Brookings-Sadat Forum: Algeria

The following is the edited text of a discussion at the Sadat Forum held at the Brookings Institution on September 10, 1998. The cosponsors are the Brookings Foreign Policy Program and the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland.     

欧洲对美国的看法

目前,欧洲民众对美国的评价跌到了历史最低点。从短期看,这次美国在欧洲的民意危机主要是来自两方面:布什总统和美国出兵伊拉克。2004年夏,仅有不到五分之一的欧洲人对美国总统有好感,而四分之三多的欧洲人认为伊拉克战争是个错误。美国士兵虐俘的骇人图片进一步恶化了美在欧洲人心目中的形象。但是此外还存在着更深刻和长期的政治、经济、社会发展等方面的因素。这些因素影响着跨大西洋的关系和欧美相互的看法。2004年6月,布什三访欧洲:参加诺曼底登陆日的六十周年纪念活动、出席爱尔兰欧美峰会和伊斯坦布尔北约峰会。当他被问及欧洲及其他地区对其支持率不高     

Relation of Antisocial and Psychopathic Traits to Suicide-related Behavior Among Offenders

Offenders with antisocial traits are relatively likely to attempt suicide, largely because they are more likely to have high negative emotionality and low constraint. Among 682 male offenders, we tested whether negative emotionality, low constraint, and also substance use problems mediated any relationship between antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and psychopathy on the one hand, and suicide-related behavior (SRB) and ideation on the other. ASPD and the impulsivity/lifestyle features of psychopathy weakly predicted SRB. High negative emotionality and low constraint (but not substance use) mediated the relation between ASPD and SRB. Impulsivity/lifestyle features of psychopathy retained an independent predictive effect. Self-report psychopathy measures added unique predictive variance to the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised. We discuss implications for suicide risk assessment and prevention.