Cover -- Half title -- Series title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The argument and layout of the book -- Human rights and human rights responsibility -- Can transnational corporations be moral agents? -- What is international political theory? -- 2 Transnational corporations and human rights in practice, policy and international law -- Introduction -- TNCs and human rights: the problem in practice -- An analysis of the examples -- International-law academic analysis -- Policy responses -- Conclusion -- 3 Legitimate authority, human rights and transnational actors1 -- Introduction -- The example of 'Yeehaw' -- Sovereignty, authority and the principles of legality -- TNCs, states and individuals -- Transnationality and jurisdiction -- 'Business and human rights' vs. corporate social responsibility -- Delinquent companies or delinquent states? -- Conclusion -- 4 Are human rights responsibilities universal? A conceptual framework of responsibility for human rights -- Introduction -- Universal and specific responsibilities -- Responsibility for human rights: a conceptual framework -- The responsibility to refrain from harming: universal responsibility -- The responsibility to protect and to provide: specific responsibility -- The responsibility to respect: human rights as agent-neutral reasons -- Responsibility for human rights and the UN Guiding Principles -- Conclusion -- 5 The capacity approach: a construction and critique -- Introduction -- Capacity, sovereignty and TNCs in ideal and non-ideal theory -- The capacity approach -- Role-based capacity -- Costs to agents and the epistemology of responsibility -- Brute costs -- Agential costs -- The epistemology of responsibility -- The capacity approach: an assessment -- 6 The publicness approach to responsibility for human rights.

Introduction -- Public and private -- Collective goods, sovereignty and TNCs -- Empirical collective goods -- Membership in a political community -- Political responsiveness -- The publicness approach and roles -- Agents, roles and autonomy -- Political roles -- The publicness approach: an assessment -- 7 Conclusions: non-state actors and human rights practice -- References -- Index.

Karp argues that non-state actors, including transnational corporations, can sometimes be public enough to have 'responsibility for human rights'. His book shows how this approach is superior to the main alternative perspectives, and gives readers an original combination of theory and empirical grounding in the world of practice.

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