The good hegemon : US power, accountability as justice, and the multilateral development banks / Susan Park.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Susan, 1976- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Development banks.

United States--Foreign economic relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In 1993 the World Bank created the revolutionary World Bank Inspection Panel and, with it, a precedent under international law that allowed people to seek recourse for harm resulting from the projects the Bank financed in developing countries. This was the first time that a universal international organization recognized and responded to its impact on individuals. Within a decade of the Inspection Panel, other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) created similar accountability mechanisms. These mechanisms embody a norm of 'accountability as justice' that provides recourse for environmentally and socially damaging behavior through a formal sanctioning process. In 'The Good Hegemon,' Susan Park analyzes the 'accountability as justice' norm: its creation, how it functions, and whether it holds the MDBs to account.

Contents:

The good hegemon : demanding accountability as justice for the multilateral development banks

US norm entrepreneurship and the MDBs

US hegemony for what? From accountability as control to accountability as justice for the MDBs

Bank resistance to institutionalising accountability as justice

Accountability as justice in practice : challenging the banks?

Changing the banks and strengthening accountability as justice?

Norm diffusion within the MDBs and insights beyond the banks.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-762651-3

0-19-762649-1

0-19-762650-5