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Challenging Corporate Power: Human Rights Globalization from Above and Below.

Jackie Smith1

  • 1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA.

Development (Society for International Development)
|May 5, 2021
PubMed
Summary

Redesigning the United Nations is crucial to reduce corporate influence and empower civil society. This transformation aims to establish global norms and identities that challenge corporate governance and state authority.

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Area of Science:

  • Global governance studies
  • Sociology of international relations

Background:

  • Current global challenges necessitate a reevaluation of international institutions.
  • The United Nations requires reform to effectively address contemporary issues.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a redesign of the United Nations to rebalance global power dynamics.
  • To explore mechanisms for reducing corporate power and enhancing the role of civil society and local authorities.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of global social relations and power structures.
  • Examination of grassroots movements advocating for human rights globalization.

Main Results:

  • A redesigned United Nations can shift global social relations.
Keywords:
Global democracyGlobalization from belowLocalizationPolycentric global governanceSocial movements

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  • Empowering civil society and local authorities can create alternative global actors.
  • Human rights globalization efforts are building foundations for a new world order.

    • Conclusions:

    • Transformative projects can end corporate impunity.
    • Emerging initiatives foster global norms and identities that contest corporate governance.
    • Reforming the UN is essential for a more equitable global order.