Date: 2013
Type: Thesis
'Weaving a silver thread' : human rights coherence in EU foreign affairs and counter-terrorism
Florence : European University Institute, 2013, EUI, LAW, PhD Thesis
GOLABEK, Michal, 'Weaving a silver thread' : human rights coherence in EU foreign affairs and counter-terrorism, Florence : European University Institute, 2013, EUI, LAW, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/26445
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Human rights are among the chief values on which the EU is ‘founded’ (Art. 6 TEU) and which it seeks to promote through its external relations (Art. 21 TEU). Coherence with values is a significant rhetorical tool which is used, on the one hand, to justify the development of new policies and instruments, and, on the other hand, to challenge EU actions by civil society, the European Parliament, commentators, but also third countries. This thesis examines whether human rights are indeed a ‘silver thread’ running through everything that EU does as argued by the EU High Representative. To that end, I first analyze why coherence as such, and coherence with values in particular, hold an important place in the EU’s foreign policy integration. As a second step, I discuss the nature of human rights as an international and EU framework for coherent action. I then investigate one particular area of EU external action, namely counter-terrorism policy, with a view to assessing coherence with values in practice, and more specifically to analyzing how successful the EU actually was in integrating human rights in its counter-terrorism instruments such as sanctions, provisions of its international agreements, and external assistance. On this basis, I outline in the third part the legal and policy aspects of human rights coherence, before concluding with the steps which still need to be taken in order to ‘weave a silver thread’ of human rights into EU external policy.
Additional information:
Defence date: 21 January 2013; Examining Board: Professor Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Marise Cremona, European University Institute; Professor Alan Rosas, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union; Professor Christophe Hillion, University of Leiden and Stockholm University.; PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD theses
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/26445
Series/Number: EUI; LAW; PhD Thesis
Publisher: European University Institute
LC Subject Heading: Human rights -- European Union countries; European Union countries -- Foreign relations; National security -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries