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The Brics, a Post-Hegemonic Model with its Own Normativity: How to Influence Who Policies to Curb WTO Law into a Moral Capitalism
Get PDFTHE BRICS, A POST-HEGEMONIC MODEL WITH ITS OWN NORMATIVITY: HOW TO INFLUENCE WHO POLICIES TO CURB WTO LAW INTO A MORAL CAPITALISM* OS BRICS, UM MODELO POST-HEGEMONICO COM A SUA PROPRIA NORMATIVIDADE: ANALISE DO USO DAS NORMAS DA OMS PARA INFLUENCIAR O DIREITO DA OMC PARA A CRIAÇÃO DUM CAPITALISMO MORAL Meryl Thiel** RESUMO: A política jurídica do BRICS apresenta-se como um modelo paradigmático, que mostra como as teorias de Krasner e Keohane se complementam, graças ao uso direcionado do direito internacional. Este artigo pretende demonstrar que os BRICS - na definição de uma política jurídica inovadora e independente - influenciam os processos normativos, e argumenta que os BRICS são uma construção pós-hegemônica, com normatividade própria, destinada a combater a hipocrisia organizada de nosso sistema internacional. Tendo em vista a questão de como o BRICS participa da moralização do capitalismo, considerei a hipótese de uma hegemonia dos BRICS, no sentido de que as formas de cooperação promovidas pelo grupo são inovadoras e não correspondem a nenhum conceito atualmente em vigor. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Normatividade. OMC. OMS. BRICS. Counter Multilateralism. ABSTRACT: The traditional foci of international law are no longer the only ones that can claim hegemonic practices. Currently, the BRICS legal policy presents itself as a paradigmatic model, which shows how Krasner's and Keohane's theories complement one another, thanks to their targeted use of international law. This paper aims to demonstrate that the BRICS — in defining an innovative and independent legal policy — influence normativity processes, and argues that the BRICS are a post-hegemonic construction, with their own normativity, intended to fight against the organized hypocrisy of our international system. In view of the question of how the BRICS participates in the moralization of capitalism, I have considered the hypothesis of a BRICS hegemony, in the sense that the forms of cooperation promoted by the group are innovative, and are not corresponding to any concept currently in force. KEYWORDS: Normativity. WTO. WHO. BRICS. Counter Multilateralism. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction: the urge necessity to reconsider hegemony. 1. The implementation of fuzzy law: construction of a pre-normativity by the BRICS engagement. 1.A. The BRICS structuring action by articulating the promotion of national funding, R&D and claiming intellectual property rights at an international level. 1.B. BRICS action by transgression through the creation of a global legal entity. 2 The optimization of soft law: poièsis of normativity by the BRICS action. 2.A. The hard law ≡ soft power combination: the BRICS action concerning the law, a simple implementation of conventional dispositions through the Surveillance Centre. 2.B. The soft power ≡ soft law progression: orienting the WTO judicial policy by using the WHO sectorial policy in a BRICS fashion. Conclusion: To Make Capitalism Moral: The ongoing action of the BRICS: an Hegemon Operationis. References.* This article had been written thanks to the CAPES Fellowship Post-doctoral Program in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and finalized after the Symposium in International Economy organized by the World Trade Organization Chair Santiago Chile, Chile. ** PhD International Law, Nice, France. Post-doc in the World Organization Chair Santiago Chile, Chile, and in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Currently Associate Researcher in Sciences Po Aix en Provance, France.
Online Appointment Scheduler: The Perfect Fit for the On-Demand Generation
No full textColumn description. Special Libraries, Special Challenges is a column dedicated to exploring the unique public services challenges that arise in libraries that specialize in a particular subject, such as law, medicine, business, and so forth. In each column, the author will discuss public service dilemmas and opportunities that arise in special libraries. Special or subject-matter librarians interested in authoring a piece for this column are invited to contact Patti Gibbons and Deborah Schander. This article is written by Meryl Brodsky. Meryl is the Business Librarian at Eastern Michigan University. She holds a MLS from Southern Connecticut State University and an MBA from Cornell University. This article explores a case study at Eastern Michigan University and how the Business Librarian transitioned from traditional office hours to an appointment-based system to better meet the reference needs of current students. The article examines the LibCal online scheduling program, how it was rolled out at EMU, its effectiveness and reception
Future talk: parenting for a digital future for young people with a disability
No full textMeryl Alper says the relationship between disabled children and the digital future is a complicated one. In this post, she looks at one U.S.-American family’s story and discusses how it’s characteristic of many parent’s talk of the future, digital media and its role in their disabled child’s paths and plans. She is a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, and author of Digital youth with disabilities. Meryl’s work focuses on the social and cultural implications of communication technologies, with a focus on disability and digital media, children and families’ media use and mobile communicatio
BRASIL E A PROTEÇÃO FLORESTAL: DIREITO OU DEVER NO MEIO AMBIENTE?
Get PDFDefinido como exemplo de democracia participativa, o sistema politico-juridico brasileiro parece ser vitima do seu sucesso. Se é um fato que a Constituição brasileira de 1988 consagra o papel da sociedade civil nos processos de elaboraçao das normas meio ambiental, a reforma do Codigo Florestal de 2012 destacou que esse rol ainda é fraco. Para fazer da justiça do meio ambiente uma realidade, o conceito mesmo de sociedade civil precisa ser especificado. Nessa dinamica, faremos uma leitura critica do artigo 225 da Constituição usando a teoria critica habermassiana, demonstrando que o conceito de sociedade civil so é um argumento politico para acalmar a multidoe. Alèm disso, o uso desse conceito é uma forma de manipulação juridica, guiada por intereses economicos. Nosso objetivo é demostrar a triple relaçao politica-direito-economia, posando a hipotese que o direito constitucional brasileiro esta dirigido por los interesses economicos, o jogos politicos sirven so de escudo.</p
State "groups" and World Trade Organization
No full textDans le système financier et commercial actuel, l'OMC est au cœur des débats, sa politique libérale divisant tant les universitaires que les praticiens sur les formes de gouvernance économique mondiale. Très ouverte à la participation de divers acteurs du commerce mondial, l'OMC a en effet vu la percée lente mais assurée des ONG lors des négociations. Dans le même temps, les intégrations économiques régionales se sont multipliées et leur participation aux négociations de l'OMC s'est accrue, ce qui a conduit à augmenter les interrogations sur les formes de gouvernance étatique économique mondiale. Au sein de l'Organisation, il est un type de regroupement étatique qui a un rôle de plus en plus important, mais dont l'étude reste quasi inexistante : les Groupes d’États, qui reposent sur le respect et la défense de relations équitables. or, l'équité est affichée comme un des objectifs de l'OMC. L'approche constructiviste et de politique juridique permettront d'analyser les modalités et conséquences de l'interaction entre les Groupes et l'Organisation. Cette analyse mettra alors en lumière le degré de contribution des groupes au droit de l'OMC et, dans une plus large mesure, dessinera uen nouvelle acception de l'équité et des formes de gouvernance économique mondiale.The WTO, which is one of the most criticized international organizations in the world, is currently the focus of debates because of its liberalisms policies. As academics as lawyers wonder how the WTO philosophy can be linked to different forms of international economic governance. Indeed, the number of NGO has grown in the WTO negotiations. In the same time, the number of Regional Economic Integration and their participation to the WTO negotiations increased. As a consequence, interrogations concerning international economic governance rose. At the WTO, a kind of coalitions is particularly remarkable but rarely studied in law: State Coalitions, which are based on the respect and defence of Equity. Similarly, one of the goals of the WTO is to establish Equity in international economic relations. Thanks to constructivism, this thesis highlights the interaction between State coalitions and the WTO. The focus is to point up how important is the contribution of State coalitions to WTO law. As a consequence, this thesis will draw a new meaning of Equity and international economic governance
The BRICS, A Post-Hegemonic Model With Its Own Normativity: How do the BRICS reach to influence WTO law through the oriented use of WHO policies?
Get PDFIn response to Krasner's view, exclusively focused on geopolitical tensions and power games on the world stage, Keohane’s counter-multilateralism approach brings a solution: that of cooperation. The fact remains that the explanation delivered by international relations overlooks the fundamental role of law. Currently, the BRICS legal policy presents itself as a paradigmatic model, which shows how Krasner's and Keohane's theories complement one another, thanks to their targeted use of international law. This paper aims to demonstrate that the BRICS — in defining an innovative and independent legal policy influence normativity processes — are a post-hegemonic construction, with their own normativity, intended to fight against the organized hypocrisy of our international system. In view of the question of how the BRICS participate in the moralization of capitalism, I have considered the hypothesis of a BRICS hegemony, in the sense that the forms of cooperation promoted by the group are innovative and are not corresponding to any concept currently in force: the group uses WTO and WHO's health policies to curb world trade regulations. The main idea of this paper is to try to articulate the international relations theories with a legal analysis. In other words, my working assumption is that to be able to design its own normativity, the group diverts the WTO's political and legal mechanisms, via the WHO's health requirements, and is, therefore, rising as a new hegemonic formation. Keywords: Normativity; WTO; WHO; BRICS; Shift Focus; Counter-MultilateralismIn response to Krasner's view, exclusively focused on geopolitical tensions and power games on the world stage, Keohane’s counter-multilateralism approach brings a solution: that of cooperation. The fact remains that the explanation delivered by international relations overlooks the fundamental role of law. Currently, the BRICS legal policy presents itself as a paradigmatic model, which shows how Krasner's and Keohane's theories complement one another, thanks to their targeted use of international law. This paper aims to demonstrate that the BRICS — in defining an innovative and independent legal policy influence normativity processes — are a post-hegemonic construction, with their own normativity, intended to fight against the organized hypocrisy of our international system. In view of the question of how the BRICS participate in the moralization of capitalism, I have considered the hypothesis of a BRICS hegemony, in the sense that the forms of cooperation promoted by the group are innovative and are not corresponding to any concept currently in force: the group uses WTO and WHO's health policies to curb world trade regulations. The main idea of this paper is to try to articulate the international relations theories with a legal analysis. In other words, my working assumption is that to be able to design its own normativity, the group diverts the WTO's political and legal mechanisms, via the WHO's health requirements, and is, therefore, rising as a new hegemonic formation
RECONCEITUALIZAÇÃO DO POSITIVISMO JURÍDICO: ANÁLISE COMPARATIVA DA HERANÇA COMTEANA NO BRASIL E DIREITO CONSTITUCIONAL FRANCES
No full textO conceito de "positivismo" pode ser encontrado em uma grande variedade de matérias tal como na sociologia, no direito, na filosofia. Assim, não existiria um positivismo, e sim positivismos. No entanto, foi um homem apenas quem inventou nesta inovação terminológica e conceitual: o francês Auguste Comte. Suas aspirações à uma reorganização social durável e radical fez com que seu "espírito positivo" e sua "filosofia positiva" evoluíssem em busca do que se chama positivismo. Mas, o que significa exatamente essa palavra? Mais ainda, existiria um positivismo jurídico comtiano? Para responder a essas perguntas, farei um análise comparativa do direito constitucional francês e da cultura juridica brasileira. Disto resultará que o positivismo juridico é mais comtiano doque diz a doutrina
Brazil, an african power? A neo-gramscian analysis of the framework propose by Brazil for sanitary policies adapted to developing economies.
No full textIn September 2023, the African Union was admitted to the G20
with the support of Brazil.
The African Union is composed by 55 African countries. It
promotes integration between them in many diff erent aspects
such as peace, rule of law, democracy and economic concerns,
among others. The bloc was founded in 2001 in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, and launched in 2002 in Durban, South Africa.
The relations between Brazil and the African Union are mainly
diplomatic ones and are developed in diff erent fi elds. They are
not restricted to the commercial and economic fi eld, but also
encompass historical and cultural ties, since both entities suff ered
from European imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism. This
axis of relations was expanded between 2003 and 2016. Thus,
while the cultural and historical links between this Latin American
country and the African continent are regularly reaffi rmed by
President Lula, the thematic issues that unite them today are less
clearly outlined.
Poverty is an issue with multiple consequences and it seems,
today, to be ineradicable. Thus, one of the objectives of the
SDGs is to eradicate poverty, a global plague with multi-sectoral
consequences. The emergence of COVID-19 marked a turning
point, reversing this progress as the number of people living in
extreme poverty increased, for the fi rst time in a generation, by
almost 90 million compared to previous forecasts. If current trends continue, an estimated 7%, or around 575 million
people, of the world’s population could still fi nd themselves
trapped in the bonds of extreme poverty by 2030, with a signifi cant
concentration in sub-Saharan Africa.
The African continent therefore seems to be a target : the increase
in global poverty will have direct and drastic consequences in this
region of the world, which is already in peril.
The concern for global social policies are therefore becoming
a key factor in forging links between the African continent and
this Portuguese-speaking Latin American country. But behind
the consideration of social policies lie both economic and
sanitary concerns. As a corollary to these links, inequalities in
access to healthcare persist, which raise questions about the
implementation of a social security system.
Social security is a universal Human Right, and in theory the world
has suffi cient resources to make it real. Yet 80% of the world’s
population has no access to adequate social protection. Universal
access to health and universal health coverage imply that all people
and communities have access, without any form of discrimination,
to comprehensive, appropriate and timely health services of good
quality, determined at national level according to needs, as well as
to safe, eff ective and aff ordable medicines of good quality, while
ensuring that the use of these services does not expose users to
fi nancial hardship, particularly groups in conditions of vulnerability.
Since the COVID pandemic, in various international forums, Brazil
has gradually established itself as an advocate of a universal
social security system, with health issues at the heart of its
foreign policy. Besides, after the COVID pandemic, data from the
International Labor Organization (ILO) show that Africa has the
lowest social protection coverage in the world: 17% of the total
population, compared with a global average of 47%.
This raises the question of the extent to which cooperation in
terms of health policies (particularly within the Brazil-Africa
framework) can nurture a fruitful alternative to the Bretton Woods
system and, more broadly, envisage a new path for international
cooperation. That main problematic would therefore allow us to
discuss a second point : could this have an impact on Brazil’s
image in Africa? In a society increasingly critical of the Bretton Woods institutions,
certain fora and States have positioned themselves as a force for
proposal: Brazil is part of this dynamic.
Focusing on a positivist study of the legal texts of the BRICS, G20,
the ILO Convention 102 and UNITAID; and from a neo-Gramscian
perspective, I propose to discuss Brazil’s social policy proposals in
these two cooperation fora.
The fi rst part of my refl ection will outline the social policy
promoted by Brazil within the frameworkof the G20. The aim of
this section will be to highlight Brazil’s progressiveness from a
political point of view: by demonstrating the degree of innovation
of its healthcare system, and by proposing an international
framework inspired by its national scheme.
The second part will focus on that of the BRICS. Within this group,
Brazil has played a pioneering role in proposing health policies.
As the group expands, Brazil’s ambitions and proposals are be coming increasingly infl uential. In this regard, the strategic stakes
and possible benefi ts for the African continent (and South Africa
in particular) will be highlighted.
The third part will study the health sector groupings in which
Brazil plays a major role. This is the case of UNITAID. Under this
program, the project plans to carry out clinical trials to validate
simplifi ed diagnostic algorithms, with the aim of reducing the time
between screening, diagnosis and completion of treatment.284282
Reconceptualizacao do positivismo juridico: analisis comparativo da heranca comteana no Brasil e direito constitucional francês / Reconceptualization of legal positivism: comparative analysis between the heritage of auguste comte in Brazil and french constitutional law
No full textResumenEl concepto de “positivismo” puede encontrarse en una gran variedad de materias tal como la sociología, el derecho o la filosofía. Así, no existiría un positivismo, sino positivismos. Sin embargo, fue un hombre sólo quien precisó esta innovación terminológica y conceptual: el francés Auguste Comte. Sus aspiraciones a una reorganización social duradera y radical hicieron evolucionar su “espíritu positivo” y su “filosofía positiva” en busca de lo que se llama positivismo. Pero, ¿qué significa exactamente esa palabra? Más aún, ¿existiría un positivismo jurídico comtiano? Para responder a esas preguntas, haré un análisis comparativo del derecho constitucional francés y de la cultura jurídica brasileña.AbstractBehind the term “positivism” lies a multitude of currents of thought in fields as varied as sociology, law or philosophy: therefore, there would not be one but positivisms. Yet it is one man who is at the origin of this terminological and conceptual innovation that upset the nineteenth century: the French Auguste Comte. The influence of his philosophy on the construction of Brazilian thought, both political and social, is certain. But what about Brazilian law? Would legal positivism be of “comtian” essence? To answer these questions, it will be proceeded to a comparative method between French constitutional law and the Brazilian legal culture
Effectiveness of Microteaching for Developing Observation, Communication, and Professional Behavior Skill Sets Among Occupational Therapy Students
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
This study explores the effectiveness of microteaching for developing a range of clinical skills among occupational therapy students. Findings show that microteaching is more effective than traditional methods for developing students’ professional behaviors and facilitating peer-supported learning.
Primary Author and Speaker: Dragana Krpalek
Additional Authors and Speakers: Sharon Pavlovich
Contributing Authors: Heather Javaherian-Dysinger, Katie Beach, Anna Boehning, Jacqueline Lim, Meryl Paja, Aishani Patel, Christine Pham</jats:p
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