President-elect Barack Obama once said that to the United States,China is neither an enemy nor a friend,it is a competitor. I think after Obama takes office as the president,the new American administration will deepen...President-elect Barack Obama once said that to the United States,China is neither an enemy nor a friend,it is a competitor. I think after Obama takes office as the president,the new American administration will deepen and elevate展开更多
The boom in use of private military companies is closely linked to the U.S.global strategic blueprint as well as to the contemporary inclination toward outsourcing,the ambiguity in international law,and today's mi...The boom in use of private military companies is closely linked to the U.S.global strategic blueprint as well as to the contemporary inclination toward outsourcing,the ambiguity in international law,and today's military insurgencies.As nations and separatist groups continue their objectives in secret,the companies they hire contribute to threats to national sovereignty,distort the criteria for legal access to war,violate human rights,hamper predictions for conflict outcomes,and create regulatory chaos.展开更多
One of the grand problem in the contemporary political history of Ethiopia is an incessant struggle for democratic transition and subsequent failures.Since the 1913,all the attempted hoped-for political transitions ha...One of the grand problem in the contemporary political history of Ethiopia is an incessant struggle for democratic transition and subsequent failures.Since the 1913,all the attempted hoped-for political transitions have been failed to bring democratic political order.Now Ethiopia has got another golden opportunity:a reform within EPRDF under the reformist prime minster Dr.Abiy Ahmed.However,the polemical question is whether the current democratic transition will success(bring democratic consolidation)or fail(reversion to authoritarianism).This paper,therefore,examined anatomy of missed opportunities for change in the modern Ethiopian political history with the intent of drawing the lessons to be taken into consideration from the past failures for current political reform the country has undergone.The study employed qualitative research approach in which data are gathered through document review and analyzed using critical discourse and historical narrative analysis techniques.The finding of the study shows that in all attempted hoped-for opportunities for change,the elite has followed a winner-takes-all-approach of politics than“a negotiated transition”based on win-win principled politics.Thus,all hoped-for-reform attempts are hijacked by the then elite aspiring hegemonic leadership,business as usual,and paradoxically it replaced new dictators who are more repressive and brutal than their predecessors.These historical legacies has also impacted the current transition the country undergone Therefore,this study suggests that there is a need to draw lesson from past failure:“decolonizing mind”and deconstructing a hyperbolically constructed invented myths that hindered societal transformation via epistemic community is an imperative to realize the country’s aspiration towards a democratic political order.展开更多
At present, human rights protection has been recog- nized as one of the three .main topics on the UNagenda together with development and security, due to its increasing importance in the arena of contem- porary intern...At present, human rights protection has been recog- nized as one of the three .main topics on the UNagenda together with development and security, due to its increasing importance in the arena of contem- porary international relations and international politics. The diffusion of human rights culture across the world will more or less facilitate the development of human rights in all states. Since more and more attention has been paid to related topics, the international community has begun to attach great importance to human rights education, which is regarded as the driving force in transforming human rights from theory to practice.展开更多
文摘President-elect Barack Obama once said that to the United States,China is neither an enemy nor a friend,it is a competitor. I think after Obama takes office as the president,the new American administration will deepen and elevate
文摘The boom in use of private military companies is closely linked to the U.S.global strategic blueprint as well as to the contemporary inclination toward outsourcing,the ambiguity in international law,and today's military insurgencies.As nations and separatist groups continue their objectives in secret,the companies they hire contribute to threats to national sovereignty,distort the criteria for legal access to war,violate human rights,hamper predictions for conflict outcomes,and create regulatory chaos.
文摘One of the grand problem in the contemporary political history of Ethiopia is an incessant struggle for democratic transition and subsequent failures.Since the 1913,all the attempted hoped-for political transitions have been failed to bring democratic political order.Now Ethiopia has got another golden opportunity:a reform within EPRDF under the reformist prime minster Dr.Abiy Ahmed.However,the polemical question is whether the current democratic transition will success(bring democratic consolidation)or fail(reversion to authoritarianism).This paper,therefore,examined anatomy of missed opportunities for change in the modern Ethiopian political history with the intent of drawing the lessons to be taken into consideration from the past failures for current political reform the country has undergone.The study employed qualitative research approach in which data are gathered through document review and analyzed using critical discourse and historical narrative analysis techniques.The finding of the study shows that in all attempted hoped-for opportunities for change,the elite has followed a winner-takes-all-approach of politics than“a negotiated transition”based on win-win principled politics.Thus,all hoped-for-reform attempts are hijacked by the then elite aspiring hegemonic leadership,business as usual,and paradoxically it replaced new dictators who are more repressive and brutal than their predecessors.These historical legacies has also impacted the current transition the country undergone Therefore,this study suggests that there is a need to draw lesson from past failure:“decolonizing mind”and deconstructing a hyperbolically constructed invented myths that hindered societal transformation via epistemic community is an imperative to realize the country’s aspiration towards a democratic political order.
文摘At present, human rights protection has been recog- nized as one of the three .main topics on the UNagenda together with development and security, due to its increasing importance in the arena of contem- porary international relations and international politics. The diffusion of human rights culture across the world will more or less facilitate the development of human rights in all states. Since more and more attention has been paid to related topics, the international community has begun to attach great importance to human rights education, which is regarded as the driving force in transforming human rights from theory to practice.
