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[A] more mercurial United States, less consistent in its support for European integration, could force the EU to rely more on itself.

This article assesses the impact of 'group politics' in the particularly contentious debates of the United Nations (un) Human Rights Council and the un General Assembly regarding gender equality and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The article identifies those groups that have been most active in the debates, and then analyses how and why they have shaped debates and norms in this area, how they interact with each other, and whether groups help to facilitate consensus or foster polarization in debates. The article examines the extent to which these groups are cohesive, and identifies the norms that each group puts forward in debates (through statements and resolutions). It then assesses and explains their impact on outcomes, the creation of shared norms and the potential for collective action. It further explores the implications of increasing cross-regional group activity in the Human Rights Council.

AbstractThis article addresses two questions about the EU's and EU Member States' diplomacy in the UN General Assembly's Third Committee and the Human Rights Council: have EU Member States been more, or less, active outside the framework of EU co‐ordination since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty? Has EU activity increased? The findings are that EU Member States have been increasingly active at the Human Rights Council and have increasingly worked with other states outside of the EU, while the level of EU activity has remained largely the same. In the Third Committee, Member States speak more than the EU but neither the EU nor Member States have been sponsoring more resolutions. Europeanization is 'arrested' in these cases, as Member States are reluctant to push for more EU activity because both the internal intergovernmental decision‐making system and external context discourage it.

This article explores the manner in which the boundaries between state and family were negotiated in the course of parliamentary debates on school attendance legislation in the Irish Free State. Of particular interest are the representations of children and parents which informed competing ideas about the extent and limitations of state power over families. Representations of ordinary parents as ignorant and "careless" legitimized an authoritarian approach to the regulation of school attendance, albeit one in which compulsion was balanced with a degree of compassion and parents with the wherewithal to exercise choice were granted a high degree of autonomy.

This editorial introduces the special issue, and considers what the articles in it tell us about the prospects of mass atrocity prevention.

This editorial introduces the special issue, and considers what the articles in it tell us about the prospects of mass atrocity prevention

The EU is a powerful model for the rest of the world: Most neighboring countries wish to join it rather than balance it or resist it, and other regional groupings around the world seek to emulate it.