Civilising Globalisation: Human Rights and the Global Economy

✍ Scribed by David Kinley

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Economic globalisation and universal human rights both have the aspiration and power to improve and enrich individuals and communities. However, their respective institutions, methods, practices and goals differ, leading to both detrimental clashes and beneficial synergies. David Kinley analyses how human rights intersect with the trade, aid and commercial dimensions of global economic relations, taking the view that, while the global economy is a vitally important civilising instrument, it itself requires civilising according to human rights standards. Combining meticulous research with highly informed views and experiences, he outlines the intellectual, policy and practical frameworks for ensuring that the global economy advances the ends of human rights, argues for better exploitation of the global economy's capacity to distribute as well as create wealth, and proposes mechanisms by which to minimise and manage the socially debilitating effects of its market failures and financial meltdowns.

✦ Table of Contents

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 9
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 12
PREFACE......Page 13
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 15
Overview of the relationship......Page 17
Complexity......Page 19
Shared histories, separate paths......Page 22
Modern development of human rights......Page 25
Modern development of the global economy......Page 30
Competing state responsibilities and interests......Page 34
Current conflicts and complementarities......Page 39
Pro- and anti-globalisation......Page 40
Conditional dependency......Page 42
Language and leverage......Page 48
Introduction......Page 53
'A rising tide lifts all boats’?......Page 59
Historical analysis of theory and practice......Page 60
Linking human rights and trade......Page 63
The political context of law-based linkage......Page 66
Overlapping jurisdictions?......Page 76
The limits and possibilities of the WTO protecting human rights......Page 79
Structural dictates......Page 80
Human rights in the WTO's Dispute Settlement Mechanism?......Page 85
Trade sanctions......Page 93
Preferential treatment and conditionality......Page 98
Conclusion......Page 105
Introduction......Page 109
Responding to poverty......Page 110
Moral and legal arguments......Page 120
Politics and policies......Page 124
The shibboleth of the 0.7 per cent GNI target......Page 127
Increasing aid and forgiving debt......Page 130
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)......Page 132
A Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) to development......Page 135
Good governance and the rule of law......Page 140
Human rights critiques of governance and rule of law programmes......Page 145
Engaging with human rights......Page 148
Fixing the plumbing and other ways forward......Page 157
Conclusion......Page 159
Introduction......Page 161
Defining the territory......Page 164
Changing landscapes and mindsets......Page 166
Transnational corporations and their powers to do good and bad for human rights......Page 173
The Realpolitik of corporate power......Page 176
FDI and human rights......Page 185
Making power responsible: regulating the relationship between corporations and human rights......Page 193
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human rights......Page 195
Hard law and soft law approaches......Page 203
Conclusion......Page 217
Introduction......Page 220
Interdependence......Page 222
Important and intricate......Page 223
Laws and institutions......Page 229
Responsibilities......Page 232
Levels of responsibility......Page 234
The centrality of the state......Page 238
Responsibility framework – principle, policy and practice......Page 240
Freedom, development and security......Page 244
Security – global, state and individual......Page 245
The illicit economy......Page 250
The private sector in public wars......Page 251
'Its more than the economy – stupid!’......Page 253
Index......Page 256