Review Article: Hot War,Cold War,New War

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客家:社会身份、土客械斗与华南地方军事化--兼评刘平著《被遗忘的战争》

移民、客家及其对地域社会变迁的影响,是中国近世历史上非常突出的现象。近年来,随着社会史研究的深入和扩展,近代中国乡村社会权力结构及其变迁之类的问题①,尤其是华南地方社会的历史建构过程和运行机制②,已经引起了学界的相当重视。不过,在清代华南社会中十分常见的土客冲突现象及其对地域社会运行的影响,依然没有引起史学研究者的充分关注。③另一方面,近十几年来客家研究方面论文、著作不断涌现④,似乎已经形成一种专门的学问———客家学,不过它也有一个致命的弱点,即扎实的历史性探讨比较欠缺,由此制约了相关论说的学术深度和说服力…     

Peering into the Fog of War: The Geography of the WikiLeaks Afghanistan War Logs, 2004-2009

A team of U.S. political geographers analyzes the secret Afghanistan war logs released by WikiLeaks.org. They offer the chance to examine in detail the dynamics of the conflict in that country. Doing so in a spatial framework is possible because each of the 77,000 events has geographic coordinates and dates. Using cartographic and geostatistical tools, the authors map the changing distribution of the events and compare them to the well-known violent-events ACLED database (see O'Loughlin et al., 2010 in this issue). They conclude that ACLED comprises a representative set of the more comprehensive data in the released files. The released war logs show that the Afghan insurgency spread rapidly in 2008-2009, that the insurgency is moving out of its traditional Pashtun heartlands, and remains mostly rural in location. Hotspot and cluster analysis identifies the key locations of the current war, which indicate that it is relocating to new provinces in Afghanistan while intensifying in the eastern border regions and in the south.