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4 Feb 2020, 7:30 am
In simpler terms--the once self evident relationship between law (the command and the normative framework for managing behavior) and its implementation (through measurable accountability measures) has broken down. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021).Daniel Carpenter[1] Is there anything like the petition of lore left in our republic? [read post]
2 Dec 2017, 2:56 pm
  The Forum is itself one such platform for that construction and its work down chains of power and responsibility. [read post]
20 Jan 2020, 11:59 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2020)In a prior post (Building New Era Thought--Reflections on Xi Jinping's Address on the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up, Beijing 18 December 2018) it was suggested that a year after its delivery, Xi Jinping's Speech on the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up [-在庆祝改革开放40周年大会上的讲话] was now a more useful object of study,… [read post]
8 Nov 2014, 3:02 pm
These include climate change, decimation of eco-systems, global economic slow-down, youth unemployment, broken trust in the financial system, and domestic political tensions across regions. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 1:10 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)One of the great innovations in international relations in this century has been the continuing erosion of the concept of autonomy of the state as a singular and apex construct of political power. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 5:59 am
Backer: Nothing in NSS suggesting a strategic objective to reject JCPOA By Payman Yazdani Tehran TimesInternational December 24, 2017TEHRAN _ Commenting on the U.S. new National Security Strategy, Larry Backer, Professor of Law and International Affairs in Penn State University says there is nothing in the NSS that suggests a strategic objective to reject the JCPOA. [read post]
1 Jun 2018, 5:22 pm
One should be much more interested in the shape of the America First and on China's One Belt One Road Initiatives, and on the integration of global finance and global production today the way that the 1970s was focused on the political effects of traditionally constituted TNCs on the internal politics of states well down global production chains. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 9:21 am
It is the first of a series on "pushing SOEs to strictly follow party discipline", as the watchdog continues cracking down on corruption. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 7:20 am by Daniel Shaviro
  Extreme high-end wealth inequality can potentially have directly adverse effects on the bottom 99.9 percent.But let’s start with declining marginal utility, since Ed disparages it as a ground for wanting to level down as well as up. [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 7:03 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) The issue of voting reform in Hong Kong has produced a lively debate about the nature of the relations between the governments in Beijing and Hong Kong and the nature of the political system and the possibilities of political reform in Hong Kong. [read post]
7 Sep 2022, 5:31 am by Geoffrey S. Corn, Peter Margulies
The years since the Panama intervention have seen ups and downs in the relationship between U.S. forces’ operations and LOAC principles. [read post]
19 Sep 2015, 7:38 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer) This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
27 Oct 2022, 4:48 pm by David Friedman
To demonstrate that point, here are arguments for the opposite of the conclusions offered by left libertarians:[7] Corporate Size A large hierarchical organization has to pass a lot of information up and down the hierarchy in order that the people at the top can know what those at the bottom are doing and those at the bottom know what those at the top want them to do. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 5:16 am by Marc Garlasco, Andrew Hyde
The results were impressive: By 2010, civilian casualties in Afghanistan dropped by 20 percent, with deaths from air strikes down over 60 percent. [read post]