Andrew Kuper (ed.)

Global Responsibilities

Who Must Deliver on Human Rights?
Herausgeber: Kuper, Andrew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study asking the world's theorists of ethics, politics, international relations, and economics: Who must deliver on human rights? The contributors consider the obligations of state and non-state agents. They view the issues such as poverty, multiculturalism, corporate responsibility, trade standards, and the reform of multilateral institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9780415951272
• ISBN-10: 0415951275
• Artikelnr.: 21326838

Autorenporträt

Andrew Kuper is a Managing Director at Ashoka Innovators for the Public. He has been a Fellow of Trinity College at Cambridge University, a visiting scholar at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and Senior Associate at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. He is also Co-Director of Kuper Research, a media and sociopolitical consultancy based in Johannesburg. He is the author of Democracy Beyond Borders

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Responsibilities Approach to Human RightsI. THE NATURE OF RESPONSIBILITYThomas Pogge
Human Rights and Human Responsibilities Onora O'Neill
Agents of JusticeAmartya Sen
Open and Closed ImpartialityII. ALLOCATING RESPONSIBILITIESSusan James
Realizing Rights as Enforceable ClaimsDavid Miller
Distributing ResponsibilitiesMichael Green
Institutional Responsibility for Global ProblemsChristian Barry
Applying the Contribution PrincipleIII. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR POVERTY RELIEFAndrew Kuper
Global Poverty Relief: More Than CharityPeter Singer
Poverty
Facts
and Political PhilosophiesReply to SingerReply to Kuper IV. ACCOUNTABILITY OF ACTORS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMYDavid Held
Globalization
Corporate Practice and Cosmopolitan Social StandardsS. Prakash Sethi
Corporate Codes of Conduct and the Success of GlobalizationMelissa Lane
The Moral Dimension of Corporate AccountabilityNgaire Woods
Held to Account: Governance in the World EconomyNotes on ContributorsAppendix