Free Burma : transnational legal action and corporate accountability / John G. Dale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dale, John G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--Law and legislation.

United States.

Burma--International status.

Burma.

Burma--Politics and government--1988-.

United States--Foreign relations--Burma.

Burma--Foreign relations--United States.

United States. Alien Tort Claims Act.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When the military's ruling party violently quashed Burma's pro-democracy movement, diplomatic condemnation quickly followed--to little effect. But when Burma's activists began linking the movement to others around the world, the result was dramatically different. This book is the first to explain how Burma's pro-democracy movement became a transnational social movement for human rights. Through the experience of the Free Burma movement, John G. Dale demonstrates how social movements create and appropriate legal mechanisms for generating new transnational political opportunities. He presents th

Contents:

Burma's struggle for democracy and human rights before 1988

Locating power in the free Burma movement

Free Burma laws : legislating transnational sanctions

Corporate "death penalty" : executing charter revocation

Alien tort claims : adjudicating human rights abuses abroad.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4589-6

0-8166-7653-4

OCLC:

741492676