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Introduction: An Artificial 'Clash of Civilizations'? -- From Norm Diffusion to Norm Contestation: Europe as a Normative Actor -- LGBTI Rights Promotion Within the EU: Crafting Consensual Norms Where Few Exist? -- Homophobia and EUrophobia in Accession and Neighborhood Countries -- Development Policy and Foreign Aid: Conditionality and its Discontents -- Global and Diffuse? The EU's Multilateral Promotion of LGBTI Rights -- Conclusion: Rethinking and Reimagining International LGBTI Rights Promotion.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: an artificial 'clash of civilizations'? -- 2 From norm diffusion to norm contestation: Europe as a normative actor -- 3 LGBTI rights promotion within the EU: crafting consensual norms where few exist? -- 4 Homophobia and EUrophobia in accession and neighborhood countries -- 5 Development policy and foreign aid: conditionality and its discontents -- 6 Global and diffuse? The EU's multilateral promotion of LGBTI rights -- 7 Conclusion: rethinking and reimagining international LGBTI rights promotion -- Index.

Adherence to basic human rights norms has become an expected feature of states throughout the world. In Europe, the promotion and protection of human rights through national governments has been enhanced by the diversity of intergovernmental organizations committed to this cause. The latest addition to the continent's rights organizations arrived ten years ago when, based on the EU's Lisbon Treaty, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was created as a functional institution to highlight and improve human rights within EU member states. In contrast to other regulatory agencies in the EU, the FRA provides a research-based advisory function for EU institutions and legislation and performs a public-diplomacy function in promoting fundamental rights across EU member states.The linking of civil society with internal rights policies has yet produced very little scholarship. Markus Thiel's European Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy not only fills this vacuum: it also offers a timely analysis in the context of Europe's proliferating human rights challenges, like the current refugee crises and the nationalist responses that geopolitical changes have provoked. European Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy examines the interaction between the FRA and hundreds of transnational civil society organizations working with and on behalf of vulnerable populations in EU member states and probes the high normative standards of human rights attainment and transnational participatory governance in the EU.Thiel surveys how networking among civil society organizations takes place, to what extent they are able to set the agenda or insert themselves into EU decision-making procedures, and how they are able to exploit the opportunity structure presented by the FRA's institutionalization of a voice for civil society. Thiel draws conclusions for the larger issues of human rights promotion, transnational citizenship, and participatory governance in the region, reflecting broadly and critically on the legitimacy of EU human rights norms through a political sociology perspective.

Sich wandelndes Freizeitverhalten birgt oft juristisch zu lösendes Konfliktpotenzial in sich. Ein Beispiel sind abendliche Personenansammlungen an innerstädtischen Plätzen, die aufgrund der Lärmentwicklung von teilweise mehreren hundert Personen erhebliche Belastungswirkungen für die Anwohnerinnen und Anwohner entfalten. Die Gefahrenabwehrbehörden bemühen sich um einen Interessenausgleich; allerdings mit meist eher mäßigem Erfolg. Von Eingriffsmaßnahmen sehen sie in der Regel unter Hinweis auf den grundrechtlichen Schutz der anwesenden Personen und den in den Ansammlungen zu sehenden Ausdruck eines "urbanen" Lebensgefühls ab. Markus Thiel untersucht das Vorliegen einer Gefahrenlage und behandelt die Frage, ob die anwesenden Personen Adressaten gefahrenabwehrbehördlicher Verfügungen sein können. Aufgrund der "Summation" der Lärmbeitrage ordnet er sie als Verhaltensverantwortliche ein. Schließlich erarbeitet der Autor die Anforderungen an einen Anspruch der Anwohnerinnen und Anwohner auf gefahrenabwehrbehördliches Einschreiten

Hauptbeschreibung: Das Recht der inneren und äußeren Sicherheit scheint an Kontur zu verlieren. In verschiedenen Bereichen ist eine "Entgrenzung" der Tätigkeit der Polizei- und Verfassungsschutzbehörden und der Streitkräfte festzustellen: Eingriffsbefugnisse werden zeitlich in das Gefahrenvorfeld verlagert, die Tätigkeitsbereiche der Behörden überschneiden sich zunehmend, neuartige, auch internationale Kooperationsformen und ein umfassender Informationsaustausch werden genutzt, um die Aufgaben der Sicherheitsgewährleistung zu erfüllen. Markus Thiel untersucht, ob der vor allem infolge der Bedroh

"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"--

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.

Police Law in Germany currently faces diverse challenges. The consensus regarding its basics in legal dogma dwindles, the adjustment pressure is rising, the legal regulations in the German federal states are drifting apart, and the population's acceptance of police acts decreases in a worrying way. As a part of a solution strategy, a standardization of Police Acts is currently being discussed; as its basis, a "Template Police Act" may serve. Such templates have been drafted in the 1970s, and a working group, set up by a subcommittee of the German Conference of the Ministers of the Interior, is drawing up a new template act. This template act can be used as a "toolbox" for the legislators in the German federal states after its publication. This article delineates the current challenges and problems, describes the history of the "Template Police Acts", discusses the criticism against "template legislation" and provides an insight into the work process based on four short examples.

Das Sicherheitsrecht gehört zu denjenigen Rechtsgebieten, in denen die Gesetzgeber in Bund und Ländern seit einiger Zeit eine besonders umfangreiche Aktivität entfalten. So führen technischer Fortschritt insbesondere bei der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie, Veränderungen bei den Kriminalitätsphänomenen und politische Konstellationen häufig zu einem hohen Anpassungs- und Veränderungsdruck. Um so wichtiger ist es, dem oftmals bestehenden Zeitdruck nicht nachzugeben, sondern vor dem Erlass neuer Rechtsnormen eine sorgfältige und sachgerechte Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung durchzuführen sowie gesetzliche Vorgaben für nachgelagerte Normevaluationen fristgerecht zu beachten. Der Beitrag hebt die Bedeutung von Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung und -evaluation hervor, zeichnet die Entwicklung dieser Instrumente in den Verwaltungswissenschaften nach, stellt die wissenschaftlichen Konzepte und Methoden vor und soll - unter Berücksichtigung bereichs spezifischer Besonderheiten - Ansätze für eine Renaissance der Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung bei der Sicherheitsgesetzgebung bieten.