THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS ACTOR

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: de Burca, Grainne
• 署名单位: Harvard University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-9300
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 649-693
• 关键词: international-human-rights; fundamental rights; one voice; EU; PROTECTION; CONSTITUTION; speaking; issues; COURT; EXCEPTIONALISM

摘要

This article challenges the classic narrative of the EU's engagement with human rights by comparing today's system to the long-forgotten European Community human rights framework proposed in the early 1950s. Although the EU's current system is conventionally understood as robust and as the acme of EU progress on human rights protection, it is weaker than the 1950s framework in three respects: its monitoring of human rights in member states, its relationship to the European Convention on Human Rights, and the double standard between internal and external human rights policies.