Front Cover -- Global Governance, Economy and Law -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The "tragic flaw" of humanity reflected in the United Nations and the struggle for human rights -- Prelude to the United Nations: the Age of Hope -- Birth of the United Nations: one step forward, two back -- The evolution of the International Bill of Rights: rekindling the Age of Hope -- UN legal standard-setting in human rights: more law, but less moral force -- Genocide, the Cold War and complicity: the Age of Hypocrisy -- The regional human rights regime in Europe: is the wait for justice over for Europe and is it a model for the rest of the world? -- After the Cold War: the era of television wars, genocides, and virtual guilt -- The Kosovo crisis, universal jurisdiction, and the International Criminal Court: turning points in the wait for justice? -- Conclusion: the Global Information Age and economic and military power in the twenty-first century: can justice co-opt them? -- Postscript: the effect of 11 September 2001, or has the world really changed? -- 2. World trade: for whose benefit? -- The evolution of governance in world trade: another loss of vision -- The global trade regime: can it be recast in the cause of all humanity? -- Justice requires consistency: drawing the existing moral, legal, and economic links between trade and labor standards -- In the long term do we survive? Trading off the environment -- Conclusion -- 3. Power and responsibility: the ethical and inter national legal duties of the global private sector -- The transformation of global economic power: in search of vision -- Ethics and social responsibility in the corporate integrity risk environment -- The international legal duties of the global private sector -- Conclusion.

4. From a "race-to-the-bottom" to social justice in the global labor market -- A race-to-the-bottom world? -- Social justice in the global marketplace -- Bringing justice to global workers: the knowledge barrier -- Managing the global labor market -- 5. The failure of the international financial system and financing global justice - the World Development Fund: a global Marshall Plan -- The record of the World Bank and the IMF in global development and avoiding financial crises: justice demands reforms -- Multinational enterprises in the global economy -- Modeling the productivity-HRD relationship: the case of under-age child workers -- An international development levy -- A World Development Fund (WDF) -- 6. Toward global pluralism -- Notes -- Bibliography (selected) -- Index.

This book provides a critical examination of the most important institutions of global governance in the world today. Drawing on history, political science, law and economics, the authors examine institutions such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and also the global private sector. In a series of comprehensive analyses the inability of these institutions and entities to promote and protect human rights and international peace is revealed. While examining the failures of the past, the authors enthusiastically propose far reaching reforms, suggesting how these global institutions and their member states can reform themselves to prevent the exploitation of the most vulnerable in the global economy and bridge the gap between the high vision that saw the birth of these institutions and their present day failures. Global Governance, Economy and Law calls for nothing less than a global Marshall Plan, a new global political vision and a new system of international taxation to finance the integration of justice into the world economy.

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