The Quantitative Analysis of Terrorism and Immigration: An Initial Exploration

This article uses immigration and other biographical data to refute much of the conventional wisdom about the relationship between terrorism and immigration. Using a database created from the biographical data of 373 terrorists, we have established a number of significant findings. Over forty percent of our database is made up of Western Nationals. Second, despite widespread alarms raised over terrorist infiltration from Mexico, we found no terrorist presence in Mexico and no terrorists who entered the U.S. from Mexico. Third, we found a sizeable terrorist presence in Canada and a number of Canadian-based terrorists who have entered the U.S. In addition to illuminating the terrorist networks entrenched in the West, this paper is also an attempt to advance the field of terrorism studies by taking a quantitative approach to data analysis.     

Change and Continuity in the European Union's Political Conditionality: Aims,Approach, and Priorities

The EU's political conditionality has acquired increasing importance with successive enlargements; this also goes for the period since 2004 compared with that before. The focus here is on change and continuity in conditionality policy with respect to its aims, approach, and priorities. The article presents and applies a three-dimensional analysis concerning the challenge to, the process of, and the management of that policy. Given the need for assessing it in a broad and dynamic context, the discussion revolves around three relationships: between conditionality and post-communist democratization; between conditionality and the enlargement process; and between conditionality and the EU itself in terms of institutional responsibility for enlargement and conditionality matters. This explains how the policy since 2004 has been driven by four factors: more difficult democratization cases from the West Balkans; lessons from the earlier 2004 enlargement involving East–Central Europe; the policy outlook of Commissioner Olli Rehn; and ‘enlargement fatigue’ and stronger pressures from EU actors other than the Commission. As a result, political conditionality has become broader in its scope, much tighter in its procedures, and less easy to control within a less enlargement-friendly environment in the EU and against less certainty about enlargement prospects.     

人性:西方心理学的误区与中国文化的解读

西方心理学的人性误区源于西方科学对人性的分裂 ,西方科学又是西方文化的产物 ,因此 ,西方心理学自己无力解决其人性论问题。能够与西方文化互补的唯有中国文化。中国文化所蕴涵的丰富的人性论将有助于纠正西方心理学对人性的误读 ,从而提高现代心理学的科学性和理论性     

俄欧经贸关系发展的博弈论解释

俄欧关系是当今重要的国际关系之一，而经贸关系是俄欧关系的重要内容。在俄欧经贸关系的发展过程中由于双方利益诉求的不同，双方关系体现出了更多的博弈思想。     

加强法治建设 构建和谐海峡西岸经济区的制度环境

和谐海峡西岸经济区的建设离不开政府提供法治的保障。本文浅析了福建省政府为此已做的努力，并针对目前存在的问题提出进一步加强法治建设的方向、重点，以期为构建和谐海峡西岸经济区提供公平、诚信、活力、有序及人与自然和谐相处的制度环境。     

西方语法学的产生早于中国语法学的原因探究

西方语法学的产生早于中国语法学的原因主要有三个方面：从语言本身看，欧洲诸语言的语法特点是形态变化丰富，汉语语法的特点是语法意义通过语序和虚词来体现；从哲学对语法学发展的影响看，欧洲哲学重逻辑，中国哲学重感悟；社会生活对语法研究的影响方面，欧洲诸国间的交往比中国与周边国家的交往更密切。     

浅析美国海波因特市社区警务行动——对该市“西部行动”的案例分析

开展社区警务是解决当下我国社会转型期犯罪率较高、治安形势复杂及警力不足等问题的有效方法。由于该理念和实践源于英美等国,这些国家的经验对我国顺利开展社区警务来说十分重要。美国海波因特市2003年开展的社区警务活动是一次较为完整和成功的社区警务行动,借鉴研究其流程及启示,能够有助于我国社区警务理论和实践的发展。     

试析后冷战时代欧洲地缘政治的变化

从地缘政治视角考察,欧洲可划分为两大板块：＂心脏地带＂和＂边缘地带＂,与之相对应的是欧洲还存在两大地缘政治势力,即陆权势力和海权势力。冷战时代欧洲地缘政治格局的主要特征是苏联代表的陆权势力和美国代表的海权势力在两大地缘政治板块上的对立与均势。而后冷战时代的今天,欧洲地缘政治失去了这种战略平衡：陆权势力收缩而海权势力扩张,心脏地带衰落而边缘地带崛起。同时不应忽视,全球化和新科技革命,也都赋予了欧洲传统地缘政治形态以新的特征。     

Norbert Elias and Postnational Integration

What is the “Civilising Process” according to Norbert Elias? It is the history of the increase in interdependency links, and in their complexity, between individuals. From this perspective, the evolution of European society since the medieval period has seemed to follow a “determined direction” or a “constant orientation” defined by the passage to more and more globalising domination instances. Nowadays the debates arising from the building up of a political Union on a European scale lend new interest to the works of the German sociologist. Starting from the distinction between “objective” functional interdependence and integration, which suggests the development of a collective identity, Elias attempts to explain the gap between the arrival of a new “survival entity” and the growth of a new “definition of “we””. In the case of contemporary Europe, the persistence of national habitus which run counter political integration portrayed nonetheless as ineluctable have to be explained. In order to evaluate the originality of Elias' approach and its relevance to the present philosophical and political issues at stake, the author's “postnational intuitions” have to be confronted with the most recent theoretical orientations, including Dominique Schnapper's national‐democratic option and the “constitutional patriotism” of Jürgen Habermas.     

西部大开发中的生态环境可持续发展问题

本文以研究西部大开发中的生态环境可持续发展为中心,采用实证研究,进一步阐述了如何处理二者之间的关系。通过对生态环境状况恶化及其症结的论述,指出了以生态建设为中心的可持续发展战略在西部大开发中的重要性,并提出了如何实现可持续发展的具体设想。 严重的水土流失、土地荒漠化加剧、水资源短缺、植被破坏、森林草原退化是西部地区面临的主要生态环境问题,工业污染成为城市发展经济的后遗症。这一切问题都有其症结所在:历史上长期的生产力水平低下与生态脆弱互为因果;“过分强调粮食自给”的发展模式导致森林破坏和水土流失;经济建设不遵循生态环境规律,生态建设科技支撑能力薄弱;制度上条块分割,使生态环境保护和建设各项措施难以落实。西部地区作为我国的生态屏障,其生态环境事关整个民族的生存质量和发展空间,也是西部地区发展的制约性因素,生态环境建设成为西部人民生存和发展的关键问题。由此,在西部开发中要坚持生态建设与富民增收的双重原则,实现生态效益和经济效益在大开发中的有机统一。