开发区管理委员会的法律地位

在开发区发展壮大的过程中,开发区管理委员会发挥了重要作用,但也存在一些问题,法律地位不明确便是其中之一。把开发区管理委员会归类为“法律、法规授权组织”或“派出机构”都明显不妥,而将其界定为一级政府的派出机关更符合实践现状。应积极推进相关立法,明确开发区管理委员会的法律地位,并加强其在职责权限、机构设置、领导体制和管理模式等方面的制度建设,以适应开发区的可持续发展。     

伊拉克战后重建中的政党政治发展

伊拉克战后重建中的政党政治发展,主要体现为伊拉克不同种族和宗派政治势力的扩大与冲突。为适应战后所谓“民主化政治重建”的需要,各种族和宗派势力都积极建立政党,通过参与选举来扩大自己的政治权力。但面对战后现实的政治环境,各政党须靠建立民兵武装维护和扩大势力范围。同时,政党还通过提供就业机会和其他物质利益吸引支持者。这种集政治、军事和经济为一体的政党政治发展,会进一步加深伊拉克种族和宗派势力之间的分化,削弱国家的中央权力,对伊拉克未来的国家建立和政治发展造成深远影响。     

俄罗斯武器装备出口战略浅析

武器装备出口在处于全面转型期的俄罗斯具有十分重要的地位。武器装备出口体现着俄罗斯的国家战略,承载着俄罗斯的国家心血,在某种意义上维系着俄罗斯的国防工业,而且是维护俄罗斯大国地位的重要手段。在可以预见的将来,俄罗斯将继续加强其武器装备出口战略。     

Human Rights and Modern Liberalism: a Critique

The idea of human rights has become one of the central moral notions of both the theory and practice of international politics. While its foundation and future in the practice of politics looks bright, it is an idea that still causes great trouble at the theoretical level. What are human rights? Why do we have them? To what should we attribute the authority of their moral claims? The theorist Michael Freeman has suggested one theory that by addressing such questions may serve as a foundation for human rights. His theory, however, ends by begging the questions it set out to answer.     

Spatial variation of refractive index in a pane of float glass.

In the statistical interpretation of forensic glass evidence it is standard practice to make the assumption of homogeneity of the refractive index (RI) of the source glass, or of localized homogeneity. However, the work of Locke and Hayes showed that, for toughened windscreen glass, this assumption might not be true. This work is well cited, but there appears to have been little follow-on published research. Furthermore, the toughening process is something known to affect the refractive index, and is a process that float glass does not undergo. Float glass is a major component of casework in New Zealand and for that reason it would be interesting to know whether the findings of Locke and Hayes apply when dealing with float glass. In this paper we describe an experiment similar to that of Locke and Hayes, systematically examining the variation of RI in a pane of float window glass. It was found that, although there were no systematic differences in refractive index, there were observable differences across the pane.