Can and Should Trade Be Used to Promote Human Rights, Fairness? Part 2

Dec 7, 2006

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Andrew Kuper discusses non-state actors as part of a new balance of powers. Kuper offers alternative methods--through demonstration rather than remonstration--for dealing with problems associated with international trade.

Andrew Kuper discusses non-state actors as part of a new balance of powers. Kuper offers alternative methods--through demonstration rather than remonstration--for dealing with problems associated with international trade.

This talk is part of the 2006 Oxford-Uehiro-Carnegie Council Conference:
Free Trade, Fair Trade, and Sustainable Trade: The Case of Resource Extraction.

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