传统思想政治理论课考核体系的弊端及其改革

传统的思想政治理论课的考核体系中存在着诸多问题,关键在于没有准确地把握知识教育与思想政治教育的关系。因此,传统政治理论课考核体系的改革就应从知识教育与思想政治教育的基本关系定位出发,在把握好改革的前提和基本原则的基础上,进行具体的改革实践分析。     

基于科学发展观视角下的会计教学改革

随着高等教育的大众化,社会对会计人才需求呈现出多层次的特点,现代会计教育已进入素质教育的新阶段。注重学生创造性思维的培养,注重学生能力与素质的提高应成为各高校今后会计教学改革的方向。本文从科学发展观的视角,在分析了会计本科教学现状的基础上,理性地提出了要实现会计教学培养目标,必须转变教育观念,适应科学发展观的要求,推动会计教学改革。     

新阶段深化武警部队后勤保障社会化的思考

随着我国社会经济的快速发展,武警部队后勤保障社会化改革工作也进入新的阶段,应从着力点的选择、具体措施的制定和强化监督管理三个方面,对新阶段武警部队后勤保障方式社会化工作进行改革。     

公安现役部队内部审计转型初探

目前,公安现役部队审计正处在由传统审计向现代审计加快发展的重要转型期。需要大胆突破传统审计方式的局限,以服务部队中心工作为导向,以规范审计机制为重点,以创新审计技术为关键,以推进审计成果共享为途径,切实提高审计监督的服务层次和服务水平,不断推进审计工作改革创新。     

扎实推进任职教育中的案例教学

案例教学是一种适应任职教育需要的实践性教学方式,能够培养学员问题意识、激发学员认知潜能、促进学员能力生成。扎实推进案例教学,要求教员掌握组织实施案例教学的程序方法,要求院校更新教学理念、提高教员水平、建设高质量案例库。     

武警院校贯彻教学改革《实施方案》需要把握的问题

武警部队启动了新一轮教学改革,并下发了《武警院校教学改革实施方案》。武警院校在新一轮教学改革中要积极有为,必须首先解决好如何准确定位、区分对象和聚焦岗位的问题。为此,着重从科学定位、分层实施教学和拓宽创新领域等方面为推进武警院校教学改革提供基本的思路。     

Collective action and the common enemy effect

How is collective defence by players affected when they face a threat from an intelligent attacker rather than a natural threat? This paper analyses this question using a game-theoretic model. Facing an intelligent attacker has an effect if players move first and visibly set their defence strategies, thereby exposing any players who do not defend, and if the attacker is, moreover, not able to commit to a random attack. Depending on the parameters of the game, the presence of an intelligent attacker either increases the probability that players jointly defend (where such joint defence either does or does not constitute a utilitarian optimum), or decreases the probability that players jointly defend (even though joint defence is a utilitarian optimum).     

Militarism in post-war Cyprus: the development of the ideology of defence

This article provides a theorisation of militarism in post-war Cyprus. Based on qualitative empirical research conducted in Cyprus in 2011, the article explores the manifestation and steadfastness of Greek-Cypriot militarism, and the development of this militarism, which appeared after the partition of the island in 1974. In particular, it proposes the ideology of defence as a way to understand post-war Greek-Cypriot militarism. It shows the embedded nature of defence in the idea of the national struggle. It aims at mapping the character of this militarism in order to provide the grounds for future discussion. Only by understanding the interconnecting discourses that made Greek-Cypriot militarism possible in post-war Cyprus, can we understand its past, present, and future.     

Defence industrial policy – a sound security strategy or an economic fallacy?

This article explores whether it makes sense for national governments to employ defence industrial policies – such as offsets and discriminatory procurement practices – to support their domestic defence industries. This question has so far primarily been discussed by economists, who have argued strongly against the use of defence industrial policies. This article maintains that these economists fail to address the often complex motivation behind the introduction of these policies. It illustrates these shortcomings by contrasting their arguments against a case study of Norway, which accounts for the country’s use of defence industrial polices from the early post-Second World War era up until today. The article concludes that, depending on their objectives, defence industrial policies can be seen as either a sound security strategy or an economic fallacy.     

Strategic and Budgetary Necessity,or Decision-making ‘Along the Grain’? The Royal Navy and the 1981 Defence Review

The 1981 Defence Review undertaken by John Nott as Secretary of State for Defence controversially and dramatically cut the capabilities of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet. Many of those involved in these decisions have emphasised the budgetary and politico-strategic drivers for these reductions in capability, and the first generation of academic analysis has broadly followed this position. However, recently released government and private archival sources demonstrate that Nott’s review was initially much more severe than thought, and that this was due as much to the presumptions and assumptions of the key decision makers as to any strategic or budgetary factors.