Human Rights or Global Capitalism: The Limits of Privatization

by Manfred Nowak

The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal human rights. But the window of opportunity for creating this more just, more equal, and more secure world slammed shut just as quickly as it opened. Rather than celebrate the triumph of democracy over autocracy, or political freedom over totalitarian rule, the West exulted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248759
• ISBN13: 9780812248753
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"