Promoting Human Rights in Asia and Europe: The Role of Regional Integration

Prof. Dr. Apirat Petchsiri; Dr. José Luis de Sales Marques; William Roth

doi:10.5771/9783845220321

Summary

This book explores the question of whether there exists a relationship between the efforts at regional integration and the implementation of human rights. A tenant of the expanding European Union is the promotion of human rights, both internally and externally, but would human rights necessarily be advanced if regional integration were to occur in Asia? The authors, whose disciplines range from economics, political science, history and the law, provide perspectives on this and related issues.

Dr. Apirat Petchsiri is Associate Professor of Law at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and President of ECSA (Thailand) Foundation. Dr. José Luis de Sales Marques is President of the Institute of European Studies of Macau. William Roth is Academic Counsellor to the Interdisciplinary Department of European Studies, Chulalongkorn University.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-5136-8
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-2032-1
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Transformation, Development, and Regionalization in Greater Asia
Volume: 7
Language: English
Pages: 138
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 8
Foreword: New Perspectives on Advancing Human Rights No access Pages 9 - 12 Apirat Petchsiri, José Luis de Sales Marques, William Roth
1. Regional Integration and Human Rights: European–Asian Reflections No access Pages 13 - 21 Vitit Muntarbhorn
2. Economic Rights and Regional Integration No access Pages 21 - 43 Ali M. El-Agraa
3. Cultural Relativism and Human Rights No access Pages 43 - 57 Andreas Vasilache
4. A Tool for Regional Integration: Supranational Courts in Europe and the Protection of Human Rights No access Pages 57 - 80 Laurent Scheeck
1. The EU and Human Rights: Leading By Example? No access Pages 81 - 99 Andrea Ott
2. The Impact of European Political Integration on the Member States’ Human Rights Policies Towards China No access Pages 99 - 115 Giuseppe Balducci
3. Normative Power or Hegemony? The EU’s Human Rights Transmission to Africa No access Pages 115 - 127 Jian Junbo
4. Gender Issues in the EU and China: A Comparative Perspective No access Pages 127 - 136 Yang Na
Notes on the Contributors No access Pages 137 - 138