Does Trade Openness Promote Security Rights in Developing Countries? Examining the Liberal Perspective

Harrelson-Stephens, Julie; Callaway, Rhonda L.

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“…Trade may lead to the diffusion of norms such as respect for human rights. Moreover, the benefits of trade encourage regimes to improve their human rights practices (Harrelson‐Stephens and Callaway 2003).…”

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What Attracts Foreign Investors? An Examination of Human Rights and Foreign Direct Investment

Blanton

2007

The Journal of Politics

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Though the prospective relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and human rights has long been a prominent issue within the global political economy, the linkage is empirically underdeveloped. Rather, the conventional wisdom that FDI and respect for human rights are inherently contradictory has persisted. Instead, we posit that respect for human rights may encourage FDI. To examine this issue, we assess the direct effects of human rights upon FDI as well as the extent to which human rights indirectly affects FDI through its impact upon human capital. Using a system of simultaneous equations, we find respect for human rights to have a positive impact upon FDI.

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What Attracts Foreign Investors? An Examination of Human Rights and Foreign Direct Investment

Blanton

2007

The Journal of Politics

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“…Though widely accepted, the claim that such a correlation exists does still attract criticism. The contrary (neoliberal) view is that the trade-related changes required of developing countries to secure their integration into the global economy deliver increased growth that improves their rights-fulfilling capacities; see Julie Harrelson-Stephens and Rhonda Callaway (2003). Yet growth cannot tackle the underfulfilment of rights associated with poverty on its own, and experiences of growth may actually be accompanied by increased inequality (Tsikata and Kerr 2000: 7-8).…”

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Taking Account of Violations: Rethinking Equality and Human Rights

Walsh

2012

Journal of Human Rights

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What should commitment to the norm of equality mean in human rights discourse? The focus of this article is on the relation between the intrinsically individualistic character of human rights-the fact that they apply to all individuals equally-and the other equalities that human rights discourse, in its broadest sense, has found it necessary to endorse. It is shown how, in order to take fuller account of specific aspects of humanrights-violating behavior that arise in the world as it is, a commitment to the norm of equality in human rights discourse should explicitly mean a commitment to three distinct, competing but interacting principles of equality. It is also shown how, because of the different balances they give to these principles, some influential liberal theories of nondomestic justice fail to properly capture the importance of this interaction to the human rights project at large. To that end, I explore two competing approaches to rights: that favored by some cosmopolitan-liberals and that proposed by John Rawls.What should commitment to the norm of equality mean in human rights discourse? This question is undertheorized within political theory in so far as existing commentaries on the relation between human rights and equality can tend to focus on individualized equality (Buchanan 2005; Wenar 2008). By contrast, the focus of this article is on the relation between the intrinsically individualistic character of human rights-the fact that they apply to all individuals equally-and the other equalities that human rights discourse, in its broadest sense, has found it necessary to endorse.Human rights discourse presupposes a certain kind of equality: namely, equality of status. And, the bearers of human rights themselves are always individuals. But in addition to individualized equality, the kinds of rights claimed for individuals (i.e., cultural and women's rights) and the kind of wider apparatus that is currently affirmed as required to protect these rights globally (i.e., a statist apparatus) presuppose principles of equality among two other categories or classes of subjects: different groups and states.The article has two aims. First, it seeks to show why, in order to take fuller account of specific aspects of human-rights-violating behavior that arise in the world as it is, 1 a commitment to the norm of equality in human rights discourse should explicitly mean a commitment to three distinct, competing but interacting principles of equality. And, second,

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“…While there is little comprehensive, systematic empirical work on the linkage between human rights and trade, a few studies have begun to examine the role of human rights within the global economy. Economic globalization (Apodaca, 2001), trade openness (Harrelson-Stephens and Callaway, 2003), and the penetration of foreign capital (Richards, and Sacko, 2001) were found to be conducive to improved human rights conditions within the developing world. Turning the causal arrow in the other direction, Feng (2001) uncovered a negative relationship between human rights abuse and private investment.…”

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“…In particular, studies have assessed the impact of such economic phenomena as trade openness, FDI, and foreign aid on human rights conditions (Harrelson-Stephens and Callaway, 2003;Milner, 2002;Apodaca, 2001;Richards, Gelleny, and Sacko, 2001). Yet little systematic analysis has been devoted to the ways in which respect for human rights can influence global economic interactions.…”

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Human Rights and Trade: Beyond the “Spotlight”

Blanton

2007

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Does Trade Openness Promote Security Rights in Developing Countries? Examining the Liberal Perspective

Cited by 31 publications

References 22 publications

What Attracts Foreign Investors? An Examination of Human Rights and Foreign Direct Investment

What Attracts Foreign Investors? An Examination of Human Rights and Foreign Direct Investment

Taking Account of Violations: Rethinking Equality and Human Rights

Human Rights and Trade: Beyond the “Spotlight”

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