ABSTRACT
Human rights have made great strides in the centuries since the French Revolution, but to be truly effective in a globalizing era, the “rights of man and the citizen” will need to become the “universal rights of [hu]mans as global citizens.” How can we transform rights into a new form of global citizenshipnamely, membership in one or more political communities with institutions for participation, distribution, and enforcement? Overall, our analyses suggest that globalization of migration, production, regulation, and conflict construct rights without sufficient institutions to enforce them, identities without membership, and participation for some at the expense of others.
