Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights in Trade Policymaking
- 2 The World Trade Organization and Human Rights: Providing Some Power to the People Some of the Time
- 3 South Africa: In the “Rainbow Nation” Trade and Human Rights Are Anything but Black-and-White
- 4 Brazil: Creating New Rules of the Road
- 5 The European Union: The Behemoth Is Not a Dinosaur
- 6 The United States: At Cross Purposes – Americans at the Intersection of Trade and Human Rights
- 7 Conclusion: How to Right the Trade Imbalance
- Appendix: Interviews for Righting Trade, 2005–2007
- Notes
- Index
6 - The United States: At Cross Purposes – Americans at the Intersection of Trade and Human Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights in Trade Policymaking
- 2 The World Trade Organization and Human Rights: Providing Some Power to the People Some of the Time
- 3 South Africa: In the “Rainbow Nation” Trade and Human Rights Are Anything but Black-and-White
- 4 Brazil: Creating New Rules of the Road
- 5 The European Union: The Behemoth Is Not a Dinosaur
- 6 The United States: At Cross Purposes – Americans at the Intersection of Trade and Human Rights
- 7 Conclusion: How to Right the Trade Imbalance
- Appendix: Interviews for Righting Trade, 2005–2007
- Notes
- Index
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- Trade ImbalanceThe Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking, pp. 150 - 185Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007