Assignment:
Instructions
This assignment is a take-home essay consisting of 3 questions, 2 pages total, to test knowledge and assimilation of the course objectives. Please exclusively use the course materials to support each answer. To answer these questions paraphrase, do not use quotations.
Please answer all three questions below in a paragraph format by listing the number followed by your answer. Please cite your sources using in-text citations; a reference list is not needed. Please review your work for errors before submitting it and ensure that it is grammatically correct. Your submission should be no more than 2 pages in length.
1. Explain what Zewei's article from the week 4 reading was all about. Be sure to identify the thesis and conclusions.
2. What are the main ideas in Steinberg's article?
3. Based on the Cragg, Arnold, and Muchlinski article from week 6, when and why did "business and human rights" become an international topic? What explains the delay?
Readings:
1. Western International Law and China's Confucianism in the 19th Century. Collision and Integration
By Yang Zewei
2. The Politics of NGOs, Human Rights and the Arab-Israel Conflict
By Gerald M. Steinberg
3. Guest Editors' Introduction Human Rights and Business
By Wesley Cragg