Why Have Chinese Reforms Come to a Halt? The Political Economic Logic of Unfinished Transformation

This study approaches the Chinese reform process from a political-economic point of view, focusing primarily on institutional changes. Besides revealing the main factors behind the different phases of the reforms, it argues that in the framework of the current authoritarian regime, vested interests work against the continuation of the reforms, making it impossible to fully establish the institutional framework of a market economy. Current rents and privileges also deter the elite from implementing serious political reforms, leading to a trap that prevents the completion of the transition process.     

刑事简易程序的改革与完善——以我国台湾地区相关立法为参考

简易程序是提高诉讼效率、合理配置司法资源的重要方式。我国的刑事简易程序确立于1996年刑事诉讼法,新刑事诉讼法又对其进行了重要改革。但任何制度设置均不可能毕其功于一役,需要通过实践发现问题、总结经验,并在借鉴域外立法的基础上,不断完善。本文将通过参考我国台湾地区相关立法,对我国刑事简易程序的未来发展方向提出建议,主要内容包括简易程序多元化、加强被告人权利保障与改革救济途径三方面。     

Connolly and the never-ending critiques of liberal peace: from the privilege of difference to vorarephilia

Over the last decade, a dominant critique of international interventions underlines the problem that interventionary strategies have denied the political, societal and cultural heterogeneity of conflict-affected societies, excluding the interests of the majority of their population. A deeper engagement with the everyday life of these societies is understood to expose the errors of international missions and animate an alternative way of thinking about peace: ‘hybrid peace’, which is formed contextually and from below. Engaging with William Connolly’s work on pluralism, this article clarifies the nature of this critique, which rests securely on the assumption that local alterity cannot be fully understood, respected or treated sensitively by international governance approaches. However, as much as this assumption enables the thinking of an emancipatory hybrid peace, it is in turn the source of its critique, as hybrid peace is also seen as reproducing binary schemas and thus considered incapable of caring for the societies intervened in. At the conclusion, the metaphor of vorarephilia—paraphilia where sexual arousal occurs in the idea of being eaten or eating another person—will be used to warn against the tragic direction that critiques seem to be travelling to: critical scholars would be increasingly tempted to welcome the inevitable failures of international interventions.     

They are from within us: CVE brokerage in South-central Somalia

ABSTRACT

This article explores how societal actors in Somalia take part in a transnational politics of countering/preventing violent extremism (CVE/PVE) through a political sociological approach to militarisation. We argue that the transnational politics of CVE represents an extension of global militarism by some states, institutions, donors and brokers. CVE works to adapt global militarism and to reconfigure the global-local relationships that sustain it. We explore the roles and influence of local ‘CVE brokers’ in deradicalisation efforts in South-central Somalia. They inadvertently merge the counter-terrorism approach to Somali people, values and territory with non-military means. We show that their key practices – co-ordination, translation and alignment – advance, but also disrupt, alter and transform CVE policy objectives.     

致敬不平凡的你

《平凡英雄》MV发布仪式上,“你不是英雄’却心中存天平。你不是英雄,仍旧日夜兼程……”歌词缓缓流淌、娓娓道来,熟悉的身影从一帧帧画面、一段段旋律中走出,4分16秒,却仿佛是一段漫长而珍贵的故事被唤醒、重温和开启。你是我心中的一首歌北京丰台法院的王静还记得那个夜晚,电台主播用温和的声音讲述着人间烟火,手扶方向盘的她置身夜幕。     

实施农村基层党组织精细化管理 优化农村政治生态

党的十九大报告将“全面净化党内政治生态”作为全面从严治党道路上不可或缺的重要举措。改善农村党支部“小生态”是净化全党“大生态”的重要组成部分。只有充分发挥村党支部政治功能,加强基层党组织建设,才能构建日渐清朗的基层政治生态,全面提高基层党组织的凝聚力和战斗力,保证党的肌体健康强壮,否则,基层政治生态弊病丛生,党的肌体就会逐渐被侵蚀。研究农村基层党组织政治生态问题,必须放在深入落实全面从严治党的大背景下,以问题为导向,在新视角、新框架下审视农村基层党组织,实施农村基层党组织精细化管理,优化农村政治生态。