土地的集体所有制与农村安全

土地集体所有制具有重要的社会功能,它为农户尤其是弱势农户提供了规避市场风险的手段,从而保持了中国农村的稳定和安全。然而,由于物权化的承包关系、政治权力对土地权利的干预以及基层组织自身的不作为,土地集体所有制的优势正在丧失。在这种条件下,土地制度必须从中国现代化实现的战略高度进行重新统筹和安排,避免制度本身的单一与僵硬,以给不同地区农户的土地承包留下一定的自主选择权和决定权。     

公务员培训课题设置刍议

培训课程设置是公务员培训工作的重要环节,课程设置的任务是构建培训课程的内容和结构。它是基于对两种不同层次的课程设置的决策。培训课程设置受社会生产力发展水平、教育方针、培训政策以及历史文化传统等因素的制约和影响。培训课程设置的开发是一个周而复始的过程,其体现了强化课程设置开发全过程与培训教育外部系统的关系。     

从2012“北约峰会”看芝加哥模式的安保培训

芝加哥警察局为2012＂北约峰会＂组织的安保培训被国际警察界誉为芝加哥模式,其主要有以下特点：将警员分成不同的等级来开展分专题培训;通过演练与模拟训练提高警察对人群管控的能力;有效地利用远程教育形式;警务指挥员学习了解一线队伍的能力;培训其他机构以获得他们的帮助与合作。     

Union Carbide and James Hardie: Lessons in Politics and Power

In terms of industrial disasters, the chemical release at Bhopal and the long-term production and use of asbestos products are two of the largest and most controversial cases. Both events backfired on the companies responsible, namely Union Carbide and James Hardie (which, in Australia, largely controlled the asbestos products market). Yet in the case of Bhopal most victims have not been adequately compensated and, while compensation seems more assured for Australian asbestos victims, it has been a long and bitter battle for justice. How, in a globalised world, can we ensure that corporate negligence backfires and victims receive justice? This paper presents a framework for understanding how global corporations attempt to inhibit outrage and how to counter their tactics.     

刑讯逼供举证责任探讨

刑讯逼供是指司法人员对犯罪嫌疑人或被告人,采用肉刑或者变相肉刑逼取口供的行为,它对一国之司法损害极大。如何遏制刑讯逼供已经成为众多学者讨论的一个热点问题,从刑讯逼供举证责任倒置的角度设置相对符合当前中国司法现状的举证责任倒置程序对于遏制刑讯逼供将起到重要作用。     

China's impact on forests in Southeast Asia

Many developed countries have gained control of their forest-exploiting industries through advanced regulatory regimes. But stricter regulation usually displaces forest exploitation into developing countries with weaker regulatory regimes. The most important current example is the shift of forest exploitation for the Chinese market from China into Southeast Asia following the logging ban in China in 1998. In this article we describe and document the impact in Southeast Asia: rapidly increasing, unsustainable, and often illegal production and export for the Chinese market. We also note the growth in exports of furniture and plywood from China to the EU, UK, and elsewhere using imported and often illegally harvested timber from Southeast Asia. It is argued that it will be very difficult to interrupt the continuing deforestation in Southeast Asia because: (i) the profits from exporting forest products from Southeast Asia to the China market and the profits for Chinese firms which use these forest products to produce plywood and furniture for export to developed countries are substantial; and (ii) there is a lack of political will at all levels to interrupt these chains of trade and flows of profit.     

The not-so-great aid debate

The ‘Great Foreign Aid Debate’ raged in the 2000s yet there are few overviews of it. This paper builds on heuristic classifications of the debate not to simply classify it, but rather to explore how it is perhaps not as ‘great’ as claimed and, in fact, is contributing to a narrowing of thinking about development possibilities. The paper explores the debate through the books released in the 10 years from 2001 that made both an academic and a media impact. It analyses what gets discussed and why and, equally importantly, what does not get discussed. In terms of what is missing, the paper posits that ‘left’ has disappeared and the progressive critique and support for aid has been left to scholars like Jeffrey Sachs and Jonathan Glennie.     

N. A. Graebner,R. D. Burns,and J. M. Siracusa,Reagan, Bush,Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War

Faced with creating a grand strategy for American foreign policy in the post–Cold War world, the Clinton Administration launched the strategy of ‘Democratic Enlargement.’ This analysis makes two contributions to the existing literature on the topic. First, it investigates the role of Wilsonianism and the ‘Democratic Peace Thesis’ in the discourse of the strategy of ‘Democratic Enlargement’ based on public speeches with a focus on the relationship between democracy and security. Second, it utilises securitisation theory to analyse how Clinton’s Administration used the linkage of democracy and security to legitimise humanitarian interventions in Haiti and Kosovo. By addressing ‘Democratic Enlargement’ in security terms, the Administration securitised democracy promotion and, thereby, created a discourse that helped legitimise a gradual move towards a more militaristic foreign policy during Clinton’s presidency. This discourse offered arguments later utilised by the George W. Bush Administration.