Can Globalization Promote Human Rights

Author : Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271074399

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Can Globalization Promote Human Rights? by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann Pdf

Globalization has affected everyone’s lives, and the reactions to it have been mixed. Legal scholars and political scientists tend to emphasize its harmful aspects, while economists tend to emphasize its benefits. Those concerned about human rights have more often been among the critics than among the supporters of globalization. In Can Globalization Promote Human Rights? Rhoda Howard-Hassmann presents a balanced account of the negative and positive features of globalization in relation to human rights, in both their economic and civil/political dimensions. On the positive side, she draws on substantial empirical work to show that globalization has significantly reduced world poverty levels, even while, on the negative side, it has exacerbated economic inequality across and within countries. Ultimately, she argues, social action and political decision making will determine whether the positive effects of globalization outweigh the negatives. And, in contrast to those who prefer either schemes for redistributing wealth on moral grounds or authoritarian socialist approaches, she makes the case for social democracy as the best political system for the protection of all human rights, civil and political as well as economic.

Author : Jean-Marc Coicaud,Michael W. Doyle,Anne-Marie Gardner
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : UCSD:31822033035650

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The Globalization of Human Rights by Jean-Marc Coicaud,Michael W. Doyle,Anne-Marie Gardner Pdf

International efforts to construct a set of standardised human rights guidelines are based upon the identification of agreed key values regarding the relationships between individuals and the institutions governing them, which are viewed as critical to the well-being of humanity and the character of being human. This publication considers these issues of justice at the national, regional, and international levels by analysing civil, political, economic and social rights aspects.

Author : Derrick M. Nault,Shawn L. England
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230316966

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Globalization and Human Rights in the Developing World by Derrick M. Nault,Shawn L. England Pdf

Focusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge of the difficulties and promise of promoting human rights in our global age.

Author : Akrivopoulou, Christina
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781522507246

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Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization by Akrivopoulou, Christina Pdf

The era of technology in which we reside has ushered in a more globalized and connected world. While many benefits are gained from this connectivity, possible disadvantages to issues of human rights are developed as well. Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization is a pivotal resource for the latest research on the effects of a globalized society regarding issues relating to social ethics and civil rights. Highlighting relevant concepts on political autonomy, migration, and asylum, this book is ideally designed for academicians, professionals, practitioners, and upper-level students interested in the ongoing concerns of human rights.

Author : Janet Dine,A. Fagan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845428839

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Human Rights and Capitalism by Janet Dine,A. Fagan Pdf

Human Rights and Capitalism brings together two important facets of the globalization debate and examines the complex relationship between human rights, property rights and capitalist economies. Human rights issues have become increasingly important in this debate and their place as harbingers of justice or as an instrument of oppression is fiercely contended. Both sides of this issue are considered in the contributions to this book and the complex relationships between human rights, human dignity and capitalist economies are the themes running throughout the work. Appearing at a time when these issues are a subject of extreme controversy, this book is distinguished by its balanced and academic approach.

Author : Jesús Ballesteros,Encarnación Fernández Ruiz-Gálvez,Pedro Talavera
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789400740204

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Globalization and Human Rights by Jesús Ballesteros,Encarnación Fernández Ruiz-Gálvez,Pedro Talavera Pdf

Globalisation turns out to be untenable because it does not guarantee minimum social equity, peace and respect for the environment, and therefore does not guarantee the effective accomplishment of human rights. This book analyzes this issue and raises proposals for a new perspective. The first part describes the soft threats to human rights, derived from the devaluation of the politics and the productive economy with regard to the finance. It entails the concealment of the reality in the shape of exploitation as the tax havens and in the shape of marginalization of the persons with different abilities. The second part include a study of hard threats to human rights and examines two cases of failed states: Afghanistan and Somalia, in which the violence has supplanted the politics and the economy. In view of these situations it is necessary to rethink the force of classic ius gentium and the humanitarian right. The third part presents the European Union as a legal and political space in which conditions of a worthy life are better defended by means of the Primacy of Practical Reason and Social State of Law, and by the requirement of peace as the main rule of international relations.

Author : David H. Kinley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:851314265

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Civilising Globalisation by David H. Kinley Pdf

Author : Felipe Gómez Isa
Publisher : Intersentia nv
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Globalisering
ISBN : 9789050954228

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Privatisation and Human Rights in the Age of Globalisation by Felipe Gómez Isa Pdf

"Result of a joint research project ... under the auspices of the Center for Human Rights (University of Maastricht, the Netherlands) and the Institute of Human Rights Pedro Arrupe (University of Deusto, Basque Country, Spain).--P. v

Author : Alison Brysk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520936287

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Globalization and Human Rights by Alison Brysk Pdf

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.

Author : David Kinley (Lecturer in law),Professor of Human Rights Law David Kinley, Lec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0511658125

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Civilising Globalisation by David Kinley (Lecturer in law),Professor of Human Rights Law David Kinley, Lec Pdf

In this 2009 book, David Kinley provides an agenda for how we can protect and promote human rights without sacrificing global economic growth.

Author : Tony Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 1588267504

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Human Rights in the Global Political Economy by Tony Evans Pdf

Tony Evans critically investigates the theory and practice of human rights in the current global order. Evans covers a range of contentious debates as he considers critiques of the prevailing conceptions of human rights. He then explores the changing global context of human rights issues, the nature and status of human rights within that context, and recent institutional responses. With its emphasis on policy and process, his book offers a rich analysis of the politics of today's human rights regime.

Author : Mahmood Monshipouri,Neil Englehart,Andrew J. Nathan,Kavita Philip
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317473893

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Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization by Mahmood Monshipouri,Neil Englehart,Andrew J. Nathan,Kavita Philip Pdf

Both human rights and globalization are powerful ideas and processes, capable of transforming the world in profound ways. Notwithstanding their universal claims, however, the processes are constructed, and they draw their power from the specific cultural and political contexts in which they are constructed. Far from bringing about a harmonious cosmopolitan order, they have stimulated conflict and opposition. In the context of globalization, as the idea of human rights has become universal, its meaning has become one more terrain of struggle among groups with their own interests and goals. Part I of this volume looks at political and cultural struggles to control the human rights regime -- that is, the power to construct the universal claims that will prevail in a territory -- with respect to property, the state, the environment, and women. Part II examines the dynamics and counterdynamics of transnational networks in their interactions with local actors in Iran, China, and Hong Kong. Part III looks at the prospects for fruitful human rights dialogiue between competing universalisms that by definition are intolerant of conradiction and averse to compromise.

Author : Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271037394

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Can Globalization Promote Human Rights? by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann Pdf

"An examination of globalization's effects on human rights, world poverty, and inequality. Describes international human rights law and the international social movement for reform of globalization"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226318004

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Globalization and Poverty by Ann Harrison Pdf

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.

Author : Joseph Zajda,Sev Ozdowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789402408713

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Globalisation, Human Rights Education and Reforms by Joseph Zajda,Sev Ozdowski Pdf

This book, the seventeenth instalment in the 24-volume series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state and human rights education reforms, setting it in a global context. The book examines major human rights education reforms and policy issues in a global culture. It focuses on the ambivalent and problematic relationship between the state, globalisation and human rights education discourses. Using a number of diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to historical-comparative research, the authors examine the reasons for, and the outcomes of human rights education reforms and policy. The authors discuss discourses surrounding the major dimensions affecting the human rights education, namely national identity, democracy, and ideology. These dimensions are among the most critical and significant dimensions defining and contextualising the processes surrounding the nation-building, identity politics and human rights education globally. With this as its focus, the chapters represent hand-picked scholarly research on major discourses in the field of human rights education reforms. The book draws upon recent studies in the areas of globalisation, equality, and the role of the state in human rights education reforms. Furthermore, the perception of globalisation as dynamic and multi-faceted processes clearly necessitates a multiple-perspective approach in the study of human rights education. This book provides that perspective commendably. It also critiques current human rights education practices and policy reforms. It illustrates the way shifts in the relationship between the state and human rights education policy. In the book, the authors, who come from diverse backgrounds and regions, attempt insightfully to provide a worldview of current developments in research concerning human rights education, and citizenship education globally. The book contributes, in a very scholarly way, to a more holistic understanding of the nexus between nation-state, human rights education both locally and globally.