党对新中国命名问题的探索

“中华人民共和国”这一国名,鲜明标示了新中国成立的划时代意义、新中国的国体和政体。它以党“建立一个真正的民主共和国”为历史逻辑起点,并在党对“中华苏维埃共和国”、“人民共和国”和“民主共和国”探索的基础上,经中国人民政治协商会议筹备会讨论协商、政协第一届全体会议正式确定。“中华人民共和国”国名虽无“民主”一词,却蕴涵着新中国人民民主的国家本质。     

Astuteness in Commitment: Rwanda and UN Peacekeeping 1994–2014

Abstract

This article traces Rwanda’s history under German and Belgian colonialism, through independence and genocide to international respectability and membership of the Commonwealth. It examines Rwanda’s impressive contributions to United Nations and African Union peacekeeping forces. There is no single explanation for the magnitude of Rwanda’s contribution. It owes something to Rwanda’s commitment to ‘African solutions for African problems’. Deployment is relatively cheap and allows Rwanda to use its participation for political leverage in international affairs, to attract donors and to benefit financially. Peacekeeping is a factor in the astute foreign policy of Paul Kagame’s government that enhances its authority and stability at home and its prestige abroad.     

The Contribution of Commonwealth Armed Forces in UN Peacekeeping: The Case of Bangladesh

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Bangladesh is one of the top troop contributing countries to UN Peacekeeping Operations. This paper traces the antecedents and history of the Bangladesh Armed Forces and follows Bangladesh’s participation in various peacekeeping operations over the past 25 years including Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Democratic Republic of Congo.     

Party identity change in post-communist politics: the cases of the successor parties in Hungary, Poland and Russia

In recent years much has been written on the communist successor parties. Although much of the existent work focuses on the electoral performance of these parties or has described, in great detail, the development of single parties, this paper evaluates the utility of theories of party identity change in application to the successor parties. As an initial exploration we investigate the successor parties' programs before and after the initial competitive parliamentary elections in Hungary (in 1990), Poland (in 1991) and Russia (in 1993) to determine the extent to which poor electoral performance in initial competitive elections compelled the successor parties to alter their political identities.     

Perceived corruption, distributive justice, and the legitimacy of the system of social stratification in the Czech Republic

This article examines the relationship between social justice norms and the perceived legitimacy of the social stratification system in the Czech Republic. Despite the fact that meritocratic values have remained the dominant part of ideology in the Czech Republic throughout the transformation process, those values have played only a very minor role in fostering evaluations of system legitimacy, such as perceptions of system closure and widespread inequality. This article argues that perceived corruption is the key factor that negatively mediates the relationship between norms of distributive justice and beliefs about social legitimacy, and ultimately plays a major role in reducing the legitimacy of the social stratification system. The main analysis uses a structural equation model based on Czech data from the ISSP Role of Government Survey in 2006. The evidence lends support to the path dependency view of the social transformation process, according to which rampant corruption, which was a core legacy of the market transformation process, continues to shape system legitimacy even in the face of relative economic prosperity of the mid 2000s.     

1929年第一次南洋华侨教育会议研究:以文化认同与适应为视角

民国时期南洋华侨的文化认同与适应问题是一个重要的学术问题.本文对1929年6月由国立暨南大学组织召集的第一次南洋华侨教育会议,以文化认同与适应为视角进行初步研究,旨在探讨教育对华侨的文化、社会认同与适应的建构、贡献及意义.     

论我国社区矫正制度的确立——以《中华人民共和国刑法修正案（八）》为观照

社区矫正代表着当今行刑制度的发展趋势。刑法修正案（八）实行社区矫正的规定,为司法行政机关开展社区矫正工作提供了法律依据,为改革完善我国刑罚执行制度奠定了重要基础,标志着我国社区矫正法律制度的确立。     

论新中国六十年历史进程中的改革、稳定与发展

正确处理好改革、稳定与发展三者间的关系,是搞好一个国家和地区建设的重大战略问题。在新中国60年的历程中,前30年由于没有正确处理好改革、稳定与发展的关系,经历了一个曲折发展时期;后30年由于正确处理了改革、稳定与发展的关系,进入了持续快速发展时期。新中国60年正反两方面的经验教训给我们留下了深刻的历史启示:改革不能脱离实际、稳定是不可或缺的重要环节、发展是长期性和复杂性的统一。     

船员外派人身伤亡案件中船员服务机构地位辨析

船员外派是指船员被选派到境外,且通常在外籍船舶上提供劳动服务。《中华人民共和国船员条例》把船员服务机构定义为从事代理船员办理申请培训、考试、申领证书等有关手续,代理船员用人单位管理船员事务,提供船舶配员等船员服务业务的机构。结合《中华人民共和国船员条例》《中华人民共和国船员服务管理规定》以及2008年颁布的《中华人民共和国劳动合同法》,对在船员外派中船员服务机构的身份和法律地位进行分析,厘清船员、船员服务机构和境外船东三者关系,从而确定船员服务机构在此类案件中应承担的责任。     

新《保险法》适用环境下中国海上保险制度的完善

修改后的新《中华人民共和国保险法》于2009年10月1日开始生效。针对海运市场的特点和实际需要,就海上保险合同的定义所涉及的投保人与被保险人,海上保险合同的诺成性所涉及的保险费交纳与保单签发,海上保险合同的订立与生效,海上保险格式条款的适用规则,投保人的告知义务,保险人的说明义务等诸问题进行研究,并提出修改中国海上保险制度的若干建议。