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Book SynopsisAs 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.
Table of ContentsAbstract; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Human Rights Accountability as a minimum threshold of MDB Legitimacy; Transnational Social Movements as agents of change in World Politics; Analytical Framework; Research Design; Human Rights Accountability at the World Ban; Case 1: A Revolution of World Bank Accountability (1988 1994); Case 2: The Dilution of World Bank; Analysis; Conclusion; References; Appendix: List of Interviewees and Background Conversations.
