Beyond royal politics: state transformation and foreign policy in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Saudi politics is commonly portrayed as reflecting a system of centralised personal rule in which decision-making power trickles down from the tightly knit power circles within the House of Saud. In contrast, this paper draws attention to the empowerment of quasi-autonomous state organisations in Saudi Arabia as a result of state transformation and regional integration. At its most extreme, state transformation in Saudi Arabia has created institutional and regulatory enclaves with vested interests and areas of competence that cross Saudi borders. This paper illustrates the foreign policy ramifications of transformed statehood in Saudi attempts to further Gulf regional integration in the context of the Gulf Monetary Union project.     

网络社会化与青年思想教育

网络文化已经使人的社会化的方式 ,内容发生了新的变化 ,正是这些变化使人的社会化的塑造被放在了一个多样性、全求化的情境中。网络社会化会给我们的思想教育工作带来新的课题 ,理论教育工作者应作出积极的、超前的应对 ,这已经成为一个刻不容缓的任务。     

当代文学转型中的赛伯批评空间——兼谈网络文学的若干特性

上世纪末，以启蒙理性为主导的20世纪中国学，宏观上正经历着向以狂欢精神为主导的新学时期的转型。在这一过程中，网络及网络学的流行具有重要意义。一方面，作为新兴媒体的网络有可能继报纸之后为日益民间化、边缘化的知识分子提供新的“批评空间”；另一方面，网络学既深受狂欢化的当代学影响，同时由于自身的特性，又强化了这种狂欢化倾向。网络及网络学、狂欢化的当代学以及日益民间化了的知识分子，三将会互为表里，互相推动，形成狂欢化学时代的第一个里程碑，从而对未来学创作的形式、内容、格局都将产生深远影响。     

Resignifications and subversive transformations: Judith Butler’s queer theory and women who kill

This article provides an empirical study of a number of cases dealing with women who kill their abusive partners and the construction of the battered woman syndrome in order to identity the possibilities for transformation within the legal system. Drawing upon the work of Judith Butler, the article will argue that the unstable nature of social terms and the nature of social power provides the potential for resignifying and subversively transforming the gender identities constructed and perpetuated by the law. In addition to outlining the defences for murder and engaging in a close examination of the cases, the article will also provide a critical analysis of Judith Butler’s approach to subject formation. Dr Anna Carline LLB (Hons), LLM, PhD. Law Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University.     

治理理论的兴起与行政法的变迁

行政法是关于行政的法,公共行政的改革与发展必然对行政法产生影响,为行政法学提供新的研究课题。20世纪下半叶,治理理论的兴起,受到世界各国的广泛关注,行政主体的多元化和行政行为的非强制性被认为是治理理论两个明显的特征。以传统统治理论为基础形成的行政法不能解释行政主体的多元化和行政行为的非强制性现象,在治理理论的背景下,行政法面临着发展变迁的挑战。     

法制现代化的文化选择

我国正处于从传统的“人治”型社会向现代的“法治”型社会转变的历史时期,如何处理和看待现代法制与传统法律文化之间的关系是我国法制现代化模式选择面临的重要课题。对于传统法律文化资源,要有所扬弃,弘扬优势,趋利避害,乃是我国法制现代化建设的必由之路。     

The Frontiers of Legal Analysis: Reframing the Transition in Northern Ireland

British constitutional legal discourse is structurally limited in its capacity to capture the complexity of the Good Friday Agreement. Rather than assessing the Agreement in narrow devolutionary terms, it should be seen as a hybrid domestic and international law instrument, making an important contribution to accepted international law norms in relation to self-determination. The Agreement transforms and partly transcends the Northern Ireland conflict by substituting political contestation for violent conflict, and by defining the modalities of conducting that contestation. This analysis complements classical international law perspectives, and opens up the application of legal discourses associated with 'transitional justice' to the legal and political transformation in Northern Ireland. These discourses focus on the problem of reconciling the demands of peace with the imperatives of justice. The Agreement sits squarely in this terrain with its provisions on 'dealing with the past' and 'institutional legacies'. The insights gained here challenge orthodox thinking about conflict-management and the ongoing political process.     

刑事诉讼中检察官思维的转型

思维在法律文化的结构中,处于深层次或隐蔽的地位,其直接影响着诉讼效果。同社会政治、经济、文化和法律制度的发展变化相比,思维的发展体现滞后的特点。研究转型期检察官的诉讼思维转型,对于破除僵化的传统诉讼观念、保证公诉质量和效果、维护社会的和谐稳定,具有十分重要的现实意义和时代价值。刑事诉讼中,检察官面临诉讼本质、诉讼价值、公诉理念、人文精神、证据理念等方面的思维转型。迎接这一挑战,是切实提高司法能力、推动刑事诉讼社会效果和法律效果的和谐统一的必要前提。     

知识经济的法律调整着力点初探

知识经济的运行 ,是通过知识的产权化、商品化和资本化 ,以实现知识的要素化和产业化的过程 ,与此伴随的还有知识的异化过程。法律应当以知识的产权化、商品化、资本化、要素化、产业化和异化为着力点 ,对知识经济进行调整。     

论转化犯

转化犯是指我国法律所规定的某种违法现象或者较轻的犯罪 ,在一定条件下向犯罪或者另一种较重的犯罪转化 ,并依照转化后的犯罪定罪处罚的犯罪形态。我国刑法中的转化犯 ,分两种形式 :一是刑法明文规定的转化犯 ;二是“两高”司法解释中规定的转化犯