Global Governance, Human Rights and International Law

Combating the Tragic Flaw

Errol P. Mendes

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781000578379
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

This book offers a stimulating introduction to the links between areas of global governance, human rights global economy and international law. By drawing on a range of diverse subject areas, it argues that the foundations of global governance, human rights and international law are undermined by a conflict or 'tragic flaw', where insistence on absolute conceptions of state sovereignty are pitted against universally accepted principles of justice and human rights resulting in destructive self-interest for both the state and the global community. Following the election of President Donald Trump, the second edition will explores how we are witnessing a critical battle to ensure that human rights, international law and the beneficial aspects of globalization will still be relevant and applied in some of the critical institutions of global governance and in the operations of the global private sector. The second edition will focus on how States, institutions and global civil society will have to ramp up the struggle to fight this 'tragic flaw' that is now even more evident with the actions of the US and other authoritarian states, like China and Russia in this second decade of the 21st Century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Combating the tragic flaw in the UN
• 2. Seeking justice in global trade and economy
• 3. Corporate power and human rights
• 4. The foundations of global pluralism as the next stage of global governance
• Index