浅析俄罗斯军事刑罚制度对我国的启示

我国军事刑法与俄罗斯军事刑法都分别在本国的普通刑法中用专章加以规定,相似之处很多。在军事刑罚方面,俄罗斯有很多专门针对军人、军事犯罪的特别刑罚很值得我国借鉴。对比中国和俄罗斯两国的军事刑罚,找出我国在军事刑罚方面的不足之处,借鉴俄罗斯军事刑罚制度中的可取之处,完善我国的军事刑罚制度,使之更适应我国军事、国防的发展需要,有利于预防军事、军人犯罪,提高我国军队战斗力。     

构筑中国新地缘安全战略的理论准备与思考

目前,中国面临的地缘安全挑战已经达到了一个危险的临界点,而对当前挑战的应对却没有表现出整体的成熟。显然,没有适应新形势的完整的地缘安全理论是造成出现不成熟的应对危机举措的重要原因。因此,从理论上突破传统中国地缘安全战略的影响,构筑新的完整的地缘安全理论,是一项紧迫而必须完成的任务。     

中美灾害应急救援指挥体系探析

近年来中国特大事故不断发生,应急救援不力是中国安全生产事故后果严重的主要原因之一。美国是世界上应急处理经验十分丰富的国家,借鉴美国应急管理机构的管理经验,建立适应中国国情的、行之有效的国家安全生产应急救援指挥体系已迫在眉睫。     

和谐理念的渊源及其当代阐释

和谐理念源远流长。《周易》是中国和谐思维的源头;和谐理念具有深层的气论根源——气化谐和;儒家的"和而不同"理念影响深远。西方的和谐理念深受毕达哥拉斯、赫拉克利特及黑格尔的深远影响。和谐理念是一种认识论和方法论,其内涵随时代的发展而不断丰富和完善。     

用科学发展观指导部队基层建设的实践与思考

从科学发展观的基本内涵出发,针对基层部队建设中存在的普遍问题,从全面建设、统筹规划、保持创新三个方面进行了论证,回答了科学发展观是指导部队基层建设的灵魂这个重大问题。     

Civil–military relations and organisational preferences regarding the use of the military in Chinese foreign policy: insights from the debate on MOOTW

ABSTRACT

This article analyses the positions of the Chinese civilian leaders and military elites on Military Operations Other Than War in order to shed light on their preferences about the use of the armed forces in foreign policy between the late 1990s and the early 2010s. Over time, a significant divergence developed between civilians and soldiers until 2011, when the Libyan crisis happened. The study also prompts important considerations about our understanding of civil–military relations in China and future role of the People’s Liberation Army as a tool of statecraft in foreign policy.     

Modern liberal wars,illiberal allies,and peace as the failure of policy

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The post-Cold War period nearly up to the present has been characterised as the age of liberal wars, yet key facets of the liberal guidance of war remain under appreciated. This article seeks to address this wider gap with regard to the particular concern of war termination and the fulfilment or failure of policy. First, it develops characterisations of liberal wars based on the existing literature, identifying three broad types through consideration of context—defensive versus offensive—and of political and strategic agency, particularly regarding the motives for and intents of action. Three types of liberal wars result: defensive liberal wars, offensive liberal wars with humanitarian motive and geopolitical intent, and offensive liberal wars with geopolitical motive and humanitarian intent. The article then presents one exemplary case for each liberal war with an emphasis on how liberal strategy required an illiberal ally and that ally's effect on the subsequent peace.     

Acrimony,asymmetry, and the Sino-Indian nuclear relationship

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While most contemporary analyses of South Asian nuclear dynamics acknowledge the presence of a strategic triangle between the region’s three nuclear players, the primary focus usually remains on the rivalry between India and Pakistan. Discussions of Sino-Indian relations remain limited. This is likely attributed to the stability in the two countries’ relations, yet it is worth asking why this stability exists and whether it is likely to continue in the future. Although China and India have an acrimonious relationship, their asymmetric nuclear capabilities and threat perceptions mitigate the danger of a traditional security dilemma. India may perceive China’s nuclear aggrandizement to be a security threat, but the same is not true of China, which has a vastly superior nuclear force and is largely shaping its nuclear-force structure in response to the threat it perceives from the United States. This dynamic makes a serious conventional or nuclear conflict highly unlikely.     

What U.S. Navy strategists and defense planners should think about in the era of maritime great power competition

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For the first time in a generation, the US Navy finds itself in an era of great power competition. As US naval strategists and defense planners begin to organise materially and conceptually to confront the strategic and operational-level challenges posed by China and Russia, what should they keep in mind? What should frame their thinking? Absorbed with the day-to-day tasks associated with managing how the fleet is being built, operated, and rationalised, these busy officers and civilians seldom can step back and gain some perspective on fundamental aspects of the security environment and relate those to naval purpose. To that end, this article provides a primer on what to keep in mind and how to think in an era of maritime great power competition.     

Pragmatism over principle: US intervention and burden shifting in Somalia, 1992–1993

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The conventional wisdom about the 1992 US intervention in Somalia is that it was a quintessentially humanitarian mission pushed by President George H. W. Bush. This article challenges that interpretation, drawing on newly declassified documents. The Somalia intervention, I argue, was largely a pragmatic response to concerns held by the US military. In late 1992, as the small UN mission in Somalia was collapsing, senior American generals worried about being drawn into the resulting vacuum. Hence they reluctantly recommended a robust US intervention, in the expectation that this would allow the UN to assemble a larger peacekeeping force that would take over within months. The intervention ultimately failed, but the military learned useful lessons from this experience on how to achieve smoother UN handoffs in the future and thus effectively shift longer-term stabilisation burdens to the international community.