Globalization and human rights
Subtitle: challenges and answers from a European perspective
By: Jesús Ballesteros, Encarnación Fernández Ruiz-Gálvez, Pedro Talavera, editors
Series: Ius gentium -- v.13; Ius gentium (Dordrecht, Netherlands) -- v. 13.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9789400740198; 9789400740204
Subjects: Human rights and globalization
Description: Globalisation turns out to be untenable because it does not guarantee minimum social equity, peace and respect for the environment, and therefore does not guarantee the effective accomplishment of human rights. This book analyzes this issue and raises proposals for a new perspective. The first part describes the soft threats to human rights, derived from the devaluation of the politics and the productive economy with regard to the finance. It entails the concealment of the reality in the shape of exploitation as the tax havens and in the shape of marginalization of the persons with different abilities. The second part include a study of hard threats to human rights and examines two cases of failed states: Afghanistan and Somalia, in which the violence has supplanted the politics and the economy. In view of these situations it is necessary to rethink the force of classic ius gentium and the humanitarian right. The third part presents the European Union as a legal and political space in which conditions of a worthy life are better defended by means of the Primacy of Practical Reason and Social State of Law, and by the requirement of peace as the main rule of international relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalisation : from chrematistic rest to humanist wakefulness  -- Jesús Ballesteros; title: Basic structure and tax havens  -- Francesco Biondo; title: Human rights and the inclusive society  -- Jorge Cardona Llorens; title: Afghanistan : why has violence replaced political power?  -- Encarnación Fernández Ruiz-Gálvez; title: Somalia : from the errors of colonialism to the horrors of war  -- Ana-Paz Garibo-Peyró; title: Human rights and changes to the international legal system : philosophical reflections on the (difficult) coexistence of international humanitarian law and international human rights law  -- Isabel Trujillo; title: Europe's path to public reason  -- Francesco Viola; title: The social state based on the rule of law in the Europe of rights  -- Ernesto J. Vidal Gil; title: Peace as a priority -- Pedro Talavera.