奥巴马时代美伊关系博弈

迄今为止奥巴马并未对其中东政策做出系统的阐述,但是从奥巴马执政100多天来其本人和美国政府高官的一系列讲话和对外宣示中的表态,我们仍可以厘清奥巴马中东政策和对伊朗政策。奥巴马对伊政策的确有别于布什,但实质仍是“胡萝卜加大棒”的政策——胡萝卜不多、也不新鲜,而大棒早已高高举起并随时都可能打下来。美伊开始了新的博弈。     

Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania

Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: underdevelopment and an uncaptured peasantry Goran Hyden London: Heinemann. 1980. 270pp. £7.50. £3.50 pb     

Beyond Being and Becoming

If the 20th Century was the century of physics, the 21st Century is the century of cybernetics, biology and ecology. Technological advance has both crossed new frontiers and discovered old limits. Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine broke new ground with his understanding that nature, including its human component, seeks to establish order out of chaos by “self‐organizing,” not only according to pre‐determined laws, but through random creative choices as well that are responsible for the endless novelty and potentiality of being. The technologically‐armed purposive role of humans in the Anthropocentric Age thus takes on a new significance: “What we do today depends on our image of the future rather than the future depending on what we do today” as Prigogine puts it. “The equations of the future are written in our actions as well as in nature. Time becomes construction.” Nowhere is this truer than in the new science of genomics, which touches the soul, and in the effort to preserve the ecological balance that has enabled humanity to flourish within the narrow band of earth's livable climate. In this section we bring together leading thinkers, scientists and technologists of our age to address these issues of mankind's fate.