Global Power Shifts and Transnational Law – A Case Study of Brazil and the Human Right to Health
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This article demonstrates how an analysis directed at one of the so-called BRIC-countries may help us better understand the impact of global power shifts on the development of transnational law. The article focuses on Brazil’s role in the progressive realisation of the human right to health in the last decade. It argues that Brazil’s success in influencing the international legal architecture of the human right to health was due to a powerful HIV/AIDS narrative which developed on the basis of Brazil’s internationally recognised National AIDS Programme. The narrative gained momentum at the global level during the 2001 WTO Trade Dispute between Brazil and the US and was further emphasised in the following years through Brazil’s activities at various sites of global health governance. The article concludes that narratives play a crucial role in understanding how transnational law is shaped through the decisive leadership of an emerging power.
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