Children's rights, Eastern enlargement and the EU human rights regime / Ingi Iusmen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iusmen, Ingi.

Series:

European Policy Research Unit series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's rights--Romania.

Children's rights.

Romania--Foreign relations--1989-.

Romania.

International relations.

Human rights--European Union countries.

Human rights.

European Union countries.

European Union countries--Social policy.

Social policy.

European Union countries--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

x, 211 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Children's rights, Eastern enlargement and the EU human rights regime, This book offers a timely exploration of the nature and scale of the emergent EU human rights regime. It critically examines how intervention in Romania, as part of Eastern enlargement, has had an effect on the EU itself. By drawing on agenda-setting and historical institutionalist accounts, it demonstrates that these changes in children's rights policy have transformed the EU's role and scope in this area both inside and outside the Union. Eastern enlargement has raised the profile of Roma protection, international adoptions and mental health at the EU level. The impact of these developments has been further reinforced by the provisions included in the Lisbon Treaty, and together they have generated the emergence of a more robust and well-defined human rights regime in terms of its constitutional, legal and institutional powers. This book makes a substantial contribution to the scholarship on EU enlargement, Europeanisation and EU human rights policy by providing empirical evidence for the emergence and persistence of EU institutional and policy structures upholding human rights. It will prove invaluable to scholars in a range of subjects across politics and social sciences, and will also be useful to child and human rights practitioners, civil society organisations and particularly policy-makers interested in human rights in the EU. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. The European Union and human rights: historical outlook and analytical frameworks

2. European Union accession conditionality and human rights in Romania

3. Child protection in Romania and European Union accession

4. Policy feedback effects

5. Drivers of change, policy entrepreneurship and the institutionalization of children's rights

6. European Union human rights regime: from Eastern enlargement to the Lisbon Treaty and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-202) and index.

ISBN:

0719088224

9780719088223

OCLC:

863077831