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121251
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2013.
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Stability preservation (??, weiwen) has been a core policy of the Chinese
communist government for the last two decades. China is the only major
country in the contemporary world to have set up stability preservation
offices at all levels of government alongside the normal administrative
institutions for social control. These offices are mainly staffed by the
existing personnel of the security apparatus, who in turn exercise control
over people and the propaganda apparatus, who exercise control over
information. The consequences of the stability preservation policy and
the "system of stability preservation" (????, weiwen tizhi) are widely
reported in the media, but the academic community is still in the initial
stages of understanding the process of this unique phenomenon in China
(Sandby-Thomas 2011; Shambaugh 2000; Social Development Research
Group 2010; Sun 2009; Yu 2009). Why has the Chinese government
pursued this policy? Is stability preservation in China a conventional
issue of "law and order"? Are the policy and institutions of stability
preservation effective in providing social and political stability? What are
the implications of these special arrangements for China and the Chinese
communist regime in the long run?
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171005
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133540
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2014.
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First, I would like to thank David Rapoport for making this exchange possible. It is an important aspect of scholarly debate that has been missing from terrorism research. I also wish to thank the authors of the comments on my article on the stagnation on some part of terrorism research. I appreciate their kind words about my past work. Such praise coming from colleagues I truly esteem, and from whom I've learned so much, means a lot to me. However, I would also like to correct their impression about my mood. Far from being gloomy or pessimistic, I took to survey the area of terrorism research in order to see where we are and what we should do as a collegium. What should we do to improve terrorism research? Let me address each of the commentators in the order I read them.
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075046
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2006.
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Most academic experts within the International Relations (IR) community and other, more specialized disciplines, failed to predict or warn government policymakers and the public of the possibility that events of 9/11 magnitude could take place on the U.S. homeland. Given that long-term investigation of trends in world affairs is one of the sources that has always informed policy analysis, this represents an interesting question to examine. The analysis contained in this assessment suggests that the ontological, methodological, and conceptual problems within and between the disciplines, combined with a skewed absorption with the prospect of developments in Asia, created a gap in the knowledge about Islamic terrorism and groups like Al Qaeda, which in turn caught most of the academic community unaware on 9/11. This article performs a quantitative study to determine the nature and scope of this apparent analytical failure on the part of academics in IR and other specialized disciplines to predict 9/11 and aims to address why this failure took place.
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ID:
118756
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2012.
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The subject of my article is relatively novel for Ukraine, a country that has been drawn into the worldwide development of multiculturalism. This means that the academic community should identify the parameters, fundamental features, and characteristics of the related changes.
In the course of our project we posed ourselves the task of identifying, on the one hand, the basic features of the Ukrainian society conducive to its multicultural format; on the other, the state of diverse ethnocultural groups living in Ukraine and their religious and cultural parameters that make it easier/harder to build up a multicultural society in the republic's very specific conditions.
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120826
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2013.
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In the contemporary world also, the academic community is faced with increasing calls for being useful and relevant. But what is the actual space for academic expertise and policy analysis in the making of foreign policy? How do the two coincide and coexist temporally? The article takes its starting point the work of Robert Cox and Fred Chernoff to debate the issue of policy-relevant knowledge and theory. In addition, the article seeks to analyze the spatial and temporal aspects of providing scholarly analysis in the actual making of policy. Drawing from this, the article concludes by sketching out three strategies, or roles, a scholar may apply in trying to get the message across different audience groups and in different contingencies.
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132060
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