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Europski standardi o ljudskim pravima - ideologija, nada ili mit
European human rights standards – ideology, hope or myth

Author(s): Ismet Grbo
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«

Summary/Abstract: European human rights standards have already become a classic subject. However, in post-communist societies they have become topical for many reasons, including the desire to see the enjoyment of human rights as a benefit of political liberalism and parliamentary democracy and the start of a process of evolution of a new political culture. The problem lies in the fact that political liberalism and international and European human rights standards in post-communist societies, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, are viewed uncritically, and formally incorporated into the constitutional and legal order without the consequences of aggression and war having first been eliminated. In this process, parliamentarianism is evolving, but in developing countries it is none other than parliament that indicates the discrepancy between the idealism of a political doctrine and the reality of evolving societies. This thus also raises the issue of whether it is an ideology, a way, a hope or a new myth.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 151-169
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bosnian