OSCE on human rights
9: Elizabeth Salmon and Magnus Killander: The EU's engagement with non-European regional organizations on human rights
10: Pál Dunay: The EU's engagement with the Eastern Partnership on human rights
11: T. Jeremy Gunn and Alvaro Lagresa: The human rights encounter between the EU and its Southern Mediterranean partners
12: Francisca Costa Reis, Weiyuan Gao, Vineet Hedge: The EU's engagement with foreign powers on human rights: Brazil, China and India
13: Jeff Kenner, Katrina Peake, Stuart Wallace: The EU's engagement with civil society on human rights
14: Mary E. Footer: The EU's engagement with business on human rights
Policies
15: Beata Huszka and Zsolt Körtvélyesi: EU enlargement policy and human rights
16: Nicolas Hachez and Axel Marx: EU trade policy and human rights
17: Brecht Lein: Human rights in EU development cooperation
18: Carmen Marquez Carrasco: Human rights in the EU's common security and defence policy
19: Elina Pirjatanniemi and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso: EU migration policy and human rights
20: Elina Pirjatanniemi and Mikaela Heikkilä: EU security and counterterrorism policies and human rights
21: Cristina Churruca Muguruza and Felipe Gómez Isa: EU human rights and democratization policy
22: Wolfgang Benedek: The EU's engagement with human rights defenders
Strategies
23: Markus Möstl, Maddalena Vivona, Isabella Meier, Klaus Starl: EU practices on measuring human rights
24: Manfred Nowak and Karolina Podstawa: The EU's (strategic) use of human rights tools and instruments
25: Lisa Ginsborg and Graham Finlay: Towards ever greater coherence? Human rights policies in the evolving EU
26: Nicolas Hachez: Conclusion: delivery, coherence and effectiveness - a triple challenge for the EU's commitment to human rights
