Linkages and Connections: A Framework for Research in Information and Communication Technologies, Regional Integration, and Development

This article examines the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and regional integration as a pathway to socioeconomic development in Africa and South America. Both regions share a colonial legacy often characterized by stronger economic ties to the developed world than within the regions. In recent decades, regional organizations have been involved in efforts to strengthen the infrastructure for ICTs, as well as the enhancement of economic and political integration as strategies to achieve development. However, the literature continues to show distinct research agendas that unwittingly overlook the connections between these areas. This article proposes a theoretical framework combining research on integration, ICTs, and development. It provides a brief analysis of each region and its ICT initiatives, the potential impact on regional integration, and how this relates to development. We suggest possible applications of the framework to identify and research the processes of integration and expected outcomes of development.     

和合企业文化体系建设研究

中华传统文化的和合思想是"和合企业文化"的思想源泉、理论基础和形成背景.在此基础上,借助企业形象识别理论的分析框架,从理念识别、行为识别和视觉识别使"和合"文化在企业经营过程中获得具体表现.     

Afghanistan reconstruction in regional perspective

The reconstruction of Afghanistan is in part dependent upon the reintegration of Afghanistan into the international community. Reintegration, in turn, is dependent upon Afghanistan's trans-border infrastructure of communication, trade, transport, water, power and investment. Accordingly, increased regional economic cooperation is a key element of Afghanistan's reconstruction. This article analyses regional economic cooperation in the South and Central Asian region in terms of logic, institutions, actors, and expectations. The article argues in favour of inclusiveness to enlarge the number of beneficiaries of economic benefits of regional economic cooperation while avoiding the pitfalls of risky strategies of faulty collective action.     

Lessons from the past? Cultural memory in Dutch integration policy

This article explores the contribution that cultural memory studies can make to the debate about the role of ideas and the dynamics of ideational change in policy making. Cultural memory studies engage with the cultural dimensions of remembering, and analyse how shared images of the past are mediated and transferred across distance and time. Such research shows how the past may continue to influence the present by informing the frameworks through which groups and individuals interpret and give meaning to events and phenomena. Since policy makers operate within a cultural context, shared memories are likely also to affect the way they think about the nature and roots of policy issues and the appropriateness and feasibility of policy options. In this article, policy memory (the memory shared by policy makers about earlier policies) is identified as a subcategory of cultural memory. The role of cultural memory among policy makers is studied with reference to Dutch integration policies in two periods: the mid‐1990s and the early 2000s. On the basis of an in‐depth analysis of policy reports and parliamentary debates, references to the past and the role they play in the policy debate are identified. Different modes of dealing with the past are found in the two periods studied, reflecting the different political contexts in which the debates took place. In the 1990s, the memory of earlier policy was invoked in the mode of continuity – that is, policy change was legitimised (conceived) as part of a positive tradition. In the 2000s, memory was invoked in the mode of discontinuity. The same policies were reinterpreted in more negative terms and policy change legitimised by the perceived need to break with the past. Arguably, this reinterpretation of the past was a precondition for the shift in policy beliefs that took place around that time.     

Security sector reform and the challenge of vertical integration

The poor performance of conventional security sector reform (SSR) programming, especially in fragile and conflict-affected states, has led to growing calls for the development of a new generation of reform strategies capable of transcending the state-centrism of earlier approaches and delivering sustainable security dividends to insecure populations. This paper reflects on the challenges of second-generation SSR, with a particular emphasis on the imperatives of reconciling different understandings of ownership, of rendering SSR processes more inclusive, and of acknowledging the realities of non-state security provision. The paper suggests that at its core, SSR is about strengthening state-society relations, and that second-generation SSR will ultimately be judged on how effectively it comes to terms with the argument that genuine and sustainable change can only emerge through an endogenous process of relationship transformation, in which insiders, not outsiders, are the primary agents of change.     

基层执政资源的整合与优化

当前党的基层执政资源面临缺失和流失的现实困境。整合与优化党的基层执政资源需要创造基层良绩,促进执政的有效性;需要扩展基层民主资源,生成执政的合法性;需要开拓基层社会资源,实现执政的和谐性;需要降低执政成本,提高执政效益,增进基层执政资源的积累,实现资源利用的最大化、最优化。     

刑事学科系统论

随着刑事学科研究的深入展开,具有方法论价值的刑事一体化思想应运而生。刑事一体化理论渐显其系统论的內涵,但其中尚有诸多的未尽之义,因此,有必要自觉地运用系统论的哲学方法来整合刑事学科的研究,即构建刑事学科系统论。刑事学科系统论主要包括整体范围论、结构关系论、学科分组论和功能机制论等四个基本方面。四个基本方面有着紧密的内在关联,共同构建出整个刑事学科研究的大体蓝图。     

略论公安教育与实战一体化

公安教育与实战一体化作为一种人才培养模式,有其自身的理论依据和运行规律。它可以通过构筑教学与实践并重的课程体系、加强实验室建设、模拟实战教学、建立实习基地以及培养“双员型”教官和推行“战训合一”的教学模式等途径来实现。     

政治学中的民族议题

突破中国民族话语中以“民族”概念专指少数民族的思维的限制就会发现,人类历史上的“民族”概念最早形成于欧洲,指的是具有国家形式的人群共同体。这样一种与国家结合在一起的民族,具体表现为国民的共同体,是在一个长期的历史过程中形成的。民族形成后便将形成过程中经历的人口国民化、国民整体化等蕴涵于自身,使其成为蕴涵一系列社会政治机制的人口组织形式,并为欧洲现代社会、现代国家和现代政治的形成奠定基础。在“民族”概念的使用范围拓展以后,不具国家形式的各种历史文化共同体也被以“民族”概念来指称和描述,从而使民族的种类迅速增加。这样的民族共同体又对民族国家的统一、稳定和治理产生着深刻的影响,在国内和国际政治关系中发挥着重要的作用。对如此形态多样和影响深远的民族现象,政治学者不能漠然视之,而必须积极主动地关注和研究。由此形成的民族议题,既是政治学理论和知识体系构建不可或缺的重要方面,也是解释中国现代国家的构建和发展及政治学知识体系完备和创新的重要渠道。     

从“主、客二分”到“主、客一体”

"主、客二分"和"主、客一体"这两种范式的基本特点和主要区别在于,前者的基本观点是"主体=人、客体=物",后者的基本观点是"主体≠人、客体≠物"。从"主、客二分"到"主、客一体"的范式转变,具有重要的意义和作用:是彻底克服"主、客二分"范式的逻辑弊病,发扬"主、客一体"范式理论优势的需要;是发展环境资源保护事业,建设生态文明的需要;是告别旧时代,信任和投入新时代的需要;是学科健康发展、深化科学研究和创新的需要。