试论20世纪50年代中期中泰关系中西双版纳傣族自治区问题的缘起

1953年中国云南省西双版纳傣族自治区的成立曾被泰国强指为中国蓄意对泰国进行侵略的证据,由此引发了20世纪50年代中期中泰关系中的西双版纳傣族自治区问题.实际上,这一问题只不过是美国、泰国统治集团和台湾当局出于各自的政治利益和政治需求共同制造的一个谣言.这一问题的产生,受到了体系与单元层面因素的双重影响,它既受制于两极国际体系,与20世纪50年代东亚冷战的国际格局基本吻合,也与中泰两国的国内政治等单元层面的因素息息相关,可以说是冷战国际政治和中泰两国国内政治相互结合的产物.傣—泰民族跨越国界的分布状况是这一问题产生的客观基础,而体系与单元层面上的各种政治利益和政治需求则是这一问题产生的深层动因.     

诗琳通-中泰人民的友好使者

中泰友好关系源远流长,两国人民之间有亲戚般的深厚友谊.自1975年建交以来,中泰两国传统友好关系得到了全面发展.中泰关系堪称不同社会制度国家睦邻友好和互利合作的典范.诗琳通公主是中国人民熟悉的老朋友,23年里18次访华,走遍了神州大地.由于公主殿下对中国的历史、语言、文化具有浓厚的兴趣和较深的造诣,先后出版了十几部关于中国的著作,并翻译了大量的中国诗词和小说,为促进中国语言和文化在泰国的传播发挥了不可替代的作用,为促进中泰两国人民的相互了解和传统友谊作出了重要贡献,是一位杰出的中泰友好使者.在泰国王室的高度重视和亲自推动下,手足情深的中泰传统友谊和友好合作关系在21世纪一定会有更美好的前景,并将永远发扬光大,世代相传.     

披露中泰建交内幕 介绍天地会珍贵史料——泰华学者洪声銳先生应邀回国讲学

泰国华侨老报人、知名学者洪声锐先生于5月29日到穗,此前洪先生已先后九次回国,这次应暨南大学东南亚研究所邀请,属第一次专程回国讲学。洪先生此行受到泰华社会高度重视,当地华文报纸认为这是泰华百年来享受到的最高荣誉。 洪先生对泰国政治、经济、文化以及中泰关系发展和泰国华人社团等问题素有研究。其     

泰国他信政府"进取性"外交政策透视

他信政府上台执政三年多来,围绕恢复和发展经济这个中心任务,推行"进取性"外交政策.泰国外交关系全面发展,为国内经济恢复与发展创造了和平稳定的国际环境,开拓了国际市场,同时也使泰国的国际地位和影响得以全面提高,引起东南亚各国以及世界主要大国的关注.     

论1975年“马亚克斯”事件与美泰交涉

美国在越南战争的最后关头背信弃义,未出手援助它扶植的柬埔寨政权和南越政权,受到盟国质疑.刚成立的民柬政府扣留美国商船"马亚克斯"号,为美国重塑形象、重申强硬立场提供了机会,它以泰国为基地实施武力营救.不过,泰国正在调整向美国一边倒的外交政策,努力改善同亚洲尤其是印度支那邻国的关系,力图在这场美柬纠纷中保持中立.美国的营救行动造成泰国处境困难,引起强烈抗议和严正交涉.这个事件给冷战期间的美泰关系带来重要影响.     

也论差猜时期泰国的印支政策

柬埔寨问题产生后 ,印支政策是泰国外交政策的核心。差猜上台后实施的“战场变商场”政策因其变化性而受到广泛关注。该政策既反映了泰国政治变迁 ,又表现出泰国外交政策的继承性 ,同时亦展现了泰国的地区雄心。实质上 ,差猜时期泰国的印支政策是“双轨政策” ,即“一轨”为“战场变商场”政策 ,另“一轨”是 :以外长西提为首的泰国外交部实施 (与东盟集体政策一致 )的政策。双轨政策实质上反映了泰国国家利益 (远期与近期 )的分歧与协调及国家利益与东盟地区利益的分歧与协调。     

太平洋战争前后的泰日关系

本文利用美国外交文件及有关泰国、日本的外交文件 ,阐述了太平洋战争前后泰日关系的演变 ,指出泰国与日本结盟是泰国民族主义的兴起与日本发动太平洋战争计划共同作用的结果。而战后泰国却得到了温和处理 ,其原因主要有 :战争期间泰国与联合国家的秘密合作 ,美国的支持以及泰国灵活的外交政策。     

目前泰国的外资政策

目前,泰国是美国的一个重要同盟国,也是西方防务集团在东南亚不可缺少的成員之一。可是偶而也有迹象表明,泰国正在愼重考虑关于和西方国家的同盟问題。泰国将会加入中立主义集团吗?它的外交政策活动,在国內政治的发展中占什么地位     

论德国“文明国家”外交政策

“文明国家”外交政策理论在德国的政界和学界影响很大。本文通过分析德国对外政策的实践评介了这一理论。德国“文明国家”外交政策的决定因素是国内稳定的市民社会和以市民社会价值观为主导的国家角色设计方案。在实践中 ,德国外交政策致力于多边主义原则 ,坚持“西方一体化”取向 ,推动国际关系的文明化和法治化 ,但它同时也受相互依存的国际政治现实的制约和影响。德国“文明国家”外交政策仍然有其发展的限度。     

东盟对中国崛起的认知和反应——以东盟大国平衡外交政策的调整为例

东盟对中国的崛起持欢迎态度,与此相应,东盟对原来中美日三个大国的大国平衡外交政策进行了微妙的调整,即疏远美日、拥抱中国.东盟大国平衡外交政策调整的原因与国际形势的变革、中美日三国实力的变化及其对东盟外交政策功利性对比密切相关.对东盟大国平衡外交政策的调整,中国应审时度势,利用契机,从经济、政治安全和软实力外交等领域进一步推动中国-东盟双边关系的发展,从而为中国的和谐世界外交战略打下区域基础.     

Locating Kaliningrad And KÖNigsberg In Russian And German Collective Identity Discourses And Political Symbolism In The 750Th Anniversary Celebrations Of 2005

This article begins by briefly exploring issues of conflict and control in relation to the 750th anniversary of the city of Kaliningrad/Königsberg. An analysis of the tensions between Russian regional (Kaliningrad) and national (federal) identity discourses on the political symbolism of the 750th anniversary commemoration is offered, using Russian media reports and interviews conducted in Kaliningrad. German narratives on the political symbolism of the anniversary events and their implications for German national identity discourses are investigated via interviews conducted in Kaliningrad and Germany, German media reports, books, films and a theater production about Königsberg. Particular attention is given to the impact of the German expellee organizations on framing the discourse about Königsberg in contemporary Germany. The article will conclude by comparing and contrasting the various discourses and interpretations of the anniversary in the Kaliningrad region, Russia and Germany.     

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES AND THE TREATMENT OF PAKISTAN’S RELIGIOUS MINORITIES

Although Pakistan was created as a homeland for South Asia's Muslims, religious freedom was one of its founding principles. Seventy years later, Pakistan is better known for religious extremism and the persecution of Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities. Pakistan's blasphemy law is a state-sanctioned tool of religious oppression used to target members of minority faith communities whether Ahmadiya, Christian, Hindu, or Shiite, as well as Sunnis who criticize the law. This paper discusses the blasphemy law and other laws that have led to the state of religious oppression in Pakistan.     

'Adorned with the Mix of Faith and Profanity that Intoxicates the People': The Festival of the Senhor do Bonfim in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1930–19541

This essay looks at a formative period in the history of the festival of the Senhor do Bonfim, one of Salvador's most important religious festivals. The essay focuses on the public ritual washing of the Church of Bonfim and the tensions between the Catholic Church, who periodically banned the washing from the larger festival, and a variety of historical actors including politicians, journalists, authors and working-class Salvadorans whose efforts eventually contributed to the lifting of the prohibition once and for all in 1953. The author suggests that the defence of the washing both reflected and contributed to a larger hegemonic process taking place in Salvador after 1930, as actors within Salvador's dominant class accepted and even praised Afro-Bahian cultural practices, including them as integral parts of a larger Bahian identity.     

The FBI's Role in Expelling Germans from Ecuador During the 1940s

The expulsion from Latin America of immigrants from axis countries and their descendants is an important but little‐studied episode of the Second World War. The role of the US, and in particular that of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in their removal has largely disappeared from historical memory. This article examines how the FBI advanced US commercial interests, and in the process harmed vulnerable people who were subject to these expulsions.     

INDIA’S DEMONETISATION: MODI’S ‘NUDGE’ TO CHANGE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

This article offers an account of the impact of Indian PM Narendra Modi’s decision in November 2016 to withdraw suddenly all Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes from circulation in India with the avowed intent of combatting fraud, tax avoidance and other economic problems. The article assesses the impact from the demonetisation in November to the March 2017 Indian regional elections, where wide-scale victories for Modi’s political party, the BJP, appear to have vindicated his reforms. The article provides an analysis of the political background of the period, as well as looking at the economic and societal impact of the changes, including the way in which the behaviour of Indian citizens has been ‘nudged’ with particular regard to use of banking, transactions, social effects, and payment of tax.     

DROUGHT: THE ACHILLES HEEL OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Approximately 97% of the country is experiencing drought conditions. Due to gross water mismanagement and its damaging impact on the country, Iran faces the worst situation in water resources of any industrialized nation. Tens of thousands of villages have been deserted and most of the major urban centers have passed their limits to absorb new rural migrants. Some officials predict that in less than 25 years, 50 million Iranians would be displaced from their current homes because of the pressing ecological conditions. This is happening at the time that the gap between the grassroots and the state has widened and there is increasing dissatisfaction with governance plagued by corruption, nepotism, economic mismanagement, unaccountability and a foreign policy which has produced various regional and trans-regional adversaries. This paper evaluates the pressing ecological challenges in Iran and by conceptualizing political resilience it critically evaluates whether the Islamic Republic is prepared to face the devastating ecological crisis and its socio-economic consequences.