Connecting the DotsCase Studies

Abstract

Abstract This chapter illustrates the findings of this work with three case studies. It demonstrates how the understanding of extraterritoriality developed and defended here differs from and improves upon previous accounts. The chapter analyses bilateral cooperation in higher education between Ireland and Bahrain, the implications of a Special Economic Zone, run by Chinese shareholders in Nigeria, and export subsidies for sugar produced in the EU. The case studies cover a range of issues that implicate civil and political, as well as economic and social rights. In each of these case studies, I compare my account of jurisdiction as political power with previous accounts of jurisdiction and extraterritoriality in general. In detailing the disagreements, I show that the present approach is more successful than others in explaining extraterritorial human rights obligations of states. It allows us to assess very different scenarios according to the same principle: jurisdiction is required, and it is based on political power and the application of rules because this is what integrity and equality make it. The case studies show the present theory’s potential to supply plausible guidance in a principled manner, and across a very wide spectrum of cases.