EU Human Rights Policies: A Study in Irony (Oxford Studies in European Law)

The E.U.'s human rights policies are plagued by double standards: it applies radically different approaches in its external and internal operations. In this book, Andrew Williams reveals the nature and scope of this bifurcation and the resultant discrimination, and argues that the ironical condition revealed undermines both the E.U.'s commitment to human rights and its moral credibility.