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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818574703321

Autore

Dale John G

Titolo

Free Burma [[electronic resource] ] : transnational legal action and corporate accountability / / John G. Dale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4529-4589-6

0-8166-7653-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

341.5/82

Soggetti

United States Foreign relations Law and legislation

Burma International status

Burma Politics and government 1988-

United States Foreign relations Burma

Burma Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Burma's struggle for democracy and human rights before 1988 -- Locating power in the free Burma movement -- Free Burma laws : legislating transnational sanctions -- Corporate "death penalty" : executing charter revocation -- Alien tort claims : adjudicating human rights abuses abroad.

Sommario/riassunto

When the military's ruling party violently quashed Burma's pro-democracy movement, diplomatic condemnation quickly followed--to little effect. But when Burma's activists began linking the movement to others around the world, the result was dramatically different. This book is the first to explain how Burma's pro-democracy movement became a transnational social movement for human rights. Through the experience of the Free Burma movement, John G. Dale demonstrates how social movements create and appropriate legal mechanisms for generating new transnational political opportunities. He presents th