Board #31 - Beyond Normative Power Europe: Security Calculations and the Conditional Enforcement of Human Rights in EU Foreign Policy

• In Event: 74-303 - Poster Session: Culture, Soft Power and Norm Diffusion

Brief Overview

Using Ukraine's 2022 invasion as a case study, this thesis demonstrates how the EU's rapid deployment of tribunals and accountability mechanisms reveals that human rights enforcement expands when aligned with strategic security interests.

Author

• Yana Sokivka, University of Pennsylvania