The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance or Human Rights and Private Wrongs

The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance

Author: John Ravenhill

This book analyzes the recent Asian financial crisis, the architecture of global finance and the relationship between the two. The strong comparative perspective of the book offers insights into why some economies in Asia were affected more severely than others in the recent crisis.

Contributors:
Gregory W Noble, John Ravenhill, Stephen Grenville, Stephan Haggard, Andrew MacIntyre, Natasha HamiltonHart, Jennifer A. Amyx, Hongying Wang, Barry Eichengreen, Benjamin J. Cohen, Thomas M. Callaghy, Miles Kahler.

Books about: Accounting or Comparing Policy Networks

Human Rights and Private Wrongs: Constructing Global Civil Society

Author: Alison Brysk

What do Swiss bankers, Romanian orphans and Brazilian scientists have in common? All are participants in global struggles over the governance of transnational institutions whose policies affect the ability of millions to secure their fundamental rights.

Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "private" to consider as policy issues: children's labor migration; refugee policy towards unaccompanied minors; financial matters of investor and business responsibility; and complex questions involving access to the benefits of pharmaceutical research, transnational organ trafficking, and the control over genetic research.

These issues raise extremely sensitive and increasingly significant questions about both rights and the division of responsibility between state and society for the construction of norms of regulation. Human Rightsand Private Wrongs is ambitious in scope, raising issues that have considerable current policy relevance, and exploring the nature of politics in a variety of transnational settings.

Broad, controversial, and accessible, this book will be of interest to everyone concerned with the role of civil society, of global social forces, and of the extension of the boundaries of the field of human rights.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction : globalization and private wrongs	1
Ch. 2	Norm change in global civil society	15
Ch. 3	Children across borders : new subjects	29
Ch. 4	New strategies : "follow the money"	61
Ch. 5	New rights : "our bodies, ourselves"	89
Ch. 6	Conclusion : private authority and global governance	117