Women’s equality in Northern Ireland’s transition: intersectionality in theory and place

Women are invisible in mainstream analyses of the Northern Irish conflict. The prodigious literature is uninformed by gender analysis. These absences have discursive and material implications for tackling women’s inequality in a society in transition from armed conflict. Feminist intersectional theory counters and complicates essentialist constructions of identity. It aids understanding of the Northern Irish context by bringing into view issues of gender, sect and class. The tentative intersectional theoretical framework developed in this article is tested in an empirical study of women’s poverty. This supports the argument that intersectional analysis is required if the policy approach to women’s equality in Northern Ireland is to benefit the most marginalised women and thereby improve the prospects of building a more stable and peaceable society.     

泰国北部的云南穆斯林--秦和人

“秦和人”一词 ,是泰语对历史上形成并生活在泰国北部清迈、清莱一带祖籍云南的回汉两族侨胞的统称 ,19世纪后 ,被当时旅居东南亚地区的西方殖民官员、探险家和传教士按泰语北部方言拼写成Cin -Ho/Chin -Ho ,或简称为Ho/Haw/Hor,大量进入其日记、札记、信函和旅行报告中。但由于云南回族马帮商人前往泰北的时间最早 ,商贸活动最频繁 ,移居时间最早 ,所占人数最多 ,因此西方文献和今天泰语中惯称的所谓“秦和人” ,又主要专指云南籍回族穆斯林。清迈府县城乡共有 9个秦和穆斯林区 ,阿拉伯语和汉语是他们的主要语言 ,清迈府城的王和街浓缩了云南籍的秦和人移居泰国北部的历史 ,现已成为以云南籍回族穆斯林为主的秦和人在今日泰国社会存在的一种文化象征。     

推动山西人力资本开发的对策探讨

近年来，山西省人力资本开发获得了长足的发展，但也存在着诸如劳动者素质偏低、人力资本配置不合理、投入不足、人才流失严重等问题。现阶段要使山西人力资本开发在推动和谐山西建设过程中较好地发挥作用，必须进一步优化人才成长和发展环境，加强科技人才的培养和利用，加大教育投入力度，推动人才资源管理机制创新，促进山西经济快速健康发展。     

吉林省外商直接投资经济效应的实证研究

外商直接投资(FDI)对经济增长的促进作用近年来越来越成为各国、各地区的关注热点。在国务院做出促进东北老工业基地进一步扩大对外开放战略部署的新形势下,通过协整关系分析和Granger因果检验对吉林省FDI的经济效应进行实证研究,发现吉林省FDI与经济增长之间具有长期稳定的均衡关系,并且存在FDI到经济增长的单向因果关系。据此提出:吉林省要持续发展,必须加快扩大外资规模、优化投资结构,合理有效、因地制宜地利用外资。     

人与自然和谐发展——江西省婺源县的经验与启示

实现“人与自然和谐发展”既是科学发展观的重要内容之一,也是落实科学发展观的具体体现。基于这种认识,本文在对人与自然和谐发展的内涵与特征进行简要论述的基础上,以江西省婺源县为例,探讨了在我国中部地区一个典型山区县实现人与自然和谐发展的途径、措施及取得的成效,对当前全国各地正在进行的落实科学发展观、构建社会主义和谐社会、实现人与自然和谐发展的实际工作具有一定的参考价值。     

基于战略视野的省级政府绩效评估

由于省级政府是搞好一个区域经济社会协调可持续发展的关键,文章根据我国省级地位的政府的绩效评估经验,结合相关经验与当前中国省级政府管理的内在要求,从中国政府实际出发,探讨以公众满意为导向,经济、效率、效益、公正兼顾的基于战略视野的省级政府绩效评估问题     

略论民国云南省会警察与地方发展

警察制度的发展是现代社会文明程度的一个标志。本文以其为视角,考查其在云南地方社会发展中的作用。借此历史的分析,为警察在新时期的发展,提供借鉴,也丰富警察学,警察史学的研究。     

In Defense of Sovietology

A leading specialist on the Soviet economy presents a detailed overview and evaluation of the history of Western studies of the Soviet economy. Foci of the article include: debates about the nature of the Soviet economic system; the uses of qualitative and quantitative evidence; controversies over rates of economic growth and growth of productivity, comparative size of the economy and the burden of defense expenditures; analyses of the severity of economic problems and their implications for the future viability of the system. The article concludes with an evaluation of the accomplishments and shortcomings of economic Sovietology. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: P27, P24, P52.     

The amateur revolutionaries: A reassessment of the FLQ

Although Canada has experienced a wide variety of forms of political terrorism, only the FLQ's attack on federalism has earned a lasting place in Canadian historical memory, a place achieved without attaining its goal of an independent Quebec. Using new sources, this article explains this conundrum by reassessing the effectiveness of the FLQ's campaign. It will demonstrate that the very thing that constituted the FLQ's only success ‐ its ability to project an illusion of strength sufficient to convince the federal government that a popular insurrection was developing in Quebec ‐ masked its singular failure: organizational weakness and poor strategic judgment. These prevented the FLQ from achieving its goals and were the hallmarks of its status as ‘amateur revolutionaries’.     

Towards an Acceptable Level of Violence: Institutional Lessons From Northern Ireland

Institutional and economic development has recently returned to the forefront of economic analysis. The use of case studies (both historical and contemporary) has been important in this revival. Likewise, it has been argued recently by economic methodologists that historical context provides a kind of “laboratory” for the researcher interested in real world economic phenomena. Counterterrorism economics, in contrast with much of the rest of the literature on terrorism, has all too rarely drawn upon detailed contextual case studies. This article seeks to help remedy this problem. Archival evidence, including previously unpublished material on the DeLorean case, is an important feature of this article. The article examines how an inter-related strategy, which traded-off economic, security, and political considerations, operated during the Troubles. Economic repercussions of this strategy are discussed. An economic analysis of technical and organizational change within paramilitarism is also presented. A number of institutional lessons are discussed including: the optimal balance between carrot versus stick, centralization relative to decentralization, the economics of intelligence operations, and tit-for-tat violence. While existing economic models are arguably correct in identifying benefits from politico-economic decentralization, they downplay the element highlighted by institutional analysis.