Includes bibliographical references and index.

The greatest undiagnosed problem in international law -- From disparity to centrality : how the human rights to peace and development can be secured -- Confronting structural injustice : strategies of localization, regionalism, and an emerging global constitutional order -- The power of law versus the law of power : how human rights can overcome inequality, poverty, and vested interests -- A world community that includes all human communities : indigenous communities and the global environment as sources for human rights claims -- Actualizing the human right to peace : paths for developing processes and creating conditions for peace -- Conclusion. Transformation through cooperation: implementing a human rights-based approach to human security.

"The primary purpose of this book is to offer concrete paths for the achievement of alternative priorities to those which currently govern the economic, political, and social arrangements of trade and investment, peace and war, as well as the lingering dichotomy between the ideology of markets and a dogmatic adherence to untrammeled growth versus advancing forms of genuine human security and human welfare. In so doing, what makes this book different from others on the subject is that it takes the hindrance of structural injustices seriously and, in so doing, does not seek to stake out compromise positions with the masters of the status quo, the vested interests, and the convenient methods employed by a transnational capitalist class used to engage in patterns of obfuscation which deny human rights and their realization"--