Global Responsibilities

Who Must Deliver on Human Rights?
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-95126-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

In Global Responsibilities, some of the world's leading theorists of ethics, politics, international relations, and economics-including Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and philosopher Peter Singer-ask and answer the question: Who must deliver on human rights?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuper, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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