Bulletin n. 1-2/2014
November 2014
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
    • Lisa Conant
    Compelling criteria? Human rights in the European Union
    in Journal of European Public Policy , Volume 21, Issue 5 2014 ,  2014 ,  713-729
    The European Union's (EU) ‘widening’ to post-communist democracies contributed to the ‘deepening’ of integration to human rights: protection of individual (and minority) rights first emerged as EU requirements of democratic consolidation. Here I explore whether the EU deserves its reputation for promoting democratic consolidation by assessing whether transitional democracies meet the ‘Copenhagen Criteria’ on human rights. I find that transitional democracies currently in or acceding to the EU progressed in respecting human rights, but conclude that EU human rights commitments remain shallow and transitions to rights-respecting democracies are reversible.
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