In this article we argue that community development is an expression of the political and politicised assembly of an active citizenry in civil society, and may therefore be characterised as a late modern agora - the ancient Greek concept describing the interface between the public and private...

Neo-liberal globalisation has primarily entailed the liberalisation of trade and capital flows, but largely ignored the issue of labour mobility. Most literature on the political economy of globalisation likewise ignores global labour mobility. This paper first asks how globalisation affects...

Von einer zukunftsfähigen Globalisierung kann nur die Rede sein, wenn dieNormorientierung der Geschlechtergerechtigkeit integriert wird in eine umwelt-und sozial gerechte Perspektive. Deshalb verknüpft das vorliegende Papierkritische Diskurse zur neoliberalen Globalisierung mit feministischen...

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...