Kuper Global Responsibilities

Who Must Deliver on Human Rights?
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-08090-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten

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 Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Responsibilities Approach to Human Rights
I. THE NATURE OF RESPONSIBILITY
Thomas Pogge, Human Rights and Human Responsibilities
Onora O'Neill, Agents of Justice
Amartya Sen, Open and Closed Impartiality
II. ALLOCATING RESPONSIBILITIES
Susan James, Realizing Rights as Enforceable Claims
David Miller, Distributing Responsibilities
Michael Green, Institutional Responsibility for Global Problems
Christian Barry, Applying the Contribution Principle
III. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR POVERTY RELIEF
Andrew Kuper, Global Poverty Relief: More Than Charity
Peter Singer, Poverty, Facts, and Political Philosophies
Reply to Singer
Reply to Kuper
IV. ACCOUNTABILITY OF ACTORS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
David Held, Globalization, Corporate Practice and Cosmopolitan
Social Standards
S. Prakash Sethi, Corporate Codes of Conduct and the Success of Globalization
Melissa Lane, The Moral Dimension of Corporate Accountability
Ngaire Woods, Held to Account: Governance in the World Economy
Notes on Contributors
Appendix

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