Conceptualising components,conditions and trajectories of food sovereignty’s ‘sovereignty’

This paper addresses the ambiguity of the term ‘sovereignty’ in food sovereignty (FS), intending to clarify the ‘aspirational sovereignty’ that food sovereignty movements indicate as the ideal configuration of power that would allow FS to flourish, or which might help measure movement towards FS. Since aspirational sovereignty is conditioned by existing power relations, the paper elaborates components of ‘actually existing sovereignty’, based on readings of a variety of political and social science literatures. By critically assessing the difference between actually existing and aspirational sovereignty across three geographic–political levels, the paper offers strategic options for constructing FS, and suggests what such an elaborated definition of FS’s sovereignty might offer future research on FS.     

Biased contests

We examine the effects of providing more accurate information to a political decision-maker lobbied by competing interests. We investigate how this bias in the direction of the correct decision affects efficiency, measured (inversely) by both the probability of taking an incorrect decision, and the amount of social waste associated to lobbying activities. We present a benchmark model in which increasing the bias always improves efficiency. However, this result is fragile as slight changes in the contest success function lead to slightly different models in which under either criterion there is no guarantee that more accurate information improves the decision.     

广东省道路运政管理体制改革的对策建议

道路运政管理体制作为交通行政管理体制的一个重要组成部分 ,是政府对道路运输行业行使行政管理权力的基本组织形式 ,是职能、机构、人员以及运行机制的有机整体。广东省现行道路运政管理体制的矛盾和问题 ,越来越成为全省道路运输事业健康发展的掣肘因素。因此 ,通过改革 ,有效解决这些矛盾和问题 ,实现体制创新 ,建立廉洁高效、运转协调、行为规范的道路运政管理体制 ,以适应全省交通管理现代化建设和道路运输事业发展的需要 ,是十分必要的     

委内瑞拉玻利瓦尔的政治进程

委内瑞拉玻利瓦尔共和国位于南美洲大陆的北部,濒临加勒比海,西与哥伦比亚为邻,南接巴西,东连圭亚那,国土面积916045平方千米,拥有3000千米长的海岸线,人口2500万,自然资源丰富多样。直到19世纪初期,委内瑞拉一直是西班牙的殖民地。1811年,委内瑞拉宣布独立并开始了一段殊死的战争时期,直至大约1825年才最终获得独立。这期间,哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔和秘鲁也先后独立,还建立了一个新的国家——玻利维亚。这场解放运动的领袖就是委内瑞拉人——西蒙·玻利瓦尔(1783年出生于加拉加斯)。这些国家独立运动的基本政治主张均来自玻利瓦尔的思想,其中有…     

Post-communist predation: modeling reiderstvo practices in contemporary predatory states

Public Choice - While the economics of predatory states has been at the center of an emerging discussion, a rich body of literature on predation already exists in the scholarship on post-communist...     

Law’s Determinability: Indeterminacy,Interpretative Authority,and the International Legal System

Netherlands International Law Review - Authority claims remain rooted in the antecedent existence of a degree of indeterminacy, in particular in the international legal system, in which a lack of...     

“一带一路”倡议下中国与大加勒比地区的合作

中国与拉丁美洲关系源远流长,尤其是与加勒比国家。自1949年中华人民共和国成立以来,与大加勒比地区的政治、经济、文化关系日益密切。第一个与新中国建立外交关系的拉美国家是古巴,而巴拿马、萨尔瓦多与多米尼加则成为中国最新建交国成员。经过了70年发展历程,双边关系新纪元正在开启,特别是在“一带一路”倡议下。基于正在逐步兴起的“优势共享”理念,这个新时代亦开创了一个前所未有的新合作模式。中国与大加勒比地区关系发展所取得的经验能够展现一个新的协同合作方式。本文立足于大加勒比各经济体在同中国构建相互融合模式中发掘的机遇,并着眼于两个具体案例:“一带一路”倡议下的古巴和多米尼加,并以“双赢”原则为基础,对在特定领域深化同中国的关系提出建议,主要包括交通、电信、工业、贸易、能源、旅游、建筑业、金融、卫生和教育等领域。