Telling the Refugee Story: The `Ordinary Australian', the State of Australia

By international standards, fewuninvited asylum-seekers arrive in Australia.However, in 2001, a conservative federalgovernment trailing in the opinion pollsreversed its fortunes and won the November 2001election largely, it seems because of its``tough' refugee policy, which the Oppositioncould only feebly endorse, deeming oppositionelectorally suicidal. Using some insights fromLacan and writers in the Lacanian tradition,this paper examines how the refugee story waswritten, and why it was that the intentions ofits authors so successfully shaped itsreception by the majority of the electorate.     

协商民主是中华民族传统文化的延续

当代中国社会主义协商民主是我国社会主义协商民主制度文化传承与实践的不断延续。其发生和发展,从历史上就有着深厚的传统文化底蕴。我国人民民主协商的重要形式所体现出来的哲学智慧与思维方式,来源于中华民族悠久的传统文化和中国共产党领导下的新民主主义革命以来的历史实践延续。可以说,我国社会主义协商民主制度植根于中华优秀文化传统,并孕育和初步形成了中国革命历史进程中的新民主主义文化,在当代社会主义先进文化的培育和推动下更加完善。     

Designing effective national aviation security systems: The building blocks for an enhanced global response

By closely analysing Naxalite propaganda material, I explain the functionality of martyrdom in the Maoist movement in India. I show that their concept of secular martyrdom is multifaceted, but can be traced to a mix of several elements in classical Maoist doctrine (sacrifice, dialectics, and critique). As such, the cult of the secular martyr serves both practical and ideological aims. My analysis, tracing martyrdom to secular ideology, opens new possibilities for studying this type of martyrdom, which has come under pressure in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.     

The 'Bad Mother' in Media and Legal Texts

Mothers who kill or injure their children highlight crucial disjunctions between the status ‘mother’ and the practices and expectations of mothering. Failures of ‘mothering’ reconstruct the meaning of the maternal, while being themselves given meaning by it. Violent mothers may be pathologised and excused, demonised and condemned, but the explanatory narratives that are used draw centrally on notions of the maternal and, more broadly, the feminine. These discourses are reproduced in legal proceedings and sentences, and in the media reports of these proceedings. This paper will analyse the construction of the bad mother in legal proceedings in one prominent recent Victorian case, and in the print media reports of this case.     

Tribal or Indigenous? The Indian Dilemma

Abstract

Current Maoist struggles, resulting from deprivation of livelihood in the Central Indian tribal belt and for autonomy in Northeast India, focus on the rights of tribes who claim to be indigenous In the Northeast the demand is to be considered the ‘original’ inhabitants of the region and, in the rest of India, it is the first inhabitants of India as a whole. Most conflicts today are around identity, central to which is indigenous status and tribal sustenance. Much resource has been alienated for ‘national development’ since independence in 1947. A national failure to recognise the importance of community-based sustenance facilitates its alienation. Intensified alienation, resulting from globalisation, causes more conflicts and greater state suppression. This article discusses the link between development and indigenous status, and implications for human rights.     

Guns,roses and democratization: Huntington's secret admirer in the Caucasus

Georgia is the most democratic country in the Caucasus, but arguably its democratization has also been riddled by Huntingtonian developmental crises, resulting in ethnic conflicts and civil wars. We argue that variation in the type of political instability is best understood by focusing on the interaction between nationalism and political institutionalization rather than on their independent effects. We show that Gamsakhurdia's “state-breaking nationalism”, coupled with political deinstitutionalization, produced separatist and centrist civil wars. When Saakashvili's “state-making nationalism” enhanced state capacity, it marginalized the opposition and rekindled frozen separatist conflicts, but stronger administrative institutions enabled the government to avert another revolutionary regime change.     

浅谈道德建设和法制建设

大力加强社会主义道德建设和法制建设,把依法治国与以德治国紧密结合起来,建设社会主义法制国家,为发展社会主义市场经济创造一个良好稳定的社会环境,对于推动社会主义现代化建设,全面建设小康社会,具有重要的意义。     

国家必须中立么——论桑德尔对政治自由主义的批评

桑德尔就罗尔斯正义理论中的“康德式自我”展开了激烈的批判,部分地导致了罗尔斯对自己理论的修正,即将正义理论限制于政治范围。即便如此,桑德尔仍继续追击,认为政治自由主义的预设政治正当优先于善,仍存在致命的局限。两人的论战围绕着国家的中立性展开。但无论如何,两人都没有否认以“国家中立性”为中轴的既有宪政根本制度,实质上这种分歧相当有限,只能是在诸如政策等层面成立。     

自然法、万民法、世界法——西方法律全球化观念的历史渊源探寻

西方的法律大同观念由来已久 ,它经历了自然法、万民法、世界法、法律全球化几个发展阶段。而在这些不同阶段 ,西方人对法律大同的具体理解是有差异的 ,这些概念记载了其中的异趣 ,也反映了他们在这个问题认识上的曲折过程。研究这些概念 ,探索法律全球化观念的思想渊源 ,这于我们正确理解和把握其涵义 ,显然是不无意义的     

Response Mechanism of Constitutional Norm to Solution of Ethnic Problem in a Multi-ethnic Country

In the background of “the rule of law” and the modernization of national governance, the fundamental realities of a multi-ethnic country determine that the solution of ethnic problems depends on the “rule of law”. The response of the constitutional norm is the core of the rule of law. The constitutional norm response to the solution of ethnic problem must be based on the corresponding constitutional principles of the multi-ethnic country. They are specified according to the relevant constitutional principles with the structure of constitutional norms. Finally, a constitutional norms system for solving ethnic problems should conform to the national practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics.