Framing Andijon,narrating the nation: Islam Karimov's account of the events of 13 May 2005

Tashkent's handling of anti-government protests and violence in the city of Andijon on 13 May 2005 has generated enormous controversy and had significant political repercussions. However, there has been no detailed analysis of rival interpretations of what happened. This paper begins to redress this lacuna by analysing a book on the subject authored by the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov. Using framing theory, it identifies four key themes deployed in the narrative to delegitimize the government's opponents: terrorism and criminality; inauthentic Uzbekness and deviant masculinity/religiosity; constitutional illegitimacy; and the subversion of the scientific laws of states. Significantly for an understanding of regime legitimization and nationalism in Uzbekistan, no recourse is made to the government's intellectual framework known as the ‘ideology of national independence’. The paper points to the need for further research to enable scholars to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the contemporary politicization of national belonging in independent Uzbekistan.     

我国通讯监听诉讼规则之建构

通讯监听诉讼规则对惩罚犯罪和保障基本人权具有双重价值。首先概述西方主要法制发达国家相关立法状况,接着对我国相关立法缺陷进行分析,并就如何建构我国通讯监听诉讼规则提出立法建议。     

论我国秘密侦查制度的不足与完善

随着科技的进步,犯罪活动层出不穷,犯罪手段不断增加,秘密侦查制度相应的也要随之完善。法治化是秘密侦查制度的必然趋势。在法治化的进程当中,我国的秘密侦查制度仍不够健全。完善我国秘密侦查制度,可以通过对比英美法系的代表国家美国、大陆法系的代表国家德国,找出我国秘密侦查制度的不足,并借鉴国外秘密侦查制度的优势,从而使其更具系统性,能够更好地打击犯罪和保障人权。     

Property and the cloud

Data is a modern form of wealth in the digital world, and massive amounts of data circulate in cloud environments. While this enormously facilitates the sharing of information, both for personal and professional purposes, it also introduces some critical problems concerning the ownership of the information. Data is an intangible good that is stored in large data warehouses, where the hardware architectures and software programs running the cloud services coexist with the data of many users. This context calls for a twofold protection: on one side, the cloud is made up of hardware and software that constitute the business assets of the service provider (property of the cloud); on the other side, there is a definite need to ensure that users retain control over their data (property in the cloud). The law grants protection to both sides under several perspectives, but the result is a complex mix of interwoven regimes, further complicated by the intrinsically international nature of cloud computing that clashes with the typical diversity of national laws. As the business model based on cloud computing grows, public bodies, and in particular the European Union, are striving to find solutions to properly regulate the future economy, either by introducing new laws, or by finding the best ways to apply existing principles.     

组织间不信任与替代性武装力量：拉美国家废除军队的政治逻辑

军队是国家权力的关键指标，也是绝大多数主权国家不可或缺的有机构成，在国内政治与国际关系领域都发挥着重要作用。然而，世界上仍存在少数主动废除军队的国家。引人关注的是，这类案例大多集中在拉美地区。对于这些拉美国家为何废除军队，既有研究主要从小国视角和军政关系视角出发，认为国家规模与国家安全之关联性和去军事化改革是基本逻辑依据。然而对拉美具体案例而言，这些理论范式的解释性仍存在一定欠缺。考察哥斯达黎加和海地案例可知，组织间不信任与替代性武装力量强弱是拉美特定国家废除军队的基本政治逻辑；获得可信的武装力量支持是新政权得以巩固的必要条件。当新政府与既有军队之间出现组织间不信任时，新政府便倾向于谋求用其他武装力量来替代既有军队。同时，替代性武装力量的强弱影响着政府的替代决策。若不存在可信的替代性武装力量，或只存在弱替代性武装力量，那么废除军队并建立或扶植一些原先较弱的武装组织便成为拉美国家政府强化武装力量控制的常见选择。