Policy integration: placing the spatial dimension in the health agenda. Evidence from Portugal

The significance of spatial policies for health and well-being is well recorded. While there has been an increasing body of literature illustrating the importance of including a territorial perspective in health decision-making processes, evidence shows that policy integration between spatial and health policies is still scarce. This paper aims to develop a deeper understanding of how this integration can be considered in conceptual terms and how it is actually embraced in practice by health decision-makers. Drawing upon the concept of territorial cohesion, the paper presents and discusses the results of a research held in Portugal aiming to understand this topic.     

Reliability of Craniofacial Superimposition Using Three‐Dimension Skull Model

Craniofacial superimposition is a technique potentially useful for the identification of unidentified human remains if a photo of the missing person is available. We have tested the reliability of the 2D‐3D computer‐aided nonautomatic superimposition techniques. Three‐dimension laser scans of five skulls and ten photographs were overlaid with an imaging software. The resulting superimpositions were evaluated using three methods: craniofacial landmarks, morphological features, and a combination of the two. A 3D model of each skull without its mandible was tested for superimposition; we also evaluated whether separating skulls by sex would increase correct identifications. Results show that the landmark method employing the entire skull is the more reliable one (5/5 correct identifications, 40% false positives [FP]), regardless of sex. However, the persistence of a high percentage of FP in all the methods evaluated indicates that these methods are unreliable for positive identification although the landmark‐only method could be useful for exclusion.     

刑事诉讼地区管辖问题比较研究

地区管辖的确定,是审判权归属最终确定并运行的标志。历经学理考量的以地域为核心的地区管辖原则,受一国司法体制、警察、检察官、法官权力配置以及程序阶段设置等诸多因素的影响,在立法和司法实践中呈显出各具特点的确定体系、机制、功能及不足。本文拟通过对各法域下地区管辖立法的规范分析和逻辑解读,完成对代表性国家地区管辖确定的指导思想与确定原则、预期价值与实际效果、设计要素与现实阻碍、管辖冲突与程序救济等进行多方面比较考察,为我国刑事诉讼地区管辖比较研究提供理论支持和程序借鉴。     

From domestic to international: the politics of ethnic identity in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia

This paper examines two contrasting cases of ethnic-group political activism in China – the Uighurs in Xinjiang and the Mongols in Inner Mongolia – to explain the former's political activism and the latter's lack thereof. Given similar challenges and pressures, how can we explain the divergent patterns in these two groups' political behavior? This paper forwards the argument that domestic factors alone are not sufficient to account for differences in the groups' political behavior. Instead, international factors have to be included to offer a fuller and satisfactory explanation. The paper illustrates how three types of international factors – big power support, external cultural ties, and Uighur diaspora community activism – have provided opportunities and resources to make the Uighur political activism sustainable. In Inner Mongolia, its quest for self-determination reached the highest fervor in the early half of the twentieth century, particularly with the support of imperial Japan. However, since the end of WWII, Inner Mongolia has not received any consistent international support and, as a result, has been more substantially incorporated into China's geopolitical body.     

Territorial dispossession: dynamics of capitalist expansion in rural territories in South America

The rural territories of the Agrarian South have been occupying a central role as epicentres for the recent dynamics of capitalist expansion. Over the last years this has led to an increase in the process of control and extraction of natural common goods by different mechanisms such as agribusiness, mining-energetic projects, mega-infrastructure building, cultural dispossession and so on. Taking the territory as the central analytical approach that involves different dimensions and scales, we analyse the recent transformations in several rural sceneries from South America where various forms of dispossession of natural goods have been presented. With this perspective, we hope to contribute to the analysis and understanding of the agrarian transformations in the Agrarian South.     

Territorial nationalism in spatial rivalries: An institutionalist account of the argentine‐chilean rivalry

The rivalry concept explored in the conflict literature during the past decade offers considerable potential for theory building in international relations. This paper explores one possible avenue to this end by applying insights from historical institutionalism to a case of spatial rivalry in order to explain many of the findings from the quantitative literature. As I demonstrate in this paper, the focus on issues is a good start at explaining rivalry, yet it masks important underlying domestic processes that initiate, maintain, and terminate rivalries. I explain how the “issue” of territory came to be fused with national identity in the case of Argentina‐Chile resulting in a history of conflict and classification as an enduring rivalry. I draw on this case to argue that territorial nationalism may explain why seemingly disparate territorial conflicts separated by time and space can be considered linked to form a spatial rivalry.     

论国际社会打击索马里海盗的国际法依据

索马里海盗的猖獗行为,对国际航运和海上航行安全构成了严重危害,是对国际和平及安全的威胁与破坏。在索马里沿海打击海盗,涉及不同的海域,各海域法律制度的特殊性决定了在不同的海域打击海盗有不同的国际法依据,涉及不同的国际公约规则。文章依据有关公约和学者学说,结合安理会的有关决议,分析和阐明了在各海域打击索马里海盗的国际法依据,也有助于中国海军依法护航,依法维护国家利益。     

论我国军事刑事管辖权的困境与出路——以涉外非战争军事行动为视角

在涉外非战争军事行动背景下,维护军事利益的价值目标与军事刑事管辖缺乏域外效力发生冲突。军事刑事管辖应坚持维护国家主权和军事利益原则、对等原则和国内法与国际法相统一原则,尽可能通过谈判,与他国签定建立在平等、互利原则基础之上的部队地位协定。我国军事刑法的属地管辖应扩展至武装部队所至地域或空间,应将外国军人、战俘以及特定形势下的平民犯罪纳入军事刑法管辖范围。     

精神共同富裕是共同富裕不可或缺的精神维度

一提起共同富裕,人们的理解往往只限于物质生活。实现物质共同富裕固然是共同富裕的首要任务和基本内涵,但实现精神共同富裕同样也是共同富裕必不可少的有机组成部分。     

论想象竞合犯的诉讼进路选择

实体法上的想象竞合犯表现出较为特殊的结构矛盾,亦即一行为与数犯罪之间的内在矛盾。在付诸刑事司法实践时就存在着两种不同的进路:从处断结论为一犯罪出发的诉讼进路实际上预先地限定了单一诉讼客体的范围,事先对犯罪事实进行了取舍;从结构解析出发的诉讼进路则将想象竞合犯所涉及的数罪均作为独立的诉讼客体分别予以确认,很好地实现了犯罪构成的整理功能,虽然也需要对想象竞合关系与"一行为"进行揭示,但整体上符合人权保障的基本要求,是目前较为理想的进路选择。