Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking

Susan Ariel  Aaronson; Jamie M.  Zimmerman

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511550973

In many countries, citizens allege that trade policies undermine specific rights such as labor rights, the right to health, or the right to political participation. However, in some countries, policy makers use trade policies to promote human rights. Although scholars, policy makers and activists have long debated this relationship, in truth we know very little about it. This book enters this murky territory with three goals. First, it aims to provide readers with greater insights into the relationship between human rights and trade. Second, it includes the first study of how South Africa, Brazil, the United States, and the European Union coordinate trade and human rights objectives and resolve conflicts. It also looks at how human rights issues are seeping into the WTO. Finally, it provides suggestions to policy makers for making their trade and human rights policies more coherent.

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The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Abbreviations
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

1 - Introduction: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights in Trade Policymaking
pp 1-31

2 - The World Trade Organization and Human Rights: Providing Some Power to the People Some of the Time
pp 32-63

3 - South Africa: In the “Rainbow Nation” Trade and Human Rights Are Anything but Black-and-White
pp 64-92

4 - Brazil: Creating New Rules of the Road
pp 93-120

5 - The European Union: The Behemoth Is Not a Dinosaur
pp 121-149

6 - The United States: At Cross Purposes – Americans at the Intersection of Trade and Human Rights
pp 150-185

7 - Conclusion: How to Right the Trade Imbalance
pp 186-208

Appendix: Interviews for Righting Trade, 2005–2007
pp 209-216

Notes
pp 217-328

Index
pp 329-337

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