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Issues of public trust in justice and institutional legitimacy are becoming increasingly salient in debate about criminal justice across Europe. Legitimate authority can be defined as having three interlinked elements:(a) legality (acting according to the law);(b) shared values (values that are shared by those with authority and those subject to that authority); and (c) consent (the sense amongst the policed of a moral obligation to obey the authority). According to this definition, legitimacy is present not only when individuals recognise the ...
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Chechnya, a tiny republic of around 17,000 square kilometers located on the northern edges of the Greater Caucasus mountain range, has become a symbol of post-Soviet turmoil and war. Civil unrest, religiously-inspired extremism and terrorism, economic decline and criminality, and incessant insurgency and counterinsurgency has plagued this North Caucasian republic since the early 1990s. Most of Chechnya’s destruction is caused by two subsequent invasions by Russian armies and the ruthless violence deployed by them since the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Yet the roots of the conflict date back to the gradual dissolution of the Soviet Union at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Back then, what has come to shape Chechnya’s political landscape – and its relations with Moscow – crystallized as Chechnya along with the rest of the Soviet successor territories slipped into deep economic and political crisis. Indeed, the dissolution of the Soviet Union paved the ground for separatism as newly established Chechen elites sought to fill the power gap left after the withdrawal of Soviet authorities. The crisis of political legitimacy was coupled with an unprecedented economic crisis, an outcome of the decline of Soviet centralised economy and Chechnya’s efforts to secede from the rest of Russia. Against this background, as the following lines show, the outbreak of hostilities between the Russian center and its Chechen periphery became inevitable, which ultimately resulted in what came to be known as the First Russian-Chechen War (1994–1996).
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On 20 August 1640 a Scottish Covenanter army, led by General Alexander Leslie, crossed the River Tweed at Coldstream, thereby entering England. Eight days later they met and defeated an English royalist force at Newburn Ford, on the River Tyne, six miles outside of Newcastle. The resulting Scottish occupation of a large part of Northern England, including Newcastle and Durham, forced Charles I to a truce, and an agreement to pay the expenses of the Scottish army.
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One of the less noted paradoxes of contemporary China is that the decline of the planned economy has been accompanied by an increase in the influence of town planners, architects and urban designers. The new ‘Urban and Rural Planning Law’ (2008), which mandates formal ‘master planning’ for every scale of administrative territory from the Nation down to the village, underscores the alignment of governmental and professional commitment to purposefully shape the built environment for political, economic and social ends. The elite discourse and practice of ‘master planning’ that has emerged in recent years, then, manifests not only in grandiose mega-projects like the Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai Expo; but also in thousands of other development projects across the nation: new ‘CBDs’, urban housing estates, county development zones, ‘new villages’ and so on. Taking examples from various scales of planning this paper demonstrates that in contemporary China, elite discourses of planning are just as likely to affect distant villages or peri-urban suburbs as the heart of Beijing or Shanghai. Moreover, the significance of contemporary ‘master planning’ lie less in discourses of national resurgence, than in a new manifestation of utopian modernism launched by Hu Jintao through his ‘theory of scientific development’: within this paradigm, the key objective of government planners is to re-order and standardise the built environment so as to render communities and economies more transparent and governable.
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