Commonwealth Small States,Education and Environmental Uncertainty: Learning from the Sharp End

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the Commonwealth’s inclusive role in engaging with the distinctive challenges of education provision in small states, an agenda that is often neglected elsewhere. We examine the origins of Commonwealth work on education in small states, the nature of its comparative advantage, its role in facilitating small states’ engagement with international education dialogue and regional co-operation, and the demand and potential for ongoing Commonwealth support for education. Particular attention is given to experience within the Caribbean region and to the potential for the Commonwealth and the wider international community to learn from small states in the light of their distinctive educational challenges, achievements and priorities – and, most notably, their experience at the ‘sharp end’ of environmental uncertainty and climate change.     

An alternative reading of religion and authoritarianism: the new logic between religion and state in the AKP’s New Turkey

ABSTRACT

Since roughly 2011, the Turkish state and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been going through a process of mutual transformation. Some of the historical apprehensions, biases and frustrations exhibited by Turkey as a middle power have been absorbed by the relatively reformist AKP. Conversely, the AKP and its undisputed leader Erdo?an have seen their socio-political fears, power based conflicts and ethno-religious desires become dominant in all areas, including religion. As a consequence of this bilateral transformation, Turkey has become both an inclusionary and a hegemonic-authoritarian state, and at the same time a weak one. Within this new identity and structure of the state, Sunni Islam has become one of the regime’s key focal points, with a new logic. This article seeks to explain the transformation of the relations between the AKP’s Turkish state, religion and religious groups, by scrutinising Karrie Koesel’s logic of state-religion interaction in authoritarian regimes.     

The intersectionality of gender,sexuality, and religion: novelties and continuities in Turkey during the AKP era

ABSTRACT

This article argues that in the AKP era, gender and sexuality play a central role in reshaping the secular-religious divide to instil ‘yeni milli’ (new national) – or as AKP members call it, ‘yerli ve milli’ (homegrown and national)- values. Adopting a feminist and reflexive approach, this article seeks to demonstrate that Erdo?an and the AKP have used gender and sexuality-related issue areas not as diversions to highjack the public agenda, as it is often assumed, but as a medium to regulate the neoliberal redistribution of conservative values. After a brief presentation of the historical background of the gendered evolution of the secular-religious divide in Turkish politics, this article focuses on the following three particular cases: the policies and discourse on LGBTI rights; the link that was established between the reproductive rights of women and ethnic identity; and how the AKP created new types of ‘other men’ and ‘other women.’ The article also seeks to show that in each case the meanings attributed to the secular and the religious in the secular-religious divide have shifted accordingly and that shift was reflective of, and was used to instil the particular set of values supportive of particular political positions.     

天津市信息化、工业化现状与发展分析

在信息经济时代,通过信息技术创新和发挥后发优势,不仅可以实现工业化和信息化并行和相互促进,还可以在产业发展顺序、产业转移和结构转换中,使某些技术和产业突破式发展,打破工业化常规的渐进式演变,实现新型工业化。天津市要顺利实现以信息化带动工业化的目标,走新型工业化道路,必须实施一套新的政策措施,真正推动以信息化带动工业化,工业化推动信息化。这就需要把着力点放在攻克明天的先进信息技术和关键性的战略产业上。显然,这是一种创新发展思路,在信息化和网络经济时代,这种发展战略是可行的。     

新疆毒情分析及对策研究

新疆的毒品问题始于20世纪80年代中后期,经过十几年的发展、蔓延,吸毒人员大量增加,毒品案件成倍上升,“金新月”毒品对我渗透日趋严重,“三股势力”以毒养恐愈发明显,外流贩毒活动愈演愈烈,毒情更加严峻。今后一个时期,新疆受世界毒潮泛滥和国内短时期内毒害难以根除的双重影响,毒情有进一步加剧的可能。为此,要把禁毒工作提升到与打击“三股势力”同等重要的位置抓紧抓好,建立“三大机制”,完善“三库”网络,实现堵源截流,减少毒品危害。     

坚持以人为本的科学发展观

高度重视发展,把发展作为党执政兴国的第一要务,是党对三大规律认识不断深化的结果。坚持以人为本,促进人的全面发展,是实现发展的出发点和落脚点。只有经济、社会、人与自然的全面、协调、可持续发展,才是科学的发展。     

论行政执法

行政从“管理”到“执法”的转变是我国二十多年经济体制和政治体制改革的产物 ,是从几千年的人治逐步走向法治的标志。行政的“执法”性质和“依法”特征是由市场经济、民主政治和法治国家的发展目标所决定的。“行政执法”的实质是行政主体实施行政行为要有法律根据 ,受法律规范制约。行政执法改革不仅涉及执法方式、方法 ,而且涉及执法体制、范围、目标及执法主体与相对人的关系 ,是整个执法机制的转换。     

现代资本主义发展的外部环境

现代资本主义发展既需要一系列内部条件 ,也需要一个良好的外部环境 ,如果不能将两者的优势适当地结合起来 ,一个民族就不可能顺利地发展。发达资本主义国家的崛起史就是一部控制外部世界资源 ,尤其是控制海洋的历史。英国和美国在这样的争夺中获得了胜利 ,同时也使自己获得了广阔的发展空间。历史经验表明 ,获得这种空间以及世界竞争游戏规则的制定权对于一个国家的发展至关重要 ,但这种游戏规则不是由所有参与国 ,而是主要由大国制定的 ,所以 ,大国俱乐部逐步成为国际事务的操纵者 ,所谓的国际社会 ,其实只是大国俱乐部的代称 ,直到今天 ,“国际社会”的本质依然如此     

行政审批制改革和政府传导机制的构建

我国行政审批制度的改革,缩短了政府到企业的距离,提高了政府调控企业的效率。但是,在市场经济条件下,政府作为调控主体向作为运作主体的企业传达意愿,实现调控的过程,实质上是一种功能性传导过程,相应地需要建立一种功能性传导机制。现行行政审批制度的改革,仅仅完成了功能性传导前阶段,将后阶段的执行过程纳入传导系统,并相应改革体制,是功能性传导的必然要求。要完善政府传导机制,还需从客观地估价现有审批中心的作用、按功能性传导要求定位传导机制的完善原则和完善功能性传导机制的基本条件方面来深化现行行政审批制改革。     

侦查专业课教学与多媒体技术

采用多媒体技术教学有利于提高学生掌握侦查专业技术和侦查能力。多媒体技术对侦查专业课教学的作用是:增强实践性、培养创造性、发挥主体性、降低教学成本。侦查专业多媒体教学的运作要求教师掌握现代教育技术技能,自制多媒体教学软件与外购教学软件并用,助教型教学软件与助学型教学软件并举。