The Dual Use of an Historical Event: ‘Rwanda 1994’, the Justification and Critique of Liberal Interventionism

This essay places the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in the context of the academic and political rise of liberal interventionism since 1990. It argues that this historical event is important for the debate about ‘humanitarian interventions’ in two different ways: on the one hand, as a signifier, ‘Rwanda 1994’ has been used (or, for that matter, misused) in order to justify an almost unlimited international agenda of liberal interventionism and social engineering; on the other, the genocide that could arguably have been prevented represents the exceptional case where military intervention can indeed be justified—but precisely because it is not in need of a specifically liberal justification. What would have made a military-based prevention of genocide justifiable in this particular case is precisely the aim to prevent something that is universally agreed to be unacceptable (genocide). The liberal twist in the justification narrative, in contrast, tends to emphasize the difference between the (liberal) ‘us’ and the non-liberal ‘them’, consequently claiming the legitimate right for the ‘us’ to decide about the use of force exclusively, that is, without the ‘them’. The continuation of the narrative into answering the post-intervention question ‘what now?’ then leads consequently into the necessity of imposing one's own system of rule as a general norm without due attention to the specifics of the situation ‘on the ground’. The exceptional features of ‘Rwanda 1994’ (the empirical event) thus point in a critical way to all those cases where ‘Rwanda 1994’ (the signifier) has been used to make the case for an ever-expanding agenda of liberal (‘just’) war.     

电信管制的司法介入研究

目前我国电信管制领域的案件少有进入司法程序的,明显存在排斥司法介入的情形,主要原因在于电信管制机构非中立的管制者有意扩大管制范围,电信代理问题广泛存在,法院有意缩小司法管辖范围等。境外电信管制领域的司法介入早己存在,借助司法介入机制是各国电信管制机构维护、保证和提升管制能力的一种趋势。今后我国关键要建立真正独立的电信管制机构,并通过电信立法明确其法律地位和职权范围,破除电信代理问题,引入司法介入机制,提高法院在电信管制中的影响力,促使电信管制机构依法行政,维护电信市场公平竞争和电信消费者的合法权益。     

社会工作对群体性事件的干预

伴随改革开放的深入、社会转型的加快,群体性事件作为影响社会良性运行的负面因素日益显现,相关问题的预防和解决也就至关重要。社会工作作为一种秉持"人道主义"关怀的助人活动,能够运用其专业方法介入到群体性事件的预防、应对、解决之中,发挥其社会"稳定器"的作用,促进社会的和谐发展。     

芪参护心方治疗冠心病经皮冠状动脉介入治疗术后气虚血瘀型心绞痛30例

目的 评价芪参护心方联合西药常规治疗冠心病经皮冠状动脉介入（percutaneous coronary intervention,PCI）术后气虚血瘀型心绞痛的临床疗效。方法 选取成功施行冠心病PCI术后气虚血瘀型心绞痛患者60例,随机分为对照组和研究组各30例。对照组采用阿司匹林、氯吡格雷、他汀等西药常规治疗,研究组在对照组的基础上加用芪参护心方治疗。治疗1个月后评价两组患者临床疗效、中医证候疗效及血脂变化情况。结果 研究组临床疗效、中医证候疗效均显著优于对照组（P<0.05）;治疗后两组总胆固醇、三酰甘油、低密度脂蛋白胆固醇水平均较治疗前显著下降(P<0.05),其中研究组治疗前后低密度脂蛋白胆固醇差值显著大于对照组(P<0.05)。结论 芪参护心方联合西药常规干预治疗冠心病PCI术后气虚血瘀型心绞痛有较好疗效,可明显改善心绞痛症状,减少心绞痛发生率,提高患者生活质量。     

A mission-driven research program on solar geoengineering could promote justice and legitimacy

ABSTRACT

Over the past decade or so, several commentators have called for mission-driven research programs on solar geoengineering, also known as solar radiation management (SRM) or climate engineering. Building on the largely epistemic reasons offered by earlier commentators, this paper argues that a well-designed mission-driven research program that aims to evaluate solar geoengineering could promote justice and legitimacy, among other valuable ends. Specifically, an international, mission-driven research program that aims to produce knowledge to enable well-informed decision-making about solar geoengineering could (1) provide a more effective way to identify and answer the questions that policymakers would need to answer; and (2) provide a venue for more efficient, effective, just, and legitimate governance of solar geoengineering research; while (3) reducing the tendency for solar geoengineering research to exacerbate international domination. Thus, despite some risks and limitations, a well-designed mission-driven research program offers one way to improve the governance of solar geoengineering research relative to the ‘investigator-driven’ status quo.     

试论我国心理危机干预机制构建的有效途径

大量研究表明重大突发事件和自然灾害的发生会对个体心理造成不同程度的伤害,有的甚至绵延几十年甚至伴随终生。我国的心理危机干预工作从新疆克拉玛依火灾事件开始,至今已有二十年,虽然得到了社会的关注,参与者也越来越多,现阶段干预工作中却仍然暴露出无序性、盲目性、重复性、缺乏持续性等问题。我国心理危机干预长效机制的构建,应从法制建设、政府角色、社区服务和人力资源建设等方面形成"政府为主导,社区为基本点"的格局。     

公共性和私人性:丁玲前期创作的悖论

本文分析了丁玲前期的生活和写作,并由此探讨“五四”以来女性寻求独立过程中所经历的突破和面临的困境。丁玲独自离家赴异地求学,并以种种实际行动表明了同封建父权制的彻底决裂,从而初步确立了现代女性相对独立的自主地位。在此基础上,丁玲的写作本身既打破了女性在公共空间的“沉默”历史、公开展示了女性隐秘的身体欲望,因而极具颠覆意义和革命力量;同时又因为日记体的特殊体例而重新被置于私人话语的圈子里,削弱了其公共权力和合法性,并且再次把女性作为有待窥视的秘密加以性别化———这构成了丁玲创作的一个悖论。     

构建经济法视野中的合同制度

从罗马市民社会到现代经济领域,经济发展的事实充分证明,人类经济活动大都与合同紧密相联,而且随社会的进步合同关系日愈复杂。我国现行合同法虽然较好地规范了商品流通中的合同关系,但受传统和时代的局限,许多新的合同关系在合同制度的视野中找不到完整答案。为进一步规范合同法体系,解决实践中存在的问题,本文分析了中外合同制度的时代特色和存在的问题,主张经济法视野中构建市场经济环境下的新型合同制度,并提出几点设想,以期完善我国的合同制度。     

检察机关提前介入机制的实践困境反思——以公安机关承办的刑事案件为视角

在现行刑事司法环境下,保障人权的呼声高涨,重大疑难犯罪频发,证据收集和采信的标准日益严格,刑事犯罪治理面临前所未有的挑战,提前介入作为检察引导和监督侦查的工作机制迎来了制度适用的好时机。然而提前介入机制却因立法规制过于原则化、实践配套性规范的缺失和地方化司法实践需要的绑架难以发挥预期的立法规制价值,陷入制度践行不畅的难产局面,从而面临机制的使命认知迷茫、介入必要性争议不断、介入适度性标准不一这三大困境。     

The Responsibility to Protect and the End of the Western Century

Abstract

It is argued here that the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) has to be placed in the context of the failure to develop new international norms around questions of intervention in the 1990s. Far from embodying global consensus, R2P represents the failure of the West to impose new global norms. This lack of consensus was revealed most dramatically by the disagreements among Western states themselves before the 2003 Iraq invasion. It is argued that many of the principles of the War on Terror (such as the commitment to pre-emptive action) are substantively similar to those of R2P. The essay concludes by considering R2P in light of the decline of the West.