Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- Part I Philosophical Foundations -- 1 defining human Rights in a coherent Manner -- Roots in Antiquity -- From Natural Law to Natural Rights -- Ontological and Epistemological Challenges -- The Nuremberg Trials -- Human Rights -- Natural Rights and Conferred Rights -- Inherent Relational Rights -- Negative Rights (Rights of Forbearance) and Positive Rights (Rights of Entitlement) -- Life, the Most Basic Right -- Is Surviving a Right of Entitlement? -- Liberty: Are There Limits? -- Some Conclusions -- 2 Near Neighbors, Distant Neighbors, and the Ethics of Globalization -- Negative Rights and the Ethics of Globalization -- How Might Fair Trade Be Defined? -- Relational Rights and Our Near and Distant Neighbors -- Concentric Circles of Responsibility -- More than Rights -- Living in Community and Being a Neighbor -- Summing It All Up -- 3 Constructing an Ethic for Business in an Age of Globalization -- What Is the Business of Business? -- Both Means and Ends -- Shareholders and Other Owners and Investors -- Customers -- Employees -- Suppliers -- Communities in Which Company Facilities Are Located -- Establishing Priorities -- A Final Matter to Be Noted -- Summing It All Up -- Part II Practical Applications -- 4 Human rights and the Ethics of investment in china -- Human Rights in China -- Reproductive Rights -- Religious Freedom -- Workers' Rights -- Identifying an Ethical Framework for International Investment -- The Sullivan Principles -- Adapting the Sullivan Principles to China -- Supplier Codes of Conduct -- Monitoring Compliance -- Some Concluding Considerations -- 5 Liberia and Firestone -- From Tenuous Beginnings to Independence -- Americo-Liberians and the Indigenous Population -- Firestone Comes to Liberia -- Firestone's Labor Practices.

The Loan Crisis of 1933 -- Troubled Times -- From Coup D'État to Civil War -- Human Rights in Liberia Today -- Firestone in Liberia Today -- Summing It All Up -- 6 Free Trade, Fair Trade, and Coffee Farmers in Ethiopia -- A Trade Agreement? -- International Coffee Agreements (ICAs) -- Searching for Solutions -- Strengthening Market Position -- Trademarking -- Appealing to Moral Sentiments -- Summing It All Up -- 7 Maquiladoras -- Decline . . . -- . . . And Recovery -- Transportation Costs -- Fast Delivery -- A New Era -- An Uncertain Future -- NAFTA: Some Additional Observations -- The Ethics of Plant Relocation -- Exploitation -- Environmental Hazards -- Discrimination and Violence Directed toward Women -- Labor Unions -- More Enlightened Employment Practices -- A Contrasting View -- A Case To Be Made for Sweatshops? -- Summing It All Up -- Part III The Challenge of Enforcement -- 8 Possibilities and Problems -- A World Political Authority? -- Extraterritoriality? -- Trade Sanctions and Travel Restrictions? -- International Agreements? -- Summing It All Up -- 9 U.S. Multinational Corporations and the Alien Tort Claims Act -- The Law of Nations -- jus cogens Norms -- Violations of International Law that Do Not Involve State Action -- Evolution of the Law of Nations -- Grounds for Dismissal -- Forum Non Conveniens -- International Comity -- Failure To Join a Necessary Party -- Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction -- Act of State Doctrine -- The Political Question Doctrine -- Three Successful Cases -- Filártiga v. Pena-Irala -- Kadic v. Karadzic -- John Doe I v. Unocal Corporation -- The Bush Administration and the Alien Tort Claim Act -- Environmental Cases Filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act -- Sequihua v. Texaco, Inc. -- Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc. -- Flores v. Southern Peru Copper Corporation -- Beanal v. Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold, Inc.

Sarei v. Rio Tinto, PLC -- Taking Stock of the Current Situation -- A Right to a Healthy Environment? -- A Kernel of Consensus -- Summing It All Up -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Index.