The Blue (White and Red) Orchestra: a soundtrack for the country that never was

The aim of the paper is to go beyond the commonly accepted view of Sarajevo’s Plavi orkestar (The Blue Orchestra) as the 1980s “teen pop-rock sensation” and illuminate the less conspicuous, but nevertheless crucial, political dimension of the band’s music and visual aesthetics. This will be done by discussing several “pieces of the puzzle” essential to understanding the background to and motivations behind Plavi orkestar’s political engagement in the second half of the 1980s: (1) the “Sarajevo factor;” (2) the Sarajevo Pop-rock School and the New Primitives “poetics of the local;” (3) the generational Yugoslavism; (4) the New Partisans “poetics of the patriotic;” and (5) the post-New Partisans “hippie ethos.” The concluding section of the paper will reflect on Plavi orkestar’s resurgence in 1998 and explore the question of the band’s continuing resonance within the post-Yugoslav and post-socialist contexts. An argument underlying the discussion of all of these elements is that Plavi orkestar’s Yugoslavism of the 1980s is best understood as a soundtrack for the country that never was (i.e. a popular-cultural expression of what, from the viewpoint of a particular generational cohort and its location in the “Yugoslav socialist universe,” the community they thought of as their own ought to have been but never really was), and that the current value of this soundtrack lies in offering not only a particular window into the pre-post-socialist past but also in being a symbolic referent for a certain kind of retrospective utopia that gauges the realities of the post-socialist – that is, neo-liberal capitalist – present and, in so doing, figures as a “normative compass” for the life of dignified existence.     

Coups and nascent democracies: the military and Egypt's failed consolidation

Why do coups happen in some nascent democracies but not in others? To answer this question, I probe four interconnected variables in democratizing regimes: the military's ethos; the military's corporate interests; the military's perception of the new civilian ruling elite; and the correlation of force between the military and the founding democratic government. My argument is twofold: first, I maintain that ideational variables are central to shaping the military's political behaviour; and second, I argue in favour of merging insights from cultural, corporate, and structural theories to understand the consolidation, or breakdown, of nascent democracies.     

亚太新格局及其对两岸关系的影响之研究

自2010年以来,美国在亚太地区加紧展开各方面新的部署,美国的举措对该地区的政治、经济、军事等关系和地区格局影响重大。本文分析了美国推行“亚太再平衡”战略对亚太地区局势产生的影响,提出亚太地区正面临战争与和平、独赢与普赢、猜忌与互信的抉择。文章探讨了亚太新局对两岸关系的影响,认为两岸难以超然于亚太新格局,两岸政治、经济和军事等方面的关系更加复杂化,但在亚太地区新的矛盾冲突中,两岸可以从新的视角谋求共同出路。     

新世纪两岸对台湾文学诠释权的争夺——以“反攻”大陆学者写的《台湾文学史》为例

某些台湾作家在新世纪对大陆学者撰写的《台湾文学史》或分类史所做的“反攻”,主要是出版《台湾新文学史》或类文学史的著作,对“台湾文学是中国文学一个组成部分”、“反共文学”是一种逝去的文学、“皇民文学”就是汉奸文学的观点作出反弹。他们从政治上和学理上清算大陆学者的台湾文学史观时,还把岛内的统派学者“捆绑”在一起．。代表人物有钟肇政、陈芳明、林瑞明、谢辉煌。     

Spaces of self-consciousness: Carla Accardi's environments and the rise of Italian feminism

“Spaces of self-consciousness” examines three environments created by the Italian artist Carla Accardi in light of an emerging feminist politics. Though better known as a painter, Accardi created these three-dimensional works during an era of political and social upheaval in which her own commitment to the Italian feminist movement began to take shape. Her environments were deeply imbricated both with her own experience of autocoscienza, or consciousness-raising, as well as with radical design proposals that rejected the current state of civilization. This article examines how these environments functioned as prototypes of the transient, anti-institutional spaces that she would later create as co-founder of Rivolta femminile, a historic Italian feminist collective, and examines a previously obscure moment in Carla Accardi's career.     

中国-中亚新丝绸之路经济发展带构想

新丝绸之路交通走廊的初步建成,对进一步推进中国与中亚区域经济合作、实现新丝绸之路从“交通走廊”向“经济发展带”的转型提出了新要求、创造了新空间。新丝绸之路是实现经济快速增长和关联带动作用为目的的中国—中亚跨国带状经济合作体。目前,中国—中亚各国已进入经济快速增长期,新丝绸之路的交通走廊初步建成,经济发展带的资源、产业和城市等支撑条件现已初具规模。合作建设新丝绸之路经济发展带,将为中国和中亚国家更好地参与经济全球化,最大程度地化解全球化风险,实现民族经济健康发展提供机遇。     

比较法学与轴心文明——兼评帕特里克·格伦《世界法律传统》

近年来国际范围内的比较法学研究,开始尝试在传统的"法系"范式之外,以"法律文化"和"法律传统"作为新的研究概念与范畴,但是究其实质,仍未摆脱西方中心主义的窠臼,并未形成比较法学研究的范式突破,同时还存在缺乏历史性的维度和全球化的视野之问题.在这个去西方中心主义和全球文明转型的时代,应当将轴心文明的概念和思想嵌入比较法学...     

从纽约州“执法认证项目”看美国的警察机构评估

美国纽约州"执法认证项目"经过多年的发展,已经具备了一整套较为成熟的警察机构评估标准和程序,为美国各州司法行政管理部门所借鉴。对纽约州"执法认证项目"的历史沿革、内容及特点进行分析,能够为我国的警察机构评估体系提供有益借鉴。     

农村基层党内民主与新农村建设的衔接与互动——以湖州市五四村为样本的分析

如何塑造适应新农村建设要求的新组织、新党员、新农民,以形成建设社会主义新农村的强大合力?这是农村基层党组织目前的工作重心。在社会主义新农村建设的过程中,浙江省湖州市形成了独具特色的"湖州模式"。而湖州市五四村充分发展农村基层党内民主,带动和促进新一轮农村经济、政治发展的有效做法更是具有一定借鉴意义。     

新时期公安群众工作艺术刍议

在现阶段世情、国情、党情、社情深刻变化的背景下,群众工作也面临着诸多新情况和新问题.进一步加强和改进新形势下的群众工作,需要高超的工作艺术.公安民警对待群众要敬之以心、动之以情、晓之以理、惠之以利、束之以法、立之以信,为建立起适应公安工作需要的、符合时代特征的“警爱民、民拥警、警为民、民助警”的新型警民关系发挥积极作用.