Congressional Attention and Opportunity Structures: The Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee

This article examines the role that overlapping committee jurisdictions play in fostering or hindering attention to environmental and energy issues in the U.S. Congress. The Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, created by House Democrats in 2007 , and its chairman Rep. Ed Markey took advantage of opportunities within the existing jurisdictional arrangement to increase attention to these issues despite lacking any legislative authority. Data from the 110th and 111th Congresses show that the Select Committee held more hearings on climate change and alternative energy, and on environmental and energy policy generally, than any other committee. The committee also increased the range of sources informing debate on these issues by calling different witnesses than other committees. These findings have important implications for the relationship between institutional structure and agendas and for Congress' policy‐making role on energy and the environment.     

着力建立健全党员队伍纯洁机制

保持党的纯洁性是马克思主义政党的本质要求。建立健全党员队伍纯洁机制,对于新时期保持党的纯洁性,加强和改进党的建设具有重大而深远的意义。     

公民权益保障建设研究

城市化进程的急速推进,打破了传统社会的利益格局,社会大转型引发了众多的社会问题,导致涉诉信访问题层出不穷。研究和解决公民合理的利益诉求表达、协调各方利益、畅通公民权益保障渠道建设尤为重要。本文从大连地区社会不稳定因素产生的原因入手,针对当前公民权益保障中存在的问题提出领导干部应提高认识,转变观念,树立公民权利至上理念,多方拓展保障公民合法权益的途径,使维权维稳工作健康有序。     

关于加强公安高校教工基层党组织建设的思考

构建社会主义和谐社会的伟大实践为公安高校基层党组织建设提出了新的任务与要求。当前公安高等院校教工基层党组织建设仍面临许多问题,在构建和谐社会背景下,公安高等院校应当秉承学习与实践相结合、开放与创新相结合、民主与集中相结合的思路,从提高对教工基层党组织建设的认识、创新教工党员的教育形式、建立健全教工基层党组织评价机制、加强教工基层党组织领导班子建设等方面入手,加强公安高校教工基层党组织建设。     

完善检察机关服务群众工作机制的思考

检察机关群众工作是党的群众工作的重要组成部分，是维护社会稳定工作的根本保证，也是实现检察工作和队伍建设可持续发展的重要途径。机制带有根本性、基础性和导向性，完善的制度、科学的机制是推动检察机关服务群众工作持续深入开展的重要保证。加强和改进新形势下检察机关群众工作，必须加大服务群众工作制度建设力度，建立和实行更加严密、科学、适用的群众工作制度，使群众工作更加科学、更有活力、更富实效。     

商业贿赂犯罪的动态特征与发展趋势

近年来，随着我国市场经济不断发展，发生在商品流通和服务行业等领域的商业贿赂行为并未得到切实有效地根治，作为一种具有动态意义的新型经济犯罪活动，其触角逐步伸入其他行业和领域，并呈现出一系列新的特点和发展态势。其动态变化特征主要有：犯罪形式多样，犯罪手段隐蔽，侦查难度加大；行业特点明显，发案部门集中，窝案串案突出；案件数目上升，涉案金额加大，大要案比例高；职务犯罪突出，主体特征明显，顶风作案严重。其发展趋势表现为：犯罪领域扩展，防控精度下降；作案手法翻新，查处难度加大；组织程度提高，期货特征明显；社会影响恶劣，危害程度加剧。各地应根据本地商贿犯罪现实情形与发展态势，建立健全惩防商贿犯罪的长效机制。     

应对跨境文物犯罪中的警务合作探讨——以内地与香港间的文物走私犯罪为对象

内地文物非法跨越边境向香港流出,是一个值得关注的问题。文章回顾了100多年来内地与香港间文物走私演变过程,指出其严重性和危害性。在分析两地警务合作的基础上,指出双方在刑事法律规定、刑事司法实践上存在的问题和刑事司法合作落后于经贸文化合作、刑事司法协助及警务合作协议缺位的现状,进而提出了完善双方警务合作,包括应对两地间文物走私犯罪的对策,认为凝聚共识是前提,适时修法是基础,商签协议是关键。     

改造羁押必要性审查机制的合理化路径

新修正的《刑事诉讼法》第93条对逮捕后羁押的必要性审查作出了规定，这是我国法治建设在人权保障方面的一个重大进步，值得予以肯定。但该条规定过于抽象、笼统，没有细化羁押必要性审查的相关要件。为此，应当进一步明晰羁押必要性审查程序的启动机制、审查对象、审查期限等内容，以使该程序所产生的法律效果和社会效果得到最大程度的发挥。     

The European Union and its energy security challenges: engagement through and with networks

Energy security remains a vital issue for the European Union (EU), even more so in the wake of the events that unfolded in early 2014 in Ukraine. The EU's already fragile position in the international energy arena in terms of security of supply appears to be more uncertain than ever after its umpteenth fallout with its historic energy supplier, Russia. This situation is untenable and calls for swift and decisive action to adequately tackle the issue once and for all. The article looks at the creation of a single EU energy market through the integration of energy networks in the EU. This article then examines various ways to diversify its energy supply, whether through increasing the import of liquefied natural gas or through its relations with the Eurasian Union. It then explores the International Energy Charter as an example of the EU's engagement with transnational policy networks. It concludes that from energy transit, to technology transfer, to investment protection, energy and trade present interplays across various fields. Improvements can be made to the EU trading system to ensure greater energy security and more efficient energy markets.     

LASTING PEACE A decades-old international relations tenet remains crucial to global security

正Although China is demonstrating its peaceful approach to international affairs,it has always been an easy target for critics in the Western media.Any unharmonious interaction between China and its neighbors is likely to be exaggerated by the outside world as China’s wrongdoing.Observers call it undergoing the"growing pains"of a giant.Regardless,China is trying to