A Subnational Study of Insurgency: FARC Violence in the 1990s

This article examines the traditional political and economic factors that have been purported to explain the prevalence of insurgency. It tests the following hypotheses at the subnational level in Colombia: guerrilla violence is positively associated with exports; higher levels of insurgency are associated with low levels of GDP per capita or negative growth rates; guerrilla violence emerges in the context of weak state presence; and higher levels of state repression are associated with higher levels of insurgent violence. The analysis utilizes a zero-inflated negative binomial to capture dynamics of both intensity and onset of violence. The econometric analysis is supplemented with cartographic visualization and qualitative analysis.     

Criminality and Armed Groups: A Comparative Study of FARC and Paramilitary Groups in Colombia

Terrorist groups and armed insurgents regularly exploit illicit markets to launder money, traffic illegal goods, and purchase arms. In such an environment, the line between armed political organizations and criminal groups appears to break down. However, through a comparative study of paramilitary groups and Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—FARC) in Colombia, this article finds that group goals, the political environment, and membership strongly influence the types of criminal activities a given armed groups undertakes. Thus, the membership and political agenda of sub-state armed groups not only distinguishes them from criminal groups—organized for and motivated by economic gain—but also shapes their criminal behavior.     

人民币国际化面临的挑战和选择

2008年9月美国次贷危机演变成全球金融危机之后,人民币国际化问题开始受到重视。从2008年12月到2009年3月这四个月时间内,中国先后与韩国、香港、马来西亚、白俄罗斯、印度尼西亚和阿根廷签署了总额达6500亿元的双边本币互换协议。此外,通过多个渠道的政策推动,例如人民币跨境贸易结算试点和推广、发展境外个人人民币业务以及香港人民币离岸金融市场的建设,     

西方发达国家高等教育国际化研究

当前,国际化已成为西方发达国家高等教育发展的重要趋势。这种国际化体现为学生与教师的国际流动、跨国高校问学术项目的合作、国际化课程开发与人才培养等形式,是培养具有国际视野、国际交流能力和国际竞争能力的优秀人才的必要手段。教育国际化加速了高等教育现代化的进程,有助于增进人与人之间、民族与民族之间的了解,从而对世界文化的多样性发展作出贡献。     

The Challenge of Administrative Internationalization: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

The study of the processes and effects of internationalization has become a major field of inquiry in the social sciences. This article takes stock of corresponding research efforts in the field of public administration (PA) to understand the internationalization phenomenon by analyzing studies that were systematically sampled from major PA journals over recent decades. After delineating, sampling, categorizing, and subsequently examining the scholarly production of PA regarding what can be understood as the internationalization of domestic PA, three major themes of PA-related debates are identified: diffusion, resistance, and the transformation of bureaucratic power. The article concludes that PA has developed neither genuine research questions nor a coherent theoretical framework able to come to grips with the internationalization challenge. It ends with an appeal for PA to become aware of this deficit and recommends PA scholars liaise more intensively with other social sciences to overcome the current state of affairs.     

跨境贸易人民币结算——正式启动人民币国际化政策

2009年,中国政府正式推出跨境贸易人民币结算试点。经过半年多的准备,7月6日,该试点正式启动。尽管这次试点仅仅涉及到贸易结算,但是其意义远远超越了贸易的范围,它预示着一个重要的时代变化,即中国政府正式打开了人民币走向世界的大门。从这一视点来看,在中国对外金融开放的进程中,2009年是一个重要的里程碑。     

人民币国际化视角下两岸金融合作探讨

近年来,人民币国际化进程已由市场自主需求迈向官方推动阶段。在此背景下,两岸金融合作步伐不断加快,逐渐从自发的民间交流升至制度化层面。当前,香港在人民币国际化进程中的地位与作用凸显,在海峡两岸投资和贸易实现双向互动并促进经济联系日益密切之际,台湾亦能扮演重要角色。因此,两岸需大力提升金融业合作水平,在互利双赢基础上,实现人民币国际化背景下的两岸金融合作良性互动。     

地方综治立法之“三要”

2011年3月2日,是第七届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第十八次会议《关于加强社会治安综合治理的决定》颁布20周年。笔者早在1984年就曾撰文,呼吁社会治安综合治理要实现具体化、科学化、系统化、法律化等“四化”。     

The Governance Narrative: Key Findings and Lessons from the Erc's Whitehall Programme

This article provides a personal interpretation of the key findings of the Economic and Social Research Council's Whitehall Programme. I tell the distinctive story of 'governance'— of fragmentation, networks, unintended consequences and diplomacy — challenging the dominant, managerial account of change in British govern-ment since 1979. I present a view of the world in which networks rival markets and bureaucracy as ways of allocating resources and co-ordinating policy and its implementation.     

Records Management: A Key Element for Effectiveness,Accountability and Development in the Greek Public Administration

Records management is a fundamental activity of public administration. Public records are a crucial component of the most human actions. They form the basis of any political and legal system and secure human rights. Records Management Systems provide information for planning and decision making, promote the government accountability, improve servicing citizens and ensure the organizations' enactments legitimacy. This article presents and evaluates the records management practices of the core Greek Public Administration by conducting a survey concerning the Greek Ministries and trying to find out in what level the records management initiatives are embedded in the business culture and applied by the Greek Public Agencies.     

应对“富二代”犯罪关键还要靠教育

在我看来,所谓“富二代”,即富家子弟。这很容易让我们联想到“穷二代”。因此,我以为“富二代”犯罪可以和“穷二代”犯罪一起研究并加以解决。在此我从教育学的角度和大家交流三点想法。     

The G20 Is the Key Forum for Adjusting Global Power Shift

For 500 years the West was on the rise, culminating in Globalizaiton 1.0—the open system of trade, information flows and the spread of technology on the terms and in the image of the West. The benefits of that system over the last 30 years have led to the rise of the emerging economies. As a result we are entering the new era of Globalization 2.0 characterized by new forms of non‐Western modernity and the interdependence of plural identities. The advent of this new era has been hastened by the fiscal and financial crisis in Europe and the United States. Turkey, with its Islamic‐oriented democracy that has become a template for the liberated peoples of the Arab Spring, and China, with its effective neo‐Confucian form of governance, are the most sharply defined new players in this multi‐polar and multi‐dimensional world. In this section, one of Turkey's most insightful sociologists examines the post‐secular transformation of that nation. One of China's more provocative philosophers proposes a hybrid model that combines what has been learned from the experience of Western and Chinese governance in a way that “enhances democracy” in both systems.     

Intra-EU Labor Mobility: A Key Pillar of the EU Architecture Subject to Challenge

Intra-EU labor mobility is often characterized as a major contributor to better functioning European labor markets. Does the evidence of recent cross-border labor mobility support this positive expectation? Does the EU live up to its potential of being a role model by showing that managing free movement of labor in turbulent times is possible? We will show that, in spite of its potential, the challenges facing free movement of labour are tremendous. We address four important aspects: enlargement; transitional measures and their consequences; the crisis and its effects; and the potential offered by free movement for better labor allocation.