The global justice movement has often been associated with opposition to the broad programme of ‘neoliberalism' and associated patterns of ‘corporate globalisation', creating a widespread impression that this movement is opposed to liberalism more broadly conceived. Our goal in this article...

This paper reviews a range of initiatives that attempt to transform the global institutional arrangements through which production and trade of coffee is organised and governed. Specifically, it examines the Fair Trade system, Starbucks' CAFÉ Practices Program, and a range of wider campaigning...

In recent years, one of the central claims promoted by critics of “globalization” has been that the existing system of global economic governance is being undermined by the emergence of “accountability deficits.” According to this widespread view, the expanding power of multinational...

Around the world peoples' lives are affected by the actions of businesses. In addition to positive impacts on livelihoods, ideas or technologies, business activities are also sometimes associated with significant human rights abuses – for example through land dispossession and forced...

Around the world, peoples' lives are affected by the actions of businesses. In addition to positive impacts on livelihoods, ideas or technologies, business activity is also sometimes associated with significant human rights abuses, for example through land dispossession and forced resettlement,...

As the contributions to this collection highlight, the capacities and limits of formal mechanisms of accountability to promote their intended normative purposes depend in important ways on the political and institutional contexts in which accountability mechanisms operate