Socializing Development: Transnational Social Movement Advocacy and the Human Rights Accountability of Multilateral Development Banks

by Leon Valentin Schettler

Overview

As Multilateral Development Banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them accountable for their human rights impact towards communities. Leon Valentin Schettler presents a novel causal mechanism of movement advocacy towards MDBs, combining disruptive and conventional tactics. Systematically comparing the evolution of human rights standards and complaint mechanisms over the last three decades, he reveals how the combination of 1) declining US hegemony, 2) counter-mobilization by China and 3) movement cooptation by the World Bank bureaucracy led to a dilution of human rights accountability in the 2010s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783732851836
Publisher:	transcript Verlag
Publication date:	03/31/2020
Series:	Soziale Bewegung und Protest , #2
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	274
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Leon Valentin Schettler works as an advisor on human rights safeguarding and complaint mechanisms for Bread for the World (development cooperation) and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (humanitarian aid). His main research interests lie with global norm contestations, human rights, and the democratic legitimacy of global governance institutions.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 9
Abstract 11
List of Abbreviations 15
Introduction 17
1. Human Rights Accountability as a minimum threshold of MDB Legitimacy 25
2. Transnational Social Movements as agents of change in World Politics 49
3. Analytical Framework 65
4. Research Design 95
5. Human Rights Accountability at the World Ban 117
6. Case 1: A Revolution of World Bank Accountability (1988 - 1994) 123
7. Case 2: The Dilution of World Bank 157
8. Analysis 201
Conclusion 223
References 239
Appendix: List of Interviewees and Background Conversations 271