Foreword / William E. Rees

Introduction

Part 1: Basic Collective Rights for Law and Morality -- The Theory

1 Individual Rights and Collective Rights in Conflict: The Ecocentric Perspective and the Commons

2 The Common Good and the Public Interest: Jus Cogens Norms and Erga Omnes Obligations in a Lawless World

3 Communities and Collectives: The Interface

Part 2: Collective Rights, Globalization, and Democracy -- The Practice

4 Collective Basic Rights Today

5 Globalization, Democracy, and Collective Rights

6 Cosmopolitanism, the Moral Community, and Collective Human Rights

Part 3: Toward a New Cosmopolitanism

7 World Law or International Legal Instruments? Toward the Protection of Basic Collective Human Rights

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited