Branding K-REDD+ and its implications for South Korea's middle power diplomacy

ABSTRACT

The need for new and stronger middle power diplomacy is growing as global challenges are increasingly governed by various horizontal inter- and trans-national networks. Climate change is one of the most complex and urgent global challenges that require collective action, and it is an issue for which more middle power leadership is greatly needed. The Republic of Korea (ROK) has been successful in becoming a primary actor in green growth governance, and its success has been attributed to its strategic middlepowermanship, integrating both material and ideational contents. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in tropical developing countries has been lauded as an immediate and effective solution to mitigate climate change. ROK's unique history of forest transition before rapid economic growth highlights the fact that improving forest management is possible even with imperfect governance, rapid population growth, and low economic development. The lessons learned from ROK's forest transition can be developed as a distinct contribution to the international effort to address forest-related impacts on climate change, and offer an important opportunity for ROK to play a constructive role and achieve enhanced stature within the international community.     

South Africa's bilateral relationships in the evolving foreign policy of an emerging middle power

This article introduces the special issue on ‘South African Foreign Policy: identity, directions, and intentions’. Here we seek to summarize key insights from the contributions to this special issue to deepen understanding of South Africa’s evolving post-apartheid foreign policy through an exploration of the nature and trajectory of key bilateral relationships from both the global ‘South’ (Brazil, China, Iran, the AU) and ‘North’ (Japan and the UK). This window on the country’s international relations enriches understanding of the normative and structural factors that influence not only South African foreign policy, but those of what Edouard Jordaan calls emerging middle powers as they seek to position themselves as influential actors in international affairs. We sketch the contours of these key South African relationships in four areas where the tendencies and tensions of emerging middle power foreign policies are apparent: regionalism, multilateralism, reform of global governance, and approach to moral leadership.     

Making mothers: parenting classes in a women’s jail

In the wake of the War on Drugs, more mothers are incarcerated in US prisons and jails than ever before. Parenting classes have become ubiquitous in penal facilities that incarcerate women, but research about mothers’ experience in parenting class is limited to measures of efficacy about things like parenting attitudes and mental-health indicators. This study supplements existing research by adding an ethnographic lens to women’s experiences with parenting classes during incarceration. Drawing on 18 months of participant observation in the women’s unit of a county jail and 83 interviews with incarcerated mothers, I analyze incarcerated mothers’ experiences with parenting classes. Staff and inmates used parenting classes to create ways for women to do mothering during incarceration. Mothering in your head, longing to mother, and guilt as mothering enabled incarcerated mothers to maintain their identities as mothers despite their separation from their children. However, these practices could also be poor substitutes for spending time with children and did not necessarily reflect the reality of women’s lives outside of jail. These ways of doing mothering from afar were also a form of social control for the penal institution, as these mothering behaviors were consistent with being a good inmate.     

职业生涯规划视阀中警队代际转承机制研究 ——以NT市为考察对象

从静态个体,考察现行公安民警职业生涯规划中存在时间分期不合理、主体未做类型化区分、经验分类习得研究不深入、内部转岗后时期如何计算和职业生涯后期时间划分标准不明确等问题。应从动态整体,重构警队代际转承机制,厘定职业生涯规划分期的不同阶段。通常90后、80后、70后、60后民警分别对应职业生涯早期适应期、早中提高期、晚中成熟期和后期临近退休期。     

中小企业融资难问题的法律破解

中小企业融资难问题已深深制约着我国中小企业的发展壮大,在直接融资和间接融资两种方式中存在融资难有法律方面的原因,为解决中小企业融资难的问题,提高中小企业融资能力,文章分别就中小企业在直接融资和间接融资两种融资方式上融资难问题提出了破解办法。     

关于在高职高专大班英语教学中了解学生的思考

由于高职高专实行大班英语教学,教师对学生缺乏了解,导致师生关系疏远、课堂管理难度大等不足。分析了大班英语教学中了解学生的内容以及几种了解学生的途径和方法。     

走“平民仁道”还是“精英霸道”——现代民主法治视野下犯罪构成理论的理性选择

犯罪构成四要件说和德日犯罪三阶层论的学术对垒已成为目前我国刑法学界的主要争鸣态势。刑事审判的民主性决定了犯罪构成理论应具有通俗化、大众化的特性。我国犯罪构成四要件说深入浅出,通俗易懂,体现了民主法治的精神。德日犯罪成立理论有着复杂深奥、晦涩难懂的品性,广大民众对这一理论难以理解,是一种与现代民主法治相违背的理论。现代民主法治呼唤大众化、平民化的犯罪构成理论。     

高校思想政治教育课教学存在的问题及对策分析

切实加强和改进大学生思想政治教育课的教学工作,对于确保实现社会主义现代化的宏伟目标,具有重大而深远的战略意义。在现实中,思想政治教育课的效果不尽如人意,尚存一些突出问题;针对这些问题,有必要从时代前提、现实需求、立足点选择、教学途径拓宽、教师综合素质提升以及构建社会层面的社会运行机制等多方面寻求对策、总结经验、创新机制,使高校思想政治教育课收到良好效果。     

30个中低突变Y-STR基因座复合扩增体系的建立

目的建立30个中低突变Y-STR基因座的复合扩增体系,并对其性能进行评估。方法采用六色荧光标记技术,选择30个中低突变率、中高多态性的Y-STR基因座自行设计引物,进行复合扩增和毛细管电泳检测。检测该体系的准确性、特异性、灵敏度和耐受性,并观察其在混合检材的分型情况。结果采用本体系,分型结果准确稳定、特异性好、耐受性强,灵敏度达0.0625ng,混合检材在1:4的比例下,可获准确分型。结论本研究建立的30个Y-STR基因座的复合扩增体系分型结果良好,对于中国人群的法医Y-STR数据库建设和群体遗传学研究具有重要意义。     

The differential demand for indirect rule: evidence from the North Caucasus

Indirect rule is one of the means that central authorities have long employed in hopes of defusing communal conflict and civil war in multicultural societies. Yet very little is known about the appeal of indirect rule among the ruled themselves. Why do people in some places demand more indirect rule and local autonomy, whereas others seem content to be governed directly by rulers of an alien culture? This is a crucial question with important implications for determining the form of governance that is most likely to provide social order in culturally heterogeneous societies. Although much attention has been given to consider the relative costs and benefits of direct versus indirect rule for the central authorities, the other side of the coin – namely, the variable demand for indirect rule among the members of distinctive cultural groups – has hardly been examined with systematic empirical data. This paper presents a theory of the differential demand for indirect rule and offers an initial test of its principal empirical implications using original micro-level data from the North Caucasus region of Russia. The theory's core claim is that the middle class should express the greatest demand for indirect rule, while both the upper and lower classes should prefer more direct rule. The theory therefore predicts that there will be an inverse parabolic relationship between the demand for indirect rule and economic class. The findings are largely consistent with these theoretical expectations.