论联合国安理会改革的发展及趋势

联合国安理会改革是冷战后受到世界各国关注的重大问题之一。一方面,随着会员国的增加,安理会代表性不足及效率性缺乏的状况,使改革的呼声不断;另一方面,不同国家和集团的利益各异,分歧巨大,使各种方案均很难得到广泛的认同。自20世纪90年代以来,虽然安理会改革在改革工作组、高级别名人小组和政府间谈判的努力下取得了一定进展,但仍无法解决以"四国联盟"为代表的"争常派"和以"团结谋共识"集团为代表的"阻常派"之间的矛盾,在核心问题上存在严重分歧。因此,为了消除这种分歧,今后只有通过不断对话与协商的方式来形成折中与妥协的方案,才能早日完成安理会的改革。     

A SURVEY OF UNIFIED FAMILY COURTS

The American Bar Association Coordinating Council on Unified Family Courts, with the assistance of Hofstra University's Center for Childre. Family and the Courts, recently conducted a survey of various courts and jurisdictions that either implemented or experimented with a unified family court structure. The purpose of the project was to get a sense of the state of unified family courts with the goal of building more support for the unified family court concept based on demonstrated effectiveness. The findings of the survey have been summarized in this article. The survey, survey data, and list of survey respondents can be found in the article's appendices.