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BIM Annual Report 2008
Fundamental Rights / Human Rights general
Human Rights Dialogues as Instruments of EU Foreign Policy: China Case Study
Summary
This research project studies human rights dialogues as an instrument of EU foreign policy, focusing in
particular on the EU-China human rights dialogue. The research goal is to find out whether the EU’s
communicative engagement strategy has positively influenced China’s human rights policies and
practice in the last decade. Given that the dialogue is conducted behind closed doors and only poorly
documented, data for the impact assessment is generated through a series of expert interviews in EU
Member States and in China.
Building on this research, the BIM also participates in a new Steering Committee set up by the Irish
Centre for Human Rights in Galway and tasked to give strategic direction to an academic network of
European and Chinese human rights experts that organises seminars to accompany the official dialogue
between the EU Troika and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Countries
Persons
involved
Austria, China
Research Fellow
Supervision
Katrin Kinzelbach
Manfred Nowak
Contact person
Katrin Kinzelbach, katrin.kinzelbach@univie.ac.at
Lead
organisation
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute
of Human Rights
Partner
organisation
EFSPS – European Foreign
and Security Policy Studies
Programme
Starting/
-end date
Funded by
September 2007 to December 2009
Volkswagen Foundation
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