New media and strategic narratives: the Dutch referendum on Ukraine – EU Association Agreement in Ukrainian and Russian Internet blogs

ABSTRACT

This article analyses two confronting narratives authored by Ukrainian and Russian bloggers who reported the Dutch referendum held on 6 March 2016, and discussed Dutch citizens’ referendum vote on the Ukraine–EU Association Agreement. The considered narratives, addressed to the Ukrainian and Russian audiences respectively, are viewed as strategic because they specifically portray political actors of the referendum “drama” – the Netherlands, the European Union (EU), Ukraine and Russia. These actors are significant participants of European international relations, and their perceptions of one another are important for European security at the present time of critical diplomacy. In this paper, information about the DUTCH REFERENDUM obtained from the new media texts is regarded as a narrative-based political concept (NBPC). It is argued that this concept has different versions, or images that reflect the narrators’ biased perceptions imposed upon the public. Identification and comparison of such images require a particular methodology. Therefore, the objective of this paper is two-fold: to expose the two confronting versions of a strategically relevant political image, and to develop an authentic, interdisciplinary methodology for its analysis. The proposed methodology is informed by the ontology theory employed in cognitive science and cognitive linguistics.     

Normative power Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the EU’s peacebuilding narrative meets local narratives

ABSTRACT

This article conceives the EU’s normative power in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a narrative that projects views of the international system, the EU’s identity as a peacebuilder, and its positions on specific conflict issues. Highlighting the importance of local narratives as cultural filters, this article argues that a high degree of alignment of local narratives with key elements of the EU’s normative power narrative facilitates positive images of the EU as a normative power in peacebuilding, whilst diverging local narratives tend to give rise to more critical views. Yet, the case of Palestine also shows that strong narrative alignment with the EU may encourage high expectations, resulting in critical views about inconsistencies between the EU’s normative aspirations and its actual foreign policy conduct.     

晋商与中国近代金融

发迹于 15世纪末的晋商 ,在 19世纪 2 0年代创建了山西票号 ,从商贸领域挺进金融领域。在此后的几十年间执全国金融业之牛耳。 2 0世纪 2 0年代前后 ,随着票号的消亡 ,晋商迅速退出历史舞台。其辉煌与衰败都既有深刻的社会和历史原因 ,又有自身特性的原因。     

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF SUPERVISED ACCESS AND CUSTODY EXCHANGE SERVICES

The detrimental effect of parental conflict in protracted child custody and visitation disputes is well established in the literature. However, little is known about the impact of parental conflict on children when visitation takes place in a protected setting. Part of a larger study that examined the broader issues related to parental and child involvement in a supervised access and custody exchange service, this article specifically explores the influence of parental participation on child well-being. This exploratory effort reveals that children's level of adjustment remained stable over 6 months of participation while visitation returned to court-ordered levels and interparental contact was precluded by staff intervention.     

论中韩青年交流的形态及其支持系统

中韩青年交流的支持系统包括政府层面的制度和行政支持,公众意识层面的认知支持,以及综合社会资源层面的广义社会支持三大方面。这样一种支持系统应该介入到中韩青年交流活动的各个阶段,以确保在交流项目启动阶段双方对话渠道的畅通性,在交流项目运行阶段应对手段的有效性,以及在项目结束阶段对交流效果进行后续评估的及时性。     

构建完善的产权制度与市场经济

市场经济运行是以产权规则的设置与完善为前提的.明晰的产权是形成合理的价格、促进市场交易与竞争的基础.产权是构造责、权、利内在统一的激励与约束机制.     

“Industrial Defence Against the Whole World”: Deakinite New Protection as Narrative of Global Modernity

As it evolved towards the New Protection program from 1906, Deakinite protectionism manifested as a historicised narrative of modernity: an attempt to impose a rationale of nation-building over the heterogeneous and unstable impact of new economic relations and technologies, and the tense dynamics of competition between nations. History was invoked by actors fashioning the nation-building task in post Federation Australia as they claimed to make decisive breaks with past practice, reflected in innovative government strategies and social reforms. The anxieties and opportunities stimulated by global industrial modernity defined New Protection policy, evident in the formation of political narrative and parliamentary legislation, and government intervention in the conduct of business enterprise and industrial relations. The objectives and contradictions of New Protection were clarified in the political narratives and policy interventions constructed to secure the future of the Sunshine Harvester enterprise and its workforce.     

人民币汇率构成补贴悖论

基于贸易保护之初衷,美国政界、商界部分人士以人民币汇率被低估而给出口企业带来不公平竞争优势为由提出人民币汇率构成补贴的观点,由此引发能否对人民币汇率采取反补贴措施的争议。将该争议之争点定位于WTO之反补贴协定框架之下,并结合我国汇率制度之形成基础及其对宏观经济的作用综合分析,可以认定人民币汇率不构成WTO体制下补贴的定义及法定构成要件,仅凭人民币汇率对出口企业的影响断定其构成补贴的观点是缺乏法律依据的。     

苏童的《米》和李锐《旧址》的比较

作为新历史主义小说,苏童的《米》和李锐的《旧址》具有较强的可比性。从死亡意识、叙述方式和语言结构等方面来进行深入的解读和比较,以便我们更好地认识这两部小说,有助于我们进一步感悟新历史主义小说的特点,有助于我们深刻理解新历史主义小说的理论。