Time for a United Nations 'Global Compact' for Integrating Human Rights into the Law of Worldwide Organizations: Lessons from European Integration

Petersmann, Ernst‐Ulrich

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“…Yet, the shared competence in the area of development policy has impacted upon the EU's efforts to co-ordinate the diverse practices of the member states and to represent a common position in international organisations, weakening the potential influence that Europe could exercise to shape international development policy. Despite the long tradition of European development policy, with its values, norms and principles, the EU has taken a more reactive stance forged out of its tacit support for the neo-liberal World Bank development policy (Petersmann, 2002). In regard to European policy towards Africa, the continent facing the greatest development challenges in the 21st century, the neo-liberal bias of policy comes through in the emphasis on trade, economic liberalisation, and a discourse that owes much to the hegemonic discourse associated with the neo-liberal Washington and post-Washington consensus.…”

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Internationalising EU development policy

Farrell

2008

Perspectives on European Politics and Society

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EU development policy is broad in its range of instruments and geographic scope. It is also an area of mixed competence, where the member states conduct diverse national development policies alongside the European Commission, raising the issue of policy coordination. The challenges are highlighted when it comes to international development policy as articulated by the intergovernmental international organisations (including the UN and the Bretton Woods institutions), where the European Commission has to address a dual challenge, the co-ordination of the individual member states' development polices, and the representation of the EU in international organisations where the European Commission holds largely an observer status. In these circumstances, to what extent can the EU influence international development policy? Or, is it effectively a follower in the context of the hegemonic position of these global organisations and the dominance of neo-liberal ideas on development?

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Internationalising EU development policy

Farrell

2008

Perspectives on European Politics and Society

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“…Although many countries have integrated human rights into their own laws, this integration remains a work in progress (Petersmann, 2002). Although many countries have integrated human rights into their own laws, this integration remains a work in progress (Petersmann, 2002).…”

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Human Rights and Social Work

Reichert

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…Most importantly, in the Lisbon era, we may have renewed use for the decade-old debate about whether the EU could or should function 'as a human rights organisation'. 130 As scholars including Samantha Besson, 131 Marta Cartabia 132 and Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann 133 have noted in this connection, supranational law offers a particularly opportune locus for reinforcing basic rights guarantees and extending them across state boundaries. On the other hand, restyling the EU to fulfil the functions of a fully fledged human rights regime would entail serious legal and political complications, not least the indeterminacy of what a 'human rights regime' would mean in this context.…”

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Fundamental rights in the EU after Kadi and Al Barakaat

Isiksel

2010

European Law Journal

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This article takes stock of the emerging scholarship on the European Court of Justice's 2008 Kadi decision and seeks to make sense of the court's apparent evasiveness towards international law. The article argues that Kadi is best understood as an act of civil disobedience prompted by the UN Security Council's misapplication of foundational principles of the international order. In turn, the court's forceful articulation of the stakes in this case signals a prioritisation of basic rights within the supranational constitutional architectonic. In this respect, the 'domestic' constitutional implications of Kadi are just as far reaching as its consequences for the EU's status as an actor under international law.

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Time for a United Nations 'Global Compact' for Integrating Human Rights into the Law of Worldwide Organizations: Lessons from European Integration

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