CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Challenges of Social Sustainable Globalisation --- Eva Nieuwenhuys and Joop de Kort -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 OUTLINE OF THE BOOK -- 1.3 IN CONCLUSION -- PART I NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALISM AND PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS -- 2. Liberal Globalism: A Defence --- Paul Cliteur -- 2.1 WHAT IS LIBERALISM? GLOBALISM? LIBERAL GLOBALISM? -- 2.2 MAN AS A FREE, RATIONAL AND AUTONOMOUS BEING -- 2.3 IF MEN WERE ANGELS -- 2.4 THE STATE AS CONCENTRATION OF POWER -- 2.5 THE STATE UNDER THE RULE OF LAW -- 2.6 IS LIBERAL GLOBALISM A UNIVERSAL IDEAL? -- 2.7 DO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS BELONG TO THE ACQUIS OF LIBERAL GLOBALISM? -- 2.8 ROOSEVELT'S FOUR FREEDOMS -- 2.9 THREE ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE FOUR FREEDOMS -- 2.10 WHAT TO DO WITH THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS AS FORMULATED? -- 2.11 SOCIAL RIGHTS AS "DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES" -- 2.12 BETWEEN LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS AND REAL RIGHTS -- 3. The Ambiguity of Globalisation Discussed in the Tradition of an Ontology of the Present --- Gerard Visser -- 3.1 ONTOLOGY OF THE PRESENT- ONTOLOGY OF OURSELVES -- 3.2 MARX: CAPITALISM AND ALIENATION -- 3.3 HEGEL: THE RIGHT TO THE BESONDERHEIT DER EMPFINDUNG -- 3.4 NIETZSCHE: EUROPEAN NIHILISM -- 3.5 NIETZSCHE: DECLINE INTO EXPERIENCE -- 3.6 BACK TO THE SOURCE -- 4. Social, Sustainable Globalisation Requires a Paradigm Other Than Neo-Liberal Globalism --- Eva Nieuwenhuys -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 FREEDOM AND HUMAN BEINGS AS HOMO ECONOMICUS, AS MORAL BEINGS AND AS HOMO POLITICUS -- 4.3 SOCIAL JUSTICE AS A BALANCE BETWEEN THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL PARTICIPATION -- 4.4 DEMOCRACY AS A SYSTEM OF COOPERATION AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT RATHER THAN AS A SYSTEM BASED ON THE 'SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST'.

4.5 GLOBAL DEMOCRACY AS A SYSTEM OF INTERDEPENDENT STATES AND THEIR WORLD CITIZENS ACTING MULTILATERALLY RATHER THAN AS A SYSTEM FOR AND BY NATION STATES AND THEIR CITIZENS ACTING UNILATERALLY -- 4.6 GLOBAL CULTURE AS AN ENVIRONMENT CREATED BY HUMANS RATHER THAN AS AN UNEQUIVOCALLY MORALLY SUPERIOR WESTERN MODEL OF CIVILISATION -- 4.7 MORALITY AS THE POSITIVE COMMITMENT TO SOCIETY AND TO OTHERS RATHER THAN AS A NEGATIVE MORALITY OF NOT HARMING THE MARKET IN ONE'S OWN INTERESTS -- 4.8 CONCLUSION -- 5. Individual Freedom and ESOCUL Rights: The Illusions of Libertarianism --- Rob Buitenweg -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 THE ILLUSION OF THE LEGITIMACY WITH REGARD TO THE CURRENT STATE OF DISTRIBUTION -- 5.3 THE ILLUSION OF NEGATIVE FREEDOM SERVING THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM -- 5.4 THE ILLUSION OF THE ABSENCE OF A MORAL ACTOR -- 5.5 THE ILLUSION OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE FREEDOM -- 5.6 SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS: NEGATIVE RIGHTS -- 5.7 CONCLUDING REMARKS -- PART II NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALISM AND ITS INSTITUTIONALAND POLITICAL FRAMEWORK -- 6. What's in it for us? Globalisation, International Institutions and the Less Developed Countries --- Joop de Kort1 -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND THEIR PROSPECTS -- 6.3 DO FREE TRADE AND FREE CAPITAL FLOWS BENEFIT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES? -- 6.4 THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS -- 6.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 7. Social Sustainable Globalisation and International Law: in Need of a New International Constitutional Balance --- Marcel Brus -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 COMMON RESPONSIBILITY -- 7.2.1 Collective action for sustainable use of the natural environment -- 7.2.2 Collective Security -- 7.2.3 A Collective Responsibility for Development? -- 7.3 LEGITIMACY -- 7.3.1 Security -- 7.3.2 Human rights -- 7.3.3 Development.

7.4 CONCLUSION: HUMAN DIGNITY AS THE CORE VALUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEM -- 8. The Odds of 'Liberalisation' as an Informing Principle of Law, Governance and Development --- Jan Michiel Otto -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- 8.2 FOUR DIMENSIONS OF LIBERALISATION FROM AN LGD PERSPECTIVE -- 8.3 LIBERALISATION IN PRACTICE: THREE CASES -- 8.3.1 Family law reform in the Islamic Middle East -- 8.3.2 Groundwater regulation in South-Asia -- 8.3.3 Regulation of land tenure. De Soto and the World Bank -- 8.4 THE REVIVAL OF LAW & DEVELOPMENT AND THE MASK OF NEUTRALITY -- 8.5 APPLIED RESEARCH IN LAW, GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT -- 9. Water as a Social, Economic and Ecological Good in a Globalising World --- Antoinette Hildering -- 9.1 INTRODUCTION -- 9.2 WATER IN A GLOBALISING WORLD -- 9.3 WATER AS A SOCIAL GOOD -- 9.4 WATER AS AN ECONOMIC GOOD -- 9.5 WATER AS AN ECOLOGICAL GOOD -- 9.6 CONCLUSION -- PART III NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALISM AND NON-STATE ACTORS -- 10. Morality and the Legitimacy of Non Governmental Organisations' Involvement in International Politics and Policy Making --- Anton Vedder -- 10.1 INTRODUCTION -- 10.2 INFORMAL REGULATION AND LEGITIMACY ISSUES -- 10.3 INGOS' LEGITIMACY QUESTIONED -- 10.4 TRADITIONAL CONCEPTS OF LEGITIMACY -- 10.5 LEGITIMIZATION OF INGOS IN PRACTICE -- 10.6 CONCLUSION -- 11. Can Corporate Governance Contribute to Sustainable Development? --- Cornelis de Groot -- 11.1 INTRODUCTION -- 11.2 THE CORPORATE FORM -- 11.3 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE -- 11.4 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- 11.5 CSR AND CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP -- 11.6 CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY -- 11.7 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AS A VEHICLE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT? -- 11.8 CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 12. Sustainability Reporting by Companies is Necessary for Sustainable GlobalisationTineke Lambooy -- 12.1 INTRODUCTION -- 12.2 THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY.

12.3 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) -- 12.4 THE GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE- SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING GUIDELINES -- 12.5 CSR DEBATE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: VOLUNTARY OR MANDATORY? -- 12.6 MANDATORY INCLUSION OF NON-FINANCIAL INFORMATION IN ANNUAL REPORTS -- 12.7 THE NETHERLANDS: CSR IN THE ANNUAL REPORT? -- 12.8 CURRENT TRENDS -- 12.9 CONCLUDING REMARKS -- INDEX.