Large-scale, international research project to study States’ use of human rights
Democracy is no longer a given. Instead there are competing views on how countries and societies should be governed and act on the global stage. A new, large-scale, international research project will investigate how the geopolitical situation of existing in the shadow of a country with ambitions to become a world power affects how states utilise human rights in order to justify their actions and decisions.“There is an increased anxiety over the tendency towards a decline of democracy and human rights which is sweeping over Europe, inside and outside of EU borders. The clearest example of