Globalizing Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1999

This book, based on the prestigious Oxford Amnesty Lecture series, investigates the relationship between globalization and human rights. The contributors come to the subject from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, and include Noam Chomsky, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Homi Bhaba, Susan George, and Joseph Stiglitz, with introductions and commentaries by Richard Rorty, Alan Ryan, Charles Taylor and others. Their forthright and provocative essays challenge the view that the development of global markets and global investment, together with the widespread circulation of information on which this depends, make human rights abuses less likely. Contributors to this volume - Susan George, activist and writer, author of How the Other Half Dies and A Fate Worse than Debt Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vandana Shiva, Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi Joseph Stiglitz, former Senior Vice-President, World Bank; Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Brooking Institute; and Special Advisor to the President of the World Bank Homi Bhabha, Professor of Humanities, University of Chicago Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University Respondents: Michael Likosky, Research Fellow in Law, Oxford University Alan Ryan, Warden of New College, Oxford Yoginder Sikand, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the History of Religion, London University B. S. Chimni, Professor of International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of McGill University Richard Rorty, Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University