The Death of Democracy and the Forces of Power and Control: The Case of Europe
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Human Rights Project for a European Regional Democracy
3. Building the Human Rights Project in Europe
3.1. Article 2 and 3
3.2. Article 5
3.3. Article 6
3.4. Summing Up
4. The Forces of Power and Control and the Three Levers that Move Them
4.1. The Notion of Power and Control
4.2. Power and Control through Financial Terror
4.3. Power and Control through Security Terror
4.4. Power and Control through Nationalism
5. A Way Forward
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
ECHR | European Convention on Human rights |
CoE | Council of Europe |
UDHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
EcrtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
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