比较的视角：中美研究生招考制度研究

本文以比较的视角，在招考管理权，招生人数控制、入学奖学金制度、考试内容以及招生录取标准等几个方面探讨了中美研究生招考制度的异同，分析目前我国研究生招生考试中出现的问题，最后得出解决问题的启示。     

论公安现役高校在构建和谐社会中的角色定位

公安现役高校在公安教育体系中处于重要位置,承担着人才培养、科学研究和服务部队的重要任务,对构建和谐社会责无旁贷。准确定位公安现役高校在构建和谐社会中所扮演的角色,可以充分发挥职能作用,为构建和谐社会做出应有贡献。     

Nuclear weapons and alliance institutions in the era of President Trump

The swearing in of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States presages, at the very least, a period of flux in American strategy with respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and alliances. In this response to three thoughtful rejoinders to our article, “Nuclear weapons, the United States and alliances in Europe and Asia: Toward an institutional perspective,” we clarify key aspects of our argument and discuss why alliance institutions are likely to be relatively robust in the face of change, how they can influence national decision-making, and argue that they may exert a moderating influence over the new administration.     

多媒体教学在高校文学课中的应用

多媒体教学以其题材丰富形象、形式新颖、课堂信息量大、节约课堂时间等优势,确立了在现代教学手段中的主要地位。但现阶段的多媒体教学还存在一些需要改进之处。本文分析了高校文学课多媒体教学的利弊,探讨了多媒体教学应用中出现的问题,并提出了相应的改进对策。     

试论高校和谐学术生态环境体系建设

高校建设和谐学术生态环境就是要构建一个民主自由、宽容开放、公平诚信、充满活力和创造力，学术人员之间、学术人员与非学术人员之间、学术活动与其他活动之间等和谐相处的学术环境系统。该文从学术生态环境的内涵入手，分析了和谐学术生态环境建设对高校发展的作用。提出高校要通过建设宽松的学术研究环境、激励创新的政策环境、和谐共进的人际环境，构建出和谐的学术生态环境。     

高等学校办学定位探究

办学定位是高等学校确定发展方向、配置资源、形成特色的基本依据,关系到办学的兴衰成败和人才的培养质量,办学定位包含办学目标定位、办学类型定位、办学水平定位、学科性质定位、人才培养定位、办学规模定位、办学特色定位、服务面向定位等内容,高等学校要从社会需求和自身实际出发,切实把握办学定位的原则,科学合理地确定办学定位。     

军队律师若干问题研究

军队律师,是专门为其所在部队、部队官兵及军属提供法律服务,保障依法治军的专业法律工作者,具有军人和律师的双重身份。建立和完善军队律师制度,不仅是完善我国律师制度体系的内在要求,也是依法治军,建设社会主义法治国家的必然要求。     

Nuclear weapons,the United States and alliances in Europe and Asia: Toward an institutional perspective

America’s alliances in Europe and East Asia all involve some institutional cooperation on U.S. nuclear weapons policy, planning or employment—from consultative fora in Asia to joint policy and sharing of nuclear warheads in NATO. Such cooperation is often analyzed through the prism of “extended nuclear deterrence,” which focuses on the extension of U.S. security guarantees and their effect on potential adversaries. This article argues that this underplays the importance of institutional factors: Allies have historically addressed a range of objectives through such cooperation, which has helped to catalyze agreements about broader alliance strategy. The varied form such cooperation takes in different alliances also flows from the respective bargaining power of allies and the relative importance of consensus, rather than perceived threats. The article concludes that nuclear weapons cooperation will remain crucial in successful U.S. alliance management, as allies negotiate their relationship with each other in the face of geostrategic change.     

Political transition to democracy

This paper argues that the crisis of electoral democracy in Zimbabwe and Cote d'Ivoire is a result of underlying structural and institutional deficiencies within national and regional multinational institutions. It assesses the extent to which they have been ‘enablers’ or ‘spoilers’ of electoral-based transitions to democracy. Yet it avoids generalisations of the security sector's involvement in political transitions. In terms of structure, the paper is divided into four sections. Section one will briefly discuss the theoretical perspectives of the election-democracy trajectory. It argues that although elections are a major variable for democracy, unless the ‘ecology of elections’ is conducive, elections may not be an instrument of transition to democracy. The second section analyses the militarisation of politics and the role of the security sector in aiding or stalling democratisation. Section three will assess the role of regional organisations such as the Southern African Development Community, Economic Community of West African States and the African Union in electoral-based political transitions in Africa. Lastly, the paper will discuss how the security sector and multinational African institutions can aid political transitions to democracy in troubled African countries.     

What Goes Up Must Come Down: Military Expenditure and Civil Wars

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of civil war on military expenditure. We employ two measures of military expenditure: the share of military expenditure in general government expenditure and the logarithm of military expenditures. We would reasonably expect a priori that military expenditure as a share of general government expenditure increases during a civil war and that such increases would taper off over the duration of a civil war. We also explore whether the termination of a civil war induces a decline in the share of military expenditure as a share of the general government expenditure in the short-run. We find evidence the of share of military expenditure increases during a civil war and falls in the year succeeding the end of a civil war, and, in particular, if a war ends in a peace treaty. The level of military expenditures, however, rises during civil wars and does not appear to decline in the short-term after the end of a civil war.