State Capacity,Regime Type,and Sustaining the Peace after Civil War

About half of the nations that experience civil war eventually relapse into renewed conflict within a few years after the original war ends. This observation has motivated a stream of research into the factors that affect the risk of peace failure in the aftermath of civil war. While the outcome of the previous civil war—for example, military victory versus peace agreement—structures the post-war environment in ways that affect the risk of peace failure, the capacity of the post-war state to enact and implement policies that affect the incentives for and capacity of groups to undertake armed violence as a means of advancing their interests should also affect the risks of peace failure. Using Geddes’ categories of nondemocratic regime types, we will present a theory of how different regime types have varying capacities to repress and/or implement accommodative policies that affect the risk of peace failure. We test propositions derived from this theory with a series of event history models. Our findings suggest that while peace agreements significantly increase the duration of post-civil war peace, peace agreements involving some types of nondemocratic regimes actually increase the risk of post-civil war peace failure.     

Trading in development: norms and institutions in the making/unmaking of European Union–African,Caribbean and Pacific trade and development cooperation

This paper offers a contribution to recent debates on European Union (EU) external trade and development policy, with a specific focus on the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries. The question asked is why the EU encountered such difficulties in the attempt to translate its normative preferences for freer trade and closer economic integration into a series of binding agreements? Drawing on both economic constructivist and historical institutionalist insights, it is argued that the case for reform initially rested on a strong convergence between institutions and ideas, enabling the EU to discursively present desired policy reforms as necessary to satisfy World Trade Organisation trade rules. However, in due course, the institutional dynamics behind the latter began to diverge from the EU's policy preferences and blunt its norm-based argument – thus creating the space for transnational coalitions to, first, question and, ultimately, undermine aspects the EU's trade and development prospectus for the ACP.     

我国跨境,跨国犯罪的类型

跨境、跨国犯罪在我国主要有 :毒品犯罪、走私犯罪、贩卖人口、诈骗犯罪、偷越国边境犯罪、劫持航空的犯罪、黑社会势力暴力犯罪、计算机犯罪、海盗等。     

信息权利——一种权利类型分析

二十世纪 6 0年代以来 ,以蓬勃发展的信息技术为先导 ,人类开始步入信息社会。信息问题成为最具时代魅力和理论潜能的前沿领域 ,进而成为法学研究所关注的对象。信息是信息社会中极为重要的资源形式和社会的构成性元素。作为法律概念的信息是满足特定条件的符号系。信息权利是一个以信息为客体的法律权利束 ,作为一个权利类型具有解释性和制度性的双重功能优势     

医患关系是一种特殊的侵权责任法律关系

医患法律关系性质的界定是正确理解法律、适用法律的基础。我国相关学说虽然多,但仅仅是站在某一个立场,或以某一现象为基础,难免会有失偏颇。理论界的研究尚欠深入,司法实践中也有不少问题。文章从法学的角度论证,医患法律关系的基本性质是民事法律关系,它不属于民事合同关系,而与侵权责任关系有相似,但由于医学科学和医疗行为的特殊性,它应是一种特殊的侵权责任法律关系。     

特殊防卫制度若干问题研究

我国刑法中的特殊防卫制度在打击犯罪、保障人权方面起到了积极的作用,但由于其在刑法典中的规定不够严谨,长期以来在司法实践过程中存在诸多争议。因此有必要对特殊防卫制度中存在的若干疑难问题,如特殊防卫条款法律术语的含义、特殊防卫的主体、权限、举证责任等,加以研究、解释,以维护法制的统一和权威。     

Integration of the Family Therapy Specialist into Public School Pupil Personnel Services

SUMMARY

The integration of a full-time family counseling specialist into the Pupil Personnel Service (PPS) Team of the modern public school is described. The roles of the present specialists are delineated as well as the problems inherent within the present Pupil Personnel Services Team. Inclusion of a family counseling specialist on the PPS Team would help schools avoid the antagonist position they find themselves in when a family opposes their suggestions and interventions. In such cases, the PPS Team attempts to wrest control of the case from the parents which subjugates the family, limiting the family's inherent resilience and strength. The family comes to resent the PPS Team, seeing them as blameful and controlling. Conversely, the PPS Team comes to resent the family, claiming it is “dysfunctional” in some way and using diagnostic labels to satisfy themselves that their “expert” actions are justified. This antagonist position in the schools arises more out of fear of litigation than good case management. We propose a new integration of family system and school system. Creation of a family counseling specialist who is highly trained in systems, narrative and structural/strategic family therapy could ameliorate this antagonist problem. Numerous functions for such a new specialty are listed as well as suggestions for including this member into PPS Team work.     

论我国核心预算机构之构建

整个预算过程中,在行政机关内部确立核心的预算机构,对预算编制和预算执行具有重要意义。应当重视非行政机关预算案的编制问题,应将财政体制改革提升到政治体制改革的高度,整合财政部和国家发改委的职能,确立起核心预算机构,实现预算过程与政策过程的统一,保证预算权力运转的统一性、权威性,推动预算法治的实现。     

中国特色社会主义的再认识——从“五种社会形态说”的突破与创新谈起

"五种社会形态说"把马克思的相关论述不当地扩大了适用范围和理论外延,并作为理论公式被机械地套用。这样不仅无法解释大量历史现象,而且也造成了理论上的混乱。文明类型学说是对它的突破和创新:扩展了考察视野,转换了理论视角,变"单线发展"为"多线互动",纠正了传统社会发展理论机械论的倾向,使马克思主义关于社会形态和社会发展的理论更加符合实际,更加具有解释力。文明类型学说对于认识世界社会主义运动实践、特别是中国特色社会主义具有重要的理论意义。     

浅析经济犯罪侦查的专门技术手段

当前,经济犯罪增多,并日趋智能化和职业化。经济犯罪侦查部门如仍沿用刑事侦查的普通侦查手段,已很难适应当前经侦工作的要求。因而,经侦部门必须拥有一套自己的专门技术性侦查手段。只有这样,才能更加有力地打击经济犯罪,维护社会主义市场经济的稳定和繁荣。