Human Right to Development in a Globalized World

Offering a comprehensive analysis of the human right to development and its realistic application in an era of economic globalization Daniel Aguirre provides a multidisciplinary overview of economic globalization and examines its challenges to the realization of human development. He takes this further by engaging with these challenges and highlighting the human rights opportunities presented by economic globalization and the international investment system. The volume proposes a triadic system of responsibility for human rights in development to include mapping the overlapping human rights responsibilities of corporations at the micro-level of states at the macro-level and of the international community at the meso-level. The scope of the book is broad and the approach to the subject is new. It will generate interest across many disciplines including political science international law and economics. Activists academics and development practitioners in many fields should also read this book.