Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy: The Cases of Ukraine and Egypt
Journal: London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Year: 2011

This thesis empirically analyses the role that human rights and democracy have played in European Union foreign policy towards Ukraine and Egypt since the end of the Cold War. It departs from the dominant approach in international relations theory that conceptualises the pursuit of such aims as an illustration of the EU's sui generis actorness, to trace empirically the sources of the rhetorical inclusion of human rights and democracy in foreign policy and their implementation. The thesis argues