Offering a comprehensive analysis of the human right to development and its realistic application in an era of economic globalization, Daniel Aguirre provides a multidisciplinary overview of economic globalization and examines its challenges to the realization of human development. He takes this further by engaging with these challenges and highlighting the human rights opportunities presented by economic globalization and the international investment system. The volume proposes a triadic system of responsibility for human rights in development, to include mapping the overlapping human rights responsibilities of corporations at the micro-level, of states at the macro-level and of the international community at the meso-level. The scope of the book is broad and the approach to the subject is new. It will generate interest across many disciplines including political science, international law and economics. Activists, academics and development practitioners in many fields should also read this book.
Contents: Introduction: economic globalization and human rights; Part 1 Development in a Global World: Human rights and development cooperation in context; Development cooperation in theory: the right to development; Development cooperation in practice: international investment law. Part 2 Triadic Responsibility in a Global World: Micro-level: corporate responsibility; Macro-level regulation: state responsibility; Meso-level regulation: the international cooperation and collective responsibility; Conclusion: the right to development, legitimacy and stability in a global world; Bibliography; Index.