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6 Feb 2013, 8:34 pm
(Pix Source HERE)This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 3:03 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017 (a street dog neutered by a local social organization wearing a notice to that effect and imploring passers by to refrain from beating the dog))No sooner did I post some thoughts and the first reports about the U.S. decision to substantially reduce its personnel in Cuba, freeze visa applications and issue a travel warning (U.S. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 8:16 pm
(Pix (C) Larry Catá Backer 2014)This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
4 Sep 2017, 3:08 pm
(Pix © 2017 Larry Catá Backer)I have started thinking through the issues around social credit generally, and the Chinese Social Credit project specifically ((1) China's Social Credit Initiative in a Global Context: (2) Introduction and the Problem of Transparency; (3 )China's Social Credit Initiative in a Global Context: First Attempt at FAQs); (4) China's Mass Line Online:… [read post]
18 Sep 2015, 5:30 am
(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]
8 Mar 2016, 10:30 am
--> (Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Flora Sapio (FS), Beitita Horm Pepulim (BHP), and I (LCB) continue our experiment in collaborative dialogue. [read post]
23 Sep 2018, 1:43 pm
(Pix c Larry Catá Backer 2017)Generally one ought to become worried--as one ought often to be worried in the United States--when intellectuals start using ordinary words as fetishes. [read post]
28 Mar 2017, 8:45 am
(Pix Larry Catá Backer 2017)For those who might find this sort of engagement interesting, I pass along a "Call for Inputs" for the Human Rights High Commissioner's forthcoming report on civil society space. [read post]
10 Jul 2018, 7:58 am
Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017 Cuba's tourist sector continues to draw interest among global financial and management markets, especially those in Europe. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 8:11 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2018)In Strategic Disclosure in an Age of Transparency: Cuba as Model for Emerging State-Based Trade and Production Orders I suggested that it is possible to discern an emerging consensus trend in global trade and production. [read post]
8 Mar 2015, 4:15 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
17 Apr 2016, 1:01 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Despite their sometime vocal protestations to the contrary, sovereign wealth funds, and the states that use them, have increasingly sought to leverage their financial power to develop strong and interconnected governance frameworks within the areas in which they are most active--corporate governance, standards of investing and the management of market integrity (here, here and here). [read post]
4 Jul 2017, 3:53 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)For American Independence Day I have gotten into the habit of considering questions touching on the essence of American political ideology (e.g., Democracy Part 36: Representative Democracy in an Age Beyond the State--The United States in a Global Political Society; Ruminations 56: On Symbols in American Political Ideology--From Russian Imperial Anthems to Confederate Battle Flags, Marriage, Legislature, and Statute;… [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 7:31 am
(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]
25 Apr 2019, 5:33 pm
(Pix Larry Catá Backer 2019)The Working Group on Empire of the Coalition for Peace and Ethics has been has been considering the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative generally, and more recently, the Chinese Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Belt and Road Initiative's [推进“一带一路”建设工作领导小组办公室] April 22, 2019… [read post]
11 Aug 2017, 2:28 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Issues around the safety and scope of operation of individuals identified as human rights defenders has become an increasingly important area of concern. [read post]
22 Sep 2019, 11:35 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer)The Coalition for Peace and Ethics BHR Treaty Project is considering Draft of the "Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, The Activities Corporations and Other Business Enterprises," released on 16 July 2019 by the open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) Chairmanship. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 2:44 pm
(Washington Monument Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)I recently announced the forthcoming publication by Carolina Academic Press of my Elements of Law and the United States Legal System (ISBN: 978-1-61163-927-8 • e-ISBN: 978-1-61163-984-1).The work made sense as a century of legalization (here and here) and judicialization (here and here) forces more and more people worldwide to bump up against aspects of aspects of the U.S: legal system. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 2:28 pm
Pix Credit Larry Catá Backer ©2023 (Narrative Reliefs Angkor Wat 12th c (Berlin) For at least a century, the United States has assumed the role of leadership core the leading forces of state vanguardism, tasked with ensuring progress toward the perfection of a specific way of seeing the world and remaking all of its social relations in its image. [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 5:18 am
(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]
