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Companies, International Trade and Human Rights
Author(s): Janet Dine (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: March 25, 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 340 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521141826
- ISBN-13: 9780521141826
Book Description
Seeking reasons for international trading regimes not meeting poverty reduction goals, this book focuses on the role of corporations within the trading system, and the complex relationships between corporations, nation states and international organizations. The actions of corporations and their underlying motives are considered as well as the structure of the international trading system and globalization.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Janet Dine provides a wide-ranging discussion of several issues related to economic globalization….Companies, International Trade and Human Rights employs a legal and normative perspective, discussing recent works by various normative theorists as well as case law from Britain, the United States, and continential Europe, and international treaty law….Dine’s book raises many important questions and advances several provocative claims…”
–Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Political Science Quarterly (The Journal of Public and International Affairs)
–Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Political Science Quarterly (The Journal of Public and International Affairs)
Book Description
This book seeks reasons for the failure of the globalisation of trade to reduce poverty.
