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NEW BOOKS FROM UNU PRESS
The Globalization of Human Rights
The
Globalization of Human Rights, to be published in July by UNU Press,
examines the imperatives of justice at the national, regional, and
international levels through an analysis of rights, both civil and
political, and economic and social.
Any search for justice
is based upon identifying values, including relationships with others,
that are viewed as so critical to the well-being of humanity and the
character of being human that they are eventually institutionalized as
rights. Such rights become the basis upon which claims are made, as well
as the horizon of justice to which society and institutions try to
conform.
The international
community has embarked on an unprecedented effort to map out the
requirements of justice for all mankind, providing normative guidelines as
well as goals. The core of this effort has been to reach a more ethical
understanding and arrangement of relations between individuals and the
institutions governing them. The end of the Cold War and the normative and
political changes that have ensued at the international level in recent
years have reinvigorated the critical importance of this effort and the
discussion to which this volume makes an important contribution.
The
editors are Jean-Marc Coicaud, a
Senior Academic Officer of the Peace and Governance Program, at the United
Nations University, Michael W.
Doyle, Special Advisor to the
Executive Office of the Secretary-General at the United Nationsand
Anne-Marie Gardner, a Ph.D.
student in the Politics Department of Princeton University.
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Regionalism,
Multilateralism and Economic
Integration: The Recent Experience
This
book, also due out in July, looks at how regional trade agreements may
catalyse new forms of economic cooperation by promoting deeper integration
in the regulatory structures of participating countries.
Recent
regional trade agreements are generally more effective than the more
remote WTO procedures in facilitating trade and improving transparency. Regionalism,
Multilateralism, and Economic Integration, edited by Gary
Sampson and Stephen Woolcock,
finds that regional processes and rules have been consistent with the
multilateral obligations of each party. WTO rules therefore constitute a
floor that underpins additional commitments in the regional agreements.
Gary
Sampson is Senior Counsellor at the
WTO and Professor of International Economic Governance at UNU Institute of
Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). Stephen Woolcock is a lecturer in
International Relations at the London School of Economics.
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