中越跨境经济合作区建设的实践与展望

中越跨境经济合作区建设从提议到推进,至今已有6年时间。近6年来,广西为推进跨境经济合作区进程做了许多基础性的前期准备工作,尤其在交通基础设施建设、跨境旅游合作、跨境农业合作及教育文化交流等方面成效显著。跨境合作已提升为国家战略,加快广西凭祥—越南谅山、广西东兴—越南芒街跨境经济合作区"先行先试",加强跨境合作的政策法律研究,构建中越跨境经济合作机制,探索跨境合作新模式,已成为推进中国—东盟自由贸易区建设的重要内容。     

中越跨境旅游合作区建设中存在的问题及政策支持——以浦寨—新清跨境旅游合作区为例

跨境旅游合作是目前国际旅游和边境旅游研究的热点,随着"一带一路"建设的实施与推进,跨境旅游合作愈显重要。广西作为"一带一路"有机衔接的重要门户,与越南有关省市开展跨境旅游合作具有得天独厚的优势,双方的跨境旅游合作也已有了一定的基础。本文以中越浦寨—新清跨境旅游合作区为例,分析中越跨境旅游合作区的建设背景、建设现状与存在的问题,并提出完善旅游管理、健全沟通机制及相关财税支持的政策建议。     

中蒙俄交通走廊建设与跨境合作思路及对策研究

中蒙俄交通走廊建设的本质就是为加快其经济走廊建设,进而促进东北亚区域经济一体化快速发展,深化共建“一带一路”的合作.因而,中蒙俄交通走廊建设意义重大.在推进中蒙俄交通走廊建设进程中,良好的经济互补性、良好的政治互信基础、良好的战略合作基础都为中蒙俄交通走廊建设的进一步推进提供了良好的基础支持,使得中蒙俄交通走廊建设在基础设施互联互通、经贸合作交流以及人文交流合作领域取得了实质性进展,为加快推进中蒙俄跨境合作提供了有力的支持.为更好地推进中蒙俄交通走廊沿线建设,中蒙俄交通走廊上的国家地区要充分利用各自比较优势,积极开展跨境次区域合作,加快交通走廊、经济走廊建设,形成新的区域经济增长中心,进一步深化中蒙俄跨境合作.基于此,深入探讨中蒙俄跨境合作布局过程中的困境,并从“政策沟通、设施联通、贸易畅通、资金融通、民心相通”的“五通”领域探索出中蒙俄跨境合作的发展思路,进而提出中蒙俄跨境合作的对策:一是创新跨境合作机制;二是推进绿色合作与发展;三是深入推进中蒙俄三国跨境次区域合作.据此,更高质量推进中蒙俄跨境合作,重塑东北亚区域经济发展格局,为中国以及世界经济增长提供新契机.     

中国—东盟跨境电子商务合作的机遇、挑战与对策

东盟是中国推进"一带一路"建设尤其是21世纪海上丝绸之路建设的重要核心合作区,中国与东盟跨境电子商务合作对推进"一带一路"倡议具有重大意义。本文在分析中国—东盟跨境电子商务发展与合作现状的基础上,探讨中国—东盟跨境电子商务合作的机遇以及面临的挑战,并提出中国—东盟跨境电子商务合作的对策。     

中国跨境（边境）经济合作面临问题及对策建议

跨境（边境）经济合作作为沿边地区开放开发的一种战略选择,目前正在中国沿边地区兴起,但由于受各种因素制约,实际效果并不明显。本文拟理性分析跨境（边境）经济合作面临的主要困难和问题,研究提出推进跨境（边境）经济合作的若干对策建议,包括：将跨境（边境）经济合作纳入国家战略统筹推进、加强周边国家国别性研究等,供决策参考。     

跨境经济合作：黑龙江省深化对俄罗斯及东北亚区域合作创新和转型发展的新路径

近年来,黑龙江省以对外贸易和投资为依托加强对俄罗斯跨境经济合作,积极深化对俄合作境内外园区建设,打造跨境经济合作的诸多举措,使其日益成为中国向北和东北开放进程中推进跨境经济合作的示范和先导地区。     

积极推进中国龙邦—越南茶岭跨境经济合作区建设的思考

中国龙邦—越南茶岭跨境经济合作区是中越广西边境地区西路重要的陆路通道和主要的边境口岸经济合作区,具有优越的基础条件和现实可行性,积极推进中国龙邦—越南茶岭跨境经济合作区建设已经具备条件、势在必行。通过实行"一区两国、境内关外、自由贸易、封闭运作"管理模式,加强跨境经济合作区总体规划建设、加强跨境经济合作区基础设施建设、加强协调跨境经济合作区建设各方关系、加强提升跨境经济合作区地方政府服务能力,将跨境经济合作区建成中国与东盟的区域贸易服务中心、区域物流仓储中心、区域进出口加工中心,发展成为连接多个区域的国际通道、交流桥梁和合作平台。     

跨境次区域合作与丝绸之路经济带[1]-基于地缘经济学的视角

中国提出“丝绸之路经济带”的构想,是具有全球视野的战略倡议,有助于搭建中国与亚欧国家经济合作的新平台。由于丝绸之路经济带所覆盖的地区,自然障区面积较大,不利于宏观化的区域性开发,因此应注重中微观领域,从推进跨境次区域经贸合作入手,“以点带面”地推进整体开发。从这个意义说,“丝绸之路经济带”也是典型的跨境次区域合作。“次区域合作理论”是中国与中亚、南亚共建丝绸之路经济带的理论支撑。本文旨在从当代经济新区的开发规律来探讨丝绸之路经济带的跨国合作路径,关注基于边界的次区域经济区的培养,对国家间信任以及国际合作的助力效果。     

跨境旅游与边境口岸地区产业发展的影响研究——以云南瑞丽口岸为例

跨境旅游作为边境地区新的经济增长极,可以促进边境口岸的发展。本文选取云南瑞丽口岸作为研究案例,通过观察、访谈、问卷等研究方法,探讨跨境旅游对于当地经济社会发展、城市商业布局以及民族构成等方面的影响。研究发现,开展跨境旅游对于瑞丽口岸经济社会发展具有明显的推动作用,也直接影响到了其城市商业布局及当地民族的构成。同时,文章指出,当前瑞丽口岸的跨境旅游的发展存在缺乏富含深刻内涵的跨境旅游线路、跨境旅游的内涵尚未得到进一步挖掘以及当地的配套基础设施建设尚不到位等问题,并对此提出对策建议。该研究可以丰富边境口岸跨境旅游发展的理论,对于"一带一路"倡议背景下瑞丽口岸推进跨境旅游合作具有借鉴价值。     

中国沿边开放新阶段新特征及广西沿边开放新站位

当前,中国沿边开放已经进入经略周边和共建"一带一路"新阶段,呈现出新的特征,要求广西谋划沿边开放视野要宽、站位要高,不能就沿边开放论沿边开放。广西要跳出沿边地区看沿边开放,着眼于服务国家周边外交战略,着眼于服务和推进中国—东盟战略合作,着眼于服务中国西南、中南地区开放发展,把广西的沿边开放、沿海开放、沿江开放和内陆开放等统筹起来,实施"大沿边"开放战略,一体规划,一体部署,一体推进,形成沿海沿江沿边内陆开放良性互动发展的新格局,加快把广西建设成为中国—东盟战略合作新高地和中国西南、中南地区开放发展新的战略支点。     

Population, Prophets, Pensions, and Politics

As immigrant populations in Western welfare states grow at a faster rate than the native populations, whose birthrates have declined dramatically in recent years, Europe's tradition of democracy and tolerance is threatened. The reasons for the birthrate decline and the resultant aging of the native population are many and complex, but one important contributing factor is the pay-as-you-go pension system, which reduces people's immediate dependence on children. Moreover, the payroll and social security taxes that support the welfare state reduce the earnings capacity of men and women of the traditional age for having children, thus pushing down the birthrate. It is time to consider whether modern Europe's small-size families and high pensions are sustainable     

Terrorism,counter-terrorism,and critique: opportunities,examples, and implications

This article explores the parameters, value and limitations of different critical strategies for those dissatisfied with the contemporary politics of terror. It argues, first, that the prominent (counter-)terrorism paradigm – in which terrorism is approached as a ubiquitous and very specific security challenge meriting appropriately exceptional responses – is far more critiqued than we might anticipate. And, second, that such critiques – which can be found across political language, popular culture, everyday life, and beyond – employ distinct critical resources to serve varying ends. Reflecting on these, the article offers a new heuristic distinguishing five critical strategies which seek to: (i) repudiate; (ii) question; (iii) subvert; (iv) replace, or (v) deconstruct the prominent counter-terrorism paradigm. This typology, it argues, offers scope for optimism and strategic resources for those attracted to a critical terrorism studies project going forward.     

Pakistan,India, China,and the United States: Energy,Climate Change,and National Security

This article focuses on the interplay of energy, climate change, and national security issues in Southwest Asia, using the newer definition of “national security” to include energy security, economic development, and climate change, as well as traditional security focusing on the military aspects.     

Norway,Spitsbergen, and America, 1905-1920

In the Spitsbergen treaty of 1920, Norway acquired sovereignty over the Spitsbergen Islands. Rather than Woodrow Wilson, the American president, the architects behind the treaty were Robert Lansing, Wilson’s secretary of state, and, behind the diplomatic scene, the mining investor, John M. Longyear. In 1906, Longyear established a mining company to exploit the coal deposits at Spitsbergen. He induced Congress, the State Department, and the White House to forge an American policy for the European Arctic, including the appointment of Lansing, an international lawyer, as a counsel in the State Department. Lansing was a leading expert on both international law and the lack of state authority at the terra nullius, Spitsbergen. In 1915, he became secretary of State and, at the Paris Peace Conference, decided American policy regarding the Spitsbergen question. This analysis shows how the outcome of the Spitsbergen question was a result of American mining interests, supplemented by Norwegian-American shared interests in conflict resolution based on international law.     

International relations in Malaysia: theories, history, memory, perception, and context

The article makes a preliminary survey of the teaching of internationalrelations (IR) in Malaysia. It starts by describing the originsof the field, and the emergence of an IR epistemic communityjoining both academia and government. This account is necessarilyderived from the experiences of the four most established Malaysianuniversities distinguished by length of existence and officialfavor. Subsequently, the survey would describe course contentand influences going into their design. The penultimate sectionswould attempt to place the evolution of Malaysian IR teachingwithin a historical context. This survey nonetheless concludesthat nationalist aspirations continue to remain a secondaryinfluence when compared with intellectual dependence upon theWest in the design of IR education in Malaysia. Received for publication August 28, 2008. Accepted for publication October 2, 2008.     

Indigeneity,Ethnicity, and the State: Australia,Fiji, and New Zealand

This article draws on the politics of indigeneity to distinguish the claims of first occupancy from simple ethnic identity politics, illustrating that relative political marginalization in Australasia is not so much a function of minority status but of indigeneity itself. The politics of indigeneity's aim is to create political space for self-determination and a particular indigenous share in the sovereign authority of the nation-state itself. The Australasian states are compared with Fiji to demonstrate that the significance of historical constraints on political authority transcend the withdrawal of a colonial power and the restoration of collective indigenous majority population status.     

Culture,liberation, and 'development'

Most of the socio-economic changes taking place in Africa and much of the South are externally driven. External agencies, often in league with the State, by-pass working people and do not involve them in the decision-making processes. Their economic approaches ignore people's cultures and their world view. This denies working people a creative capacity to adapt new techniques and knowledge to their own concrete reality. This article argues for the importance of the historical frame of reference and for the centrality of culture in socio-economic processes. The author argues against approaches which are not culturally familiar to working people.     

The roles of,and relationships between,expatriates, volunteers,and local development workers

This article reports on exploratory research based on interviews with expatriate and local aid workers employed by local and international NGOs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Thematic analysis of the interviews found that personnel were placed in groups based on their job category – consultant, volunteer, or permanent staff – regardless of experience. These categories logically reflect each worker's pay level, purpose, and role, but they may also have an implicit power meaning which reinforces group differences and inhibits inter-group relationships. Relationship building was reported to be the most important factor contributing to the success of capacity-development initiatives. Four sub-themes were identified: communication, friendship, reciprocal learning/teaching, and confidence.     

Negotiation,politics, and management

Book reviews in this article:
Samuel B. Bacharach and Edward J. Lawler , Power and Politics in Organizations: The Social Psychology of Conflict, Coalitions, and Bargaining .
Max H. Bazerman and Roy J. Lewicki , eds., Negotiating in Organizations .
Jeffrey Pfeffer , Power in Organizations .