Virtual regionalism,regional structures and regime security in Central Asia

The failures of regionalism and regional structures for cooperation between the five CIS Central Asian states are well studied. However, explanations so far do not convincingly account for the apparent enthusiasm of these states for the macro-regional frameworks of the Eurasian Economic Community, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This article argues that, as with previous efforts at Central Asian regional self-organization, these broader organizations still largely represent a form of ‘virtual regionalism’. But for the Central Asian states they offer a new and increasingly important function, that of ‘protective integration’. This takes the form of collective political solidarity or ‘bandwagoning’ with Russia (and China in the SCO) against processes and pressures that are perceived as challenging incumbent leaders and their political entourage. A primary motivation for Central Asian leaders' engagement in the EAEC, CSTO and SCO, therefore, is the reinforcement of domestic regime security and the resistance of ‘external’ agendas of good governance or democracy promotion. These goals are concealed behind a discourse that denigrates the imposition of external ‘values’ and continues to give pride of place to national sovereignty. This offers little to overcome the underlying fractures between states in Central Asia.     

以新型工业化推进城乡一体化的思考

党的十七大提出要加快形成城乡经济社会发展一体化的新格局，这就要求加快改革我国城乡经济社会发展中存在的二元结构，从根本上解决“三农”问题。从我国目前发展状况和资源禀赋来看，以新型工业化来推进城乡一体化不失为一种可选的途径。     

两税合并对中国引进外商直接投资的影响及对策分析

改革开放以来，中国一直实行内外有别的两套企业所得税制度，实践证明，两税并存带来许多问题，必须进行改革，才能适应经济全球化和市场经济的需要。该文认为两税合并总体上不会影响外商投资，分析了两税合并带来的问题，并提出了中国应该采取的对策。     

资源整合利用信息主导警务——谈以信息化建设推动公安工作进步

科技强警是推进公安工作的必由之路。在推进公安工作信息化的过程中,应该统筹规划,注重实效,高起点、高标准地开展公安信息化建设,坚持以用为本,以用促建的原则,并在此基础上大力开发公安工作应用软件和深入研究公安信息系统的应用。     

协调竞争规则:长三角地区经济一体化的重要基石

尽管长江三角洲地区的经济竞争是主权国家内的区域经济竞争 ,但在我国体制转轨时期 ,由于市场利益主体和竞争主体的特殊性 ,导致竞争的行政行为扭曲和资源配置、使用的社会高成本。必须借鉴欧共体创建和欧盟运行的经验 ,在中央政府的统一指导下 ,协调相关地区的竞争规则 ,促进长江三角洲地区经济一体化进程。     

新形势下预审学科发展探究

侦审一体化后,预审学依然是我国公安学科体系内一门相对独立的学科。侦查讯问学代替不了预审学。预审学科的理论创新、讯问范围扩展、难于深挖犯罪、办案质量下降等问题,都必须通过发展预审学科来解决。新形势下促进预审学科发展的主要内容包括加强预审基础理论研究;调整侦查讯问和证据调查的内容;加强如何提高办案质量的研究;开辟应用性研究的新领域;调整预审学科体系,整合教学体系。     

Imagining Islam in Kosovo - The social construction of the Kosovar Muslim subject among European political actors

ABSTRACT

Despite being a Muslim-majority society, Kosovo increasingly securitizes practising Muslims by politicizing the ostentatiously pious among them as a threat to Europe’s security and Kosovar identity. Given the EU’s significant discursive and political power in Kosovo, this article pursues the question of how European representatives conceive of pious Kosovar Muslims, and whether this image might explain their securitization. On the basis of 24 semi-structured interviews with various European officials conducted in 2018, I argue that they predominantly imagine pious Kosovar Muslims as influenced by foreign powers through indoctrination, material incentives or appeals to identity, which does condone their securitization. However, this image is in fact shaped by local Kosovar elites who instil such conceptions in European officials because such an image helps them in the pursuit of their own political agendas. The article exposes the intricate mechanism and power relations that underlie this process of policy-relevant knowledge production.     

对“检警一体化”的思考——从侦查程序监督机制优化角度考察

目前中国的侦查程序中不存在典型的“控、辩、裁三方相互制衡”的诉讼形态,带有极强的行政职权主义色彩。侦查程序与当事人主义、审判为中心的刑事司法改革目标难趋一致,成为刑事诉讼改革的焦点。实行检警一体化,实现两者职能的紧密结合,切实加强检察机关对侦查活动的监督,确立犯罪嫌疑人的诉讼主体地位,已刻不容缓。     

云南农业产业化经营中面临的主要困难及对策

云南农业产业化实施进程中遇到的困难和问题,成为发展现代农业的“瓶颈”。采取有效措施,促进云南农业产业化经营,是云南农业发展的必然要求。     

Higher education facing the challenges of the information age

It is claimed that traditional higher education has become obsolete. It was justified as long as knowledge was concentrated in the hands of a few experts and in not-easily accessed libraries. However today, the three pillars of higher education - the production of new knowledge, teaching, and the preservation of knowledge - can easily be and more efficiently replaced by electronic means. One can learn whatever and wherever one wants. This can make the diffusion of knowledge far more affordable, more democratic, and less elitist. However, there are a number of social, psychological and societal factors that need to be taken into consideration, serving as counter-forces to the rush to provide electronic replacements to higher education. These factors cast strong doubts on the true value and efficacy of virtual higher education. The solution may lie neither in the wholesale abolishment of institutions of higher education nor in ignoring the opportunities afforded by novel information technologies, but rather in pursuing differentiation between virtual universities and regular ones such that each will excel in its own way. Similarly, we will have to think of differentiation within our institutions so that we come to harvest the new technological opportunities to improve existing higher education. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.