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Human Rights Without Democracy?
Do Human Rights truly serve the people? Should citizens themselves decide democratically of what those rights consist? Or is it a decision for experts and the courts? Gret Haller argues that Human Rights must be established democratically. Drawing on the works of political philosophers from John Locke to Immanuel Kant, she explains why, from a philosophical point of view, liberty and equality need not be mutually exclusive. She outlines the history of the concept of Human Rights, shedding light on the historical development of factual rights, and compares how Human Rights are understood in the United States in contrast to Great Britain and Continental Europe, uncovering vast differences. The end of the Cold War presented a challenge to reexamine equality as being constitutive of freedom, yet the West has not seized this opportunity and instead allows so-called experts to define Human Rights based on individual cases. Ultimately, the highest courts revise political decisions and thereby discourage participation in the democratic shaping of political will.
The Limits of Atlanticism
Working as Ombudsperson for Human Rights in the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, Gret Haller became aware that the reactions of the United States and Europe are hardly ever the same, be it in Bosnia or in other parts of the world, with the current crisis in the Middle East offering just another example: in international negotiations it is always the United States that refuses to give up sovereignty. While Europeans view sharing as an instrument to guarantee freedom and peace, Washington sees it as a threat to its independence and power. Instead, the U.S. government relies on unsanctioned campaigns against rogue states. The author is not optimistic that the recent shift in the pol...
Europas eigener Weg
Mit viel Erfahrung und analytischem Blick setzt sich Gret Haller mit einem politischen Gebilde auseinander, das heute 27 ganz unterschiedliche Mitgliedstaaten zählt und 448,4 Millionen Menschen zusammenführt: der Europäischen Union. Nach den Schrecken der beiden Weltkriege verzichteten sechs Staaten auf einen Teil der nationalen Souveränität und gründeten 1951 die Europäische Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl. Deren wichtigstes Anliegen war Kriegsvermeidung. Damit war der Grundstein für ein bislang einmaliges transnationales Gemeinwesen gelegt. Hallers Augenmerk liegt auf dem institutionellen und menschlichen Geflecht dieser heterogenen Union. »Wenn es eine politische Kultur der Uni...
Die Grenzen der Solidarität
In internationalen Verhandlungen sind es immer wieder die Vereinigten Staaten, die sich gegen die Abgabe von Souveränität sträuben. Was die Europäer als Instrument der Freiheits- und Friedenssicherung schätzen, erzeugt jenseits des Atlantiks Angst vor Abhängigkeit und Machtverlust. Statt dessen setzt die amerikanische Regierung auf von der internationalen Gemeinschaft nicht getragene Feldzüge gegen feindliche Schurkenstaaten. Scheinbar unüberwindbare Differenzen, die für transatlantischen Zündstoff sorgen. Ein sinnvoller Umgang mit diesen Unterschieden ist möglich, setzt jedoch eine Auseinandersetzung mit ihren ideengeschichtlichen Ursachen voraus. Der Westfälische Frieden von 16...
Overcoming Violence
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and coinciding with the intensification of violent attacks on the civilian population in the East Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo scholars and students from Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenia, Cameroon, South Africa, Germany, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Switzerland joined together in Rwanda to discuss the topic "Overcoming violence". This volume is a documentation of the lectures of this conference, organised by the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) in Butare, the Presbyterian Church of Rwanda (EPR) and the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB).
The Politics of Pension Reform
A comparative study of European countries' efforts to reform pension systems in the context of ageing populations.
False Feathers
Since human beings have been writing it seems there has been plagiarism. It is not something that sprouted with the advent of the Internet. Teachers have been struggling for years in countries all over the globe to find good methods for dealing with the problem of plagiarizing students. How do we spot plagiarism? How do we teach them not to plagiarize? And how do we deal with those who have been found out to be plagiarists? The purpose of this book is to collect material on the various aspects of plagiarism in education with special attention given to the German problem of dissertation plagiarism. Since there is a wide-spread interest in the German plagiarism situation and in strategies for dealing with it, the book is written in English in order to be accessible to a larger audience.
