"Global Corporate Social Responsibility (GCSR) Standards With Cuban Characteristics: What Normalization Means for Transnational Enterprise Activity in Cuba": My Presentation at the Pace International Law Review 2016 Symposium: Cuba and Iran--A Look at Global Trade and Development

(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)

I have previously posted about the  Pace International Law Review 2016 Symposium: Cuba and Iran--A Look at Global Trade and Development and its 2016 Blaine Sloan Lecture on International Law.

It was my great pleasure to present some thoughts at the 2016 Symposium on the theme of the necessary internationalization of Cuban corporate social responsibility as the Cuban state and its enterprises become more heavily embedded in global trade networks in the wake of its normalization of relations with the United States.  Here is a great irony--normalization will provide a doorway, not for domination by the United States, but for increased pressure to embrace international norms in business activity, both for Cuban economic activity abroad and for transnational economic activity within the Cuban Republic.  That will present substantial challenges for Cuba and require it to more directly face the implications of its own embrace of many of these standards at the international level. It may also provide a basis for rethinking the scope and application of these international measures within smaller developing states that do not conform to the political philosophies of advanced Western states. 

The PowerPoints of my presentation follow along with the abstract to the paper. The current draft may be accessed HERE. Comments and engagement most welcome!