China’s Peripheral Security Environment: Analytical Framework, Indicator System and Evaluation *

Since the end of the Cold War, the West and China have had diverging interpretations of “security environment.” China tends to define security from the perspective of development, while the West’s definition concerns external threats to security. In Chinese circumstances, the understanding of security environment has evolved from simply military to a more comprehensive one covering military, politics, economics and public opinions. This article develops a theoretical framework to analyze China’s peripheral security environment in the new era, and constructs an indicator system to evaluate it. The indicator system consists of the political security environment, military security environment, development security environment, public opinion security environment, and China’s periphery strategy, drawing upon the theories of Realism, Liberal Institutionalism and Constructivism. Furthermore, this article analyzes indicators through dimensionless methods based on the databases of the World Bank, the “Foreign Relations” database of the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University and the People’s Daily, and compares three peripheral security environment scenarios. The result shows that in a general sense, China’s peripheral security environment has improved over the past decades. However, the situations after the 2008 global financial crisis have diverged, and different theoretical perspectives provide very different images. It seems that China has entered a very different environment, and for stable security environment in the future, China needs to cooperate with neighboring countries.     

Investigating the Postmortem Molecular Biology of Cartilage and its Potential Forensic Applications

This study investigated the postmortem molecular changes that articular cartilage undergoes following burial. Fresh pig trotters were interred in 30‐cm‐deep graves at two distinct locations exhibiting dissimilar soil environments for up to 42 days. Extracts of the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) and metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint cartilage from trotters disinterred weekly over 6 weeks were analyzed by Western blot against the monoclonal antibody 2‐B‐6 to assess aggrecan degradation. In both soil conditions, aggrecan degradation by‐products of decreasing molecular size and complexity were observed up to 21 days postmortem. Degradation products were undetected after this time and coincided with MCP/MTP joint exposure to the soil environment. These results show that cartilage proteoglycans undergo an ordered molecular breakdown, the analysis of which may have forensic applications. This model may prove useful for use as a human model and for forensic investigations concerning crimes against animals and the mortality of endangered species.     

世界银行“办理破产”指标与我国的应对思路——以“破产框架力度指数”为视角

世界银行建立了包括抵押品止赎制度、绝对顺位规则、债权人控制权制度以及破产程序的时间、花费、持续经营指数在内的一系列衡量指标来判断一个经济体"办理破产"能力的强弱。我国尽管在2019年初通过发布司法解释的方式补充和完善了相关评价指标,但因出台时间仓促,加之几项重要的制度性规则仍停留在《企业破产法》的立法层面,导致我国仍有多项失分。我国的应对措施应当包括:当前在司法解释层面尝试债权人会议推荐管理人的做法,重视债权人会议对管理人工作绩效的评价;未来在破产法修改层面落实债权人会议对管理人的直接选任权。     

Framing Trade‐offs: The Politics of Nuclear Power and Wind Energy in the Age of Global Climate Change

This article outlines recent debates over nuclear energy and wind farms in an age of growing concern about climate change. Proponents of these technologies have used “trade‐off” frames to promote these technologies in the face of current and potential opposition to them. This article examines the nature and limits of the trade‐off frames being used and their probability of success. We argue that using the language of trade‐offs is generally a suboptimal framing strategy: trade‐off frames remind the public of the costs associated with particular policies, and therefore play into the hands of policy opponents. However, policy advocates may turn to them when the costs of a technology are well known and are perceived as high. In such cases, trade‐off frames may help to justify controversial policy solutions. Like any frames, the trade‐off frames used in the debate over climate change solutions both illuminate and obscure the deeper issues involved in energy policy reform.     

资源依赖分析:党建科学化研究的新视角

资源依赖理论在党建领域中的应用,为党建科学化研究提供了新视角。在党组织与外界环境的复杂互动中,中国共产党找到了一条提高党建科学化水平的新的研究路径。在社会转型期,中国共产党的执政环境发生了深刻变化,党的权力架构、组织结构、思想文化、意识形态以及其它执政资源都发生了一定的转换。中国共产党应顺应国际潮流、国内转型和党内转变的总体环境,进一步提高非权力性权威、巩固组织网络、强化社会整合功能。     

流动儿童与城市儿童成绩差异研究

目前虽然一些流动儿童进入了城市学校和城市儿童一起学习,接受同样的教育,他们受教育的效果却不相同。笔者利用随机调查资料,分析了小学阶段流动儿童与城市儿童语文成绩的基本情况,结果显示,1)流动儿童语文平均成绩比城市儿童要低;2)一年级学生的成绩差异最大;3)随着年级的增高,流动儿童和城市儿童的成绩差异在逐步减小。     

活动理论与当代教育

活动理论对当代教育的启发在于:启发了学习环境设计和教学课堂设计,提倡小组学习;为网络学习提供了理论指导。     

论刑事诉讼外部环境对错案的影响

刑事诉讼环境包括外部环境和内部环境。刑事诉讼环境会影响刑事诉讼过程,任何一个案件的刑事诉讼过程都无法脱离诉讼环境而“真空”地进行。刑事诉讼环境对诉讼过程的干预和影响是一柄双刃剑,一方面。来自诉讼环境的良性影响可以促使刑事司法机关对案件的重视,从而加大对该案件的诉讼力量,例如加大追诉力度、改善追诉条件。另一方面．来自诉讼环境的非良性影响容易导致刑事司法机关面对强大的外部压力而草率结案。从而形成错案。刑事诉讼外部环境导致错案的原因,在国内体现为缺乏法律依据的个案协调、不正确的新闻舆论导向,在国外体现为社群压力等。     

贞讯环境对犯罪嫌疑人心理的影响

侦讯活动的实质是侦讯人员与犯罪嫌疑人之间进行的复杂的心理与智力较量。要想在这场没有硝烟的战争中把握主动权,侦讯人员必须充分认识和利用影响犯罪嫌疑人心理的因素。在侦查实践中,案件背景因素、参与讯问活动的侦讯人员、侦讯场所、侦讯气氛、侦讯时间等环境对犯罪嫌疑人的心理既能产生积极的作用,致其如实交待,但如果利用不好,又易造成其产生拒供心理。所以,侦讯人员应当准确把握并有效利用这些因素来提高侦讯成功机率