1st Edition

Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in Russia

By Sinikukka Saari Copyright 2010
190 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

European regional organisations have spent significant amount of time, energy and money in supporting Russia's transition towards the western liberal-democratic model since the end of the cold war. This book explores the role the Council of Europe, European Union and Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe have played in Russia's post-Soviet transition in the field of human rights and... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The European Framework for Normative Cooperation  3. Norm of a Human Rights Ombudsman  4. Norm of Abolition of the Death Penalty  5. Norm of Free and Fair Democratic Elections  6. Implications for Theory and Practice Bibliography

Biography

Sinikkuka Saari is a researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. She earned her PhD at the London School of Economics.