Volume 5 Contents

Articles
1. Globalizing Decency: Responsible Engagement in an Era of Economic Integration by Craig Forcese
   
   The prevailing view in the foreign policies of many Western countries holds that "constructive" economic engagement with repressive regimes will induce human rights-sensitive development. A very vigorous dissenting position, held by many opponents of "globalization", is that economic engagement and liberalization fuel many of the very human rights abuses they are supposed to cure. The empirical evidence tends to support a nuanced approach to constructive engagement, one that might be termed "responsible engagement". Under a responsible engagement model, there remains an important role for economic sanctions, both as a means of affecting the behavior of nation-states and to stave off the possibility that citizens of one country are contributing to the persistence of the targeted repressive regime. Responsible engagement obliges recourse to "smart sanctions". Yet, the legal apparatus governing economic integration is, on the whole, built without an eye to a "smart sanctions" responsible engagement policy. This Article explores these assertions and concludes a full-fledged strategy of responsible engagement obliges reconsideration and clarification of several facets of the World Trade Organization.
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2. When Intent Makes All the Difference in the World: Economic Sanctions on Iraq and the Accusation of Genocide by Joy Gordon
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3. Microcredit: Fulfilling or Belying the Universalist Morality of Globalizing Markets? by Kenneth Anderson
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4. Pursuing the Path of Indigenization in the Era of Emergent International Law Governing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Robert B. Porter
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5. Reclaiming Humanity: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as the Cornerstone of African Human Rights by Shedrack C. Agbakwa
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   Notes from the Field
6. Dealing with Witnesses in War Crime Trials: Lessons from the Yugoslav Tribunal by Patricia M. Wald
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7. Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.: A New Standard for the Enforcement of International Law in U.S. Courts? by Aaron Xavier Fellmeth
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8. From Laggard to Leader: Canadian Lessons on a Role for U.S. States in Making and Implementing Human Rights Treaties by Koren L. Bell
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