sovereignty and their impact on EU‐China political relations. The paper will be divided into the following parts. The first part … will give a review of the concepts of both sovereignty and human rights and the rising concern of human rights in the … contemporary world. The second part will study the EU's policy of human rights to see why the EU adheres to its values. The third …

synthesizing empirical and normative modes of inquiry. It examines the transformation of sovereignty exercised by emerging … democracies and shows that - in stark contrast to emerging democracies' foreign policy rhetoric - the "softening" of sovereignty … has become the norm. The present paper assesses this softening of sovereignty on the basis of a "democratic …