Neo-Liberal Globalism and Social Sustainable Globalisation.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Challenges of Social Sustainable Globalisation -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Outline of the Book -- 1.3. In Conclusion -- Part I-Neo-Liberal Globalism and Philosophical Presuppositions -- 2. Liberal Globalism: A Defence -- 2.1. What is liberalism? globalism? liberal globalism? -- 2.2. Man as a free, rational and autonomous being -- 2.3. If men were angels -- 2.4. The state as concentration of power -- 2.5. The state under the rule of law -- 2.6. Is liberal globalism a universal ideal? -- 2.7. Do social and economic rights belong to the acquis of liberal globalism? -- 2.8. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms -- 2.9. Three arguments against the Four Freedoms -- 2.10. What to do with the social and economic rights as formulated? -- 2.11. Social rights as "directive principles" -- 2.12. Between Letters to Santa Claus and real rights -- 3. The Ambiguity of Globalisation -- 3.1. Ontology of the Present-Ontology of Ourselves -- 3.2. Marx: Capitalism and Alienation -- 3.3. Hegel: the Right to the Besonderheit der Empfindung -- 3.4. Nietzsche: European Nihilism -- 3.5. Nietzsche: Decline into Experience -- 3.6. Back to the Source -- 4. Social, Sustainable Globalisation Requires a Paradigm Other Than Neo-Liberal Globalism -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Freedom and human beings as homo economicus, as moral beings and as homo politicus -- 4.3. Social justice as a balance between the protection of property rights and opportunities for social participation -- 4.4. Democracy as a system of cooperation and social commitment rather than as a system based on the 'survival of the fittest'.

4.5. Global democracy as a system of interdependent states and their world citizens acting multilaterally rather than as a system for and by nation states and their citizens acting unilaterally -- 4.6. Global culture as an environment created by humans rather than as an unequivocally morally superior Western model of civilisation -- 4.7. Morality as the positive commitment to society and to others rather than as a negative morality of not harming the market in one's own interests -- 4.8. Conclusion -- 5. Individual Freedom and ESOCUL Rights: The Illusions of Libertarianism -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The illusion of the legitimacy with regard to the current state of distribution -- 5.3. The illusion of negative freedom serving the cause of freedom -- 5.4. The illusion of the absence of a moral actor -- 5.5. The illusion of the distinction between negative and positive freedom -- 5.6. Socio-economic rights: negative rights -- 5.7. Concluding remarks -- Part II-Neo-Liberal Globalism and its Institutional and Political Framework -- 6. What's in it for us? Globalisation, International Institutions and the Less Developed Countries -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The state of affairs in developing countries and their prospects -- 6.3. Do free trade and free capital flows benefit developing countries? -- 6.4. The contributions of international economic institutions -- 6.5. Concluding remarks -- 7. Social Sustainable Globalisation and International Law: in Need of a New International Constitutional Balance -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Common Responsibility -- 7.2.1. Collective action for sustainable use of the natural environment -- 7.2.2. Collective Security -- 7.2.3. A collective responsibility for development -- 7.3. Legitimacy -- 7.3.1. Security -- 7.3.2. Human rights -- 7.3.3. Development.

7.4. Conclusion: Human dignity as the core value of the international legal system -- 8. The Odds of 'Liberalisation' as an Informing Principle of Law, Governance and Development -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Four Dimensions of Liberalisation from an LGD Perspective -- 8.3. Liberalisation in Practice: Three Cases -- 8.3.1. Family law reform in the Islamic Middle East -- 8.3.2. Groundwater regulation in South-Asia -- 8.3.3. Regulation of land tenure. De Soto and the World Bank -- 8.4. The Revival of Law &amp -- Development and the Mask of Neutrality -- 8.5. Applied Research in Law, Governance and Development -- 9. Water as a Social, Economic and Ecological Good in a Globalising World -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Water in a globalising world -- 9.3. Water as a social good -- 9.4. Water as an economic good -- 9.5. Water as an ecological good -- 9.6. Conclusion -- Part III-Neo-Liberal Globalism and Non-State Actors -- 10. Morality and the Legitimacy of Non Governmental Organisations' Involvement in International Politics and Policy Making -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Informal regulation and legitimacy issues -- 10.3. INGOs' legitimacy questioned -- 10.4. Traditional concepts of legitimacy -- 10.5. Legitimization of INGOs in practice -- 10.6. Conclusion -- 11. Can Corporate Governance Contribute to Sustainable Development? -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. The corporate form -- 11.3. Corporate governance -- 11.4. Sustainable development -- 11.5. CSR and corporate citizenship -- 11.6. Corporate responsibility -- 11.7. Corporate governance as a vehicle for sustainable development? -- 11.8 Concluding remarks -- 12. Sustainability Reporting by Companies is Necessary for Sustainable Globalisation -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. The changing role of the multinational company -- 12.3. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

12.4. The Global Reporting Initiative-Sustainability Reporting Guidelines -- 12.5. CSR debate in the European Union: voluntary or mandatory? -- 12.6. Mandatory inclusion of non-financial information in annual reports -- 12.7. The Netherlands: CSR in the annual report? -- 12.8. Current trends -- 12.9. Concluding remarks -- Index.

This book pays attention to poverty, to the increasing subordination of political, social, cultural and ecological domains within society to the economic domain, and to tasks and powers that should be allotted to governments, non-governmental organisations and international corporations.

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