Beschreibung:
Rosa Balfour is Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, where she heads the Europe in the World Programme.
This book investigates the disparity between rhetoric and performance in the European Union response to abuses of human rights and transgression of democracy. With the Arab spring putting the spotlight on the EU's self-portrait as committed to promoting global human rights and democracy, this book examines the paradoxes of its international posture and the inconsistencies and double standards of its policies.
1. Introduction 2. Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy: The Search for an Analytical Framework 3. Rhetoric and Tools: The Genesis of EU Human Rights and Democracy Policies 4. Reluctant Engagement: EU Foreign Policy towards Ukraine 5. Implementing Human Rights and Democracy: Press Freedom in Ukraine 6. Implementing Human Rights and Democracy: Elections in Ukraine and the Orange Revolution 7. Searching for an EU Policy towards Egypt 8. Implementing Human Rights and Democracy: Torture in Egypt 9. Implementing Human Rights and Democracy: Elections in Egypt 10. Conclusions