The European Union and the Council of Europe / Marina Kolb, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolb, Marina.

Series:

Palgrave studies in European Union politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational effectiveness--Europe.

Organizational effectiveness.

European Union.

Council of Europe.

International cooperation.

Regionalism (International organization).

Human rights--Europe.

Human rights.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xi, 232 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

With the increasing prominence of fundamental rights in the European Union, as an organization the EU heavily involves itself in the core task of the Council of Europe. This book traces the uneasy relations between the EU and the Council of Europe over human rights-a relationship that has been marked by mutual interferences and overlap-and explores the factors that trigger cooperation or conflict between the two organizations. Investigating harmony and disagreement between the EU and the Council of Europe in cases such as data protection, the fight against terrorism and the Fundamental Rights Agency through the lens of an implementation literature and management studies perspective, this book contends that the biggest threat to inter-organizational cooperation is organizational self-interest, despite a shared policy interest. This book furthers the agenda set by the existing literature on the subject by providing a new theoretical framework and an in depth empirical study of two main actors in the field of human rights protection in Europe from a political science perspective. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Introduction

1 Introduction 3

2 Interorganizational Relations - A Framework for Analysis 17

3 General Relations 35

Part II Policy Cases

4 Data Protection 63

5 Fight against Terrorism 87

6 Fight against Roma Discrimination 114

Part III Institutional Cases

7 The Memorandum of Understanding 141

8 The Fundamental Rights Agency 163

Part IV Conclusion

9 Conclusion 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137023629

1137023627

OCLC:

818733151