Jaanika Erne | 2:05, 20 August 2009
Blogging can really be of help! Yesterday I accidentally found the ECHR BLOG and the link to the electronic “Travaux Préparatoires” of the European Convention on Human Rights at http://www.echr.coe.int/Library/COLENTravauxprep.html (at the Library of the European Court of Human Rights (I visited the Library shortly in 2006, when I attended the IIDH (International Institute of Human Rights) 37th Annual [...]
UACES | 14:37, 19 August 2009
The first UACES-Brussels Lunch-time seminar of 2009 at The Centre saw an audience of more than 50 turning out to discuss how to flesh out the Lisbon Treaty’s provision on citizens’ participation with Martin Westlake, General Secretary of the European Economic and Social Committee.
Martin, who has worked in the European Council of Ministers and in [...]
European Geostrategy | 13:26, 18 August 2009
The European Security Strategy in 2003 provided the foundations for ‘grand strategic’ thinking at the European level. This was further expanded under the French Presidency during 2008. However, the results have been disappointing. Events and shifting geopolitical plates mean that a fully focussed European Union grand strategy is now needed more than ever before.
Jaanika Erne | 2:03, 18 August 2009
The World has a new book – Jaanika Erne, Conferral of Powers by States as a Basis of International Obligation. A Comparative Study on Powers of International Organisations. Köln: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009.
From one side, I am happy. But from the other side, I hope that this was right thing to do. I hate to [...]
UACES | 17:43, 17 August 2009
Fieldwork report from Benjamin Kienzle, Autonomous University of Barcelona, a UACES Scholar.
Outline of Project
My PhD thesis, “The EU as an Actor in International Affairs: The Case of Non-Proliferation of WMD”, deals with the EU as a special kind of international actor that is different from both classical nation states and international organizations. Its main concern [...]
EUoplocephalus | 10:55, 17 August 2009
Last week’s flurry of media outpourings on Daniel Hannan’s comments on the NHS were interesting for several reasons. Firstly, my best friend went to university with him and we both derive much pleasure from watching his (Hannan’s) developing career.
Secondly, and more relevantly for the rest of you, it speaks to some of the comments I’ve [...]
Jaanika Erne | 22:50, 16 August 2009
The autumn-term is already there, and I have hardly managed to finish Andrew Guzman’s book “How International Law Works” (OUP, 2008). As I start reading a general course on international law this term, I judged by the heading that this book – a relatively new one – could be useful for the course. Regarding the [...]
UACES Student Forum | 13:18, 16 August 2009
Here is the concept underpinning everything else that I am going to share with you in this blog. It is very important that you, as a PhD student, truly ‘get it’, because it may be something a bit counter-intuitive.
First let me ask you this question: up until you started your PhD course, what were [...]
European Geostrategy | 6:14, 15 August 2009
What role do think tanks play in the construction of European security strategy? This article looks at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the Centre for European Reform, the Egmont Institute, the European Council on Foreign Relations and the European Union Institute for Security Studies, and assesses their political impact.
Jaanika Erne | 3:33, 14 August 2009
In the Treaty on European Union:
Preamble:
„DRAWING INSPIRATION from the cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Europe, from which have developed the universal values of the inviolable and inalienable rights of the human person, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law”
[…]
“CONFIRMING their attachment to the principles of liberty, democracy and respect for human rights [...]
