Human Rights or Global Capitalism : The Limits of Privatization / Manfred Nowak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nowak, Manfred, author.

Series:

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights and globalization.

Human rights--Economic aspects.

Human rights.

Privatization--Social aspects.

Privatization.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal human rights. But the window of opportunity for creating this more just, more equal, and more secure world slammed shut just as quickly as it opened. Rather than celebrate the triumph of democracy over autocracy, or political freedom over totalitarian rule, the West exulted in the victory of capitalism over communism. Neoliberal policies of deregulation and privatization that minimized the role of the state were imposed on the transitional societies of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as economically weak and politically fragile nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Twenty-five years later, the world reaps the fruits of that market-driven state foundation: inequality; poverty; global economic, food, financial, social, and ecological crises; transnational organized crime and terrorism; proliferating weapons; fragile states.Human Rights or Global Capitalism is not simply concerned with the success or failure of neoliberal policies per se or judging whether they are good or bad. Rather, it examines the application of those policies from a human rights perspective and asks whether states, by outsourcing to the private sector many services with a direct impact on human rights-education, health, social security, water, personal liberty, personal security, equality-abdicate their responsibilities to uphold human rights and thereby violate international human rights law. Manfred Nowak explores these examples and outlines the ways in which neoliberal policies contravene the obligations of states to protect the human rights of their people.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I. Historical Observations

Chapter 1. History of Human Rights-A Dialectic View

Chapter 2. Did the West Comply with the Vienna Compromise?

Part II. Privatization and Selected Human Rights

Chapter 3. Right to Education

Chapter 4. Right to Health

Chapter 5. Right to Social Security

Chapter 6. Right to Water

Chapter 7. Right to Personal Liberty and Rights of Detainees

Chapter 8. Right to Personal Security

Conclusion: A Human Rights Based Approach to Privatization

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

9780812293494

0812293495

OCLC:

962153756