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3 Mar 2013, 11:47 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013))I have included the press release below for the KOF Index of Globalization 2013 (without the graphs). [read post]
3 Feb 2014, 6:44 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]
27 Jun 2016, 3:48 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)In a prior post I suggested the nature of the consequences when the tension between mass democracy--the notion of popular sovereignty directly or indirectly exercised through the performative act of voting on discrete questions or for representatives in the apparatus of state--and governance is activated through the mechanism of a popular plebiscite. [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 9:04 am
(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]
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]
23 Apr 2017, 8:41 am
Penn State University, University Park, PA April 21, 2017.Larry Catá Backer (Professor, Penn State University)I have been tasked with the great responsibility of closing this excellent conference. [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]
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]
9 Mar 2014, 8:18 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]
8 Feb 2018, 8:09 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)It appears to be something of a global trend now, or at least a movement with sufficient repetitions to merit some notice, that governments are becoming more selective in the scope and character of the information they make available and yet increasingly eager to produce transparency in non governmental enterprises and other institutions. [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 10:32 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Part VI1. [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]
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]
26 Feb 2014, 8:37 am
(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]
15 Nov 2019, 2:38 am
Session participants include Mohamed Athman (Save Lamu); Larry Catá Backer (Penn State University); Flora Sapio (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”); and Wawa Wang (Sustainable Energy). [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 6:52 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]
4 Mar 2017, 7:11 am
(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]
16 Mar 2021, 12:10 pm
Those interested in my qualms about the process and its unintended perverse effects may consider them at See Larry Catá Backer, "Moving Forward the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights: Between Enterprise Social Norm, State Domestic Legal Orders, and the Treaty Law That Might Bind Them All," Fordham Int'l L.J. 38:457 (2015). [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]
11 Feb 2013, 7:46 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) Part 10: The U.S. [read post]
