Policy makers in Europe and the United States frequently assert that economic liberalization will lead to domestic political and social reform. But just how is this transformation to take place? Some assert that the desire to secure investment and attract capital would require authoritarian...

The universalization of human rights norms and the global liberalization of corporate and commercial endeavor are two especially conspicuous players on the globalization stage. Both, to some extent, rely on the notion of the Rule of Law to promote their ends, though they rely on different...