ISO 45001 and controversial transnational private regulation for occupational health and safety

This article analyses the genesis of the ISO 45001 standard on occupational health and safety, a new initiative of transnational private regulation. The authors draw a picture of controversy from interviews with stakeholders involved in its design, approval and initial dissemination, and from a qualitative content analysis of the internal documentation of the committee responsible for its approval. Like its predecessors relating to environmental management – ISO 14001 – and corporate social responsibility – ISO 26000 – this new standard raises serious concerns among stakeholders given that it deals with substantive political, social and legal issues.     

The World Social Forum: the paradoxical quest for strength in plurality

ABSTRACT

In this reflexive essay, I explore how the present and the future of the World Social Forum are intimately related to the ability of its actors to acknowledge and actively address the inherent tensions of open spaces. The former must compose themselves articulating seemingly opposites: ideals shared within the World Social Forum vs. some practices not in accordance with its principles (enhanced in contexts of urgency); claimed horizontality vs. dynamic power relations; internal plurality vs. the need to act in unity to achieve systemic global change, amongst others. I will propose perspectives on how the strength of the WSF can be seen as its capacity to continue building radical hope for a positive shift of paradigm within progressive civil society: from divergences to resilient complementarities.     

Are Economic Development and Education Improvement Associated with Participation in Transnational Terrorism?

Using transnational terrorism data from 1980 to 2000, this study empirically examines the relationships between frequency of participation in transnational terrorism acts and economic development and education improvement. We find an inverse U‐shaped association between the frequency of various nationals acting as perpetrators in transnational terrorism acts and per capita income in their respective home countries. As per capita incomes increase from relatively low levels, frequencies of participation in transnational terrorism increase. However, at sufficiently higher levels of per capita income, further increase in per capita income is negatively associated with the rate of participation in transnational terrorism. Education improvement from elementary to secondary is positively correlated with frequency of participation in transnational terrorism events, whereas further improvement from secondary to tertiary level is negatively correlated with participation in transnational terrorism. We also find that citizens of countries with greater openness to international trade, lower degree of income inequality, greater economic freedom, larger proportion of population with tertiary education, and less religious prevalence participate in transnational terrorism events less frequently.     

教研同一 道术归一 知行合一——张柏然教授翻译人才培养观研究

张柏然教授关注翻译教学并从事翻译实践、翻译研究与翻译人才培养长达半个世纪，为祖国培养了60名高层次译学研究人才。张柏然教授研究型翻译人才和致用型翻译人才培养的理念可以用“创新引领、中西融通”“国学陶养、通才模式”和“能力导向、质量为本”24字概括，这些思想服务于他的翻译教学与人才培养，遵循从应然经使然再到实然的逻辑演绎路径，实现了翻译人才培养的教研同一、道术归一与知行合一，在“对外讲好中国故事、传播好中国声音”的大背景下，具有重大的实践价值。     

毒品犯罪的国际刑法规制

毒品犯罪所具有的跨国性,使得该犯罪靠一国的局部打击与单一防范难以奏效,从而要求国际刑法在超国家的层面上作出反应。由于各国对毒品犯罪的认识与处罚不同,有必要统一各国毒品犯罪处罚的力度与执行制度以及执行的辅助方法、侦查措施及程序,明确国家在毒品犯罪打击与防范中的义务和联合国对公认的毒品产地进行的直接打击。     

企业跨国经营中人力资源管理模式的选择研究

近年来,我国企业不断向外发展形成跨国经营趋势加大.由于种种原因我国企业对外经营管理的经验有限,尤其是至关重要的人力资源管理经验,关于跨国企业的人力资源管理模式研究远远不及实际应用.本文借鉴国内外人力资源管理模式,同时重点分析了影响人力资源管理模式的因素,在这些基础上创新性的提出了根据我国企业实际情况的人力资源管理模式,选择了一系列的较符合我国跨国企业的人力资源管理模式.     

百年诺贝尔奖获得者跨国移居流向的时空分析

科技人才是科技知识载体,科学大师定向流动造成科学中心从欧洲向美国转移。一百年以来,大批诺贝尔奖获得者由于躲避战火、追求良好科研环境和优厚待遇等因素,先后从欧洲大陆流向英国,从世界各地流向美国,导致科学中心从欧洲向美国转移。透过这些科学大师的迁移研究,寻找他们迁移的深层原因,以利于我国制定优惠政策,吸引人才、留住人才,为振兴中华科技事业构筑人才高地。     

Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the transnationalization of LGBT* activism in Japan and beyond

The global Covid-19 pandemic has strongly impacted social practices, relocating communications and social networks into the digital space. Contextualized in such impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the local LGBT* activism in Japan achieved a special momentum: both the acceleration of the socio-spatial relocation of LGBT* activism to the digital space and the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 by 1 year enabled activists to mobilize people domestically and globally. The pandemic was not the actual cause or driver of the local LGBT* activism, yet it has been an important catalyst for the transnationalization of the local movement in Japan, pushing evidently the spatial boundaries to achieve broader public outreach but in turn also receiving stronger support from the global community through transnational networks. This study explores novel dynamics of spatiality and temporality of social transformations through the Covid-19-induced increase in global digital connectedness as well as transnationalization of local actions.     

跨国公司国际环境责任承担机制研究

近年来,如美国墨西哥湾原油泄漏事件等因跨国公司全球化经营活动导致的国际环境破坏事件日益频发,国际社会急需建立统一和高效的国际环境责任承担机制。因此,对跨国公司国际环境责任有效承担机制问题的研究具有紧迫性和现实性。文章首先总结了目前跨国公司国际环境责任承担机制存在的现实困境和适用障碍,进而分析指出了当前跨国公司国际环境责任承担的发展趋势以及存在的制度性问题,最后提出了重新构建以多元责任主体、利益平衡兼顾和制度设计完善为特征的跨国公司新型国际环境责任承担机制的建议。