Beschreibung:
David Jason Karp is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex.
An original analysis of which global actors are responsible for human rights in today's world and why.
1. Introduction; 2. Transnational corporations and human rights in practice, policy and international law; 3. Legitimate authority, human rights and transnational actors; 4. Are human rights responsibilities universal? A conceptual framework of responsibility for human rights; 5. The capacity approach: a construction and critique; 6. The publicness approach to responsibility for human rights; 7. Conclusions: non-state actors and human rights practice.