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Political Rights Under Stress in 21st Century Europe (Hardcover)
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Political Rights Under Stress in 21st Century Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
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Europe has entered the 21st century in a state of growing
uncertainty about the role and scope of traditional political
rights. The scope of 'political rights' is a subject which has
always provoked a degree of scholarly controversy, as indeed is
reflected in the essays of this volume. Nonetheless, it has usually
been taken as evident that the best cure for various threats to and
defects of liberal democracy is more stringent rather than less
stringent protection of rights such as freedom of speech, or
freedom of political and other forms of association. But the global
environment in which Europe finds itself has changed, and has
gradually eroded these conventional wisdoms. The increased threat
of terrorism on the one hand, epitomised by the events of September
11 2001, and the accession of the post-communist countries of
Central and Eastern Europe with their specific political traditions
on the other hand, has placed this liberal-democratic consensus
under considerable stress. The essays collected in this volume
reflect this stress, and search for answers to the questions raised
by the changing political environment. The contributions focus on
the European experience but they are placed within a wider global
context in reflecting on the appropriate scope and strength of
protection of political rights. Under what circumstances is
'militant democracy' - democracy which is intolerant of the enemies
of democracy - a cure to the real and imagined threats, and under
what circumstances does it become part of the problem? Different
chapters deal variously with the theory of political rights, the
rights to freedom of expression and to freedom association
(focusing particularly on the topical issue of party closures), the
understanding of political rights in Central and Eastern Europe and
its impact on the democratization of this region, the question of
political rights of minorities in this region, and finally the
effectiveness of the Council of Europe's monitoring mechanisms.
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