Modernising subordination? A South Asian perspective on the World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development

The World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development argues that the solution to rural poverty in South Asia is through commercial smallholder farming, rural waged labour in farm and non-farm activities, or outmigration. Critically evaluating the Report from a South Asian perspective on the basis of agrarian structure, market-led agrarian transformation, the power of monopoly capital, and the option of off-farm livelihoods, it is argued that the Report has a deeply flawed understanding of the process of capitalist development in rural South Asia. Its path-dependent vision of the future of agriculture is rooted in modernisation theory, and predicated on the continued subordination of the majority of those who live in the South Asian countryside.     

科学发展观指导下的检察教育创新

不同的发展阶段和历史环境,决定了不同的发展现.科学发展现在目标定位上体现了规律性与方向性的统一;在发展谋略上体现了全局性和协调性的统一;在价值选择上体现了发展与再发展的统一.科学发展观全面而集中地体现了"发展"的本质规定性,即人文主义内涵.推动检察教育创新发展,必须立足于将科学发展观的上述价值理念渗透到检察教育工作的各个环节,从教育对象和教育者两方面着手,对课程体系、师资培训以及教学管理活动和教学管理理念等方面重新进行设计和整合.     

论“以德治国”方略

“以德治国”方略是对中国优秀传统文化的批判继承,是对党的治国理论与实践的丰富和发展。要把“依法治国”和“以德治国”紧密地结合起来,使之相辅相成。     

试论我国加入WTO对公安工作的影响及其对策

通过了解WTO组织及其原则规定,分析加入WTO后我国政府承诺的削减关税、开放服务贸易、扩大知识产权保护范围、放宽引进外资限制、开放文化经营领域、开放旅游市场、开放农产品市场等七个方面将对公安工作带来的影响,提出了提高认识、熟悉规则;加紧准备、优化警力、装备、信息资源配置;加大对跨境犯罪和经济领域犯罪的预防和打击力度的对策。     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Sampson Vera Tudela, Colonial Angels: Narratives of Gender and Sprituality in Mexico
Archer, Wars of Independence in Spanish America
Bergad, Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720–1888
McFarlane and Posado-Carbó, Independence and Revolution in Spanish America: Perspectives and Problems
Earle, Spain and the Independence of Colombia, 1800–1825
Zimmermann, Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Nugent, Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes
Chowning, Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacán from the Late Colony ti the Revolution
Benjamin, La Revolució: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History
Spenser, The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s
Buve and Weisebron, Procesos de Integración en América Latina: Perspectivas y Experiencias Latinoamericanas y Europeas
Edelman, Peasants Against Globalisation: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica
Pelupessy and Ruben, Agrarian Policies in Central America
Harvey, The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy
Hite, When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left
Aguirre and Buffington, Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America
Craske, Women and Politics in Latin America
Beverley, Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory
Breiner, An Introduction to West Indian Poetry
Goslinga, Caribbean Literature: A Bibliography
San Román, Onetti and Others: Comparative Essays on a Major Figure in Latin American Literature     

构建"和谐世界"与中国文化传播

文明的多样性是人类社会的基本特征和进步的源泉。中国政府提出“坚持包容精神,共建和谐世界”的主张是对多样文明及文明交往方式的深度诠释。这项主张旨在促进多样文明和谐共处的理念,其与中国文化传播之间的关系是值得关注的。本文希望就有关问题,做一点粗浅的分析和思考。     

From Young Turks to modern Turkey: the story of Hüseyin Aziz Akyürek (Aziz Bey), the last director of the Ottoman General Security Service

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, was one of the early leaders of the Young Turk movement. Nevertheless, when he founded modern Turkey as a nation-state he pushed the veterans of the Young Turks aside, as their pan-Turanian ideology no longer suited the basics of the new state. The leaders of the Young Turks represented the past and their perceptions no longer corresponded with the change of circumstances and the new objects of the nascent state. While Armenian activists assassinated some of the top leaders of the Young Turks as a revenge for the Armenian genocide, second-rank leaders had now to find their way in modern Turkey. Aziz Bey was one of the seniors of the Ottoman security system during the Young Turks period and eventually reached the most senior position of director of the Ottoman General Security Service. When modern Turkey emerged, because of his remarkable talents, he managed to fit in middle-level positions in the new state (province governor, mayor and MP), but never regained elite status.