Who Supports Nuclear Armament in Japan? Threat Perceptions and Japan's Nuclear Armament

The security environment in East Asia has been going through drastic changes. As China and North Korea pose a serious threat to Japan, the Japanese are now more concerned about the security issue in the region. Recognizing the highly volatile situation Japan is facing, the purpose of this study is to examine the issue of nuclear proliferation by focusing on people's attitudes in Japan. More specifically, it systematically analyzes the factors that can determine people's opinions of nuclear weapons by utilizing the survey data. The result of the statistical analysis suggests that threat perceptions significantly boost people's support for nuclear armament. Advancing our understanding of nuclear proliferation from a unique perspective, this study makes an important contribution to the literature, thus helping us predict Japan's security policy.     

经济全球化给大学德育带来的挑战与机遇

经济全球化对发展中国家的影响是一把双刃剑,在为发展中国家提供跨越式发展机遇的同时,也使一些人淡忘国家意识,消解民族身份,失去对传统的认同感。这对我国的大学德育有相当大的冲击和挑战。     

Globalization and the future of the nation state

This article addresses the issue of whether the nation state has a future as a major locus of governance in an increasingly ‘globalized’ economic and social system. It begins by considering the development of the sovereign state and argues that international agreements between states were important in establishing the power of the state over society. It goes on to consider the changing capacities of the state in the modern world. Extreme versions of the 'globalization' thesis are then challenged, and it is argued that national-level economic processes remain central and that the international economy is far from ungovernable. Major nation states have a pivotal role to play in creating and sustaining such governance. However, their role is less than as autonomous national macro-economic managers, than as agencies that are representative of their populations and sources of legitimacy for new forms of governance. The central function of the nation state is that of distributing and rendering accountable powers of governance, upwards towards international agencies and trade blocs like the European Union, and downwards towards regional and other sub-national agencies of economic co-ordination and regulation.     

全球化背景下的地方政府管理创新

政府管理创新是当今全球化时代的一个世界性课题。对我国各级地方政府来说 ,要在全球化进程中有效发挥作用 ,不断提升管理能力和行政绩效 ,增强地区发展竞争力 ,就应当因应行政生态环境的变化 ,正视全球化对我国地方政府管理带来的严峻挑战 ,认真剖析当前地方政府管理面临的种种问题 ,积极推进地方政府管理的适应性创新 ,以期建立起一个与国际接轨、既适应世贸组织规则又符合社会主义市场经济体制需要的现代新型地方政府 ,实现对社会公共事务的合理、有效、规范管理     

Long-Term Capital Management and the sociology of arbitrage

Arbitrage is a key process in the practice of financial markets and in their theoretical depiction: it allows markets to be posited as efficient without all investors being assumed to be rational. This article explores the sociology of arbitrage by means of an examination of the arbitrageurs, Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM). LTCM's 1998 crisis is analysed using both qualitative, interview-based data and quantitative examination of price movements. It is suggested that the roots of the crisis lay in an unstable pattern of imitation that had developed in the markets within which LTCM operated. As the resulting 'superportfolio' began to unravel, arbitrageurs other than LTCM fled the market, even as arbitrage opportunities became more attractive, causing huge price movements against LTCM. Three features of the sociology of arbitrage are discussed: its conduct by people often personally known to each other; the possibility and consequences of imitation; and the limits on the capacity of arbitrage to close price discrepancies. It is suggested that by 1998 imitative arbitrage formed a 'global microstructure' in the sense of Knorr Cetina and Bruegger.     

Competitiveness concerns in Hong Kong: business fears and government incomprehension

Much of the analysis of the anti-globalization movement that has emerged in the last five years has focused on the degree to which the Internet has played a crucial role in contemporary social movements. It is commonly argued that the Internet helps create ‘virtual communities’ that use the medium to exchange information, coordinate activities, and build and extend political support. Much of the commentary on the web as a means of political mobilization for social movements stresses the degree to which the Internet compresses both space and time, accelerating the exchange of information among whomever has access to this technology. Equally important in this view is the deterritorialized nature of on-line protest and the diminution in importance of ‘place’ in current anti-globalization campaigns. Certainly this argument features prominently in analyses of the campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) in 1997-98 and the protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle in November and December 1999. Our examination of the antiglobalization movement in Australia however leads us to a different conclusion: that while the Internet does indeed compress time, it compresses space in a different, and indeed quite variable, way. We examine the way in which Australians protested against the MAI and against the WTO meetings in Seattle, and show the differences in the nature of protest in each case. In the MAI case, the protests were well-organized and national in scope, with the Internet playing an important role in organizing the movement. By contrast, in the case of the WTO, the movement was minor and relatively marginal, with the Internet playing little discernible role in galvanizing protest. We conclude that crucial to an understanding of the differences was the considerable difference in the importance of ‘place’ in each case.     

“地下六合彩”现象及打击对策

"地下六合彩"活动已严重扰乱了我国部分农村、中小城市的正常生产、生活秩序,成为建设社会主义新农村、构建和谐社会的一大障碍。应加强对"地下六合彩"犯罪相关问题的研究,探究有效的防范打击对策。     

浅议全球化对公安工作的影响

加入世界贸易组织是中国在更深层次上融入全球化进程的战略性举措。这将对社会主义中国现行的政治、经济、文化产生深远影响 ,也给公安工作带来前所未有的影响和挑战。应对措施 :1 更新思想观念 ,把公安民警的思想统一到十六大精神上来 ;2 增强经济安全意识 ,维护国家经济安全 ;3 全面推进社会治安防控体系建设 ;4 加强信息工作 ;5 坚持严打方针 ;6 改革公安行政管理模式 ,建立符合世贸组织规则的管理机制 ;7 加强公安队伍建设 ,适应全球化的形势和任务需要。     

商事登记法律性质辨析:法经济学的视角

商事登记制度的产生具有自发性、自觉性,商事登记规则的形成是商事交易的客观需要使然。法律作为一种规则体系必定是社会生活事实需要的产物和制度的体现,法律规范应该是对社会经济事实客观的"映照,"而非主观的"塑造"。因此,对商事登记法律性质的解释不应是学术的,而应是经济的。后现代结构方法主张视角多元主义,克服定式化思维。突破商事登记法律行为公私法性质定式的牢笼,探求其背后的经济本性,于实务更有裨益。