Internal Logic Research Articles

Textbooks on the international relations theory: What they talk about, what they keep silent about, and what to do about it

Theory represents the highest form of scientific knowledge in any discipline, a sort of certificate of maturity of the latter, and, at the same time, the key to its systematic teaching and understanding. From this point of view, international studies show a somewhat paradoxical picture. On the one hand, at the moment there is no shortage of either theoretical studies of international political issues or textbooks on the theory of international relations. On the other hand, their common leitmotif remains the idea that international studies either have not yet acquired a full-f ledged theory, or, due to their inherent complexity, dynamism and inconsistency are not subject to systematic generalization in principle. As a result, teaching of the IR theory turns out to be equally inconvenient for the lecturers, if they want to not just bombard students with terms and personalities, but teach them to effectively use different concepts and approaches, and for students. The author argues that these difficulties stem not only from the objective complexity of international processes and problems, but also from the subjective theoretical, methodological and philosophical specifics of the textbooks on the IR theory. To substantiate this claim this paper examines a selection of modern Russian and foreign textbooks on IR theory. The first section summarizes their key advantages, which include, first of all, the fact that they all successfully perform an educational function, introducing the reader to the key approaches, schools and theories that form the ‘body’ of modern IR theory. In this regard, one can easily find both textbooks specially designed for an unprepared audience which provide an introduction to the discipline, and publications containing an in-depth analysis of the driving forces and internal logic of the IR theory development. At the same time, as shown in the second section, all modern textbooks on IR theory share a number of common short-comings, which can be divided into methodological and philosophical ones. The former include not sufficiently substantiated logic of presentation, the lack of clear criteria for structuring the material and explicitly formulated principles for selecting approaches to be considered. The latter imply reliance on extremely shaky philosophical assumptions, which, consciously or not, reproduce post-modernist views on the problems of ontology and epistemology of international relations and international studies. And it is in a critical revision of these basic philosophical principles where, according to the author, lies the key to addressing the problems in both teaching the IR theory and formulating the theory of international relations in the strict sense.

Deeply Understand the Internal Logic of the Five Necessary Paths

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that the five necessary roads are the understanding of the law drawn by our party based on historical experience and practice for a long time, and play a far-reaching influence in leading the historical wheel of socialism with Chinese characteristics.In order to accurately follow the five necessary roads in the new era, we must deeply and systematically understand and grasp the rich connotation and development significance of the five necessary roads .

Green Finance Promoting the Growth of Total Factor Productivity

In green finance law as the research object, with green total factor productivity, trying to build green finance law under the market regulation perspective and green, the theoretical framework of total factor productivity, explore green finance law and green total factor productivity of internal logic relationship, in order to get a more objective and robust conclusion, based on the theoretical study, by adopting a measuring model of space, From the static and dynamic dimensions, this paper systematically verifies the effect on the productivity of green total factors in China.

Causes and Ways of Relieving Parents' Anxiety Under the Double Reduction Policy

With the continuous implementation of the nine-year compulsory education policy, parents are increasingly anxious about their children's education. According to the analysis of various existing situations, parents' anxiety is still in a very serious degree, and it is urgent to understand and analyze parents' anxiety. On this basis, through the research review and analysis of different literatures, this paper makes an in-depth analysis, clarifies the internal logic of parental anxiety, and understands the different internal and external factors that lead to parental anxiety. Internal factors are due to parents' worries about their children's education, their worries about their children's future and the success of their education. Not only that, parents' comparison psychology, fear of policy uncertainty, as well as parents' own age and cultural background and other factors concentrate on the internal factors of parents' anxiety. From the external point of view, with the actual situation has been changing the education policy, the current social tension employment situation, the influence of traditional concepts and social public opinion, and the uneven distribution pattern of education resources have further deepened the anxiety of parents. In addition, the reform form of cram school is not optimistic, the influence of parents' education of children around them and the unsatisfactory home-school cooperation have also made parents' anxiety gradually become diversified and complicated. Parents need to change their concept of education, regain confidence in their children's education, change the way of education and use advanced network technology to build home-school cooperation.

Этапы большого пути, или Отечественная философия языка второй половины ХХ — начала ХХI века

The article presents the results of the analysis of domestic paradigms of the philosophy of language of the second half of the twentieth – early 21st century. The processes of sequential construction and deconstruction of a series of domestic paradigms of the twentieth century are shown — the ‘new doctrine of language’ (Japhetic theory) (1923–1950), the inter-paradigm period (1950–1956), the ‘new Marxist linguistics’ (1957–1993) and the post–paradigm period (the end of the 90s of the twentieth century – the first quarter of the XXI century). Science is pushed forward not only by the discovery of new facts, but also a new look at old facts. The philosophical, political, national and linguistic problems faced by the government and scientific processes in the twentieth century are described in connection with various aspects of the life of Soviet and post-Soviet society, primarily with language policy. The appeal to the history of the philosophy of language in Russia is intended to help realize the internal logic and continuity of the development of the modern linguistic political culture of the country.

Nicholas Roerich: Loud Silence

The article is devoted to the artist and thinker N. Roerich, whose work not only covers the Russian and Soviet periods of our history, but according to its internal logic breaks up into two stages – national and cosmopolitan. If the “early” Roerich turned to the Ancient Slavic theme, to the study of the spiritual roots of Russia, for which he was accused of “leavened patriotism”, in the more mature period of his activity he became an apologist for universal values. According to A. Benoit, he made the transition to broad humanity. However, the author of the article shows that Roerich moved not just to universal values, challenging the opposition of the West and the East, antiquity and modernity, science and religion, but sought to assert universal cosmic values that undermined the idea of human exclusivity. Roerich's synthesizing thinking dissolved not only cultural, but also ontological differences. The success of Roerich's ideas in the Soviet and post–Soviet period of our history, according to the author of the article, indicates not the political reasons – Roerich's own attempts to synthesize Buddhism and communism – but the more fundamental shifts at the anthropological level. The crisis of Christianity, man’s rejection of the church conciliar consciousness, that is the rejection of the usual forms of subjectivity and at the same time the need for these forms, give rise to the phenomenon of a new mysticism. The popularity of Roerich's ideas is the wrong side of a society that organizes external life, but does not offer the completeness of the organization of a person's inner life. The author shows the anthropological fl aws of the phenomenon of new mysticism and reveals the meaning of universal values in terms of “spiritual subtraction”.

Research on the Influence Mechanism of New Mainstream Films on the Cultural Identity of College Students in Western Universities

The role of new mainstream films in the dissemination of mainstream values has become more and more prominent in the context of new media, and college students, as one of the audiences of new mainstream films, also play an important role as the disseminators of mainstream culture. Using the grounded theory as a guide, 20 students from a university in the western region were selected as samples, and semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted. Nvivo12 Plus software was used to sort out and integrate the interview data, to refine the relevant concepts and categories, and to construct a model of the influence mechanism of new mainstream films on the cultural identities of students in western universities. The study finds that the evolution of new mainstream films on the cultural identity of college students in western universities can be divided into four stages: In terms of film dissemination: technological empowerment, promoting cultural waves; In terms of plot setting: rooted in reality, shaping positive cognition; In terms of cultural expression: subtle influence, enhance character cultivation; In terms of far-reaching impact: innovative expression, planting the seeds of culture. Grasping the internal logic of the mechanism is not only conducive to the dissemination of the mainstream value kernel of the film, but also to the cultivation of the socialist core values of young college students as well as the deeper cultural identity of the country.

Digital enabled innovation ecosystems: a dual case study of knowledge flows in intellectual property platforms

PurposeThe embedding of digital technology and the fuzzy organizational boundary have changed the operation of platform innovation ecosystem (PIE). Specifically, as an important energy of PIE, the internal logic of knowledge flow needs to be reconsidered in the context of digital age, which will be helpful to select the cultivation and governance strategy of PIE.Design/methodology/approachA dual case-analysis is applied to open the “black box” of knowledge flow in the PIE from the perspective of enabled by digital technology, by taking the intellectual property (IP) operation platform as cases.FindingsThe research findings are as follow: (1) The knowledge flow mechanism of PIE is mainly demonstrated through the processes of knowledge acquisition, knowledge integration and knowledge spillover. During this process, connectivity empowerment and scenario empowerment realize the digital empowerment of the platform. (2) Connectivity empowerment provides a channel of knowledge acquisition for the digital connection between participants in PIE. In the process of knowledge integration, scenario empowerment improves the opportunities for accurate matching and collaborative innovation between knowledge supplier and demander, and enhance the value of knowledge. The dual effect of connectivity empowerment and scenario empowerment has accelerated the knowledge spillover in PIE. Particularly, connectivity empowerment expands the range of knowledge spillover, and scenario empowerment affects the generativity of the platform, resulting in the enhancement of platform’s capability to embed and expand its value network. (3) Participants have been benefitted from the PIE enabled by digital technology through three key modules (knowledge acquisition, knowledge integration and knowledge spillover), as the result of knowledge flow.Originality/valueThis study focuses on the knowledge flow mechanism of PIE enabled by digital technology, which enriches the PIE theory, and has enlightenments for the cultivation of digital platform ecosystem.

Disentangling the intersectional field of education and housing in China: Genesis, strategies and discontents

Drawing on the Bourdieusian concept of ‘field’ and the theorization of ‘intersectionality’, this paper proposes a concept ‘intersectional field’ to disentangle the complex interrelations between housing and education in China, where they mutually constitute and co-produce yet trouble and counteract with each other, whereby exerting simultaneous exclusion in cultural and economic (re)production. Drawing on policy documents and 38 in-depth interviews with various stakeholders in China, we first delineate the genesis and evolvement of this intersectional field. We then demonstrate how middle-class parents rationalize and strategize their heavy investment in cultural and economic reproduction against the most recent policies that seemingly aim to de-intersect/decouple these two fields. We show that the intersectional field of housing and education in China emerges from state-imposed rules while being increasingly self-reinforced. It was also temporarily counteracted and suspended responding to the escalated crises of housing unaffordability and over-competition over quality schooling opportunities, through policies like franchising key schools from the city centre to the suburb and random allotting enrolment. These changes in the ‘rules of the game’ indeed bring uncertainties to the intersectional field. However, while discontent to this intersectional field abound, these actions are self-constrained by the internal logic of the intersectional field and thus unable to bring fundamental changes. Those with limited socio-economic capacities remain extremely disadvantageous in both fields. The policy intervention turns out to be merely a spatial reordering that relocates and expands the fierce competition from the city centre to the suburbs while repositioning the suburbs to be the focal point for strategic investment in the intersectional field.

Formation of the genre of clavier sonata in Austria: sonatas by Leopold Kozeluch (from the music collection of the Razumovskys)

The article examines the period of European culture associated with the formation of the Viennese Classical School in Austria. The transition of music from the baroque to the classical style in the second half of the 18th century was marked by the work of some composers, whose works received various names of stylistic movements, such as “Storm and Wind”, or names specific to the style of orientation of these movements – gallant, sentimental or mixed. A special place in the constellation of composers from this period belongs to Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818), Czech by origin, who received a selected education in Prague and Vienna, being a student of F. Dušek and A. Salieri. Later, Leopold Kozeluchva occupied a place of honor in Austrian musical culture. Among the numerous works for harpsichord and other instruments signed by Leopold Kozeluch, the Three Sonatas dedicated to Princess Liechtenstein are of particular interest, due not only to the musical material of the sonatas themselves, which reproduce the solemn theme of J. Brahms’ work, but also, directly, to the person to whom they are dedicated – the Princess of Liechtenstein. The Three Sonatas in three movements can form an integral cycle, determined by the internal logic of the unfolding of the events, but they can also be interpreted separately, undoubtedly representing significant individual artistic values.

Research on"true community" concept: Textual analysis based on The German Ideology

The German Ideology is an important symbol of the maturity of Marxist philosophy. The idea of "true community" deeply reflects the internal logic and development of this original discourse in The German Ideology. Among them, "realistic individual" is the logical source of constructing "true community", the emergence, development and extinction of division of labor is the realization possibility of constructing "true community", and the free and all-round development of people is the ultimate goal of constructing "true community".

Global Ordering and the Interaction of Communities of Practice: A Framework for Analysis

Abstract Several new frameworks for the study of the differentiation of and relations between global orders have recently been introduced to International Relations. This article demonstrates how the communities of practice (COP) framework provides complementary as well as novel answers to processes of global ordering. COP theory has become a thriving research framework and has led to substantial innovative work on the internal logics of international institutions, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union, and various professions, such as diplomats. Surprisingly, researchers have so far not appreciated the potential of the approach as a more general theory of global order. We argue that lifting this potential implies focusing on the interaction of and spaces between communities as well as going beyond the study of the internal logics of a discrete community. We propose a framework for the study of this interaction with a focus on its spatial and agential dimensions. We then show how this leads to an innovative research framework, drawing on an illustration from the case of global ocean governance.

Gudina Tumsa’s Approach to Human Rights: a Dialogue between Anthropology and Christology

I shall present Rev. Gudina’s approach to the crucial issue of human rights. Put rightly, the very phenomenon that marks that particular period in Ethiopian history was the Marxist [-Leninist] ideology. Marxism emphasized social and economic issues more than anything to the extent of seeing human beings but in terms of this internal logic. Knowing the dangers of this socio-economic view of human beings, Rev. Gudina developed an approach to understanding of human nature from an informed [theological] anthropological perspective. Based on his theological-anthropological analysis of human nature he developed a stance on human rights. But theological anthropology was not the only starting point of Rev. Gudina’s perspective on human rights. In this paper, I shall discuss that Rev. Gudina’s approach to human rights was the result of his creative holding of a dialog between theological anthropology and Christology.

Latent representations in hippocampal network model co-evolve with behavioral exploration of task structure

To successfully learn real-life behavioral tasks, animals must pair actions or decisions to the task’s complex structure, which can depend on abstract combinations of sensory stimuli and internal logic. The hippocampus is known to develop representations of this complex structure, forming a so-called “cognitive map”. However, the precise biophysical mechanisms driving the emergence of task-relevant maps at the population level remain unclear. We propose a model in which plateau-based learning at the single cell level, combined with reinforcement learning in an agent, leads to latent representational structures codependently evolving with behavior in a task-specific manner. In agreement with recent experimental data, we show that the model successfully develops latent structures essential for task-solving (cue-dependent “splitters”) while excluding irrelevant ones. Finally, our model makes testable predictions concerning the co-dependent interactions between split representations and split behavioral policy during their evolution.

Analysis on the political construction of scale of state-level new areas

The State-level New Area is an emerging type of regional space produced by the national strategy of Regional Coordinated Development in China. It is not a fixed material entity nested in the practice of spatial production, but contains multiple scales of dynamic changes. Therefore, from the multi-dimensional connotations of scale, this paper discusses the internal logic and institutional shaping of political construction of scale. It is suggested that the State-level New Area has the geographic scale characteristics of vast and cross-regional area, the administrative scale characteristics of testability and recursion, and the power scale characteristics of flexibility and flattening. Finally, this paper highlighted that the ‘rigid’ political scale represented by the State-level New Area can directly promote the rise of city-regions, and can establish a new type of ‘central-local’ governance relationship. Thus, it is of great significance for China’s social and economic transformation and regional governance innovation to make good use of the ‘rigid’ scale tool of the State-level New Area.

Practice of Xi Jinping's Ecological Civilization Thought Leading Wenzhou Ecology in the New Era

Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, the ecological practice of Wenzhou in the new era was deeply studied. With the help of literature analysis, this paper first summarizes the main content and importance of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, and points out that this thought is an important part of the development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's great cause, with a strong background of the times and realistic orientation. Secondly, the article analyzes the main practice of ecological civilization construction in Wenzhou in the new era, and highlights the specific application of the concept of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", such as focusing on promoting the development of green industries and vigorously improving environmental quality. Thirdly, from the perspective of the combination of theory and practice, the article explains in detail how Wenzhou carries out its practice according to Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought, and thus reveals its internal logic and realization path. Finally, combining with Wenzhou's concrete practice, this paper deeply interprets the theoretical and practical significance of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought in the new era. It is emphasized that adhering to and developing the idea of ecological civilization and promoting the construction of ecological civilization is an important path to promote the all-round development of economy and society and realize the goal of a well-off society in an all-round way. Generally speaking, this study comprehensively and deeply discusses the problem that Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought leads Wenzhou's ecological practice in the new era from the two dimensions of theory and practice, which has strong theoretical guidance and practical reference value.

Working with algorithmic management: Design logic, algorithmic unfitness, and labor repair behind the wall

The current literature on algorithmic management primarily explores its external ramifications for workers. Drawing upon the case of Meituan Waimai, China’s dominant food-delivery platform, this article delves into the internal logic that guides the design of algorithmic management. I highlight how an optimal mindset and a mechanized view of human labor drive the formulation of algorithmic management, leading to what I call “algorithmic unfitness.” This concept represents a dissonance between algorithmically programmed, reductionist visions of food delivery and real-world experiences on the ground. In response, the platform constantly delegates tasks from machines to laborers who engage in repair work. The design logic positions couriers as adaptable robots, whose compliance and flexibility are simultaneously requested by the platform. By shedding light on the design choices behind algorithmic management, the article also offers methodological insights for scholars researching algorithmic power in general.

Dissenting from what? the rupture of Chilean teachers with the long-term consensus on teacher professional development

ABSTRACT This article examines the division within Chile’s main teacher organisation caused by a dissident movement during the development of the new National Teaching Policy (PND), which occurred between the years 2014 and 2016. It focuses on the teachers’ collective awakening and the internal logic of neoliberal teacher policies. Through interviews and policy analysis, the study concludes that the dissident teacher movement has made visible the exclusion of teachers’ experiences in PND discussions, undermining the so-called consensus on teacher professional development. However, while we argue that these findings illustrate the importance of teachers’ unions as policy actors, we also suggest that this latter role is limited if they do not develop, in addition to the necessary critique, a shared political-pedagogical project.

The External and Internal Logic of China’s Football Development as Cultural Relations

The External and Internal Logic of China’s Football Development as Cultural Relations

The internal logic and implementation path of activating idle rural houses in traditional villages from the perspective of the scene to drive common prosperity: A case study of Yaxikou village, Songyang county

The internal logic and implementation path of activating idle rural houses in traditional villages from the perspective of the scene to drive common prosperity: A case study of Yaxikou village, Songyang county