LEADER 04374nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910818153803321 005 20240416111838.0 010 $a0-8014-7925-8 010 $a0-8014-5746-7 010 $a0-8014-5870-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801458705 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080923 035 $a(OCoLC)726824202 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457570 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484446 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284737 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484446 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594317 035 $a(PQKB)10282792 035 $a(OCoLC)966876928 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51858 035 $a(DE-B1597)478698 035 $a(OCoLC)979747603 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801458705 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137949 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457570 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681610 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137949 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080923 100 $a20080918d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aForced to be good $ewhy trade agreements boost human rights /$fEmilie M. Hafner-Burton 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (234 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-50328-1 311 0 $a0-8014-4643-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Forced to Be Good --$tChapter 2. A Path to Answers --$tChapter 3. Preferences --$tChapter 4. Institutions --$tChapter 5. Power --$tChapter 6. Effects --$tChapter 7. The Future --$tAppendix --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aPreferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco and Australia. The European Union has done the same. In addition to addressing economic issues, these agreements also regulate the protection of human rights. In Forced to Be Good, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton tells the story of the politics of such agreements and of the ways in which governments pursue market integration policies that advance their own political interests, including human rights. How and why do global norms for social justice become international regulations linked to seemingly unrelated issues, such as trade? Hafner-Burton finds that the process has been unconventional. Efforts by human rights advocates and labor unions to spread human rights ideals, for example, do not explain why American and European governments employ preferential trade agreements to protect human rights. Instead, most of the regulations protecting human rights are codified in global moral principles and laws only because they serve policymakers' interests in accumulating power or resources or solving other problems. Otherwise, demands by moral advocates are tossed aside. And, as Hafner-Burton shows, even the inclusion of human rights protections in trade agreements is no guarantee of real change, because many of the governments that sign on to fair trade regulations oppose such protections and do not intend to force their implementation. Ultimately, Hafner-Burton finds that, despite the difficulty of enforcing good regulations and the less-than-noble motives for including them, trade agreements that include human rights provisions have made a positive difference in the lives of some of the people they are intended-on paper, at least-to protect. 606 $aTariff preferences$xSocial aspects 606 $aCommercial treaties$xSocial aspects 606 $aInternational trade$xSocial aspects 606 $aHuman rights$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aTariff preferences$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aCommercial treaties$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aInternational trade$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aHuman rights$xEconomic aspects. 676 $a323 700 $aHafner-Burton$b Emilie$0479177 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818153803321 996 $aForced to be good$91086933 997 $aUNINA