China's road to modernization

One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong under Reform, by Ezra E. Vogel. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, and London, 1989. x+510 pp. £23.95. ISBN 0–674–63910–3.

The Long March to the Fourth of June, by Li Xiao Jun, translated by E. J. Griffiths. Duckworth, London, 1989. xx+185 pp. £14.95. ISBN 0–7156–2332‐X.

China's Foreign Trade Reforms: Impact on Growth and Stability, by John C. Hsu. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. xii+221 pp. £30.00 ($49.50). ISBN 0–521–37197‐X.

The Political Economy of China's Special Economic Zones, by George T. Crane. An East Gate Book. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, and London, 1990. x+205 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–87332–514–1.

Chinese Intellectual Life Post‐Mao: Education, Ideology, Literature and the Arts, edited by Birthe Arendrup. Copenhagen papers in East and Southeast Asian Studies, 1:88. Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1988. 106 pp. ISBN 87–7289–063–0.

China: The Land and the People (revised edition), by D. C. Money. Evans Brothers Ltd, London, 1990. xii+179 pp., colour illus., maps. £14.50 hardback, £7.95 paperback. ISBN 0–237–51164–9 and 0–237–51118–5.     

The barely revealed preference behind road investment priorities

An attempt is made to reveal the preference of decision makers within the regional Norwegian public roads administration. The order of priority assigned to the respective, competing public road investment opportunities within the various counties (provinces) is studied by means of a rank order multinomial logit model. Explanatory variables used include cost, benefit, and a variety of attributes characterizing the individual investment projects. Although statistically significant, cost and benefit appear to be of only marginal importance for the priorities set. More weight is attached to cost than to benefit. Smaller projects are preferred to larger, given the benefit-cost ratio. In general, the models estimated are able to explain only a relatively small share of the priority setting made.     

实质解释法律:通往理想法治之路

在建设法治国家的进程中,既要反对法律教条主义,也要反对法律虚无主义。而在目前,反对教条主义地解释法律也许具有更重要的意义。要反对法律教条主义．就必须坚持实质的法律解释观．这是通往理想法治的必由之路。     

中国共产党关于道路的选择及启示

道路问题是关系党、国家和民族前途命运的关键问题。中国共产党能够从近代300多个政党中脱颖而出,在于中国共产党选择的道路契合了民族争取独立、人民谋求解放的需要。考察中国共产党成立以来近90年的五次选择及由此带来的启示。     

Lima climate accord: positive steps on the road to Paris

Pledges made at the United Nations climate-change negotiations in Lima suggested a higher degree of commitment to agreeing crucial emissions reductions than has been previously on display. There is a chance that a substantive deal may yet be reached in Paris.     

Halfway down the road to supervision of the Spanish intelligence services

For most of its history the United Nations was reluctant to deal with intelligence and major powers were reluctant to share intelligence with it. But as the UN's peacekeeping operations intensified in some of the world's hot spots in the early 1990s, the UN found it both necessary and wise to create an information analysis capability at UN headquarters in New York. To funnel selected intelligence to the headquarters, several countries (including the US, UK, France and Russia) loaned intelligence officers to the UN's Situation Centre on a secondment basis. This paper describes the activities of the SitCen's Information and Research (I&R) Unit that existed from 1993 to 1999 under the informal motto ‘Keeping an Eye on the World’. Using a case study of I&R reporting on the situation in Eastern Zaire (1996), where UN-run refugee camps were under attack, it is possible to examine the nature and utility of the intelligence provided by the intelligence officers to UN decision-makers and the planners of the Canadian-led multinational force in the region. It reveals that the Unit provided significant and useful intelligence about arms shipments, belligerent activities, and the status of refugees and made several prescient predictions and warnings. The Unit sought to minimize national bias and incomplete information, though both problems were still in evidence. Still, in many ways, the I&R Unit remains a useful model for the development of a future intelligence capability.     

The road to economic self‐sufficiency: Job quality and job transition patterns after welfare reform

This paper analyzes the relationships of schooling, the skill content of work experience, and different types of employment patterns with less‐skilled women's job quality outcomes. Survey data from employers and longitudinal data from former and current welfare recipients are used for the period 1997 to early 2002. The analysis of job quality is broadened beyond employment rates and wages measured at a point in time by including non‐wage attributes of compensation and aspects of jobs that affect future earnings potential. This study shows the extent to which lack of employment stability, job skills, and occupation‐specific experience impedes welfare recipients' abilities to obtain a “good job” or to transition into one from a “bad job.” The business cycle downturn has significantly negatively affected the job quality and job transition patterns of former and current recipients. © 2003 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.     

Israel and Palestine: the slow road to peace or the fast track to mutual annihilation?

This paper outlines the nature of the post World War II conflict between Israel and Palestine over land and borders. It demonstrates the weaknesses in the political systems of both countries that make it difficult to resolve outstanding differences. It examines the nature of bargaining costs, distinguishing clearly between the Coase and the Machiavelli theorem. It uses the hawk–dove game model to explain war and peace relationships between Israel and Palestine evident over the period 1948–2007. It evaluates the implications for the peace process of some future proliferation of nuclear arms that breaks Israeli nuclear hegemony in the Middle East.     

中国特色社会主义道路问题研究

邓小平开辟了中国特色社会主义的伟大道路,它既坚持科学社会主义的基本原则又立足我国实际和时代特征赋予鲜明的中国特色。从科学社会主义和当代中国发展史来看,中国特色社会主义道路的中国特色表现在为当代中国一切发展进步奠定了根本政治前提和根本制度基础的中国新民主主义革命道路和社会主义革命方法的中国特色,表现在改革开放中成功地开辟了一条不同于其他发展模式的社会主义道路的中国特色,表现在中国特色社会主义的发展大道具有六条有中国特色的具体发展道路的中国特色。     

坚定中国道路自信的自觉性和实践目标

坚定中国道路自信是历史规律和实践逻辑的内在要求,历史的发展和实践的经验证明了中国特色社会主义道路的科学性和正确性。坚定中国道路自信是实现中国梦的必然要求,中国特色社会主义道路是实现民族伟大复兴的必由之路,是实现中国梦的根本保证。坚定中国道路自信要牢牢把握社会主义初级阶段这个最大国情,要胸怀理想、坚定信念,不动摇、不懈怠、不折腾,顽强奋斗、艰苦奋斗、不懈奋斗。     

亚审美挑战下中国古代文学审美教育的进路

亚审美对传统审美观念的冲击,导致部分学生审美感知的浅表性,审美体验的感官性和审美接受的盲目性。随着大批古典名著被改编、大量历史名人被戏说,中国古代文学审美教育正成为亚审美冲击波的重灾区。中国古代文学审美教育要迎接挑战、寻求进路,可以在吟咏诵读:从审美感知到审美感悟、以意逆志:从审美体验到审美鉴赏、灌注人文精神:从审美接受到审美批评等多个维度进行努力。