The Soldier, The State, and The Clash of Civilizations: The Legacy of Samuel Huntington

The major military challenge that the United States faces today is the war in Afghanistan. The U.S. military is engaged in a grueling counterinsurgency campaign against the Islamist movement known as the Taliban, which is based among Pashtun tribes in Southeastern Afghanistan and Northwestern Pakistan, who have never been permanently subdued by a foreign military force. This challenge comes in the wake of that other grueling counterinsurgency war that the U.S. military has had to conduct in Iraq, where its chief adversary was the Islamist movement known as al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Moreover, the challenge in Afghanistan comes on what could be the eve of an impending military challenge, perhaps even a war, with Iran, as that Islamist state relentlessly moves toward acquiring nuclear weapons. In its entire history of two- and-a-quarter centuries, the United States has never been engaged in an unbroken succession of three wars, in three different countries. Together, the U.S. wars with or within Islamist countries add up to what is a “long war,” indeed.     

《小说神髓》的“文学冒险”

坪内逍遥《小说神髓》要展现的是一个庞大的帝国文化图景，其主要意图应置入近代日本社会“他者意识一民族主义一近代国民国家”这一思想观念流程中才能够被理解。它不仅呈现出作者根深蒂固的民族主义立场，而且反映出日本文化界在明治维新后积极谋求文化自立、自强与扩张的文化帝国主义图谋。     

李光耀的政治哲学述评

李光耀建立了与新加坡经济和社会发展、对外政策相适应，儒家思想主导、跨越传统与现代的政治哲学，反映现代政治发展一般规律形成，构建具有现代性、现实性、开放性、功能性特征的现代政治的核心价值体系，实现理性政治视域下公民社会的要素组合和向现代国家的过渡，但其以家长式的精英政治为核心的政治哲学在新时期受到后现代思潮的严峻挑战，为当今发展中国家政治发展提供了借鉴和参照。     

The Local Capacities for Peace Project: The Sudan experience

This paper examines the application of the Local Capacities for Peace framework in field operations in Sudan, and identifies lessons learned about planning and implementation in the World Vision programme over a 20-month period.     

浅析印度经济增长的动力

中印是全球经济增长最快的两个发展中大国,但其增长模式却差异很大。印度的经济增长更具潜力和动力,因为推动印度经济增长的因素是:以信息产业为核心的服务业:低投入、高效率的增长模式和强有实力的私营企业。     

美洲国家组织的申诉机制在社会权利领域的实践——兼与其他区域性社会权利的申诉机制比较

<圣萨尔瓦多议定书>生效后,美洲国家组织的中诉制度在社会权利领域有着较丰富的实践.美洲国家组织的申诉机制及其在社会权利领域的实践具有以下特点:个人中诉与集体申诉相结合,由任择性机制发展为强制性机制,由法定的部分适用发展为实际的全面适用,依法积极否定规避申诉的事由,遵循先例,并取得了一定的实效.美洲国家组织的申诉机制及其在社会权利领域的实践在区域性经济、社会和文化权利的申诉机制中均处于领先地位,其主要原因在于美洲人权文化的特质.     

The Bush Doctrine: The Foreign Policy of Republican Empire

The dominant narrative concerning the Bush Doctrine maintains that it is a dangerous innovation, an anomaly that violates the principles of sound policy as articulated by the Founders. According to the conventional wisdom, the Bush Doctrine represents the exploitation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, by a small group of ideologues—the “neoconservatives”—to gain control of national policy and lead the United States into the war in Iraq, a war that should never have been fought. But far from a being a neoconservative innovation, the Bush Doctrine is, in fact, well within the mainstream of U.S. foreign policy and very much in keeping with the vision of America's founding generation and the practice of the statesmen in the Early Republic. The Bush Doctrine is only the latest manifestation of the fact that U.S. national interest has always been concerned with more than simple security.     

The Geography of the International System: The CShapes Dataset

Sceptics of globalization attribute the proliferation of light weapons to economic openness. Increasing globalization apparently weakens public authority, leading to social disarray, anomic violence, and general conditions that make handgun ownership and use more likely. Pro-globalists might argue contrarily that trade openness can raise the premium on peace as violence is bad for business. Moreover, greater interdependence allows the diffusion of anti-proliferation norms and facilitates cooperative behavior among trading partners for stemming the demand for and proliferation of small arms. Using a unique dataset on small arms imports, we find that greater openness to trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) lowers small arms imports per capita. A policy measure of economic freedom is associated with higher small arms imports, but this association seems to be explained entirely by the association between economic freedom and strong bureaucracies. States that are de facto more open to the global trading system are less likely to be inundated with these weapons, but richer, better-governed countries import more small arms. Global policy should pay closer attention to the seepage of these weapons from the relatively wealthy, who manufacture and buy them in larger quantities, to the poor, among whom the ‘problems’ associated with small arms are often manifested. Curbing those factors that encourage globalization, however, would be counterproductive to reducing the trade in small arms and light weapons.     

美国布鲁金斯研究所

布鲁金斯研究所是美国重量级的非政府“思想库”,是国际上知名的社会科学研究机构,有“帮助美国制定政策的思想库”之称。布鲁金斯研究所对外宣称是一所从事于有关经济、政府和外交政策领域的非党派研究、教育和出版的独立机构,活动包括研究和培训。研究对象是世界各国的经济、     

英国文化委员会

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