The liberal approach to human rights, which sequestered the world economy from political challenge, was supported by many of the world’s most powerful states, and licensed their interventions on behalf of their corporations. The capacity of human rights to protect individuals across borders was always one-sided: ‘No major Euro-American nation would subject itself to Third World institutional scrutiny and critique of its human rights performance.’

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 287