The ‘responsibility to protect’ in natural disasters: another excuse for interventionism? Nargis Cyclone,Myanmar

The ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) places the ‘international community’ under an obligation to take coercive action for the protection of lives in the circumstances of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Following the dismal response to the May 2008 cyclone disaster in Myanmar where many affected people were provided with almost no relief assistance by the country's military regime that also hampered external assistance, the idea of military humanitarian intervention under the rubric of R2P was proposed by Bernard Kouchner. However, considering the urgency of the provision of relief assistance in an emergency, which is often a matter of life or death, this paper questions the effectiveness of invoking R2P as a possible response strategy in the aftermath of natural disasters. Therefore, in relation to state sovereignty the paper focuses on the concept of ‘humanitarian diplomacy’ at macro and micro levels as an alternative strategy and having analysed the issue in the wider framework of humanitarianism, the paper concludes with the importance of exploring the opportunities provided by humanitarian diplomacy before invoking R2P in the context of natural disasters.     

牢牢把握抗战的主动权——七七事变后周恩来与国统区党的建设

“七七”卢沟桥事变爆发，中国全面抗战开始，为团结一切力量共同对敌，在我党多次努力下，９月２２日遂与国民党政府达成共同抗战协议，抗日民族统一战线形成。为继续同国民党协商，推进统一战线工作，１９３７年１１月，党中央决定成立以周恩来为首的中共代表团。代表团对内是中共长江局，领导国民党统治的南方中国党的组织及新四军工作。由于十年内战期间，国民党反动派的残酷镇压，及多次左倾冒险主义造成的后果，长江流域及南方各省的共产党组织普遍被破坏。据有关资料记载，“除１４个游击根据地保存一些党的力量以外，在整个国民党统…     

Civil and civic death in the new authoritarianisms: punishment of dissidents through juridical destruction,ethical ruin,and necropolitics in Turkey

ABSTRACT

Since the Turkish government’s recent turn to authoritarianism, tens of thousands of public dissidents and government critics have been subjected to dismissals and revocation of civic rights via emergency decrees. The victims call this process ‘civil death’. We aim to understand the logic behind this form of punishment in Turkey by examining the differential genealogy of civil death in the work of Hannah Arendt, Bertrand Ogilvie, Giorgio Agamben, and Achille Mbembe. We demonstrate that a later form of civil death was used by totalitarian regimes in a process leading to the reduction of targeted individuals as ‘superfluous’ and as ‘living corpses’ in concentration camps. In these contexts, death became an instrument of biopolitical and necropolitical powers. We propose that although contemporary punishment of public dissidents in Turkey shares some similarities with these forms of civil death, it may more fittingly be identified as civic death. We argue that while civil death is based on the classical political right of the sovereign to ‘make die’ after first reducing targeted individuals to little more than living corpses, civic death is linked to the power of the sovereign to ‘let die’ through the exclusion of public dissidents from economic, social, and political life.     

开展农民工艾滋病防治工作的策略思考

农民工是伴随着农村改革开放,农民在比较利益的驱动下,采取自发外出的方式到城市寻找生存和劳作机会而形成的。农民工自发的频繁流动性和自身所处社会弱势地位的特点等决定了他们有可能成为艾滋病传播中的脆弱人群。需要在政策层面上,提高对农民工艾滋病易感性和现实威胁性的认识,动员全社会的力量,并根据农民工的特点,将社会性别意识纳入决策主流,探索以农民工城市社区为单位的艾滋病防治工作,以有效预防和控制艾滋病在我国的传播和蔓延。     

以法制权：从权力反腐走向制度反腐

反对腐败必须以法制权,从权力反腐走向制度反腐。首先,制度反腐是提高党的执政能力的内在要求,是贯彻落实“三个代表”重要思想的本质要求,是建设现代政治文化的客观要求,从权力反腐走向制度反腐具有必然性。其次,制度反腐具有普适性、稳定性、科学性,从权力反腐走向制度反腐具有必要性。再次,公民社会的兴起是制度反腐的社会基础,多层监督网络的形成是制度反腐的技术基础,日趋完备的法律制度是制度反腐的法律基础。从权力反腐走向制度反腐具有可行性。     

国民幸福总值应成为衡量社会发展的新指标

本文分析了建国以来衡量我国发展水平指标体系的变化历程,阐明了G D P指标体系在新的历史时期的缺陷,认为提高国民的幸福感应该成为国家发展的终极目的,这也同“以人为本”的科学发展观相一致。     

结合论的理论意义及实践价值

中国化的马克思主义必然在和照搬马克思主义、照搬西方文明的斗争中产生毛泽东思想、邓小平理论、“三个代表”重要思想以及科学发展观的指导思想。探讨结合论将对马克思主义的中国化有着重要的理论意义和现实意义。     

论科学发展观在经济法秩序中的实现

经济法所固有的社会经济利益本位的属性与科学发展观的理念具有共同的基点.科学发展观在经济法秩序中的实现途径应借助于经济法制的实现,而经济法实施是经济法制实现的关键和保障.在经济法实施中,有必要将检察机关作为一个重要主体加以研究.经济诉讼是经济法效力的保障,是经济法实施的重要前提.