SPACE AS PARADIGM OF INTERNET REGULATION

Right now internet regulation is standing at the crossroads. Its problem-driven evolution has led to a conglomerate of seemingly diverse rules, which can hardly be structured as one cohesive area of law. Nevertheless, a consolidation of these rules as one cross-sectional field of law is can be identified. The discussion about the terms “internet regulation” and “internet governance” as well as recent developments in this field indicate that a paradigm shift in internet regulation is ongoing. Whereas self-regulation has been the determining mode of internet governance for a long time, internet regulation in the sense of public regulation is currently gaining more influence. This transformation is accompanied by the rising importance of a traditional paradigm of law: the idea of space. Even though the idea of space finds itself challenged with regard to the internet, it can give substance to many different aspects of internet regulation.     

论作为社会行为的网络角色扮演

与现实社会生活空间中的角色扮演相比,由于身体不在场和匿名,网络角色扮演呈现出诸多全新的 行为特征,在本质上是一场重塑自我认同的游戏。想象在这场游戏活动中居有重要的地位,而重塑自我认 同、实现理想自我、发挥个人潜能、释放心灵空间,是现阶段网络角色扮演的基本形态。     

中国特色社会主义的历史定位和理论空间

中国特色社会主义是在毛泽东留下的三笔遗产的基础上开始探索的,经历了开辟中国特色社会主义新道路和创立中国特色社会主义新理论两个发展阶段。把这条道路和这个理论体系统一起来,是对中国特色社会主义的科学定位。中国特色社会主义具有足够的理论容量,也有巨大的创新空间。     

网络犯罪之司法管辖辨析

网络空间的无国界使得网络犯罪的刑事司法管辖界限变得模糊,网络空间的不确定性使传统的刑事司法管辖的基础陷入困境。在确定网络犯罪的管辖权时应当对传统刑事管辖的理论进行发展和修正,确定合理有效的国内法管辖原则;同时加强国际司法协助也是解决网络犯罪刑事管辖问题的一个有效途径。     

青蛙之死:异度空间里的网络化生存

随着计算机技术的不断革新,网络媒体获得了空前发展,它在带来种种便利的同时,也使人类逐渐远离大自然。通过“拟仿”,网络媒体创造了一个全新的、虚幻的“公共领域”。这种完全不同于传统媒体的信息传播方式消解了现代社会一直以来的话语霸权而貌似让普通公众享受到了前所未有的“自由”,但这种虚幻的自由仍不过是网络媒体获得注意力经济的一种手段。人就像不断加热的水里的青蛙,渐渐丧失了对网络应有的批判意识与警惕心理,而生存在一个异度空间中。     

海洋生态环境保护的前沿问题

针对人工岛建设存在的海岛及周边水域环境日益恶化、海岛的传统捕捞业已失去发展空间、海岛生态系统功能丧失等问题,我国应以科学发展观为指导．对海洋权益、海洋环境、区域布局、公共设施建设等进行综合研究,完善配套法律法规。建立和谐海洋生态秩序,尊重自然规律,考虑海岛环境对人口的承栽能力。妥善解决人工岛建设与保护海洋生态环境的矛盾关系。     

Organization and Reporting of Public Financial Accounts: Insights and Policy Implications from the Singapore Budget

This paper analyses the Singapore government budget's organization and reporting structure, and draws lessons and policy implications for improving public financial management practices. The paper finds that Singapore's fiscal marksmanship record has been poor with consistent underestimates of revenue and overestimates of expenditure. Second, subtle divergences from international reporting standards limit the information available and constrain the budget's analytical usefulness in international comparisons. Third, current reporting conventions of the budget fail to provide an adequate representation of the government's fiscal position. Fourth, revised estimates of budgetary balances in line with international reporting standards show a considerable increase in the fiscal space available. The policy implications of these findings are discussed, as well as some reporting changes which can help improve the fiscal marksmanship record, increase public sector transparency and accountability, and facilitate better quality discourse among all stakeholders on public financial management.     

Had we but world enough,and time: integrating the dimensions of global justice

Requirements for a decent life are to be found in the dimensions both of human time and ecological space. While the latter has attracted attention from some global justice theorists, the former is a comparably neglected matter. This paper aims to integrate temporal and ecological perspectives in order to provide an enriched conceptual framework for grasping what global justice means today. We begin by showing that while contemporary political philosophy tends to assume a somewhat undifferentiated conception of time, treating temporal justice as a future-oriented concern distinct from issues of intra-generational justice, there are richer understandings to be found in some influential schools of critical social theory. Drawing then, particularly, on Alf Hornborg’s theory of ‘unequal exchange of time and space’, and supplementing this with insights from David Harvey, we analyse three ways in which disadvantage can be perpetrated in the dimension of time. We then show how those categories of temporal disadvantage broadly correspond with the three basic rights identified by Henry Shue. On this basis, we claim there is a strong argument for regarding temporality as an integral aspect of global justice here and now, for the generation already – although too often precariously – living.     

Policy Transfer and Discursive De-Europeanisation: Higher Education from Bologna to Turkey

Abstract

This article analyses Turkey’s integration into the Bologna Process, concentrating on the questions of why and how Turkey is transferring norms in the area of higher education. As an example of policy transfer, the Bologna Process provides important insights into the question of why states choose to voluntarily adopt norms where there is no top-down pressure for change. Focusing on Turkey as a case study, the article identifies the narratives of the agents of change responsible for the reform process. The agents are the intermediaries in the Europeanisation process – they construct the discourses and they are the ones responsible for transmitting the process to the society at large. The article concludes that while institutional Europeanisation is taking place in the area of higher education, discursive Europeanisation is lacking.     

Avoidance and appropriation in Bishkek: dealing with time,space and urbanity in Kyrgyzstan's capital

ABSTRACT

Much has changed since Frunze was renamed Bishkek in 1991 and became the capital of independent Kyrgyzstan. Though it was once considered to be among the ‘greenest’ and most ‘orderly’ cities of the Soviet Union, today many of its long-term residents complain about the new settlements (novostroiki) that have emerged during the last two decades. To Bishkek's urbanites, the recent arrival of migrants is not associated with an escape from rural poverty and a rightful struggle for civic rights, but indicates a massive cultural and aesthetic degradation of familiar urban life. In this article, beyond contesting narratives of cosmopolitan nostalgia vs. legitimate belonging, I investigate how urban practitioners in fact produce and deal with different spaces in the city. My ethnographic accounts not only identify social avoidance as an essential pulse of Bishkek's current rhythm, but also illustrate that after a period of post-rural socialization previously stigmatized migrants may manage to smoothly blend into urban spatial flows and lifestyles.