Part I. Human Rights: Soft Threats -- Globalisation: From Chrematistic Rest to Humanist Wakefulness, J. Ballesteros -- Basic Structure and Tax Havens, F. Biondo -- Human Rights and the Inclusive Society, J. Cardona. Part II. Human Rights: Hard Threats -- Afghanistan: Why Has Violence Replaced Political Power?, E. Fernández -- Somalia: From the Errors of Colonialism to the Horrors of War, A-P.Garibo -- Human Rights and Changes to the International Legal System, I. Trujillo -- Part III. European Union as a Referent for Peace and Development -- Europe’s Path to Public Reason, F.Viola -- The Social State Based on the Rule of Law in the Europe of Rights, E. Vidal -- Peace as a Priority, P. Talavera.

Globalisation turns out to be untenable because it does not guarantee minimum social equity, peace and respect for the environment, and therefore does not guarantee the effective accomplishment of human rights. This book analyzes this issue and raises proposals for a new perspective. The first part describes the soft threats to human rights, derived from the devaluation of the politics and the productive economy with regard to the finance. It entails the concealment of the reality in the shape of exploitation as the tax havens and in the shape of marginalization of the persons with different abilities. The second part include a study of hard threats to human rights and examines two cases of failed states: Afghanistan and Somalia, in which the violence has supplanted the politics and the economy. In view of these situations it is necessary to rethink the force of classic ius gentium and the humanitarian right. The third part presents the European Union as a legal and political space in which conditions of a worthy life are better defended by means of the Primacy of Practical Reason and Social State of Law, and by the requirement of peace as the main rule of international relations.