Global Governance, Economy and Law: Waiting for Justice

by Mendes; Errol

• ISBN13: 9780415282635
• ISBN10: 0415282632
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This multi-disciplinary volume considers the moral, historical, legal, political and economic structures of global governance trends and institutions and their impact on the evolution of international legal standards. The impact of the global private sector on global governance, international legal standards and the emergence of corporate social responsibility regimes is also addressed in order to show how the institutions and realities of globalization that we are faced with today have been the result of convergence and conflict between fundamental values in these areas.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Preface	viii
Acknowledgements	xi
The ``tragic flaw'' of humanity reflected in the United Nations and the struggle for human rights	1	(66)
Prelude to the United Nations: the Age of Hope	1	(3)
Birth of the United Nations: one step forward, two back	4	(5)
The evolution of the International Bill of Rights: rekindling the Age of Hope	9	(3)
UN legal standard-setting in human rights: more law, but less moral force	12	(5)
Genocide, the Cold War and complicity: the Age of Hypocrisy	17	(5)
The regional human rights regime in Europe: is the wait for justice over for Europe and is it a model for the rest of the world?	22	(7)
After the Cold War: the era of television wars, genocides, and virtual guilt	29	(8)
The Kosovo crisis, universal jurisdiction, and the International Criminal Court: turning points in the wait for justice?	37	(13)
Conclusion: the Global Information Age and economic and military power in the twenty-first century: can justice co-opt them?	50	(11)
Postscript: the effect of 11 September 2001, or has the world really changed?	61	(6)
World trade: for whose benefit?	67	(49)
The evolution of governance in world trade: another loss of vision	67	(6)
The global trade regime: can it be recast in the cause of all humanity?	73	(6)
Justice requires consistency: drawing the existing moral, legal, and economic links between trade and labor standards	79	(18)
In the long term do we survive? Trading off the environment	97	(12)
Conclusion	109	(7)
Power and responsibility: the ethical and international legal duties of the global private sector	116	(37)
The transformation of global economic power: in search of vision	116	(11)
Ethics and social responsibility in the corporate integrity risk environment	127	(18)
The international legal duties of the global private sector	145	(6)
Conclusion	151	(2)
From a ``race-to-the-bottom'' to social justice in the global labor market	153	(25)
A race-to-the-bottom world?	154	(7)
Social justice in the global marketplace	161	(7)
Bringing justice to global workers: the knowledge barrier	168	(8)
Managing the global labor market	176	(2)
The failure of the international financial system and financing global justice -- the World Development Fund: a global Marshall Plan	178	(30)
The record of the World Bank and the IMF in global development and avoiding financial crises: justice demands reforms	180	(9)
Multinational enterprises in the global economy	189	(6)
Modeling the productivity--HRD relationship: the case of under-age child workers	195	(4)
An international development levy	199	(2)
A World Development Fund (WDF)	201	(7)
Toward global pluralism	208	(7)
Notes	215	(29)
Bibliography (selected)	244	(6)
Index	250