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Intervention for human rights in Europe / Janne Haaland Matláry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matlary, Janne Haaland.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--Europe.
- Human rights.
- Europe.
- Europe--Foreign relations--1989-.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 286 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
- Summary:
- Values, in terms of human rights and democracy, have become importantfactors for individual state's participation in the international community. Janne Haaland Matlá ry, former Secretary of State in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Norway, explores the ethical and moral conflict between the international system and the rights of sovereign powers in cases such as Kosovo, Bosnia and Rwanda.
- Contents:
- Part I State Sovereignty and Human Rights in Europe 1
- 1 Towards a New Type of Sovereignty in Europe 3
- The new interventionism 7
- Foreign policy decoupled from territory 10
- Sovereignty: the key principle 11
- An essential and persistent tension 15
- Power 19
- Values 23
- Human rights and security policy 25
- 'Soft power, hard values'
- the argument 28
- 2 Human Rights and Democracy: Driving Forces and Policy Tools 33
- The importance of norms, rules and regimes 34
- The importance of legitimacy 40
- New actors: the norm entrepreneurs 43
- New arenas: multilateral diplomacy and international organisations 48
- New transparencies: globalised media and internet 50
- New supranationality; courts and juridification of human rights 53
- Policy tools of human rights and democracy 56
- Conclusion: how strong are the driving forces? 58
- 3 The Formation of the European Human Rights Regime 60
- The precursors 61
- Human rights in international politics 62
- The European human rights regime: the ECHR and later instruments 64
- The European human rights regime: the Helsinki Final Act and later documents 68
- The European human rights regime: the European Union's texts and its charter 76
- Copenhagen criteria of conditionality 77
- Complementarity of the European human rights regime 79
- 4 The Impact of International Organisations and Regimes 81
- Status of regime theory 82
- Impact and how to measure it 83
- Regime impact 90
- The importance of legality 91
- Actors and loci of policy-making 94
- The impact of values 95
- Interest formation: instrumental and normative logics 96
- The concept of value-based interests 98
- Hypotheses and research design 102
- Part II The Impact of the Human Rights Regime 109
- 5 The Impact of the Council of Europe 111
- The Council of Europe as a foreign policy actor: tools and powers 116
- Regime-specific tools of the COE 118
- The expansion of the COE: therapeutic admissions and new tasks 119
- The impact of the European Court of Human Rights 121
- The human rights monitoring machinery and its impact 124
- Conclusion: the impact of the human rights regime of the COE 132
- 6 The Impact of the OSCE 135
- The OSCE as a foreign policy actor: tools and powers 135
- East-West meeting point 136
- The OSCE tools of norm implementation 138
- Regime-specific tools 140
- The general foreign policy impact of the OSCE 143
- Evolving norm development and impact: the example of freedom of religion 146
- Regime impact of a human right: freedom of religion 148
- Initiatives by the Norwegian chairmanship 151
- Regime impact through missions: Bosnia and Albania 154
- Regime impact through the HCNM: the Baltic states 156
- Regime impact through the ODHIR: Chechnya and Azerbaijan 157
- Role of states vs. IO powers 162
- Conclusion: the impact of the OSCE's human rights regime 163
- 7 The Impact of the EU 165
- The EU as a foreign policy actor: tools and powers 165
- From the EPC to the CFSP 166
- The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) 168
- The CFSP evolution as EU foreign policy 169
- EU foreign policy embedded in other policy areas 171
- The Commission's 'task expansion' 176
- The general impact of EU foreign policy 178
- The human rights regime: embeddedness and regime tools 183
- Human rights impact: the case of Austria 188
- Enlargement: the impact of the Commission 190
- Regime-specific tools: a summary 194
- Conclusion: the impact of the EU human rights regime 197
- 8 Human Rights and Hard Power: a New Norm for Intervention? 200
- Value-based intervention historically 202
- The post-war period 205
- The 1990s and beyond 206
- Political vs. legal issues 209
- Value-based intervention? The cases of Bosnia and Kosovo 213
- The present period: the politics of human security 224
- The human security network: international agenda-setting for a new norm 226
- States, IOs and hard power intervention 233
- States, IOs and soft power intervention 235
- What impact from the human rights regime? 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333794249
- OCLC:
- 48177279
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