Dance of Orientalisms and waves of catastrophes: culturalism and pragmatism in imperial approaches to Islam and the Middle East

This article focuses on a seeming contradiction between ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘Islamophilic’ approaches in contemporary Western policies and discourses on the Middle East. While Islamophobia continues to shape some domestic policies of Western states and provide ideological justification for the wars they wage abroad, ‘Islamophilic’ tendencies in foreign policy have also emerged, especially in responses to the ‘Arab Spring’. Not clearly noted in Western public discourse, this represents a historical continuation of Western support for Islamism common during the Cold War, but is also a shift from the Islamophobic discourse of the post-cold war period, especially since 9/11. While Islamophobic and Islamophilic discourses may appear to be opposites, the paper argues that they represent two sides of the Orientalist logic, continuing to reduce understanding of Middle Eastern societies and politics to a culturalist dimension. Unlike traditional Orientalism, they treat Middle Eastern people as political subjects, but approach them as defined by their culture and religion. They define ‘moderate’ Islamism as the typical (and preferred) politics of the people of the region. Focusing on specific recent developments, the paper suggests that, rather than paving the way to more peaceful relations with the region or to internal peace and stability there, the Islamophilic shift in Western policy may rather lead to new waves of catastrophes by further destabilising and fragmenting the region, threatening to evoke new waves of Islamophobia in the West.     

后税费时代乡镇政权合法性分析及其职能重塑

2006年起全国免征农业税,中国的三农问题从此进入后税费时代。乡镇政权作为我国政权的最底层的一级,随着农业税的取消该如何发展。本文主要从政治学的角度分析乡镇政权在后税费时代的合法性问题及乡镇职能的重新定位。     

Worldmaking,Legal Education,and the Saga Comic Book Series

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique - This article argues that to disrupt legal education in a radical sense, students need to become...     

2007年全国德语专业青年教师培训纪要

在2006年初首届培训班成功举办的基础上,第二届全国德语专业青年教师培训班于2007年7月16日至20日在同济大学举办.本次培训由教育部专业外语教学指导委员会德语组联手歌德学院北京分院主办,同济大学德语系承办.来自全国各地共29所高校的42名青年教师学员以及分别来自全国5所高校和歌德学院北京分院的6名培训教师汇聚盛夏中的上海,就教案设计,听力、会话和阅读三项技能训练以及德语专业四级考试专题等内容进行了探讨与交流.     

Electoral infidelity: Why party members cast defecting votes

Party politics and electoral research generally assume that party members are loyal voters. This article first assesses the empirical basis for this assumption before providing individual‐level explanations for defection. It combines prominent theories from party politics and electoral behaviour research and argues that internal disagreement and external pressure can each bring about disloyal voting. The hypotheses are motivated with multi‐country European survey data and tested on two sets of party‐level national surveys. The results show, first, that, on average, 8 per cent of European party members cast a defecting vote in the last election, and second, that dissatisfaction with the leadership is the strongest predictor of defection. Additionally, internal ideological disagreement is associated with higher probabilities of defection, whereas the effects of pull factors in the form of contentious policies are rather limited. These findings emphasise the importance of testing scientific assumptions and the potential significance of party leadership contests.     

签字笔水、圆珠笔油红外发光特性的研究

目的记录不同激发光、接收滤光镜下,各种油墨红外发光强弱的程度,为文字检验提供基础性的研究。方法用多波段光源中510~650nm单色光激发各种油墨样本,全波段物证检验CCD系统记录样本在530~950nm接收滤光镜下出现的红外发光图像。结果多数油墨在接收滤光镜到达800~850nm时,呈现出强烈的红外发光状态,并随接收波段的上升而开始衰减。结论可利用某些油墨的发光与否,发光强与弱的特性,检验案件中涂改和涂抹字迹。     

L’Oeuvre de Jerzy Wróblewski: Aux confins du paradigme analytique

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