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The Legal Foundations of Normative Borders and Normative Orders: Individual and Human Rights and the Israel-Palestine-EU Triangle

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Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations

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Politics between the EU, on the one hand, and Israel and Palestine, on the other, are not played out in an anarchic space. They are embedded in and constantly have to relate to global societal dynamics that create ‘interlocking patterns of interdependence’ (Del Sarto, Chapter 1, this volume). This article addresses one of these broader dynamics affecting the Israel-Palestine-EU triangle, namely global normative borders/orders shaped by the legalisation and constitutionalisation of world politics. As widely documented in relevant literatures, the dynamics of this global legal order are shaped in particular by the increasing normative-legal relevance of individual and human rights (IHR) both in ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ law, including the status of IHR in violent conflicts (Forsythe, 2012; Gregg, 2012; Reus-Smit, 2001). As any other space in the world, Israel and Palestine are embedded in this global legal order. This chapter discusses how this global legal-normative order reconfigures the normative borders, power relations and interde-pendencies between Israel and Palestine, on the one hand, and the EU, on the other. Thus, the reconfiguration of global legal-normative orders, brought about by the growing relevance of IHR, is a key factor in understanding the evolving relationship between the EU and the parties in the region.

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Stetter, S. (2015). The Legal Foundations of Normative Borders and Normative Orders: Individual and Human Rights and the Israel-Palestine-EU Triangle. In: Del Sarto, R.A. (eds) Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations. Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504142_8

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