Bulletin n. 3/2011
February 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • de Búrca Gráinne
    The Road Not Taken: The European Union as a Global Human rights Actor
    in American journal of international law , Vol. 105, issue 4 ,  2011 ,  649-693
    This article challenges the classic narrative of the EU’s engagement with human rights by comparing today’s system to the long-forgotten European Community human rights framework proposed in the early 1950s. Although the EU’s current system is conventionally understood as robust and as the acme of EU progress on human rights protection, it is weaker than the 1950s framework in three respects: its monitoring of human rights in member states, its relationship to the European Convention on Human Rights, and the double standard between internal and external human rights policies.
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