The West versus the Rest: new map

by | Sep 18, 2008


Yesterday, the European Council on Foreign Relations published a report I’ve co-authored on the EU’s influence on human rights issues at the UN.  I’ll save the details for a later post, but here are the headlines: European influence is declining, and the West is looking pretty shaky at the UN as a result.  We’ve had some good press coverage so far (including an hysterical piece in the Guardian), but kudos to Die Presse in Austria, which has turned the report’s data into a map.  The bluer the country, the more pro-EU it is.  The redder, the more anti-EU…

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