How Russia's Internet Research Agency Built its Disinformation Campaign

In this article we analyse features of the information influence operations run by the St. Petersburg based Internet Research Agency, targeted at Europe. Informed by publicly available ‘open source’ data, the analysis delineates three key tactics that underpinned their disinformation campaign: account buying; ‘follower fishing’; and narrative switching. Both individually and collectively these were designed to build the reach, impact and influence of the ideologically loaded messages that social media account operators authored and amplified. The particular value of the analysis is that whilst a lot of recent public and political attention has focussed upon Kremlin backed disinformation in respect of the 2016 United States presidential election, far less work has addressed their European activities.     

The Afterlives of Post-War Japanese Prime Ministers

Despite growing interest over the last 20 years in the position and power of the Japanese prime minister, what he does after resigning from this position has been overlooked in the extant literatures in both English and Japanese. This is unfortunate because, to paraphrase former US President Bill Clinton, as an ex-leader “you lose your power but not your influence.” This article represents the first attempt to explore what post-war Japanese prime ministers have done after stepping down and what influence they have continued to exert. It does so by providing an empirical overview of the afterlives of Japan’s 33 post-war ex-prime ministers before then discussing the benefits and shortcomings of applying the comparative, conceptual literature on the role of former leaders in Western democracies to the specific case of Japan. After providing the necessary justification, it then focuses on three detailed and illuminating case studies of Nakasone Yasuhiro, Murayama Tomiichi and Fukuda Yasuo. It argues that Japanese prime ministers continue to exert influence in several informal ways.     

人工智能对就业的影响因素及作用机制研究

人工智能技术的创新和应用给经济社会带来了更为深刻的影响，在给人类创造价值的同时，也 给就业带来了不同的影响效应。本研究通过对国内外相关文献分析，在以往学者所构建的技术进步影响就业的 机理框架基础上，针对人工智能的特点，增加了人工智能技术对全球化和国际分工、产品的个性化设计和服务 方式以及工作模式和组织形态的影响的研究，并对就业产生的替代效应和创造效应进行了深入分析。在此基础 上构建了人工智能对就业的影响机制理论模型。     

Private regulation,public policy,and the perils of adverse ontological selection

What problems can private regulatory governance solve, and what role should public policy play? Despite access to the same empirical evidence, the current scholarship on private governance offers widely divergent answers to these questions. Through a critical review, this paper details five ontologically distinct academic logics – calculated strategic behavior; learning and experimentalist processes; political institutionalism; global value chain and convention theory; and neo-Gramscian accounts – that offer divergent conclusions based on the particular facets of private governance they illuminate, while ignoring those they obfuscate. In this crowded marketplace of ideas, scholars and practitioners are in danger of adverse ontological selection whereby certain approaches and insights are systematically ignored and certain problem conceptions are prioritized over others. As a corrective, we encourage scholars to make their assumptions explicit, and occasionally switch between logics, to better understand private governance's problem-solving potential and its interactions with public policy.     

“网客”文化与大学生思想教育创新

＂网客＂文化是一把＂双刃剑＂,不仅对大学生思想教育有积极推动作用,也有一定的负面影响。＂网客＂时代下的大学生思想教育必须通过创新提高有效性：要更新教育观念,适应＂网客＂文化带来的大学生思想教育的新变化;要完善＂网客＂文化规制建设;要加强＂网客＂文化技术平台建设;要整合社会教育资源,形成＂网客＂文化背景下大学生思想教育的合力。     

论增强中国文化影响力对中阿经贸合作的战略意义

随着中阿经贸合作发展迅猛,大力发展对外文化贸易与投资,增强中国文化在阿拉伯国家与地区的影响力,对于推动中阿经贸合作健康发展具有重要的战略意义。     

利用影响力受贿罪客观方面存在的问题及立法完善

2009年2月28日公布实施的《刑法修正案(七)》在《刑法》第388条后增加了一条作为第388条之一,是对当前腐败问题从《刑法》角度的积极回应。我国已经加入《联合国反腐败公约》,政府对于受贿罪的打击力度越来越强,力求多方面借鉴经验以打击官员腐败。相对于传统的贪污贿赂犯罪而言,这是一种利用影响力的新型犯罪。结合司法实践,其客观方面的规定还存在不完善的地方,需要通过立法和司法解释加以完善,以此最大限度地发挥利用影响力受贿罪的实践价值。     

Inspire Magazine: A Critical Analysis of its Significance and Potential Impact Through the Lens of the Information,Motivation, and Behavioral Skills Model

This article presents an analysis of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's English language publication Inspire that was conceptualized and conducted on the basis of the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) framework. The IMB model has been widely tested, validated, and applied across a range of behavior change interventions, and provides both a conceptual and analytic framework to examine the range and quality of content featured across the 11 issues of Inspire that were published and distributed online starting in July of 2010. Inspire has been implicated in multiple instances of terrorism cases in the U.S. and its impact and potential can be analyzed on the extent to which it effectively targets core attitudes, perceptions of social normative support for violence, and its regular featuring of behavioral skills such as bomb making, weapons training, and emphasizing a creative and do-it-yourself ethos.     

推动共同富裕进程中行业协会商会的新定位

在扎实推动全体人民共同富裕的新阶段,我国行业协会商会应当重新定位自身功能。已有研究认为,不同场景下的行业协会商会功能分别受到会员逻辑、影响逻辑、公共逻辑的型塑,但少有文献探讨上述三种不同逻辑融合如何影响行业协会商会的常态化功能发挥。文章构建了“行业协会商会在会员逻辑、影响逻辑与公共逻辑融合驱动下推动共同富裕”的分析框架。基于案例研究发现,我国行业协会商会通过组织联盟与数字化改革等方式促进会员逻辑、影响逻辑与公共逻辑的融合：坚持以会员逻辑为基础核心,激发各类会员的活力和能力,推动经济高质量发展;以公共逻辑为价值主导,追求社会公共利益,提升基层社会治理能力;以影响逻辑为有力支撑,提升政府治理效能,支持高质量经济发展与高水平社会治理,进而推动共同富裕的实质性进展。行业协会商会推动共同富裕实践有利于形成共同富裕社会格局、优化共同富裕治理体系。