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From the NIEO to NAFTA: Mexican post-Revolutionary Interpretations of Economic Development and Human Rights

March 3, 2026 by
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Abstract This article revisits public debates in Mexico around two distinctive causes that found an undeniable impulse in the 1970s: the international demands to rebalance the financial and commercial agreements towards enhancing economic growth in the least developed countries and the global human rights agenda. The article traces the Mexican government’s interpretation of these causes and their intertwinement back to the 1917 Constitution that resulted from the Mexican Revolution and argues that this root created a common sense among a variety of unexpected actors which, Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rebel Greed and Postcolonial Governance: Neoliberal Accountings of the Past within Transitional Justice Processes in Sierra Leone

November 8, 2024 by
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This article extends recent academic debates about the sociohistorical entanglements between neoliberalism and human rights by exploring transitional justice processes in Sierra Leone, which followed the country’s decade-long civil war (1991-2002). It analyses the ways both the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) and the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (SLTRC) drew on ‘economic’ discourses, variously using the concepts of ‘greed’, ‘corruption’ and ‘governance’ to explain the broader context of the human rights violations with which they were concerned. By critically tracing how these Continue reading → Continue reading →