以江总书记"七一"讲话总揽全局努力开创党校工作新局面

江泽民同志在庆祝中国共产党成立80周年大会上的重要讲话,是一篇马克思主义的纲领性文献.这篇讲话,高屋建瓴,总揽全局,气势磅礴,闪耀着辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义的光芒,通篇贯穿着解放思想、实事求是的思想路线,凝结着时代精神和全党智慧,体现了马克思主义深邃的历史眼光和宽阔的世界胸怀,展示了我们党与时俱进的思想品格和尊重实践、尊重群众的科学精神.这篇讲话内涵丰富,思想深刻,在一系列重大问题上创造性地提出了许多重要的新思想、新观点、新论断,对于我们更好地适应新形势新任务的要求,进一步加强和改进党的建设,进一步做好全党和全国的各项工作,具有重大而深远的意义,是我们党理论创新的光辉典范.     

GEORGE W. BUSH AND ASIA: IN THE SHADOW OF 11 SEPTEMBER

Traditionally seen as a President consumed by the war on terror, George W. Bush is frequently portrayed as being relatively uninterested in Asia, and unable to outline a vision or a strategy to China, America’s Asian allies and Asian multilateral mechanisms. This article will revisit Bush’s policy on Asia and show a president who guided the United States with a policy that balanced the need to combat global terrorism and locate a focus on Asia. He faced the dilemmas of building cooperative relations with a rising China while trying to foster American alliances and partnerships in Asia, and managing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Utilizing qualitative content analysis as the main research method, the article will demonstrate that the Bush administration had not a lack of focus on Asia and that Bush’s diplomacy to Asia should be recognized as one of the most significant achievements of his presidency.     

Does the Cost‐Cutting Strategy of Closing Public Schools Provide Financial Benefits? Evidence From Ohio

From 1995 through 2014, 15 percent of school districts nationwide closed at least one school without opening any new school. Although budgetary constraints have been claimed as a major reason to close a public school, no empirical study has examined the financial benefits of school closures. This study finds that Ohio school closures reduce an average district's total operating expenditures by $278–$285 per pupil, and that savings come primarily from cuts in classroom instructional services, including teachers. This study provides empirical evidence on the financial implications of school closings needed for stakeholders involved in a school closing process.     

The Vietnam Women's Movement for the Right to Live: a non-communist opposition movement to the American war in Vietnam

This article examines the political and diplomatic struggles in urban South Vietnam from the perspective of women in the Vietnamese Women’s Movement for the Right to Live (WRL) during the Vietnam War. This movement was a timely response to the American war of aggression, which had destroyed the fabric of South Vietnamese society and drastically diminished women’s position within it by 1970. Under the leadership of Mrs. Ngô Bá Thành, the WRL fought for peace and women’s liberation through political action and shrewd diplomacy. Unlike female guerrilla fighters, the WRL maintained political autonomy and neutrality throughout the conflict. As a result, it was violently repressed by the Saigon government and quickly disbanded after the communist victory in 1975. Nevertheless, studying these politically sophisticated women’s anti-war efforts is crucial to understanding the symbiotic yet destructive relationship between Third World women and American imperialism during the twentieth century. It also helps dismantle essentialist assumptions about Asian women as inherently submissive and politically naïve. The WRL is a sterling example of Vietnamese women’s ingenuity in their dual struggle for national liberation and gender equality.     

十字路口的中国人口:危机与挑战——《公开信》前后的人口问题和中国道路

《中共中央关于控制我国人口增长问题致全体共产党员、共青团员公开信》的发布,成为我国人口发展和社会发展的重大转折点。从人口增长、人口控制和人口问题3个角度可勾勒出中华人民共和国成立以来中国人口发展的历程。后《公开信》时代的新人口问题,集中表现在少子高龄化和性别失衡两大挑战上。真正以人为本的人口控制应降低非意愿的不育率、非意愿的生育率。为实现适度低生育水平、实现人口长期均衡发展,主张人口优化理论:一方面,淡化人口数量的硬性控制,实现家庭计划的自主性和社会计划的保障性;另一方面,优化人口生态的演进控制,保障人口生态的多样性和持续性。还权于民,赋权于民,造福于民是人文计生、和谐计生和幸福计生的核心价值取向,在意愿低生育普遍出现的新时期,减少一胎、鼓励两胎是符合中华民族大利益的战略选择。     

Regulating balance sheet audit: A game theoretical analysis

Summary  The decision situation implicit to balance sheet audit is modelled as a game theoretical model and examined for its behavioural implications. Possible types of decisions are identified as Nash equilibria. The basic game model is characterized by an equilibrium in mixed strategies. Its properties are discussed in detail with respect to alternative scenarios of statutory audit. The regulatory propositions of separation between audit and consulting, on the one hand, and the rotation of auditors, on the other, are analyzed in the context of the game. It turns out that these measures may have contradictory effects on the quality of the balance sheet audit and it depends on the specification of regulatory details and the reaction of the agents whether the one or the other effect dominates in the end. Another proposition to enhance the audit performance is the extension of the liability of statutory auditors. Prerequisites for the success of this measure are that either no professional liability insurance exists or that, if otherwise, deductibles are calculated as a fixed percentage of the loss. The examples refer to German legal rules, however, similar legal rules are valid for most of the developed market economies.     

The Conceptual Compatibility Between Green Criminology and Human Security: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Framework for Examinations into Green Victimisation

The overriding aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that can be used to systematically examine the victimisation from environmental or green crime. By analysing the conceptual and pragmatic compatibilities between two distinctive academic fields of green criminology and human security (HS) and by discussing the impacts of timber trafficking on HS, it is argued that it would be logical, achievable and fruitful to employ a broad HS perspective to advance the understanding of the mechanism of green victimisation with a focus on human victims.