Globalization, Violence and World Governance

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BRILL, Feb 14, 2011 - Political Science - 237 pages
In this work Laura Westra draws our attention to the failure of international law to promote and protect the rights of society in the face of the ravages of neoliberal agendas in an era of globalization. This book outlines how international law is perhaps a misnomer, and at its core there is a great distance between laws as they are written and laws as they are implemented.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
A Preliminary Discussion
7
A Causal Analysis
31
Chapter Three Hazards Ecoviolence and the Need for World Law
67
Chapter Four Cosmopolitanism and Neoliberal Democracy in Conflict
103
Israel v Palestine A Case Study
137
Is World Governance the Way Forward?
173
Appendix I List of Cases
211
Appendix II List of Documents
215
References
219
Index
233
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Laura Westra, Ph.D. (1982) in Philosophy, University of Toronto, and Ph.D. (2005) in Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, currently teaches environmental law at the University of Windsor. She has published twenty-two monographs and collections on environmental justice and human rights issues and international law, and over 80 articles and chapters.

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