Human Rights and Public Goods

The Global New Deal

William F. Felice, Diana Fuguitt

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9781538129333
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This powerful and empowering text offers a way forward for alleviating human suffering, presenting a realistic roadmap for enhanced global governance that can create workable solutions to mass poverty. William Felice and Diana Fuguitt emphasize the critical links between international human rights law, international political economy, and global organizations to formulate effective public policy to alleviate human suffering and protect basic human rights for all. They introduce students to the key legal and economic concepts central to economic and social human rights, including the right to education, a healthy environment, food, basic health care, housing, and clean water. They analyze the legal approaches undertaken by the United Nations and explain the key theories of international political economy (including liberalism, nationalism, and structuralism) and central economic concepts (including global public goods, economic equality, and the capabilities approach).



In the last decade, a backlash against economic globalization has been fueled by a variety of politicians around the world. A resurgent nationalism is often pitted against international organizations and frameworks for global cooperation. In this new edition, Felice and Fuguitt account for how the current global political climate has affected national and global policies for the provision of public goods and the protection of human rights. They focus on practical policies and actions that both state and nonstate actors can take to uphold economic and social rights. As the first book to integrate these legal and economic approaches, it provides a practical path to action for students, academics, and policy makers alike.

Table of contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments for the Third Edition
• Core International Human Rights Instruments and Their Monitoring Bodies
• List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Introduction
• 1 Global Policy Choices: There Are Alternatives
• 2 International Law: Human Rights and Human Development
• 3 International Political Economy and Global Public Goods
• 4 Linking Law and Economics: Human Rights and Public Goods
• 5 The United States and Europe: Conflicting Approaches to Human Rights and Public Goods
• 6 The Environment and Economic and Social Human Rights
• 7 Women and Economic and Social Human Rights
• 8 Military Spending: Human Rights and Public Goods Trade-offs
• 9 The Global New Deal
• Notes
• About the Authors