TY - JOUR
T1 - REGIONAL EXPANSION, IDENTITY CRISIS AND THE
PARADOX OF HUMAN RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT
IN THE EUROPEAN UNIONJanuary 2018
AU - Nugraha, Fajar Muhammad
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - The EU is very concerned with the implementation of Human Rights, so it has
become the basic value and the main terms in its membership. The EU's desire to
expand the territorial prompts efforts to discipline the implementation of Human
Rights is intensified in order to increase the number of members. However,
individual identity, how one defines itself as a nation, and freedom of expression
are also major points in Human Rights. This is clearly a major obstacle that
unknowingly appears in the territorial expansion efforts being undertaken by the
European Union. The most obvious and most recent example is the occurrence of
Brexit through the EU referendum in June 2016 which resulted in the United
Kingdom having to quit the EU membership. This is a major blow to the EU,
because in the course of territorial expansion, the EU would have to lose one of its
larger member states. This paper discusses the paradox of the virtue of Human
Rights as a value that is upheld within the EU and the freedom of individuals and
nations in defining themselves, as well as an identity crisis which is beginning to
undermine the comfort of life in society.
AB - The EU is very concerned with the implementation of Human Rights, so it has
become the basic value and the main terms in its membership. The EU's desire to
expand the territorial prompts efforts to discipline the implementation of Human
Rights is intensified in order to increase the number of members. However,
individual identity, how one defines itself as a nation, and freedom of expression
are also major points in Human Rights. This is clearly a major obstacle that
unknowingly appears in the territorial expansion efforts being undertaken by the
European Union. The most obvious and most recent example is the occurrence of
Brexit through the EU referendum in June 2016 which resulted in the United
Kingdom having to quit the EU membership. This is a major blow to the EU,
because in the course of territorial expansion, the EU would have to lose one of its
larger member states. This paper discusses the paradox of the virtue of Human
Rights as a value that is upheld within the EU and the freedom of individuals and
nations in defining themselves, as well as an identity crisis which is beginning to
undermine the comfort of life in society.
KW - EU
KW - EU Expansion
KW - Brexit
KW - Identity
KW - Identity Crisis
KW - Human Rights
UR - https://irhs-fibui.org/2018/02/06/regional-expansion-identity-crisis-and-the-paradox-of-human-rights-enforcement-in-the-european-union/Softcopy
M3 - Article
SN - 2477-6866
VL - 3
SP - 97
EP - 109
JO - International Review of Humanities Studies
JF - International Review of Humanities Studies
IS - 5
ER -