Shasha Li: Commentary on "Zhao Hong, 'Limitation and Boundary of Individual...
Over the course of the last several years, Chinese scholars have been engaging in a very interesting discussion about the way that constitutional sensitivities to human rights affects Chinese law and...
View ArticleData Driven Pandemic and the Ascendancy of Simulated Reality as the New...
(From Ontological Modeling of Geographical Relationships for Map Generalization)In The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society 1250-1600 (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Alfred W....
View ArticleRuminations 90: Sacrificing the Most Humble on the Altar of Leadership--May...
1 And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:3 But...
View ArticleMeaning Making and Making Meaning "Obvious": The Case of the Embrace of...
Meaning making represents the foundation on which societies may construct their approaches to the management of persons and things, as well as the constraints on the forms these efforts may take. That...
View ArticleSimulating Politics in the Shadow of COVID-19: "'like the school nurse trying...
Pix From "Don't Believe the COVID-19 Models"In Data Driven Pandemic and the Ascendancy of Simulated Reality as the New Political Space: The Administration of Disease and the Disease of Administration...
View ArticleThe Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Non-Chinese Peoples: Chinese...
Over the last several weeks Chinese diplomats have sought to engage their Western counterparts, as well as a wider Western audience. The object is to respond to what may be viewed as the increasing...
View Article"I think all your information is coming from the Washington Post": Chinese...
In The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Non-Chinese Peoples: Chinese Diplomatic Strategies Online and in Social Media I explored the discursive significance of recent approaches of the Chinese...
View Article“Las ofensivas antigénero en América Latina” y “La región transfronteriza...
The April 2020 issue of the LASA Forum is now available for viewing online.This Forum issue was prepared before the global pandemic of COVID-19 upset plans for the LASA2020 Congress in Guadalajara. The...
View ArticleBirgit Spiesshofer: "The Hour of the Nation-State" English Translation of...
(Birgit Spiesshofer)Dr. Birgit Spiesshofer has been undertaking truly important and path-breaking work in the area of the responsibility of business for harms that may be attached (that, of course,...
View ArticleAdvancing a Sustainability Agenda: The Norwegian Pension Fund Global...
The Norwegian Pension Fund Global has been busy during this time of pandemic. Aslake Skancke, the Chief Advisor to the Norwegian Ethics Council recently circulated a large (for the NPFG) number of...
View ArticleShasha Li: Commentary on " Cao Xiangjian, 'The Negative Position for...
Over the course of the last several years, Chinese scholars have been engaging in a very interesting discussion about the way that constitutional sensitivities to human rights affects Chinese law and...
View ArticleFrom Accountability to Censor: NGO Stakeholding in the Time of Pandemic
One of the most interesting elements of the pandemic has been the way in which it is crystallizing the governance cultures within which key outside stakeholders, civil society mostly, engage with the...
View Article习近平 团结合作战胜疫情 共同构建人类卫生健康共同体 [Xi Jinping, "Unity and cooperation to overcome...
The last few weeks has seen the management of the narrative of the history of the COVID-19 pandemic, and of its consequences, with respect to the accountability of states, and the legitimacy of key...
View ArticleJ'Accuse: President Trump's Letter to WHO Threatening De-Funding
The 73rd World Health Assembly has provided a venue in which the increasingly intense battle between the United States and China over the accounting for the pandemic--and the responsibility for its...
View Article中共中央 国务院 关于新时代加快完善社会主义市场经济体制的意见 [Central Committee of the Communist Party of...
(Pix Credit HERE)楚人有鬻盾與矛者,譽之曰:「吾盾之堅,物莫能陷之。」以譽其矛曰:「吾矛之利,於物無不陷也。」或曰:「以子之矛陷子之盾,何如?」其人弗能應也。夫不可陷之盾與無不陷之矛,不可同世而立。There was once a man in the state of Chu, who was selling shields and lances. He was praising...
View ArticleAnnouncing "Gendering Pandemic" A New CPE Research and Capacity Building...
The Coalition for Peace and Ethics is pleased to announce a new research and capacity building project: Gendering Pandemic. The project will be undertaken by members of the CPE Working Group on...
View ArticleThe Situation in Hong Kong--The Long March to 2047 Begins Now in Ernest...
Pix Credit HEREIn retrospect one of the great ironies of the protests that started in Hong Kong in June 2019--one that led to almost a year of intense public demonstrations of the development of a...
View ArticleFirst Informal Consultation on the Revised Draft Legally Binding Instrument...
Pix Credit HERE (and used to convey irony)The open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) has had five sessions so far. Ahead of the fifth session, the Permanent Mission of Ecuador, on behalf...
View ArticleThe Situation in Hong Kong: 陳弘毅談國安法爭議: 以香港為家的我們的心聲 [Chen Hongyi on the...
陳弘毅談國安法爭議: 以香港為家的我們的心聲Over the course of the last year, I have been closely following the writing of Chen Hongyi (陳弘毅), an eminent global academic and constitutional scholar. (Albert Chen Hung-yee 陳弘毅...
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