The United States–India Nuclear Relations after 9/11: Alternative Discourses

Abstract

In this article, I go beyond the conventional realist arguments of anarchy, national interest, and nuclear security to offer alternative discourses of the same as applied in the context of US–India nuclear relations after 9/11. To this extent, I draw from feminist International Relations, that security is a gendered phenomenon, to explore how the post-9/11 climate of globalization has served as the context within which are articulated masculinist forms of nuclear discourses between India and the United States. Furthermore, considering issues of international hierarchy and power relations between India and United States, I also draw from Edward Said's Orientalism to explore how assumptions of Orientalism are also sustained in these masculinist nuclear discourses. My contribution in this article lies in offering an alternative feminist and post-colonial perspective to comprehend that nuclear security discourses are not only about objective realist/neoliberal issues of insecurity and strategic interdependence but also contain subjective implications that sustain masculinist and orientalist forms of identity-making in international politics.     

Far-Right “Contagion” or a Failing “Mainstream”? How Dangerous Ideas Cross Borders and Blur Boundaries

The article argues that we are witnessing a lethal “mainstreaming” trend across Europe that involves previously taboo ideas, frames, and practices becoming the new “common sense” for growing sections of European politics and societies. As in the case of the dramatic slide into dictatorship and the spread of virulent anti-Semitism in the 1930s, the divisive ideas of the contemporary far right vis-à-vis minorities, immigrants, and Muslims/Islam in particular have been crossing multiple boundaries—between “extremist” and “mainstream” politics and voters, between taboo and legitimate views, as well as between countries. As in the 1930s, the success of this putative “far-right contagion” today owes at least as much to the weakening defenses or cynical opportunism of the mainstream as to the dynamics and appeal of the radical right's ideas themselves.     

中国在朝鲜核问题上的作用及其受局限的原因分析

自 2002年 10月以来,朝核问题一直成为国际社会关注的热点问题。“三方会谈”以及 3次“六方会谈”的成功召开把朝核问题纳入到一个多边框架下解决,对于这个重大成果,中国所起的重要作用是国际社会有目共睹的。尽管中国在朝核问题上发挥了其他国家所不可替代的作用,但是,从朝核问题的发展过程上可以看出,中国的作用也受到很大局限。     

核损害赔偿的基本原则

核能的和平发展和利用,是20世纪人类最重大的科技成就之一。核电站于上世纪50年代左右开始起步,到本世纪已经达到了商业化发展的水平,成为一种具有吸引力的能源。但是,核能的和平利用在给人类社会带来巨大好处的同时,也伴随着巨大的风险。随着前苏联切尔诺贝利和日本福岛等重大核事故的不断发生,核安全特别是核损害赔偿问题日益引起国际社会的广泛关注。通过对与核损害赔偿有关的国际公约和各国国内法进行系统整理,总结出核损害赔偿的基本原则,可为我国制定《核安全法》提供有益的经验。     

美韩非对称性同盟对朝核困局影响探析——以文在寅政府时期为例

朝核问题是冷战后东北亚地区的热点问题,一直影响着本地区的安全。并且,由于朝鲜半岛独特的地缘政治特性以及该地区的大国安全博弈,朝核问题的解决难度与日俱增。长期以来,韩国将美韩同盟视为朝核危机发酵期的安全保障,同时,朝鲜亦因美韩同盟的持续强化而极速推进核武力建设,最终导致朝核危局愈演愈烈。应当说,朝核危机与美韩同盟两者间已互为因变量。然而,美国作为世界唯一超级大国,其战略指向不仅是半岛无核化,更主要的战略意图是为其全球战略体系服务。因此,“美主韩从”性质的美韩同盟会使韩国本身的战略指向发生偏移,最终,非对称性质的美韩同盟可能会成为阻碍半岛和平繁荣的关键因素。     

试论审理行政许可诉讼的若干问题

在审判实践中 ,经常出现争议的问题有 :行政许可诉讼的原告主体资格界定 ,行政许可行为的司法审查程度 ,行政许可权利人同与行政许可行为有法律上利害关系人之间纠纷的性质、处理原则以及行政许可诉讼所涉及的行政侵权赔偿、补偿等     

行政许可法的制度创新与私权潜能

行政许可法是行政法领域的一部重要的“控权法”。行政许可法的立法宗旨和意义不仅在于规范政府治理社会的行政行为,建设有限、理性、负责的政府,更在于扩大市民社会自由、自主的空间。“听证程序”、“拍卖招标”方式发放特许以及“信赖保护”是行政许可法的三大制度创新,其中体现了私法精神,运用了私法方法,展示了私权潜能,同时行政许可法的立法创举也不无缺憾并面临一些实践挑战。     

Terra incognita: Migration of the elderly and the nuclear hardship hypothesis

This article deals with out-migration of elderly in a 19th-century rural society undergoing major economical and social changes. The first aim is to shed light on the particularities of the old-age migration, concentrating on out-migration because the migratory balance stayed negative during the entire period of observation. The migration intensity and the destination areas give a background and reopen the question of the geographical immobility of the elderly. The second goal is to identify some variables that incited some people to leave at an age when neither job nor the will to start a family could justify it. This search for explanatory factors of old-age mobility operates from a thematic scope, that of the nuclear hardship hypothesis.

This article differs from demographic analyses on aging that were generally made at an aggregate level, based on national statistics. It also differs from the implicit or explicit assumption of old-age immobility found in family history studies. In the Pays de Herve, family relations and the position of the oldest in the household determined standard of living more than economic conjunctures or the social structure.     

新一轮朝核危机中朝鲜的强制外交政策与中国战略对策——基于内容分析法的朝鲜外务省发言分析

2012年2月23～24日,朝美第三次高级别会谈在中国举行,双方同意同时采取一系列措施建立信任,以改善朝美关系。但是随后朝鲜两次发射卫星、进行核试验并宣布永久退出六方会谈,朝核危机再次升级。采用内容分析法剖析2012年2月至2013年5月的朝鲜外务省发言,可以发现,朝鲜可能采取导致危机进一步升级的行动,中国在处理和解决朝核问题中的战略对策,应以坚持半岛无核化作为首要目标,将坚持六方会谈机制作为首选对策。     

机动车牌照拍卖行为的合法性认识——解读《行政许可法》第12、53条的相关规定

机动车牌照授予行为属于行政许可的范畴。《道路交通安全法》第9条是对车辆牌照取得所作的一般性规定,即一般情况下机动车牌照不允许拍卖。但是当机动车牌照构成“有限公共资源”时,《行政许可法》第53条第1项即成为特别规定,应优先适用。而“有限公共资源”的判断标准,是“公共性”与“供需比例关系失衡”。因此当公共交通资源供不应求的情况下,通过拍卖的方式授予机动车牌照是合法的。