Towards New Global Strategies: Public Goods and Human Rights

549 Pages·2007·2.34 MB·English

by  Andersen

Towards New Global Strategies:
Public Goods and Human Rights
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Towards New Global Strategies:
Public Goods and Human Rights
Edited by
Erik André Andersen
Birgit Lindsnaes
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2007
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
Introduction xiii
Erik André Andersen and Birgit Lindsnæs
1. GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS - CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS 1
The state and the citizen 3
Natural law as a public good
Peter Wivel
Public goods 29
Concept, definition, and method
Erik André Andersen and Birgit Lindsnæs
On human rights 53
Lone Lindholt and Birgit Lindsnæs
The global and the regional outlook 71
How can global public goods be advanced
from a human rights perspective?
Birgit Lindsnæs
2. PEACE AND SECURITY 113
Peace as a global public good 115
Bjørn Møller
International institutions for preserving peace and security 159
Erik André Andersen
The law of war 183
Rikke Ishøy
The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina 199
Erik André Andersen
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3. STATE AND CITIZEN 215
Is good governance a global public good? 217
Hans-Otto Sano
Legal protection and the rule of law as a global public good 237
Hans Henrik Brydensholt and Kristine Yigen
Curbing corruption: A global public good 255
The potential of international cooperation.
Kristine Yigen
Access to global public goods for socially
and economically vulnerable groups 275
Rie Odgaard and Kristine Yigen
4. ACCESS TO INFORMATION 309
The right to know 311
Anders Jerichow
Internet access as a global public good 327
Henrik Lindholt and Rikke Frank Jørgensen
Research, global public goods and welfare 335
Peder Andersen
Education as a global public good 345
Diego Bang
5. EXAMPLES OF IMPLEMENTATION 369
Health is global - and a moving target 371
Poul Birch Eriksen, Ellen Bangsbo, Jens Kvorning, Lene Lange,
Esben Sønderstrup, Uffe Torm and Ib Bygbjerg
(Fresh) water as a human right and a global public good 393
Jannik Boesen and Poul Erik Lauridsen
The international trade system 419
Christian Friis Bach
The global responsibility of private companies 433
Henrik Brade Johansen, Helle Bank, Jørgensen and Jens Kvorning
Contents vii
6. CONCLUSION 451
Problems and potentials in the application of global public goods 453
Erik André Andersen, Peder Andersen and Birgit Lindsnæs
APPENDICES 467
Appendix 1
Overview of Conventions, etc. 469
Appendix 2
Global public goods: FAQ a miniature dictionary 473
Appendix 3
Paul A. Samuelson: “The Pure Theory Of public Expenditure”,
Review of Economics and Statistics, 36(4), (1954) 481
Appendix 4
About the authors 487
Appendix 5
Members of the workings groups under the Danish Council for
International Development Cooperation concerning global
public goods and human rights, trade and health, respectively 495
Appendix 6
Programme for the series of seminars about global public goods,
human rights and development (January-February 2004) 499
Appendix 7
Acronyms for international organizations including NGOs
and Conventions 503
INDEX 509

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
The expanding public space 44
Global public goods: in human rights and international law, in the
mandates of the UN and international organizations, in the
Millennium Goals, and in policy documents. 76
The UN and international organizations with global mandates. 82
Regional international organizations arranged according to
their mandates. 96
Armed Conflicts 1989-2002 126
Refugee Flows in the Horn of Africa 127
Global Military Expenditures
(bill. US$, constant 2000-prices and exchange rates) 131
International Organizations Involved in Peacemaking (examples) 133
Non-State Actors (examples) 135
Conflict Management Strategy 136
The Conflict Cycle 137
Public goods and the Bosnia and Herzegovina conflict as seen at a
global, regional and national level in a temporal perspective. 208
Definitions of governance 220
Governance indicators according to the World Bank Research Institute 231
Selected countries - High Human Development cluster - 2002 Figures 383
Selected countries - Low Human Development cluster - 2002 Figures 384
Putting principles into practice 439
Overview over the distribution and procurement of global public goods 458
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