Managing the Birth Pangs of the New Global Order

As British Prime Minister Gordon Brown notes in this section, we are witnessing the birth pangs of a new global order in this deepest financial and economic crash since the Great Depression. There will be plenty of pain all around for a while. And when the quarter-century leveraged-debt bubble of the United States—the explosion of which detonated the crash—is finally unwound, the new global balance will favor an Asia flush with cash. The G-20 will replace the G-7 as the executive committee of globalization. And, if wise leadership stays the course, there will be a "green lining" to the recovery as the fiscal stimulus is imbued with an environmental sensibility.     

全球治理中的中国进程:以中国减贫治理为例

随着新兴大国的崛起,传统上由西方世界主导的全球治理体系开始受到来自世界多极化的挑战。以减贫领域为例,中国国内贫困治理的成功经验为全球减贫治理提供了多样化的解决方案。中国减贫治理强调主权国家在贫困治理中的主导性作用,国内各种社会力量的整合运用,通过发展解决贫困问题,立足国情、有效利用国际援助及对外援助的去意识形态化。中国开始将这些来自国内实践的有效经验合理整合到全球减贫议程中,促进相关治理机制改革及内容调整,进而为其他发展中国家的国内贫困治理提供极具参考价值的理念和方法。     

寰球同此凉热：2008年国际形势新发展

从评估国际战略形势的视角看,2008年堪称是"9·11"以来最有特点的一年,其在国际关系史上的里程碑意义,可能要超过因"9·11事件"而著称的2001年,堪与冷战结束、苏联解体的1991年相提并论.对这一点,可能还需要经过一代人左右,才能看得更清楚.     

中国参与全球治理的地方支持——兼论长三角次区域的地方全球联系与责任

全球化时代的加速推进、全球性问题的凸显,以及中国走和平发展道路的实际需要,都促使中国参与全球治理。在这一进程中,中国地方为中国参与全球治理,提供了政治经济动力、建制经验与智力支持。长三角次区域作为中国沿海三大经济区域之一,其突出的地方全球联系促进了区域内经济社会发展,并承担起国际组织落地、国际社区形成、国际智力开发以至分散外交压力等责任。随着改革开放的深化,中国外交既需要国际制度的内化,也要有央地关系的优化,以实现对外关系和国内发展的相互促进。     

Space, Boundaries, and the Problem of Order: A View from Systems Theory

The idea our global polity is chiefly divided by territorially organized nation-states captures contemporary constellations of power and authority only insufficiently. Through a decoupling of power and the state, political spaces no longer match geographical spaces. Instead of simply acknowledging a challenge to the state, there is the need to rethink the changing meaning of space for political processes. The paper identifies three aspects, a reconceptualization of the spatial assumptions that IR needs to address: the production of space, the constitutive role of boundaries, and the problem of order. With this contribution, we argue that one avenue in understanding the production of space and the following questions of order is by converging systems theory and critical geopolitics. While the latter has already developed a conceptual apparatus to analyze the production of space, the former comes with an encompassing theoretical background, which takes "world society" as the starting point of analysis. In this respect, nation states are understood as a form of internal differentiation of a wider system, namely world society.     

在全球视野中把握中美关系的正确方向

2010年2月中旬,美方无视中方多次严正交涉,美国总统奥巴马与国务卿希拉里·克林顿分别会见达赖。中方立即作出反应：美方行为严重干涉中国内政．严重伤害中国人民的民族感情,严重损害中美关系。     

Rising Powers in a Changing Global Order: the political economy of Turkey in the age of brics

The rise of bric s presents a major challenge to the existing global order. A second category of emerging powers, which may be labelled near- bric s, have also displayed increasing pro-activism in recent years in terms of influencing the regional balance of power politics, in addition to their growing presence in international organisations and global affairs. It is in this context that we aim to examine Turkey as a striking example of a ‘near- bric ’ power, a country that has adopted an increasingly assertive and independent style of foreign policy with aspirations to establish itself as a major regional actor. Using the Turkish experience as a reference point, this paper aims to understand the extent to which near- bric countries possess the economic capacity, sustainable growth performance and soft-power capabilities needed to establish themselves as significant regional and global actors. The recent Turkish experience clearly highlights both the potential and the limits of regional power activism on the part of emerging powers from the ‘global South’.     

“十二五”期间中国实施“走出去”的战略选择

重视“走出去”在转变外贸与国际收支结构方面的重要性一、改变中国经常项目持续顺差造成实际资源长期净流出的局面按中国经常项目顺差占GDP的比重来衡量,1999年至2003年,中国经常项目顺差占GDP的比重一直保持在3％以下。     

“伦人”与“天下”——解读以朝贡体系为核心的古代东亚国际秩序

支配古代东亚国际秩序的基本原理是“角色原理”。这是一种与“单位平等原理”不同的国际秩序原理,它源于核心行为体亲属集团内角色的自然差别,对行为体行为的评价基于对角色的预期。适用于中国人人际关系三个圈子中的三种文化,即“亲人文化”、“熟人文化”和“生人文化”也同样作用于国际行为体之间。与“单位平等原理”相比,“角色原理”对行为体有更高的道德要求,并且内化这种原理基本不触及行为体的身份认同问题,这是“天下”国际秩序及其原理得以高度内化的重要原因。     

Challenging the Received View: De-demonizing Hamas

Abstract

Violence against abortion clinics and other activities directed toward patients and staff of abortion facilities have been termed terrorism by the pro‐choice movement. However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation denies that these actions are terrorism. Instances of abortion clinic violence for 1982–1987 were examined in order to determine whether there is a correspondence between these incidents and definitions or models of terrorism. It appears that these incidents do fit the classification of “limited political” or ‘subrevolutionary” terrorism. Reasons why the FBI has made the decision not to include these acts as forms of terrorism are entertained. One is that current international tensions have resulted in a preoccupation with only certain types of events which for administrative, i.e., juris‐dictional, reasons have come to essentialize terrorism. Another explanation, posited by pro‐choice activists, is that the FBI's decision is a consequence of political influence: the current administration is openly anti‐choice.     

Municipal Amalgamations in the Low Countries: Same Problems,Different Solutions

Municipal amalgamations in Belgium took place some time ago and the local council elections of 8 October 2006 marked the thirtieth anniversary of this thorough overhaul of the local administrative landscape. The municipal amalgamations of 1976 were undoubtedly the biggest reform the local level in Belgium has ever faced. The Netherlands also underwent municipal amalgamations, but there the amalgamation process followed a different pattern, taking longer, with discussions conducted in a different way. This article examines the principal similarities and differences between these two countries with regard to municipal amalgamations. The first part of the article looks at the different scales of local government in several European countries; in the sections following, the Belgian and Dutch experience with municipal amalgamations is discussed in greater detail. In the last section an attempt is made to answer the question of why the processes in the two countries were so different.     

wto Agriculture negotiations: implications for the Global South

The Doha ‘Development’ Round of trade negotiations at the wto has featured agricultural trade liberalisation as one of its key aims. But developing countries were frustrated with both the process and the content of the agricultural agreement negotiations early on in the round. This prompted these countries, through a number of developing country groupings such as the G-20 and others, to call for changes in the talks to ensure that developing country voices and concerns were heard. Although developing countries were in many ways successful in registering their concerns in the latter half of the negotiations, and have maintained a fairly high degree of cohesion across the Global South, it remains unclear whether this cohesion will last as the uneven impacts of agricultural trade liberalisation become apparent.     

The Antisocial Police Personality: A View from the Inside

ABSTRACT

This paper presents the results of two surveys, conducted in 1993 and 1997, which inquired into the attitudes towards aspects of their immediate and external working environments of New Zealand's senior health officials. The surveys are in the tradition of a growing body of international research which seeks to categorize respondents in terms of their bureaucratic “type.” Where the 1993 survey produced baseline information, the 1997 exercise served as a follow-up. Accordingly, the paper compares various results and discusses shifts in attitudinal orientation and bureaucratic classification. Key findings are that, in 1997, there has been a growth in both the number of “technocrats,” respondents with an aversion to politics but a strong commitment to policy programmes, and in the number of “classical bureaucrats,” respondents, again, with a dislike of politics but, in contrast to technocrats, with a short-term focus and tendency to react to policy problems as they arise. It is concluded that, while restructuring of the New Zealand health sector continues, there is a need to nurture “political bureaucrats:” those who can operate in a politicized environment and who can plan ahead with the participation of the attentive public.