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20 Dec 2017, 3:11 pm
These threats include nuclear threats by rogue regimes, radical Islamic terror groups, the success of rival powers in pursuing their own interests, porous borders (migration and trade), global criminal enterprises, free riding by U.S. allies, neglect of defense, loss of trust in government and faith in U.S. values. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 9:09 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2017)As in past years (here, here, here, and here) I am again happy to report on the annual United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights. [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]
20 Nov 2017, 6:30 am by Jacob Lazarovic, M.D.
  ACOEM guidelines: produced by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and distributed through MDGuidlines/Reed Group. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 2:45 pm
For one group, corporations are people (e.g., here); for the other even states are obliged to serve as the intermediary of the international order (e.g., here). [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 5:30 am by Matthew Waxman
One hundred years ago today—on September 5, 1917—Charles Evans Hughes famously argued that “the power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. [read post]
9 Aug 2017, 5:53 am
The basic content and character of NAPs for states that do not occupy the highest rungs of global production must necessarily differ from those of the home states of apex multinationals. [read post]
5 Aug 2017, 5:37 pm
  These frameworks include those existing and emerging within states, in international institutions, and within production chains and the apex corporations that manage them. [read post]
4 Jun 2017, 7:51 pm
The asymmetries run beyond the usual problem of state subsidies to that of states being tempted to tilt markets in favor of SOEs (producing a sort of systemic corruption in markets driven systems) to issues of interference with sovereignty when SOEs serve as the apex enterprise in global production chains.[18] The legal status of SOEs varies from being a part of government to stock companies with a state as a regular stockholder.[19] But its purpose has remained… [read post]
12 May 2017, 1:11 pm
I have recently posted (here) about the third edition of the Brussels Global Law Week to be held from 15 to 19 of May 2017 and hosted by the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy (Université libre de Bruxelles Faculty of Law) Posted below is the text of my remarks, Transnational Legal Orders and Global Regulatory Networks, to be delivered as part of the 2017 Global Law Week and the International Francqui Symposium on Global and Transnational Law Today. [read post]
3 May 2017, 7:39 am
  To that end, though it becomes necessary for all states that control apex enterprises--those business organizations that occupy the apex position in global production chains--to create the linkages of due diligence an disclosure along similar lines. [read post]
29 Apr 2017, 6:34 pm
That orthodoxy itself posited a hierarchy in which politics served as the legitimating instrument of power, and that the state served as the apex organization of politics. [read post]
12 Mar 2017, 6:46 am
 States that tend to be in the middle or lower ends of global production chains have much less leverage to order trade than do states which house apex enterprises (whether SOEs or private companies). [read post]
2 Mar 2017, 12:55 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Most Israeli Bedouin live in the Negev desert, where they represent the poorest and fastest-growing group in Israel. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 6:18 pm
It does not confront the great principles of corporate autonomy, of the limits of national jurisdiction, or of the substantial legal limitations to the determination of liability among groups of enterprises engaged in production chain relations. [read post]