EU Human Rights Policies A Study in Irony [Hardcover]

The EU's human rights policies are plagued by double standards: it applies radically different approaches in its external and internal operations. In this book, Andrew Williams reveals the nature and scope of this bifurcation and the resultant discrimination, and argues that the ironical condition revealed undermines both the EU's commitment to human rights and its moral credibility.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Development Policy and Human Rights
3. Accession to the EU and Human Rights
4. The Scope of Internal-external Incoherence
5. Explaining Incoherence: the Orthodox Arguments
6. The Invention of Human Rights in the EU
7. European Identity and Human Rights
8. Conclusion

Andrew Williamsis Lecturer in Law at the University of Warwick.