DALAI'S VISIT TO TAIWAN:Further Proof That He Is the Tool Of International Anti-China Forces

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A VISIT TO YAKUTIA

This paper discusses perceived benefits and disadvantages of direct inflation targeting for economies in transition in Central Europe. It examines the experience of net inflation targeting in the Czech Republic and of CPI forecast targeting regimes in Poland, providing specific suggestions for enhancing transparency of monetary policy. Inflation targeting is compared with exchange-rate pegging and is viewed as a superior solution for facilitating the monetary convergence of central European EU candidates to the inflation level prevailing in the eurozone. Other benefits of inflation targeting for central banks in transition economies are described as well. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: E31, E52, P33. 5 figures, 2 tables, 22 references.     

Peace Conferences and the Century Of Total War: The 1899 Hague Conference and What Came After

The Hague Peace Conference of 1899 was unprecedented and momentous. Pressed by public concern about the arms race and its costs, the governments of all great and most lesser powers, suppressing their doubts about the possibility of achieving anything, convened in May 1899 to discuss the Tsar's draft proposals for general measures of disarmament and pacification. Although there was too much mutual suspicion for any progress with disarmament, the Conference opened up a new era in international relations: its multilateral treaty to encourage arbitration and its establishment of a permanent court to facilitate this may be seen as the germ of the International Court of Justice; and within a batch of measures designed to modernize the laws of war, the Hague Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, recapitulated at the second such conference in 1907, became the basis of our century's laws of war. Apart from those achievements, given the grand aims of the Conference and the public interest it generated, it can be seen as a prototype of all League of Nations and United Nations gatherings ever since.     

花马礼:16-19世纪中缅边界的主权之争

本文系统研究了明代后期和清代困扰中缅关系的中国部分边境土司给缅甸王朝送“花马礼”的问题 ,认为花马礼起源于 16世纪后期缅甸东吁王朝的扩张 ,到清代 ,送花马礼的土司主要是车里和孟连 ;花马礼之废 ,则在缅甸雍籍牙王朝灭亡时。从清王朝和土司的态度来说 ,花马礼主要是中央王朝对边疆地区的控制不严和缅甸王朝对中国边疆土司事务的干涉而沿袭下来的 ,但花马礼的存在 ,并不意味着边境部分土司的“两属” ,而是反映了清代国家观念和周边国家传统观念的不一致所产生的主权争端。     

Iranian Cinema in the Twentieth Century: A Sensory History

This essay addresses itself to the century long history of cinema in Iran, focusing on the history of the senses as they combine with and are extended by film technologies. It argues that Khomeini's aim was to produce a transformed and Shi'ite Iran by purifying the sensorial national body by means of film technologies.