Human Rights and Public Goods: The Global New Deal

453 Pages·2020·7.775 MB·English

by  William F. Felice, Diana Fuguitt

Human Rights
and Public Goods
The Global New Deal
Third Edition
William F. Felice
Eckerd College
Diana Fuguitt
Eckerd College
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
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Names: Felice, William F., 1950– author. | Fuguitt, Diana, author.
Title: Human rights and public goods : the global new deal / William F. Felice,
Eckerd College, Diana Fuguitt, Eckerd College.
Other titles: The global new deal
Description: Third edition. | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021] | Updated
edition of: The global new deal : economic and social human rights in world
politics / William F. Felice, c2010. | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020012622 (print) | LCCN 2020012623 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781538129319 (cloth) | ISBN 9781538129326 (paperback) | ISBN
9781538129333 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Human rights. | Social rights.
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Contents
List of Illustrations v
Acknowledgments for the Third Edition vii
Core International Human Rights Instruments and
Their Monitoring Bodies xi
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii
Introduction xv
1 Global Policy Choices: There Are Alternatives 1
2 International Law: Human Rights and Human Development 13
3 International Political Economy and Global Public Goods 51
4 Linking Law and Economics: Human Rights and Public Goods 99
5 The United States and Europe: Conflicting Approaches to
Human Rights and Public Goods 189
6 The Environment and Economic and Social Human Rights 221
7 Women and Economic and Social Human Rights 241
8 Military Spending: Human Rights and Public Goods Trade-offs 265
9 The Global New Deal 301
Notes 351
Index 407
About the Authors 431
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Illustrations
Boxes
2.1 The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 49
3.1 IPE Concepts Central to Economic and Social Human Rights 71
4.1 Thailand Case Study: Primary Health Care for All 158
5.1 Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Economic Bill of Rights 191
5.2 FDR and International Human Rights 192
7.1 Feminist Perspectives on International Political Economy (IPE) 259
9.1 The Global New Deal Policy Proposals 303
Figures
2.1 Intergenerational Mobility and Income Inequality for
Advanced Economies (Great Gatsby Curve) 44
2.2 Intergenerational Mobility and Income Inequality
for Emerging-Market and Developing Countries
(Great Gatsby Curve) 45
Tables
2.1 World Poverty Totals 35
3.1 Comparing Theories of International Political Economy:
Strengths and Weaknesses in Relation to Public Goods
and Economic and Social Human Rights 56
v
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vi Illustrations
3.2 Public, Private, and Mixed Goods 75
5.1 Health Expenditures and Health-Care Resources:
Europe and the United States 213
5.2 Health Outcomes: Europe and the United States 214
8.1 U.S. Military Expenditures, 2000–2018 270
8.2 Cumulative Appropriations for All U.S. Overseas
Contingency Operations (OCO), FY 2001–2019 272
8.3 Summary of U.S. War-Related Spending, FY 2001–2019 273
8.4 Cost and Schedule Changes for Programs in DOD’s 2017
Portfolio 284
8.5 Public Spending Priorities: Costa Rica and Latin America
(WB data) 289
8.6 Human Development in Costa Rica and Latin America
(WB data) 290
8.7 Human Development in Central America: The Costa Rican
Success (UNDP data) 291
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Acknowledgments
for the Third Edition
his third edition of Human Rights and Public Goods: The Global New
T
Deal substantially deepens and expands our analysis of the critical
links between international law and economics in the formulation
of public policy to achieve economic and social human rights. The rigor
and depth of the research presented in every chapter was in large part
the result of an outstanding and remarkable team of student research
assistants who not only checked every fact but also helped to clarify the
central arguments of the book. We are thus extremely grateful for their
hard work. Rosie Kerber kicked off these efforts, devoting a year after
graduation to diligently reading the extensive literature in global health
and global public goods, writing cogent notes on essential concepts, ar-
guments, empirical evidence, and the like. Lee Staley offered exemplary
insights, distilling critical information relating to intergovernmental
organizations (UNAIDS, World Bank, World Health Organization) and
universal health coverage in developing countries. Both Dustin Colson
Leaning and Derek Godshall undertook superlative research delineat-
ing the private right/public good interface and market failures. Dustin
focused on pharmaceuticals, intellectual property rights, public health,
and the right to health, while Derek searched the literature on the right
to food, market challenges, and global food governance, pursuing a keen
interest in the provision of affordable and nutritious food to all humans.
Timothy Walsh proved to be indefatigable in applying his stellar skills
in searching for data relating to health, social mobility, and numerous
economic indicators for advanced and developing countries. And after
graduation, Alissa Hevesh returned to assist us for the year, skillfully
researching myriad topics ranging from poverty, to military spending,
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viii Acknowledgments for the Third Edition
to agroecology, to name a few. With an exemplary eye for lucid writing,
she has diligently read every word of the manuscript and offered critical
editing suggestions as well as perceptive input on the substantive content.
In all, these outstanding research assistants have shaped our knowledge
and thinking in more ways than they can imagine with their intelligent
questions, insights, and perspectives.
We have the good fortune to work at a wonderful liberal arts col-
lege committed to its students. Eckerd College’s devotion to creative
pedagogy is unrivaled. This book was enriched through our interac-
tions with our colleagues and, most importantly, with our students. We
are very appreciative of the long-standing support of scholarship and
hexennial leaves over the life of this project from two deans of faculty,
Lloyd Chapin and Suzan Harrison, and President Donald Eastman.
Funding received through the Eckerd College faculty development
program allowed William to present this research at annual meetings
of the International Studies Association (ISA). In addition, a generous
grant from the Eckerd Lloyd W. Chapin Faculty Fellowship Program
allowed for extensive research at the United Nations (in New York and
Geneva) on the approach to economic and social human rights adopted
by the UN’s member states. Special thanks to Kyle Biss, administrative
assistant for the Behavioral Sciences Collegium, for his devoted help in
securing copies of research materials as well as carefully reading and
offering detailed feedback on chapter drafts. This ongoing support from
our home institution for our research agenda was fundamental to the
success of this project.
At Rowman & Littlefield, it has been a joy to work with both senior edi-
tor Susan McEachern and executive editor Traci Crowell. Both Susan and
Traci have been tremendous sources of support and encouragement for
this third edition and of enormous assistance throughout the production
process. We are extremely grateful for their professionalism and skilled
editorial supervision.
We wish to acknowledge with gratitude permission to draw on the
following previously published work: William F. Felice, The Ethics of In-
terdependence: Global Human Rights and Duties (Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2016); Glenn P. Hastedt and William F. Felice, Introduction to
International Politics: Global Challenges and Policy Responses (Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), chapters 8, 9, 10.
Over the years, the three editions of The Global New Deal have ben-
efited from thoughtful critiques from colleagues including: Anthony
Brunello, Brent Pickett, Sigrun Skogly, Michael J. Smith, and Maurice
Williams. We are extremely grateful for their time and assistance. In
addition, the staff of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human
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Acknowledgments for the Third Edition ix
Rights in Geneva has been tremendously helpful to our researching of
the UN human rights system.
We would also like to thank the three anonymous reviewers of the third
edition.
While all of these people gave generously of their time, the responsibil-
ity for the contents of this book is entirely our own.
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