Petersmann tied the globalization of human rights to WTO-enforced open markets

Evidence

The liberal political theorist Michael Ignatieff expressed this vision clearly in 2001 when he argued that the civil and political rights of a ‘capitalist rights tradition’ are ‘the most we can hope for’. And Hayek’s student, the international trade lawyer Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, defended it most emphatically when he argued for the interdependence of human rights and international trade law. Eight years before the WTO embraced the idea of a mutual relation between human rights and competitive markets, Petersmann argued that the globalisation of human rights relies on the open markets, prohibition of economic discrimination and ‘welfare-enhancing division of labour’ enforced by the WTO, while human rights promote economic integration by ‘protecting personal autonomy, legal and social security, peaceful change, individual savings, investments, production and mutually beneficial transactions across frontiers’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 57

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s stated goal of connecting human-rights law/discourse with economic-policy literature — Petersmann’s interdependence claim is a core text in that debate. — connects to: WTO design deliberately scaled European constitutionalism into a global trade constitution — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 836; Neoliberal human rights discourse entailed a duty to spread capitalism globally — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 283; Neoliberals saw human rights standards as a way to depoliticize international economic relations — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 450 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals actively shaped the postwar human rights discourse that later legitimized markets #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 40
• Market competition was framed by neoliberals as guarantor of rights and peace #corroborates (0.82)
• Neoliberal human rights discourse entailed a duty to spread capitalism globally #corroborates (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 283
• Neoliberal human rights primarily preserve the market order rather than protect individuals #corroborates (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 45
• Neoliberals saw human rights standards as a way to depoliticize international economic relations #expands (0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 450
• Human rights law and neoliberal economics converge to regulate conduct by quantifying freedom #corroborates (0.75)