A citizen's guide to the rule of law : why we need to fight for the most precious human invention of all time /
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Author / Creator: | Merdzanovic, Adis, author. |
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Imprint: | Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, 2021. |
Description: | 1 online resource (177 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13563830 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Foreword: It's the Rule of Law, Stupid!
- Chapter 1. Saving the Rule of Law
- What is the Rule of Law then?
- A simple magic trick
- Ask not (only) what it can do for you ...
- ... also ask what you can do for the Rule of Law!
- Coming up next
- Chapter 2. When rule of law meets EU accession
- The Twin Imperatives for the Western Balkans
- Negotiating accession
- Establishing legitimacy
- What the Rule of Law is and why it matters
- Going deep: Love and everyday gestures
- Rule by Law and Rule of Law
- "Liberal democracy"-beyond the buzzword
- Fighting emperor Palpatine
- What the people cannot decide
- Chapter 3. Rule of Law Promotion, EU-style
- Enlargement postponed or when Jean-Claude killed the mood
- Reviving the relationship: the EU enlargement strategy
- On the importance of being lawful
- Recognise the problem and commit to solving it
- Why elites don't like the rule of law
- "Do as I say, not as I do"-Intra-EU problems with the rule of law
- A gospel with no sinners
- Between nukes and lawyers
- The Importance of Being ROLF
- Chapter 4. The Fundamental Dilemma of EU Rule of Law Promotion
- Achieving Sustainability or Why Inconsistency Ruins Progress
- Why consistency matters-and why it's hard to achieve sometimes
- Educating the Student
- Promoting rule of law in the accession process
- When the EU assesses the rule of law
- Why rule of law promotion is more than the sum of its parts
- Problem 1: Too much focus on institutions
- Problem 2: Too much focus on political elites and state structures
- Problem 3: Too much focus on means rather than ends
- Reframing the issue: The rule of law promotion dilemma
- The "second generation" of rule of law reform
- Towards a better approach for rule of law promotion: the dilemma
- Chapter 5. Taking on the rule of law dilemma by being more ambitious
- Why?
- Qui Bono
- Don't be shy!
- Outsiders can be right
- How?
- From the laws on the books ...
- ... to the institutions of justice ...
- ... to politics and power structures ...
- ... to, ultimately, socio-cultural realities
- From the laws on the books to law in action
- Chapter 6. Taking on the rule of law dilemma by being humbler
- Why?
- Contestability of interpretations
- Diversity of national traditions
- National autonomy
- How?
- Towards an ends-based approach
- Two logics
- Chapter 7. Promoting the Rule of Law in practice: the "Living List"
- Conditionality revisited
- Success cases? The Priebe Reports on North Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
- The citizens' "living list"
- Five citizen-based principles to monitor the rule of law
- The "living list" in practice
- Towards a new strategy
- Chapter 8. Conclusion
- References