Making good on donors’ desire to Do Development Differently

Foreign aid donors are increasingly focused on changing the way their development agencies function. This discourse has focused on desired qualities, including greater knowledge of local contextual realities, appropriate adaptation to context and greater flexibility to respond to changing circumstances. We argue that more attention needs to be devoted to the achievement of these qualities and turn to contingency theory to identify some under-exploited ways to ‘do development differently’. The qualities sought by donors are emergent properties of complex organisational systems and will only be achieved through a micro-level and interlinked focus on the fundamentals of organisation.     

刑事诉讼制度的科学构建——中国法学会刑事诉讼法学研究会2008年年会综述

2008年9月20-21日,中国法学会刑事诉讼法学研究会2008年年会在江西井冈山召开.会议主题为"刑事诉讼制度的科学构建".本次会议共收到论文120多篇,参会代表180余人.最高人民法院副院长熊选国、最高人民检察院副检察长孙谦、公安部法制局副局长孙茂利、中国政法大学终身教授陈光中分别做了专题报告.会议围绕刑事司法职权的优化配置、宽严相济刑事政策的立法化与司法化研究、刑事诉讼法学研究30年回顾与展望等问题,展开了广泛而深入的研讨.现将年会的主要观点综述如下.     

农村地区盗窃犯罪的高发原因、特点及侦查对策

当前,盗窃犯罪已成为阻碍新农村建设的一大不利因素。这类犯罪具有发案率高、侵害对象范围广等特征,左右着农村刑事案件的总量。因此,基层侦查部门应认真研究此类案件的高发原因和特点,采取有针对性的措施,提高打击这类犯罪的能力,为建设新农村、构建和谐农村社区创造良好的治安环境。     

东亚区域内贸易的发展变化

本文通过对东亚区域1985-2004年贸易数据的研究发现:过去20年来,东亚区域内贸易快速增长,而区域外贸易及对美国的贸易比重已低于区域内贸易;同时,东亚区域内贸易的结构、流向、模式和相互关系都发生了相应的变化.     

“中国特色社会主义理论”的思想文化意蕴

“中国特色社会主义理论”承载着无产阶级历史使命和中华民族文化传统的科学理论体系．近代以后启蒙思想者对“社会主义”与中国实际相结合的探索为中国特色社会主义理论的形成提供了丰富的思想资源．理性对待中国特色社会主义理论形成过程中的经验教训是推进中国特色社会主义建设的实践基础。推动中国特色社会主义理论体系的不断完善是马克思主义中国化事业蒸蒸日上的不竭动力．     

粤港澳大湾区跨境车辆往来现状与问题分析

要素自由流通是粤港澳大湾区打造世界一流湾区的重要基础和条件,而口岸通关车流的特点、现状和问题可以一定程度上反映出粤港澳大湾区要素流通的状态和水平。综合分析当前粤港、粤澳车辆往来现状及特点,大湾区车辆跨境往来面临的主要问题有:通行配额审批条件严格,程序繁琐;通行关口负载严重,港澳交通承载力薄弱;配额资源配置不合理,供求关系不平衡。为便捷大湾区车辆往来,应探索适应发展需要的大湾区车辆往来管理新模式,创新粤港澳三地车辆往来便利化政策,最终建立单边放开、布局合理、运行高效的交通系统。     

“No Colonial Baggage”: Imagining a Decolonised Australia-Africa Relations

As part of its strategy to win African votes for election to the UN Security Council (2008–12), Canberra sought to leverage its soft power potential by presenting Australia as having “no colonial baggage” in Africa while framing Australia as “a country from the Global North, located in the Global South,” and one that would “work with other small and middle powers.” Ultimately, the campaign was successful, including up to 50 of Africa's 54 countries voting for Australia. This paper considers this framing in the context of a shared but differentiated colonial history, including its contradictions, given that Australians fought several wars on African soil on behalf of the British Empire, supported white minority regimes and anti-communist movements on the continent, and maintained the white Australia policy until the 1970s. The paper deploys decoloniality theory to engage Australia's lack of a neat fit within a historicised articulation of a “coloniser-colonised” relationship between Europe and Africa. We show that, despite this lack of fit, Australia's relations with the countries of Africa reinforce long-standing of patterns of knowledge, power, and being associated with colonialism. Accordingly, the paper makes three recommendations for cooperation and innovative thinking in foreign policy and diaspora diplomacy between Africa and a more independent and multicultural Australia based on the “equality of being.”