Open AccessHuman Rights Relations between Europe and Russia
Author(s) -
Amelie Harbisch
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
politikon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1583-3984
pISSN - 2414-6633
DOI - 10.22151/politikon.25.3
Subject(s) - human rights , political science , constitution , acknowledgement , divergence (linguistics) , meaning (existential) , european union , scope (computer science) , identity (music) , action (physics) , political economy , interpretation (philosophy) , law and economics , sociology , law , international trade , economics , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , computer security , quantum mechanics , computer science , acoustics , programming language
There is a gap between the academic discourse’s acknowledgement of the importance of the question of diverging values in the relations between Russia and the European Union (EU), especially in the light of recent human rights cases, and the ongoing tendency of recent analyses of EU-Russia human rights relations to focus on rationalist cost-benefit accounts which leave out value interpretation issues. I seek to fill this gap by genealogically analyzing the origin of different human rights understandings of Europe and Russia and their constitution of the scope of foreign policy action. The results point to a high divergence of the meaning of human rights between the European Union and Russia as well as a high relevance of this divergence for both parties’ foreign action and identity formation.