Face,Accounts, and Schemes in the Context of Relationship Breakups

This article investigates account strategies that individuals employ to neutralize identity threats caused by breakups from romantic relationships. I distinguish three narrative frames for such accounts: dumper, dumpee, and consensus narratives. Individuals who employ a consensus narrative frame provide accounts by default: they deny that any harm was done to anyone. Dumpers dismissed the breakup's conflictuality, used externalization strategies, and depicted themselves as empathetic. Dumpees used externalization strategies and denials of injury, emphasized their agency, and pointed out valuable changes of self. I then analyze the results from a phenomenological perspective to identify connections between accounting practices and the structure of the self. I argue that accounting for traumatic breakups is important for the development of schemes that guide perception, action, and the interpretation of biography.     

从国际法看人道主义干涉

人道主义干涉及其合法性问题一直是国际法理论和实践中一个颇具争议的问题。对人道主义干涉及其合法性的研究,一直是西方国际法学界研究的热点。人道主义干涉不仅涉及国际法,而且还涉及国际政治和国际关系。但从国际法的角度分析问题,当前的某些人道主义干涉同现行国际法是冲突的。     

试论企业化解家庭-工作冲突的策略

在现代企业环境中,家庭因素对员工工作产生不利影响的问题显得越发突出。从分析工作家庭冲突入手,提出了化解家庭—工作冲突的一些策略：树立“人高于一切”的企业价值观,制定有利于员工的家庭友好政策,增加对员工亲属的激励政策。     

胡锦涛的以人为本思想对人道主义的历史超越

分析社会主义人道主义与资本主义人道主义的根本区别,指出"以人为本"思想是社会主义人道主义的核心,是对以"个人主义"为核心的资产阶级的人道主义的历史超越。     

从国际法看"人道主义干预"

"人道主义干预"是美国等西方国家在冷战结束后大力提倡并广泛实施的政策,其实质在于妄图使以军事手段干涉别国内政的做法合法化,是霸权主义的恶性膨胀;它以"人权高于主权"、"人道主义干涉"的思维指导其行动,鼓吹保护人权和防止人道主义灾难比维护国家主权重要,粗暴干涉别国内政,是对国际法的基础--国家主权原则的公然违背,因而冲击着当今国际法体系,不利于建立和平稳定的国际新秩序.     

Stochastic Optimization for Natural Disaster Asset Prepositioning

A key strategic issue in pre‐disaster planning for humanitarian logistics is the pre‐establishment of adequate capacity and resources that enable efficient relief operations. This paper develops a two‐stage stochastic optimization model to guide the allocation of budget to acquire and position relief assets, decisions that typically need to be made well in advance before a disaster strikes. The optimization focuses on minimizing the expected number of casualties, so our model includes first‐stage decisions to represent the expansion of resources such as warehouses, medical facilities with personnel, ramp spaces, and shelters. Second‐stage decisions concern the logistics of the problem, where allocated resources and contracted transportation assets are deployed to rescue critical population (in need of emergency evacuation), deliver required commodities to stay‐back population, and transport the transfer population displaced by the disaster. Because of the uncertainty of the event's location and severity, these and other parameters are represented as scenarios. Computational results on notional test cases provide guidance on budget allocation and prove the potential benefit of using stochastic optimization.     

Cosmopolitanism and violence: difficulties of judgment

This paper addresses the difficult relation of cosmopolitan ideas to the existence of war and violence. It explores the ambivalences within the cosmopolitan outlook as it seeks to reconcile its attentiveness to the actuality of violence in the modern age with its normative vision of perpetual peace. I address these ambivalences through a discussion of a) what it is to learn from the catastrophes of the twentieth century; b) the contribution Kant's theory of cosmopolitan law to the solution to contemporary problems of violence; c) the reconstruction of cosmopolitan thinking in the wake of the Holocaust as an attempt to take atrocities seriously; d) the application of cosmopolitan criteria to the justification and authorization of humanitarian military intervention; and e) the attempt on the part of Habermas and Derrida to address the ambivalence involved in reconciling cosmopolitanism and violence in Kosovo and Iraq. While cosmopolitanism is usually understood as a reference to a worldly legal and institutional order, the cosmopolitan outlook is also a mode of understanding the world, an ethic of responsibility and an ongoing exercise of political judgment in the face of violence.     

Toward a Descriptive Model of Humanitarian Assistance Coordination

This paper argues that the operating environment of humanitarian assistance is best conceived as an interorganizational social network or regime and that the problem of power and authority in such situations must be re-founded or reconceived accordingly. This contention is developed to contribute to an important ongoing dialogue among analysts concerning how humanitarian aid may most effectively be delivered in the context of a realistic appraisal of the structural and operating conditions in which it is offered. The paper first outlines the primary elements of the organizational environment in which humanitarian efforts must proceed, next suggests a way of thinking about how one might conceive of those conditions that builds on recent work, and then sketches the elements of a strategic contingency approach to the humanitarian assistance coordination dilemma. This analytical frame leads one to rethink assumptions concerning how best to conceptualize both the environment and the behavior of humanitarian organizations engaged in providing assistance in emergency situations and to suggest that theory building for this domain of study should now turn to a network-based and strategically contingent perspective for its foundation.