Explaining the impact of militancy on Iran–Pakistan relations

ABSTRACT

Sectarian militants have for years launched attacks from Pakistan across the border to Iran. Finding sanctuary in a neighbouring country can make the difference between success and failure for militants. Conventional wisdom holds that a lasting transnational militancy challenge would typically create serious interstate conflict. Militancy has triggered armed encounters between Iran and Pakistan. This article argues that despite some tension militancy has resulted in deeper cooperation in the ambivalent dyad. Both states’ overarching security concerns, having exhausted other options, the believed involvement of third-party states, and economic potential, have moderately alleviated negative pressure caused by militancy.     

On the Road to the 2015 NPT Review Conference

The second session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference (RevCon) of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) highlighted two issues in particular—progress toward a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction–Free Zone and the Joint Statement on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons—that may not only greatly affect the health and vitality of the NPT and the 2015 RevCon, but possibly also have implications for the international nonproliferation regime as a whole. Dr. William Potter, director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, interviewed Ambassador Cornel Feruta, chairman of the 2013 PrepCom, to discuss these and other issues related to the meeting and the future of the treaty and its review process.     

Investigating the Desirability of Navy Aircraft Service Life Extension Programs

Building on prior work on optimal replacement of aging aircraft, this paper presents three methodologies to evaluate prospective aviation Service Life Extension Programs (SLEPs) and applies these methodologies to US Navy F/A-18E/F data. While considerable uncertainty remains as to the values of key parameters (e.g. the cost of F/A-18E/F SLEPs), the preponderance of the evidence available at this juncture favors undertaking SLEPs on F/A-18E/Fs rather than replacing them with new Joint Strike Fighters.     

The United States' retreat from the Middle East and pivot to the Far East is likely to intensify

A combination of threat analysis and “subterranean forces” (such as proclivities to fight conventional wars as compared to asymmetric ones) leads the USA to prefer focusing on the threats from China rather than those emanating from the Middle East.     

论中国教育现代化中的依附性问题

按照依附理论,从历史发展的过程及社会结构的角度来看,中国教育现代化有很强的依附性特征。基于此,中国教育在其现代化过程中,必须在利用依附发展特性的基础上,摆脱、超越对西方发达国家教育的依附;中国教育现代化必须处理好与经济发展、政治民主、法制建设之间的关系,以此促进自己的现代化进程。     

模糊偏序关系的一种信息集成方法

以模糊超过关系、模糊不协调关系为例,就模糊偏序关系给出了一种基于分组加权极大(极小)算子的信息集成方法,讨论了该方法的一致性、非独裁性等性质.     

精神困境·救赎之路·孤独之旅—谈鲁迅与史铁生

史铁生是当代著名作家,他的作品思想深邃,精神探索超前,艺术方面也达到一定高度,鲁迅对他的影响很深刻,二人的创作无论在内容方面还是在艺术方面都有异曲同工之妙,二人共同关注着精神困境和生命本真,共同寻找和思考救赎之路,并且用三种相同的方式表达孤独。     

清季民初国家主义教育思潮及其影响述论

作为近代中国教育思潮的一种,国家主义教育思潮最早出现在清末,五四后至二十年代达到鼎盛,其标志是出现了专门的教育团体——国家教育协会和专门的学派——国家主义教育派。清季民初国家主义教育思潮的兴起与发展,从内因上看是受民族危机的刺激,在外因上则是受日本和欧美同类思潮的影响。该思潮对清季民初中国教育,特别是对二十年代的收回教育权运动,产生了重要影响。     

伟大的旗帜深刻的意蕴

党的十七大鲜明确立了中国特色社会主义旗帜的指导地位。中国特色社会主义旗帜,是马克思主义真理观和价值观相统一的旗帜;其精神实质,是坚持科学社会主义基本原则与根据我国实际和时代特征赋予其鲜明中国特色的有机统一;其实践形态,是中国特色社会主义道路;其理论形态,是中国特色社会主义理论体系。高举中国特色社会主义伟大旗帜,就需要倍加珍惜、长期坚持和不断发展这条道路和理论体系。     

The Joint Chiefs of Staff,the atom bomb,the American Military Mind and the end of the Second World War

ABSTRACT

The decision by the US government to drop the atomic bombs on Japan is one of the most heavily debated questions in history. This article examines one element of that debate, in many ways the most surprising. That was the different views of the top of the military hierarchy in the USA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The JCS was on the whole more sceptical about using atomic weaponry than the USA’s civilian leadership, for ethical and strategic reasons. As such they were willing to consider very different ways of ending the war.