Promoting democracy and human rights in Russia
By: Sinikukka Saari
Series: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies -- 61; BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies -- 61
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780415484459; 9780203866832
Subjects: Human rights; Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; Relations; Council of Europe; Democratization; European Union
Description: The author discusses how various international organisations, including the European Union, successfully promoted in Russia common European norms of human rights and democracy, with Russia cooperating fully in the process, but how, more recently, Russia has begun to challenge these norms, moving towards semi-authoritarianism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The European framework for normative cooperation; title: Norm of a human rights ombudsman; title: Norm of abolition of the death penalty; title: Norm of free and fair democratic elections; title: Implications for theory and practice.