Deeper SCO Cooperation Promises Regional Peace and Development

正LEADERS of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO)member states gathered on September 11 and 12 in Dushanbe,capital of Tajikistan,for a summit that is set to chart the course of the regional group’s development     

对推动中国女性解放力量的分析

回顾中国妇女解放走过的道路,可以看到中国妇女解放在未来的发展方向为女性积极主动参与到自身的解放事业中来。尽管如此,国家、妇联、学者、男性的作用仍是不可低估,他们在推动中国女性解放上曾经发挥并将继续发挥很大的作用。同时也不可否认,女性解放更多地将是依靠自身的力量。     

Transnational Competence in an Emergent Epoch

The article elaborates a framework for understanding the relevance of transnational competence to the dynamics that mark the transformations of our time. Nongovernmental stakeholders interacting through dense civil-society networks that permeate domestic-foreign frontiers bear increasing responsibility for the course of events. Based on linked interests, interorganizational knowledge generation and aggregation, partnerships, and interpersonal/intercultural interactions, they are deeply involved in addressing the many challenges posed by an ever more interdependent world. Transnational competence lubricates transterritorial networks and projects. Here, the authors extend earlier work that posited a worldwide skill revolution both by developing explicit dimensions of transnational competence and by introducing a behavioral component. The new framework provides analytical groundwork for explaining why some people, groups, and networks are more effective than others in forging meaningful transnational solidarities, negotiating and benefiting from the intensifying experience of globalization, and waging successful transnational campaigns. The article also probes how the spread of transnational competence is being facilitated by global migration and transmigration trends. The final section explores the governance implications of expanding transnational competency for the emergent epoch.     

Queer(y)ing Hannah Arendt,or what’s Hannah Arendt got to do with intersectionality?

Abstract

This article takes an unlikely approach to thinking about intersectionality theory. Exploring key concepts from the writings of Hannah Arendt, such as plurality, conscious pariah, and statelessness, alongside her embodied interrogation of anti-Semitism and the Jewish Question, it suggests a way to transgress the ordinary boundaries of the concepts of queer, international, and feminist and, conversely, to unbound the ordinary ways Arendt’s theories have been interpreted as less relevant, if not antithetical to, feminist, intersectional, and queer theories and politics.     

Blurring the line between licit and illicit: transnational corruption networks in Central Asia and beyond

The anti-corruption norm in both scholarship and the policy world has too narrowly focused on the domestic and institutional context of bribe-taking and public corruption. Instead, we argue that corruption in the contemporary global economy requires a multiple set of connected transactions, processes, and relationships that take place within informal transnational networks that blur the line between illegal and legal activities. These networks include multinational companies, elites in host countries, offshore financial vehicles and conduits, middlemen and brokers, and destination financial institutions. We examine how these actors operate in Central Asia, a region that is widely identified as corrupt, yet is rarely understood as embedded in the types of global processes, offshore connections and transnational links specified in our analysis. Examples of offshore centers in tax planning from Central Asia, and partial results from a field experiment based on impersonating high corruption risks from four Central Asian states, provide evidence for how the various actors in transnational financial networks structure their dealings. We then present two brief illustrative cases of how these transnational networks have operated in energy explorations services in Kazakhstan and telecommunications contracts in Uzbekistan. Our findings have theoretical, practical, and normative implications for scholars and practitioners of Central Asian international political economy and other ‘high risk' regions.     

The enfranchisement of citizens abroad: variations and explanations

Today, a large majority of states allow at least some of their emigrants to take part in home country elections from abroad. This article first looks at the diffusion of external voting laws and shows that over the past 25 years they have become widely-adopted and are no longer limited to specific professional categories of citizens. Second, the article explains the international diffusion of external voting by discussing the “norm-internationalization hypothesis” and the “electoral-competition hypothesis.” Third, the article attempts to demonstrate that these hypotheses cannot explain why, in a democratic context, states continue to implement a series of hurdles that deter emigrants from using their newly gained rights. Looking at recent developments in Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa, it concludes that the diffusion and variations of external voting laws result from transnational negotiation processes in a context of democratic transformation among various actors whose interests are strongly affected by the inclusion or exclusion of these new voters.     

强奸罪的文化学分析

强奸罪作为人类文明史上一个古老的犯罪命题 ,其立法模式是文化所认可的各种态度与价值的缩影。传统的强奸罪立法模式深植于男权制社会之中。 2 0世纪中后期以来 ,域外出现的强奸罪立法新模式反映了人们性观念及价值观的改变 ,是理想主义的结晶。基于现实国情 ,我国在强奸罪立法模式上可走一条现实向理想逐步过渡的渐进路线 :在坚持现行刑法典规定的前提下 ,对特殊个案按强奸罪新模式作出处理 ,以个案判决逐步影响民众的观念 ,最终实观立法的转变。     

台湾新女性主义文学创作述略

20世纪60年代以后,台湾的女权运动蓬勃发展起来,台湾的新女性主义文学创作也随之而兴盛。台湾的新女性主义文学创作充分探索了当时女性如何正确地进行自我定位,如何自我发展完善,也探讨一些与女性权利、命运、地位密切相关的问题,并在此基础上,进一步揭示传统女性悲剧命运的根源,为她们树立起崭新的女性观念,并为新时期的女性指明了正确的人生道路。     

论女性主义心理治疗观

女性主义心理治疗产生于20世纪六七十年代的女权主义运动.它将女性主义研究与心理治疗的理论与实践有机地结合起来,以弥补传统心理治疗研究的不足与偏颇.女性主义心理治疗对传统中的实证主义假设、性别偏见以及治疗关系中的权力不对等等问题提出了挑战.它以社会性别视角透视心理治疗的理论与实践问题,关注社会情境对女性心理健康的影响,主张建立平等的治疗关系,促进社会变革与发展.女性主义心理治疗提出了一种生物的、心理的、社会的、文化的以及结构的治疗模式,这不仅有助于对个体心理功能的全面理解,而且为心理治疗的发展指明了方向.     

承袭与反叛的双重变奏——新时期女性主义文学走向初探

女性主义作家从觉醒的那一刻起,就旗帜鲜明地反叛男权意识阴影笼罩下的女性形象传统,锐意于建立女性自己的话语,颠覆男性话语霸权。但中国女性主义文学在承袭与反叛的双重变奏中却形成了“一半是火焰,一半是海水”的局面,即它一方面呐喊出了女权主义的声音,一方面又陷入崇尚女性霸权、躯体写作的尴尬境地。