Commonwealth Small States,Education and Environmental Uncertainty: Learning from the Sharp End

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the Commonwealth’s inclusive role in engaging with the distinctive challenges of education provision in small states, an agenda that is often neglected elsewhere. We examine the origins of Commonwealth work on education in small states, the nature of its comparative advantage, its role in facilitating small states’ engagement with international education dialogue and regional co-operation, and the demand and potential for ongoing Commonwealth support for education. Particular attention is given to experience within the Caribbean region and to the potential for the Commonwealth and the wider international community to learn from small states in the light of their distinctive educational challenges, achievements and priorities – and, most notably, their experience at the ‘sharp end’ of environmental uncertainty and climate change.     

An alternative reading of religion and authoritarianism: the new logic between religion and state in the AKP’s New Turkey

ABSTRACT

Since roughly 2011, the Turkish state and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been going through a process of mutual transformation. Some of the historical apprehensions, biases and frustrations exhibited by Turkey as a middle power have been absorbed by the relatively reformist AKP. Conversely, the AKP and its undisputed leader Erdo?an have seen their socio-political fears, power based conflicts and ethno-religious desires become dominant in all areas, including religion. As a consequence of this bilateral transformation, Turkey has become both an inclusionary and a hegemonic-authoritarian state, and at the same time a weak one. Within this new identity and structure of the state, Sunni Islam has become one of the regime’s key focal points, with a new logic. This article seeks to explain the transformation of the relations between the AKP’s Turkish state, religion and religious groups, by scrutinising Karrie Koesel’s logic of state-religion interaction in authoritarian regimes.     

The intersectionality of gender,sexuality, and religion: novelties and continuities in Turkey during the AKP era

ABSTRACT

This article argues that in the AKP era, gender and sexuality play a central role in reshaping the secular-religious divide to instil ‘yeni milli’ (new national) – or as AKP members call it, ‘yerli ve milli’ (homegrown and national)- values. Adopting a feminist and reflexive approach, this article seeks to demonstrate that Erdo?an and the AKP have used gender and sexuality-related issue areas not as diversions to highjack the public agenda, as it is often assumed, but as a medium to regulate the neoliberal redistribution of conservative values. After a brief presentation of the historical background of the gendered evolution of the secular-religious divide in Turkish politics, this article focuses on the following three particular cases: the policies and discourse on LGBTI rights; the link that was established between the reproductive rights of women and ethnic identity; and how the AKP created new types of ‘other men’ and ‘other women.’ The article also seeks to show that in each case the meanings attributed to the secular and the religious in the secular-religious divide have shifted accordingly and that shift was reflective of, and was used to instil the particular set of values supportive of particular political positions.     

天津市信息化、工业化现状与发展分析

在信息经济时代,通过信息技术创新和发挥后发优势,不仅可以实现工业化和信息化并行和相互促进,还可以在产业发展顺序、产业转移和结构转换中,使某些技术和产业突破式发展,打破工业化常规的渐进式演变,实现新型工业化。天津市要顺利实现以信息化带动工业化的目标,走新型工业化道路,必须实施一套新的政策措施,真正推动以信息化带动工业化,工业化推动信息化。这就需要把着力点放在攻克明天的先进信息技术和关键性的战略产业上。显然,这是一种创新发展思路,在信息化和网络经济时代,这种发展战略是可行的。     

坚持以人为本的科学发展观

高度重视发展,把发展作为党执政兴国的第一要务,是党对三大规律认识不断深化的结果。坚持以人为本,促进人的全面发展,是实现发展的出发点和落脚点。只有经济、社会、人与自然的全面、协调、可持续发展,才是科学的发展。     

现代资本主义发展的外部环境

现代资本主义发展既需要一系列内部条件 ,也需要一个良好的外部环境 ,如果不能将两者的优势适当地结合起来 ,一个民族就不可能顺利地发展。发达资本主义国家的崛起史就是一部控制外部世界资源 ,尤其是控制海洋的历史。英国和美国在这样的争夺中获得了胜利 ,同时也使自己获得了广阔的发展空间。历史经验表明 ,获得这种空间以及世界竞争游戏规则的制定权对于一个国家的发展至关重要 ,但这种游戏规则不是由所有参与国 ,而是主要由大国制定的 ,所以 ,大国俱乐部逐步成为国际事务的操纵者 ,所谓的国际社会 ,其实只是大国俱乐部的代称 ,直到今天 ,“国际社会”的本质依然如此     

侦查专业课教学与多媒体技术

采用多媒体技术教学有利于提高学生掌握侦查专业技术和侦查能力。多媒体技术对侦查专业课教学的作用是:增强实践性、培养创造性、发挥主体性、降低教学成本。侦查专业多媒体教学的运作要求教师掌握现代教育技术技能,自制多媒体教学软件与外购教学软件并用,助教型教学软件与助学型教学软件并举。     

21世纪大连经济发展战略思考

大连在制定“十五”经济发展规划时,应该认真总结经验教训,正确处理好城市功能与产业发展的关系,确定产业结构调整与经济发展的新思路,实现经济发展的新突破。     

论吉林村镇银行可持续发展问题

制约当前村镇银行可持续发展的最大障碍是慈善思维方式——农民因为贫穷需要廉价资金。村镇银行发放小额农户贷款被认为是扶贫的手段。村镇银行采取商业化方式,实施高利率小额农户信贷与支持、帮助农村中的贫困群体并不矛盾。完善小额农户贷款还需要信贷员激励机制。村镇银行需要政府扶助,但又要避免地方政府的过度干预,避免政府信用担保的道德风险,这样才能实现可持续发展。     

改革开放三十年中国经济回顾

改革开放30年来，中国经济结构优化升级，产业升级，经济效益、节能环保快速发展，出口快速增长，出口结构逐步升级，国内生产总值快速增长，经济效益显著提高，财政收入加速增长，呈现健康发展的局面。