The EU as a 'Global Player' in Human Rights?

1. Introduction, Jan Erik Wetzel Part 1: The Position of Human Rights Within the EU Framework 2. Assessing the EU's Position on Human Rights: Is it a Desireable One?, Richard Burchill 3. Monitoring and Enforcing Fundamental Rights: Can the European Union Measure Up Against Other Intrnational Organisations?, Rhona K.M. Smith 4. European Human Rights Law as a Multi-Layered Human Rights Regime: Preserving Diversity and Promoting Human Rights, Marton Varju Part 2: EU Human Rights Policies in Internationl Institutions 5. Inconvenient Multilateralism: The Challenges of the EU as a Player in the United Nations Human Rights Council, Gjovalin Macaj and Joachim A. Koops 6. The EU Commitment to International Criminal Justice: Achievements and Possibilities?, Olympia Bekou and Marck Chadwick 7. Human Rights in Trade: The EU's Experience with Labour Standards Conditionality and its Role in Promoting Labour Standards in the WTO, Tamara Takacs Part 3: The Influence of EU Human Rights Law Outside of Europe 8. Imperialistic Endeavour or Empty Rhetoric? Analysing the EU's Promotion of Human Rights in China Since 1989 through a 'Normative Power' Perspective, Wenwen Shen 9. Too Different to be Relevant? Considering the Global Influence of EU Asylum Laws and Policy wit Respect to Japan, Emiko Nakasaka 10. The Promotion and Protection of Human Rights during Common Security and Defence Policy Operations: In-Between a Spreading State of Mind and an Unsolved Concern, Maria Luisia Sanchez Barrueco Part 4: EU Human Rights Law as a Regional International Standard 11. The EU Competition Policy as an International Human Rights Issue, Wolfgang Weiss 12. Double Jeopardy in Europe: What Lessons for Global Players?, Dawn Sedman 13. Defining the Free PressL Recent European Case-Law on Political Free Speech, Anti-Terrorism Legislation and the Free Press, Angus Nurse 14. EU Equality Law: From Protecting 'Groups' to Protection of All, Joanne Milner 15. Conclusion, Looking to the Future: No Hubris, No False Modesty, Geoffrey Harris