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035 _a(DE-B1597)487980
035 _a(OCoLC)962153756
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aNowak, Manfred
_eautore
245 1 0 _aHuman Rights or Global Capitalism :
_bThe Limits of Privatization /
_cManfred Nowak.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (256 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aPennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart I. Historical Observations --
_tChapter 1. History of Human Rights-A Dialectic View --
_tChapter 2. Did the West Comply with the Vienna Compromise? --
_tPart II. Privatization and Selected Human Rights --
_tChapter 3. Right to Education --
_tChapter 4. Right to Health --
_tChapter 5. Right to Social Security --
_tChapter 6. Right to Water --
_tChapter 7. Right to Personal Liberty and Rights of Detainees --
_tChapter 8. Right to Personal Security --
_tConclusion: A Human Rights Based Approach to Privatization --
_tAbbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aHuman rights and globalization.
650 0 _aHuman rights
_xEconomic aspects.
650 0 _aPrivatization
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aSocial responsibility of business.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights.
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653 _aHuman Rights.
653 _aLaw.
653 _aPolitical Science.
653 _aPublic Policy.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293494
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812293494
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