Does Being Bound Together Suffocate, or Liberate? The Effects of Economic, Social, and Political Globalization on Human Rights, 1981-2005

Kyklos

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-53

  De Soysa, Indra ^a   Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; LIBERALIZATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 78651242481     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: 14676435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2010.00493.x     Document Type: Article

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