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Home :: Faculty and Staff :: Adjunct Faculty :: Susan Aaronson

Adjunct Faculty

Address:
Funger Hall 615

Phone:
(202) 994-6677

Email: saaronso@gwu.edu

Susan Aaronson

Degrees: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Area of Expertise: international trade, business and human rights, business in conflict zones, economic growth and human rights, global corporate social responsibility

Current Research:

Impact of Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative on Business/Government Behavior : Human Rights, Good Governance and Economic Growth;

International Investment Agreements; Trade and Corporate Social Responsibility

Background:
Aaronson is the author of 6 books and numerous articles on trade, investment, development, human rights, and global corporate social responsibility issues. Her most recent book, Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights in Trade Policymaking has just been published by Cambridge University Press, and has already been written about in the Financial Times and other journals. Aaronsonhas received over 30 grants for her research from foundations such as the Ford, UN, Rockefeller, and Levi-Strauss Foundations as well as corporations such as Pfizer, Intel, and Starbucks. She is also dedicated to encouraging a broad debate about globalization. In this regard, she wrote the first high school primers on trade (Trade is Everybody's Business), was the first scholar to suggest how public policy can support global corporate social responsibility, and is a frequent speaker on globalization issues. From 1995-1999, she was a commentator for “All Things Considered,” “Marketplace,” and “Morning Edition.” Aaronson is a pro bono consultant to John Ruggie, the UN Special Representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and she serves on the advisory board of business-humanrights.org.

Courses Taught

MBAD 260 Business and Public Policy

Special Topics-NGO Strategy and Sustainability SMPP 290.10 (Human Rigths and Poverty NGOS)

History 250-International Systems-International Trade

Publications: Edited Books or Journal Special Issues

Scholarly Books

Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking (with Jamie Zimmerman). Cambridge University Press, publication September 2007.

Minding Our Business: A History of International Investment Agreements and Global Efforts to Govern Global Business (under contract, University of Michigan Press).

Taking Trade to the Streets: The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization. Forwards by I.M. Destler and Pat Choate. The University of Michigan Press : March 2001.

Trade and the American Dream: A Social History of Post World War II Trade Policy. Forwards by Senator William V. Roth and Congressman Robert Matsui. The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Policy Books

Corporate Responsibility in the Global Village: The Role of Public Policy. NPA: 2002. Redefining the Terms of Trade Policymaking. Forwards by Senator Max Baucus and Congressman Amo Houghton. NPA: July 2001.

Trade is Everybody's Business 1995 (high school primer) and Are There Trade-offs When Americans Trade? (adult primer) 1996, Close Up.

Articles

“Reality Bites: The Myth of Labor Rights as a Non-trade Issue,” under review, International Labor Review

“The World Trade Organization and Human Rights,” November 2007, World Trade Review

“A Match Made in the Corporate and Public Interest: Marrying Voluntary CSR Initiatives and the WTO” Journal of World Trade, Vol. 41, No. 3 (June. 2007).

“Fair Trade? How Oxfam Presented a Systemic Approach to Globalization, Human Rights and Development,” Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 28, No. 4 (Nov. 06),

“Minding Our Business: What the US has Done and Can Do to Ensure that its Multinationals Act Responsibility,” Journal of Business Ethics , Vol. 59, June 2005, 175-198.

“Corporate Responsibility in the Global Village: The British Role Model and the American Laggard,” Business and Society Review, 108: 3,(2003), 309-338.

“Global Corporate Social Responsibility Pressures and the Failure to Develop Universal Rules to Govern Investors and States, Journal of World Investment Vol 3, #3, (June 2002), 487-506.

“Serving American Business? Graduate Business Schools and American Business, 1945-1960," Journal of Business History 34, no. 1 (January 1992): 160-182. Reprinted in Charles Harvey and Geoffrey Jones, eds., Organizational Capability and Competitive Advantage (London,: Frank Cass, 1992), 160-182

Recent Speeches and Presentations:

Speaker, “Human Rights and Trade,” Carnegie Institute for Ethics and International Affairs, December 10, 2007.

Speaker, “The WTO and Human Rights,” Georgetown University Law School, November 14, 2007.

Speaker, Human Rights and Trade Findings and Policy Recommendations, Brookings Institution, October 16, 2007.

Speaker, “The WTO and Human Rights,” World Bank, Washington D.C., October 15, 2007

Speaker, “Human Rights and Trade” The World Bank, October 9, 2007 (party for Trade Imbalance).

Speaker, “Trade Imbalance” New America Foundation, Washington DC, October 5, 2007.

Speaker, “Reimagining Fast-Trade Trade Promotion Authority,”

Speaker, “The WTO and Human Rights,” Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington D.C., June 1, 2007

Speaker, “Righting Trade: How Policymakers Think About Human Rights,” Global Poverty Forum, Washington DC, 5/30/2007.

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