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"This book critically analyses the European Union's promotion of LGBTI rights in the international arena. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex rights are heavily contested across the globe, with over 70 countries criminalizing same-sex relations and at least 10 imposing the death penalty. The book details how the EU, based on different member state positions, attempts to jointly formulate and implement guidelines for the external promotion of LGBTI rights. It also problematizes the various theoretical and policy-based Eurocentric prescriptions to further these rights. Drawing on an international political sociology framework infused with queer theoretical thought, the author investigates the apparent normative clash between Europe's promotion of LGBTI rights as liberal human rights and the ensuing pushback by culturally and politically conservative states. He examines the compatibility of EU and member states' conceptions of LGBTI rights and the more general question of the EU's normative agenda-setting power on the world stage. He then explores the external policy areas in which LGBTI rights promotion is formulated and diffused - namely in development and foreign aid, enlargement and neighbourhood policies, and other international organizations. In conclusion, the author suggests viewing the contention surrounding LGBTI rights within broader governance contexts, and thus reimagining rights promotion in a more holistic manner. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of LGBTI and Human Rights, European Politics, and International Relations"--

"Through the application of public opinion, interview, and print-media analyses, this book provides evidence that the state of transnational identification among citizens in the EU as a result of post-Maastricht integration measures, such as the completion of the Common Market, the introduction of the Euro, the initiation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy etc. in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany had limited effects in the member states to the extent that national political cultures and mass media orientations are compatible with the goals of EU integration. Policy recommendations are derived by reviewing the complex relationship between EU policies and structural factors such as immigration, ageing and the mediatization of politics in which European integration occurs"--

"Trotz der Ratifizierung des EU-Vertrags von Lissabon und der darin enthaltenen Grundrechte-Charta haben zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen in den letzten Jahren einen Abbau von Rechten für Bürger und Einwohner der EU konstatiert. Dieser Artikel untersucht, in welchem Ausmaß die Möglichkeiten zur Wahrnehmung von Grundrechten sowie sozialen und bürgerlichen Rechten durch die in weiten Teilen der EU herrschende Krise beeinflusst wurde, und ob die Prozesse der Liberalisierung des europäischen Binnenmarktes und der EU einen negativen Einfluss auf diese Grundrechte haben. Anhand von Eurobarometerdaten und ausgewählten Länderbeispielen untersucht der Artikel, wie Öffentlichkeit und Regierung in verschiedenen Mitgliedsstaaten der EU mit den drohenden Einschnitten in den bislang für das europäische Sozialmodell maßgeblichen Bereich der sozialen Rechte und der Menschenrechte umgehen und wie sich dies auf die Legitimität rechtlicher Forderungen zivilgesellschaftlicher Gruppen und nationaler Regierungen an die EU auswirkt, der in diesem Zusammenhang eine Doppelrolle als Problemverursacher und Problemlöser zukommt." (Autorenreferat)