Dial 'M' for Metonym: Universal Exports,M's Office Space and Empire

For James Bond, Britishness is most often realised outside the British Isles, within the old Empire. Whenever physically located in Britain proper, he is most likely to be found in the offices of Universal Exports otherwise known as the British Secret Service. M's office is a metonym for England, a stable point of departure for Bond's adventures, and a site from which to theorise the relationship between M (England) and Bond (Britain); ideology, iconography and office fittings; changes and challenges to that 'office space'; cognitive mapping and the resonance of a British signifier on the margins of empire.     

论回汉民族关系亲密的四大共因

本文重点对人们司空见惯而又习焉不察的回汉亲密的民族关系的共因作论述和分析。全文依次从回汉血缘关系的共同性,回汉同仇敌忾、反侵略、反压迫的共同性,回汉价值取向和性格的共同性,回汉两族语言使用的共同性四个方面有理有据地证明回汉民族从相互接触到相互学习再到相互认同的过程,正是整个中华民族由分散走向团结再走向和谐凝聚的一个生动缩影。这对了解中华民族多元一体的整合过程,对当今构建和谐社会的和谐民族关系有重要的现实意义。     

Information and communications technologies, strategic asymmetry and national security

In the history of warfare, there are a number of examples of strategic uses of asymmetric technologies. Consistent with history and theory, individuals, organizations and nations have spotted opportunities to employ information and communications technologies to gain and exploit asymmetric advantages and to counter asymmetric weaknesses. This article discusses various asymmetries associated with institutions, nations and organizations that influence the ICT-national security nexus. Regulative, normative and cognitive institutions in a country provide various mechanisms that affect the nature of positive and negative asymmetries. Nations and organizations also differ in terms of their capability to assimilate ICT tools to gain positive asymmetries and deal with vulnerabilities of negative asymmetries. Integrative approaches that combine policy and technological measures at various levels are likely to make the world more secure.     

An integrated model of national HRD and critical HRD: considering new possibilities for human resource development

Though both National Human Resource Development (NHRD) and Critical Human Resource Development (CHRD) have received an increasing amount of attention, only two published works have used an explicitly critical approach to discuss NHRD norms, policies, and practices. The purpose of this article was to examine and articulate the relationship between NHRD and CHRD and make a case for the importance of that relationship to the field of HRD. We identify some commonalities between NHRD and CHRD, including the shared priorities of context, culture, and empowerment, which provide a strong foundation for future focuses on theory-sharing, global awareness, holistic and socially conscious economic development, negotiated power and performance, and emancipation in HRD research and practice.     

基于灰色聚类的社会评价模型及省辖市的实证

根据"坚持以人为本,全面、协调、可持续发展"的科学发展观的内涵,根据人民生活质量,教育卫生等五个准则层构建了社会综合评价指标体系。利用三角白化权函数理论,建立了基于灰色聚类的社会综合评价模型,并采用辽宁省14个地区的截面数据进行了实证研究。本文的创新与特色一是通过将可观测的国民幸福指数纳入评价体系,反映了人们对自身生存和发展状况的感受和体验,改变了现有评价没有考虑人民幸福程度的缺点。二是通过人均可支配收入和最低生活保障线等可获得数据指标计算准基尼系数,间接反映了社会发展过程中的收入分配差距现象,解决了现阶段因辽宁省未统计基尼系数指标而无法对社会发展进行科学评价的问题。三是通过在灰色聚类评价模型中通过熵权法确定指标权重使权重结果客观并唯一,避免了主观赋权方法得出的因人而异的现象。四是运用灰色聚类模型对辽宁省各地区社会发展进行聚类评价,有效地揭示了辽宁省各地区社会发展的不平衡性特征。     

Reshaping state/local communities relations in Tunisia: The socio-cultural and institutional challenges of the decentralization project

International development agencies believe that by adopting institutional reforms based on the best practices that have proved effective elsewhere, so-called « developing countries » could take their places in the globalised economy. Based on a case study carried out on the implementation challenges of a decentralization project in Tunisia, I will argue by using an interpretive approach that this thesis is not sustained. This article shows that institutions cannot be reduced to their technical functions but that they are based on particular collective imaginaries that ground what is legitimate or not and structure the relationship of individuals to power and the meaning given to their actions. It encourages the consideration of cultural framework of meaning; these local cultural references structure the governance modalities of a society, understood in terms of the modalities of exercise of power in a given group (state, company, local authority, etc.). It advocates the necessity to move from a technic-prone approach in the implementation of institutional changes towards a socio-cultural approach that integrates the local expectations of what “good governance” should be and on which depends the legitimacy of institutions and their appropriation by local populations.     

物联网产业的统计界定及其分类研究

作为一项新事物,物联网得到愈发多的关注,它被称为是继计算机、互联网之后世界信息产业发展的第三次浪潮。作为我国的战略性新兴产业之一,物联网产业是我国目前和未来要重点发展的产业,但是,关于物联网产业尚无明确的统计界定,无形中给该产业的统计研究工作带来了一定的困难。在此背景下,本文在探讨国内外对物联网的界定及存在的问题的基础上,提出我国物联网产业的统计界定、划分我国物联网产业统计分类应遵循的原则及其分类框架,并分析该分类与《国民经济行业分类》间的关系。     

全球化语境下的身份认同与现代性追寻——关于聂茂《民族寓言的张力》及其他

聂茂先生的《民族寓言的张力》,站在全球化理论前沿,结合中国的特殊国情和本土文化的具体语境,借助于西方话语体系对中国新时期文学进行解读。其既对各个文学思潮中的经典文本进行“解码”,又对各个时期创作群体的特征进行“把脉”式的“阐释”,希望借此获得“历时”的“深度”,一种“共时”的“广度”,以及一种立体的“厚度”。聂茂先生通过这种精细解读,将一堆堆隐藏在材料之下的作品原义最大限度地呈现出来了。在他看来,中国新时期文学创作群体的共同努力,不仅冲击了第一世界文化霸权的“自在预想”,而且修补、充实、拓展和丰富了西方话语体系之本身,中国新时期文学在“世界文学”的大家庭中有着“不可轻忽”的意义。     

南京国民政府水政立法研究

南京国民政府的水政立法是中国水政史上一个承前启后的阶段,继承了历代水政立法的成就,又有所创新,体现了以下特点：重视水政立法工作;水政立法体现了对大江大河综合治理的要求;在水政管理机构设置和职责分工上,既明确职责范围,又互相监督、互相制约。但是,由于受到种种限制,所取得的成绩距离民众的期望以及社会的现实需要尚有很大差距。