Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

‘Ser Eleno’: Insurgent identity formation in the ELN

In conflict studies, identity has been posited as an explanatory factor of the resilience of insurgencies. This article focuses on the identity formation of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a leftist insurgency group in Colombia. As a Marxist–Leninist organisation, the ELN aims to overcome capitalism. In their perception, this is possible via the transformation of the individual into a ‘collective personality’. Along the dimensions of ‘content’ and ‘contestation’, we will demonstrate the mechanisms they impose for such identity formation. Identity, as we will argue, is a main factor in explaining why people participate in this insurgency and thereby enhance its resilience.     

冲突与融合：民族教育的文化解析

各民族文化与教育在发展过程中都面临着冲突与融合的问题。本文从多元文化视角下民族教育的内涵入手,通过对文化冲突的深入剖析,总结了民族教育中文化冲突的表现形式,得出了要通过多元文化整台教育的理念以及改革学校教育来融合民族教育中的文化冲突。     

话语体系与国家安全

话语体系是当今人文社会科学研究的热词,也已成为影响国家安全的一个重要因子。论文首先介绍话语体系的概念及其特点,报告了话语体系研究的缘起和发展脉络、主要学科与核心关键词以及主要相关文献,并对当前研究现状进行总结。分析了话语体系与国家的关系,并从国家的主体思想、发展道路、身份特质、文化自信、文明追求、话语权等方面阐述了话语体系对国家安全的重要性。论文指出,话语体系是影响国家安全的重要领域,也是国家之间博弈的重要阵地。     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Storming to partition: Croatia,the United States,and Krajina in the Yugoslav War

To many scholars and policymakers, ‘partition’ offers the most efficacious means of resolving ethnic-civil wars. Others reject partition as a solution, citing flaws (both logical and empirical) and harmful international implications should such an approach become commonplace. What has been missing from this debate is an understanding of how the process of partition unfolds. In this article we examine such a process, the case of the Krajina in the war in Yugoslavia, 1994–1995. The US aligned itself with Croatia against Serbs rebelling in the Krajina region of Croatia. The culmination of this alignment occurred in August 1995 when Croatian forces initiated ‘Operation Storm’ (Oluja) against Croatian Serb insurgents. Croatian forces effectively cleansed the Krajina of its Serbian population. Eager to initiate a diplomatic peace process, Washington welcomed the Croatian operation, and largely because of Operation Storm, negotiations at Dayton became possible.     

关于新疆少数民族高校毕业生就业的调查问卷分析——用人单位、学生家长调查问卷结果分析

新疆少数民族高校毕业生就业问题研究课题组针对新疆在校民、汉大学生、用人单位、学生家长分别制作了不同的调查问卷,本文对回收的用人单位和学生家长调查问卷结果分别进行分析说明,从不同层面考察新疆少数民族高校毕业生的就业状况。     

ACCRUAL BUDGETING AND DEFENCE FUNDING: THEORY AND SIMULATIONS

This paper explores the impact of moving to accrual budgeting on resources allocation in defence. Standard defence budgeting and investment models are used to assess the theoretical implications of accrual budgeting. In addition, a number of simulations are conducted to assess the long-term implications of moving to accrual accounting and budgeting. The result of the simulations shows that changes to deployed operations and other operational shocks will have manageable impacts on readiness but systematic shocks associated with defence unit prices, procurement policies and defence specific inflation will put considerable strain on the defence department's flexibility.     

道德认同视角下的亲社会行为培养机制探析

十八大报告提出了推进公民道德建设工程的重大任务,而亲社会行为的培养正是公民道德建设工程的重要目标。道德认同是激发亲社会行为的重要动机,增进道德认同是培养社会成员亲社会行为的根本途径,因而亟须在道德认同视角下深入探讨亲社会行为的培养机制。当前社会背景下,完善亲社会行为的社会规则认同机制、社会归属认同机制、社会责任认同机制、社会支持暖化机制、社会回报强化机制和社会实践固化机制是针对现存突出问题应做出的理性选择。     

I DESIRE,THEREFORE I PROLIFERATE

It is rare to find a well-formulated study that describes the behavioral aspects of leadership in the political realm. Even more infrequent is a combined study of individual behaviors as it applies to a large techno-political issue such as nuclear proliferation. India, Argentina, Australia, and France are used as cases for application of a national identity conception model. The model is based on two dimensions, solidarity and status, that when combined, result in a leader's identification with other nations’ abilities to be a player in the nuclear arms community. While the work is behavioral in context, there is no effort to avoid the technological side of proliferation, so as to provide a balanced review of a complex issue.