Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

9783732851836

3732851834

9783839451830

3839451833

1 online resource (274 p.)

Soziale Bewegung und Protest

MR 5600

330

Human Rights

Development

Social Movements

World Bank

Society

Neoliberalism

Economy

Politics

International Relations

Finance

Political Science

Process Tracing

Inglese

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Acknowledgements    9 Abstract    11 List of Abbreviations    15 Introduction    17 1. Human Rights Accountability as a minimum threshold of MDB Legitimacy    25 2. Transnational Social Movements as agents of change in World Politics    49 3. Analytical Framework    65 4. Research Design    95 5. Human Rights Accountability at the World Ban    117 6. Case 1: A Revolution of World

Bank Accountability (1988 - 1994)    123 7. Case 2: The Dilution of World Bank    157 8. Analysis    201 Conclusion    223 References    239 Appendix: List of Interviewees and Background Conversations    271

As Multilateral Development Banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them accountable for their human rights impact towards communities. Leon Valentin Schettler presents a novel causal mechanism of movement advocacy towards MDBs, combining disruptive and conventional tactics. Systematically comparing the evolution of human rights standards and complaint mechanisms over the last three decades, he reveals how the combination of 1) declining US hegemony, 2) counter-mobilization by China and 3) movement cooptation by the World Bank bureaucracy led to a dilution of human rights accountability in the 2010s.

Besprochen in:www.centrum3.at, 9 (2020)