Naslov
EU Accession and Human Rights: Window-dressing or Window of Opportunities?

Autori
Božić, Jasmina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija knjige
Autorske knjige, monografija, znanstvena

Izdavač
Istraživačko-obrazovni centar za ljudska prava i demokratsko građanstvo Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu ; FF Press

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2007

Stranica
104

ISBN
978-953-175-281-7

Ključne riječi
European Union; accession; political criteria; human rights; civil society

Sažetak
As respect for human rights and minority rights is one of the Copenhagen political criteria of accession to the European Union, the work explores the potential of the accession process to bring about the improvement of human rights situation in the candidate countries of the South-East European region. The thesis expounded is that the potential is significant and its full realisation depends largely upon bottom-up activities of civil society taking part in civil dialogue through coalitions, lobbying and other forms of advocacy. The opening chapters bring a detailed overview of the development of legal standards of human rights protection in European law by the European Court of Justice and other EU institutions. The comparative analysis of human rights protection in the Council of Europe and the European Union provides further insight into challenges of fundamental rights protection system on the part of the Union's institutions. Due to political nature of some of the challenges that lie ahead, the political dimension of human rights issues is subsequently discussed from the viewpoints of political philosophy, policy and political realities in the context of European integration. The ample possibilities or the 'window of opportunities' for advancing human and minority rights and the progressive evolution of mechanisms for that purpose are explored through the case-study of minority rights in Slovenia during the accession process.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo, Politologija, Sociologija

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