Globalization and Human Rights

✍ Scribed by Alison Brysk (editor)

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this landmark volume, Alison Brysk has assembled an impressive array of scholars to address new questions about globalization and human rights. Is globalization generating both problems and opportunities? Are new problems replacing or intensifying state repression? How effective are new forms of human rights accountability?

These essays include theoretical analyses by Richard Falk, Jack Donnelly, and James Rosenau. Chapters on sex tourism, international markets, and communications technology bring new perspectives to emerging issues. The authors investigate places such as the Dominican Republic, Nigeria, and the Philippines.

The contemporary world is defined by globalization. While global human rights standards and institutions have been established, assaults on human dignity continue. These essays identify the new challenges to be faced, and suggest new ways to remedy the costs of globalization.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Citizenship
1. Who Has a Right to Rights?
2. Tourism, Sex Work, and Women’s Rights in the Dominican Republic
II. Commodification
3. Interpreting the Interaction of Global Markets and Human Rights
4. Economic Globalization and Rights
5 Sweatshops and International Labor Standards
6. The Ironies of Information Technology
7. Globalization and the Social Construction of Human Rights Campaigns
8. The Drama of Human Rights in a Turbulent, Globalized World
IV. Cooperation
9. Transnational Civil Society Campaigns and the World Bank Inspection Panel
10. Humanitarian Intervention
11. Human Rights, Globalizing Flows, and State Power
Conclusion
Works Cited
Contributors
Index