Does the WTO Violate Human Rights (and Do I Help It)? Beyond the Metaphor of Culpability for Systemic Global Poverty

Political Studies

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 435-451

  Meckled Garcia, Saladin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complicity; Global economic order; Human rights violations; Poverty; WTO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899619982     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.12036     Document Type: Article

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