Forward -- Introduction -- To what extent is globalisation weakening the capacity for action by governments in the area of social cohesion? / Giuseppe de Filippi and Giuseppe Pennisi -- Human rights and liberalisation of markets / Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann -- Do governments still have the power to impose legal (socio-economic) frameworks for the exercise of social responsibility? / Peter Kenway -- The importance of the European social model in the debate on globalisation / Ulrich Becker