Minority Rights and Minority Protection in Europe - Couverture rigide

Agarin, Timofey; Cordell, Karl

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1783481900 ISBN 13 : 9781783481903

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016

Synopsis

In order to gain access to the EU, nations must be seen to implement formal instruments that protect the rights of minorities. This book examines the ways in which these tools have worked in a number of post-communist states, and explores the interaction of domestic and international structures that determine the application of these policies.

Using empirical examples and comparative cases, the text explores three levels of policy-making: within sub-state and national politics, and within international agreements, laws and policy blueprints. This enables the authors to establish how domestic policymakers negotiate various structural factors in order to interpret rights norms and implement them long enough to gain EU accession. Showing that it is necessary to focus upon the states of post-communist Europe as autonomous actors, and not as mere recipients of directives and initiatives from 'the West', the book shows how underlying structural conditions allow domestic policy actors to talk the talk of rights protection without walking the walk of implementing minority rights legislation on their territories.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Timofey Agarin is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics and Ethnic Conflict at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also the director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict.

Karl Cordell is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Plymouth University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783481900
• ISBN 13: 9781783481903
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 218
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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