Countering piracy through private security in the Horn of Africa: prospects and pitfalls

Employing secondary research and semi-structured interviews, this article examines the use of private maritime security companies (PMSC) in providing maritime security services in the Horn of Africa. It consists of four parts. The first part explains the origins and development of the use of PMSC in the Horn of Africa. The second section discusses the regulation of the private security industry, paying particular attention to the maritime context. Part three examines the challenges associated with the use of maritime PMSC in the Horn of Africa, including negative human rights implications, compromising the innocent passage of commercial ships, and creating confusion in the hierarchical control of ships. Finally, the paper analyses the findings and concludes that PMSC, despite their apparent short-term effectiveness, cannot be regarded as a long-term solution to the piracy phenomenon in the Horn of Africa.     

Being a Good Senior Manager in Indigenous Community Governance: Working with Public Purpose and Private Benefit

This article seeks to understand the role of being a senior manager in Indigenous community governance, particularly though not exclusively in remote Aboriginal communities. It argues against the tendency of would‐be reformers of Indigenous community governance to focus on the competence and ethical qualities of those who occupy these roles and asks instead how can isolated managerialism in Indigenous community governance be overcome? The article begins with an overview of Ralph Folds' analysis of relations between Pintupi settlements and the larger Australian polity. While taking much from Folds' analysis, the article argues that ultimately he relies too heavily on the idea of antithetical worldviews across the settlement interface, on a problematic distinction between the official and private uses of publicly allocated resources and on too idealist a view of the Australian state. The article argues that the state's allocation of public resources inevitably involves a flow of private benefits and that public purposes and private benefits are not different phenomena, but rather different perspectives on state action. In contrast to Folds' idealism about the state, the article outlines a more thoroughly realist or materialist analysis of being a good senior manager in Indigenous community governance. In its concluding section, the article makes some suggestions for overcoming isolated managerialism in Indigenous community governance oganisations.     

Tackling Corruption at its Source: The National Corruption Prevention Bureau

In Spring 2007 as part of its ongoing anticorruption efforts, the PRC announced the establishment of a new organization called the “National Corruption Prevention Bureau” (NCPB). The article first examines the origins of the NCPB and its position in the current Chinese anticorruption regime. The NCPB will concentrate primarily on information collection and coordination work. Given these goals, This article examines the organization’s potential for improving work in three areas related to information collection and coordination; increased oversight of the private sector, improving information quality and dissemination, and strengthening routine anticorruption activities. The final section examines potential problems that will likely limit the ability of this new organization to improve anticorruption work, such as the possibility of increasing complexity within the anticorruption system, and the NCPB’s limited independence from the agencies it seeks to coordinate.

加强民办非企业单位党的建设刻不容缓——对广州市民办非企业单位党组织建设的调查

民办非企业单位在经济社会发展中发挥着日趋重要的作用 ,加强民办非企业单位党的建设具有异乎寻常的现实意义。而从广州市的情况来看 ,民办非企业单位党的建设在实践中却明显相对滞后 ,主要表现为党建工作覆盖面不广、党员管理难度大、党员管理体系尚未理顺等问题。存在问题的原因是 :思想认识没有完全解决、组织关系接转困难、党建工作力量不足、对管理归属的理解差异性大。为此 ,要从民办非企业单位的实际出发 ,针对存在的突出问题 ,采取切实有效的措施 ,加强民办非企业单位党的建设。     

私营企业劳动关系的特点对工会工作的思考

目前,我国私营企业劳动关系既对立又统一,而总体上则存在着内在矛盾的对立性.工会作为劳动关系矛盾的产物,应顺应劳动关系的特点,有的放矢地开展工作,切实履行好其维护职工合法权益的基本职能.     

Rebels without a Cause? The Irish Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty

The Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty follows a pattern of class-voting also seen in the 2005 referendums on the European Constitution. However, the poll differed in other respects. Polling in the wake of the vote suggested that the main reason given for voting no was a lack of knowledge about the treaty (22 per cent of no voters holding that view). A further 40 per cent of the voters voted no because they claimed not to understand the Treaty. This is in contrast to referendums in 2005 in Spain and the Netherlands where, respectively 70 and 51 per cent, of those with a self confessed 'very limited ' knowledge of the Constitution voted yes.     

Melting Down and Scaling Up: Stabilizing Climate Change by Promoting Private Sector Technology Development

This paper will examine the role the private sector plays in researching, developing, and deploying technology that has the potential to deter or decrease the impacts of global warming. It will explore the degree to which the private sector can have an impact on global warming by focusing on four specific technologies: aircraft engines, wind turbines, solar energy, and clean coal technologies. We will compare the environmental impact of these technologies with the business case for pursuing each, specifically related to profitability and market maturity. We conclude that the business case alone is not sufficiently compelling to stimulate meaningful industry investment in these areas. Consequently, specific government involvement is needed for CO₂ reduction. This analysis will shed light on the role that government must play in order to more effectively engage potential private sector players in the global warming challenge.     

私人侦探初探

随着我国改革开放的不断推进及市场经济的大力发展,私人侦探悄然出现。但目前我国法律对私人侦探的规定尚不完善,在现实中引发了不少问题,使得这一游离于法律边缘的新兴行业引起了人们的广泛关注。故应从私人侦探的自身沿革与发展等方面进行阐述,进而来分析它存在的必然性以及它所存在的一些现实问题,使人们能够正确认识私人侦探这一新兴行业。针对现实存在的问题与社会需求,应尽快客观、全面、科学、合理地对私人侦探进行规制,使其走上健康、稳定之路,为构建和谐社会尽绵薄之力。     

我国金融诈骗犯罪的现状与对策

近年来,包括我国在内的世界各国的金融欺诈案件迅速增加、损失日益加剧,伴随着我国改革开放的发展,金融领域内的欺诈犯罪行为也在蔓延,且呈迅速上升之势。可以说,金融诈骗已成为当前我国经济犯罪活动中危害最大的犯罪类型之一。为了打击金融犯罪、保护国家和人民群众的财产权益、维护金融秩序、保护国家经济安全,应注重相关的立法与执法、协调各方面的力量、共同打击金融诈骗犯罪,从而有效遏制金融诈骗犯罪的产生和蔓延。     

论反致的不合理性

反致是国际私法上特有的制度,但在逻辑上有严重缺陷。它基本不考虑受致送国对于反致的态度,因而并不能体现对于外国法的尊重,也不能保障判决结果的一致性。随着反致制度的规则化、成文化,其灵活性也渐渐消失。更重要的是,只有当受致送国不接受反致时,反致才能体现人们所赋予它的优越性,而随着越来越多的国家采用它,这一优势越来越受到削弱。由于当代国际私法的新发展,其所追求的目标大多可通过其他方式实现。因此我国立法不必借鉴这一制度。