增大政治工作科学含量之我见

增大政治工作科学含量,是提高政治工作效率、增强政治工作有效性的必由之路。本文论述了增大政治工作科学含量的必要性,并提出增大政治工作科学含量的六个切入点,即：对政治工作实施科学的宏观指导,围绕信息化建设开展政治工作,科学制定与完善思想政治教育内容与方法,科学理解和运用政治工作方法,提高政治工作主体素质,强化在继承中求创新的观念。     

浅析部队政治教育的语言特点

政治教育是基层政治工作的一个重要环节,课堂教育是政治教育的基本形式。部队政治教育的语言具有规范性、针对性、逻辑性和风趣性的特点,准确把握政治教育语言的特点和规律,对提升授课水平,提高教学质量,保持部队政治纯洁和思想稳定有着积极的作用。     

Beyond Just War: Military Strategy for the Common Good

The objective of this article is to move ethical discourse on military strategy beyond the confines of the established War Convention. This is achieved by utilising the common good, a concept found in political philosophy and theology. The common good acts as a positive organising concept for socio-political activity. With its focus on peace, development and the flourishing of the individual and community, the common good poses a significant challenge to strategy. This article constructs an approach to strategy that is compatible with the common good. Importantly, it does so whilst respecting the pursuit of victory as an indispensable component of strategy’s true nature. The theory presented in this article is then tested in relation to four different modes of strategy: regular war, irregular war, deterrence, and cyberwar.     

Regional mediation strategy: The case of Zimbabwe

The growth and survival of the field of conflict resolution can only be attained if practice is used to generate theory, rather than a reliance on the current situation where theory attempts to direct practice. Some conflict resolution practitioners believe that theory and practice cannot be separated. This article evaluates the art of mediation using Zimbabwe as a case study, where the strategy was used in an attempt to resolve the Zimbabwean conflict that began in 1999. Employing primary and secondary sources, the article delineates the major characteristics of mediation and clarifies principles of the strategy. It further establishes the affinity and dissonance between practice and theory. In addition, it asserts that in the Zimbabwean case, the achievements of insider-partial mediation as a strategy were limited. In the long term the mediation strategy failed because the Government of National Unity did not fulfil all the outstanding issues enunciated by the global political agreement as a precursor to free and fair, credible and legitimate elections. In opposition to the mediation targets towards sustainable peace, Zimbabwe witnessed rushed elections before the accomplishment of the issues at stake, leading to the overall failure of the insider-partial mediation.     

高校思想政治理论课的困惑与反思

高校思想政治理论课是大学生思想政治教育的重要组成部分。但是,在有的高校,作为高校课程体系重要内容的思想政治理论课遭遇了冷遇。其原因是多方面的,但最根本的深层次的原因是当今中国社会对待理性的追求与经验的沉迷的态度使然。具体表现为：人的全面发展与社会的实证科学支配、一元的主流思想与多元的社会思潮、工厂式的人才生产与个性化的发展要求三对矛盾的冲突。     

培养军校学员战斗精神的几点思考

战斗精神是军事人才必备的素质,军队院校要把培养学员战斗精神作为自己的神圣职责。军校学员战斗精神的培养主要应从以下几个方面着手,即：把政治理论教育作为培养学员战斗精神的基础环节,把军事训练作为培养学员战斗精神的主要渠道,把严格的日常管理作为促进学员战斗精神生成的主要手段;营造良好的校园环境激发学员的战斗精神。     

大力弘扬"老西藏精神"

"老西藏精神"是驻藏部队、地方援藏干部与西藏各族人民群众一道,在长期艰苦卓绝的革命斗争实践中不断积累形成的宝贵精神财富,"特别能吃苦、特别能忍耐、特别能战斗、特别能创业、特别能奉献"是对这一精神丰富内涵的生动概括。在半个多世纪里,"老西藏精神"激励着驻藏官兵戍边卫国,激励着无数西藏建设者扎根西藏、建设西藏。进入新世纪新阶段,大力弘扬"老西藏精神",对于我们更好地贯彻落实十七大精神,大力推进中国特色社会主义伟大事业,实现全面建设小康社会奋斗目标,全面履行新世纪新阶段我军肩负的历史使命,具有重要的现实意义和深远的历史意义。     

高校学生公寓思想政治教育问题与对策

近年来,高等教育逐渐普及,党中央日益重视对高校学生思想政治教育工作的开展。各大高校积极响应党的号召,正努力建设具有社会主义新时代的特色校园文化。在高校中学生公寓逐步被大家认为是学生走向生活的第一社会、第二家乡、接受教育的第三课堂。因此学生公寓成为进行思想政治教育、建设优良学风校风的新的重要场所。目前,越来越多的教育工作者重视学生公寓的育人工作,随着高校学生公寓思想政治教育功能的逐渐增强,一些教育管理问题也显现出来。探讨高校学生公寓思想政治教育中所遇到的问题以及相应的对策成为学生教育管理研究的重要课题。     

论生态价值视域下的思想政治教育

人与自然的关系在社会发展到今天,越来越得到人们的重视。以往的思想政治教育,人们总是把它的价值局限在政治价值、经济价值和文化价值上。高校的道德教育也是主要围绕如何处理人与人、集体和社会的关系等,而相对忽略了如何处理人与自然,包括人与其他生命体的关系的教育内容。正确认识人与自然的关系,对保护自然环境承担起责任,是当代大学生必须拥有的素质。     

ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AND CULTURE

We address empirically the question of why international economic sanctions are, or are not, chosen as instruments of foreign policy and the question of what determines their success. We hypothesize that cultural linkages between nations are an important factor in explaining both instrument choice and conflict outcomes. Countries that share significant cultural attributes are found to be less likely to apply economic sanctions against one another than countries lacking such cultural ties. However, it is precisely in the case of culturally similar sender and target nations that sanctions are most likely to succeed.