Responsibility for Human Rights - Transnational Corporations in Imperfect States

Informationen zum Autor David Jason Karp is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Klappentext An original analysis of which global actors are responsible for human rights in today's world and why. Zusammenfassung Karp argues that non-state actors! including transnational corporations! can sometimes be public enough to have 'responsibility for human rights'. His book shows how this approach is superior to the main alternative perspectives! and gives readers an original combination of theory and empirical grounding in the world of practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Transnational corporations and human rights in practice, policy and international law; 3. Legitimate authority, human rights and transnational actors; 4. Are human rights responsibilities universal? A conceptual framework of responsibility for human rights; 5. The capacity approach: a construction and critique; 6. The publicness approach to responsibility for human rights; 7. Conclusions: non-state actors and human rights practice.

Product details

• Authors: David Jason Karp, David Jason (University of Sussex) Karp
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107567269
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56726-9
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education