Turkey’s tamed civil society: Containment and appropriation under a competitive authoritarian regime

ABSTRACT

Under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule, Turkey’s civil society has enlarged both in size and diversity of civic engagement. This development is puzzling since Turkey’s weak democratic credentials do not allow an enabling political and legal setting for civil society’s expansion. This study argues that the expansion can be explained through a particular dilemma of rulers in competitive-authoritarian (CA) regimes. The AKP is caught between the conflicting interests of appropriating and containing civil society. While the government needs to cherish civil society to sustain CA regime, it also needs to repress it, as civil society is the only arena where dissenting social forces can still carve pockets of resistance and challenge the dominant paradigms of the regime. Based on extensive fieldwork, this study discusses the patterns of containment and appropriation that have led to the steady expansion of civil society under pressure. The AKP’s dilemma has also rendered Turkey’s civil society ‘tamed’, namely politicized, disabled and segregated. The study broadens the understanding of relations between civil society and the state in CA regimes by offering essential insights into how these regimes are sustained, entrenched and also contested through and within civil society.     

上海高校校园治安防控体系建设的实践与思考

高校校园政治稳定、治安稳定事关高等教育改革、发展和稳定的大局,是社会稳定的晴雨表.在新的历史时期,随着高等教育进一步发展和校园进一步开放,高校校园治安情况日益复杂,校园安全形势趋于严峻,由校园治安问题引发社会热点的风险凸显.因此,以创建平安校园活动为抓手,建立以高校为校园安全责任主体,公安机关、高校教育行政主管部门为监督主体,公安机关与高校紧密合作、联动的校园治安防控体系,具有十分重要的现实意义.     

《联合国国家及其财产管辖豁免公约》与国际民商新秩序的构建

国际民商新秩序的提出对于国际私法的发展具有重大意义。国际民商新秩序要求国际民商事关系中的当事人处于平等的法律地位,如果国家在国际民商事交往中享有豁免权,则不利于国际民商新秩序的构建。关于国家豁免的范围,存在着绝对豁免主义与相对豁免主义的分歧。绝对豁免与国际民商新秩序的构建背道而驰,相对豁免与国际民商新秩序的构建相契合。《联合国国家及其财产管辖豁免公约》第一次在全球性国际公约中规定了国家及其财产管辖豁免原则,标志着限制豁免说彻底战胜了绝对豁免说,是国际民商新秩序构建进程中的里程碑。     

新民诉法再审审查程序的亮点解读

2013年1月1日起正式施行的新《民事诉讼法》,修正的60个条款中,直接与再审审查程序有关的共计8条,涉及到当事人申请再审的管辖法院调整、事由的适当限制、期间的重新确立、检察监督职能的完善等多个方面。结合司法实践,对本次修正的再审审查程序中的亮点作一解读,具有重要意义。     

论《治安管理处罚法》的域外效力

法无明文规定、没有上位法根据、举重以明轻、人权保护和尊重行为地国法律是《治安管理处罚法》没有域外效力的主要根据。《治安管理处罚法》没有域外效力会导致相关刑事案件侦破困难、规避《治安管理处罚法》行为多发、同样的违法行为不能同样对待和对违法行为地扩大解释牵强等问题。《刑法》与《治安管理处罚法》的衔接、属人主义和保护主义的双重优先性、尊重受害人意志和对"举重以明轻"的正确理解是《治安管理处罚法》应该有域外效力的根据。通过增加规避《治安管理处罚法》行为是治安违法行为、司法解释明确、实现《治安管理处罚法》与《刑法》的全面衔接和公安部解释等途径,可以具体实现《治安管理处罚法》的域外效力。     

东南亚新娘现状及其对中国国家安全的影响

随着我国经济社会的发展以及与东南亚国家间人口跨国流动的日益频繁,由于婚姻市场构成的变化、国家之间收入和生活水平的差距、战争、自然灾害和宗教等因素,致使一些东南亚女子因婚姻流入中国的数量也悄然上升,这些东南亚新娘呈现出分布扩散性、流向单向性、类别多样性和数量加速性等四个特点。东南亚新娘本身就是传统安全因素,如非法东南亚新娘入境对边境管理的挑战;同时,她们又与经济安全、社会安全、婚姻安全、人口安全以及卫生安全问题等非传统安全因素紧密相连,一定程度上很有可能会引起社会秩序的某种混乱,导致出现婚姻买卖和人口贩卖走私现象等一系列非传统安全威胁。在中国出生性别比长期失衡的大背景下,需要特别引起注意和研究。     

中国对六方会谈的战略思考及演变

20世纪90年代中期以后,中国开始积极利用多边安全合作维护自身的利益。为了解决朝核危机,中国促成了六方会谈,并在会谈中发挥了建设性作用。和平解决朝核问题、维护国家安全以及通过会谈改善中美关系是中国的重要战略思考。提高国际形象以及推动朝核六方会谈向机制化方向发展也是中国的长远考虑。因六方会谈的长期中断和国际形势的变化,中国的基本战略思考也发生了微妙的演变,即中国希望朝核六方会谈的机能向一般意义上的安全对话平台方向扩展。另外,通过推动重启六方会谈的实际行动,表露了半岛危机必须和平解决的立场,借以维护朝鲜体制安定,同时也表现了愿与美国协作、和平解决地区安全问题的态度,以避免新的冷战出现。     

Notes on contributors

In the Kosovo crisis, Germany for the first time since 1955 joined NATO military combat operations in a major way. While this has often been interpreted as a fundamental major departure ('normalisation') in Germany's post‐war foreign policy, this article argues that Germany's willingness to contemplate joining a NATO war even without a mandate by the UN Security Council represents an evolution, rather than a fundamental change in Germany's foreign policy orientation. This evolution can be explained best as a logical and consistent response of Germany's foreign policy identity which reconciled, through modification, its traditional post war foreign policy identity as a ‘civilian power’ to a radically different security environment.     

Indigenous African marriage and same-sex partnerships: Conflicts and controversies

ABSTRACT

In 2006 the Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled the common law definition of marriage to be unconstitutional because it did not accord same-sex couples the same benefits and responsibilities as heterosexual couples. This defect was corrected by the legislature with the enactment of the Civil unions Act. The recognition of same-sex partnerships or marriages by the Act reflects and acknowledges the diverse nature of a changing South African society. A question triggered by this legal development is the impact that same-sex partnerships will have on the country's customary law on marriage. This article presents a critical analysis of a possible co-existence between same-sex partnerships and customary laws on marriage. The author explores the customs upon which customary laws of marriage are founded, and assesses their flexibility in accommodating same-sex partnerships.     

Single‐Image Rectification Technique in Forensic Science

Many researchers have been working in Spain to document the communal graves of those assassinated during the Spanish Civil War. This article shows the results obtained with two low‐cost photogrammetric techniques for the basic documentation of forensic studies. These low‐cost techniques are based on single‐image rectification and the correction of the original photo displacement due to the projection and perspective distortions introduced by the lens of the camera. The capability of image rectification is tested in an excavation in the village of Loma de Montija (Burgos, Spain). The results of both techniques are compared with the more accurate data obtained from a laser scanner system RIEGL LMS‐Z390i to evaluate the error in the lengths. The first technique uses a camera situated on a triangle‐shaped pole at a height of 5 m and the second positions the camera over the grave using a linearly actuated device. The first technique shows measurement errors less than 6%, whereas the second shows greater errors (between 8% and 14%) owing to the positioning of the carbon‐fiber cross on an uneven surface.