Maintain Peace in Asia and Promote Common Development

(Speech by Mr. Li Chengren, Executive Vice-President ofCAFIU at the Sino-Japanese Symposium)Respected Mr. Suzuki Tsuneo and other Japanese friends,Respected Chinese colleagues:First of all, I’d like to express warm welcome to the Japanese delegation head…     

Further Strengthening People-to-People Diplomacy to Safeguard and Promote World Peace

<正>At present,the international situation is undergoing profound changes,with gradual development towards economic globalization,cultural diversity and a multi-polar and information-based society.Countries are more and more dependent on each other,with blurred distinction between the domestic and international spheres.Under this context,the diplomatic     

Peace,Development and Progress

Theinternationalsituationinthepastyearwascomplicatedandchangeable.TheUnitedStateswagedwaronIraq熏whichshockedtheworld鸦therelationshipamongtheworldpowershadundergonepro鄄foundchanges鸦therehadbeennewdivisionandrealignmentintherelationsacrosstheAtlantic鸦thebuildingof″LargeEurope″hadmaderapidprogress鸦theMiddle-EastsituationhadremainedunstablewithPalestineandIsraelstillgettingstuckinantroubledtimes鸦KoreaPeninsulanuclearissuehaddrawntheworldwideattention鸦UNwasregainingitsvigorafterhavin…     

应对国际新挑战,促进和平与发展

中国持续而稳定发展,国际地位凸显.中国面对的国际环境机遇与挑战并存,尽管机遇是主要的,但伴随发展而起的新挑战也是严峻的.只有及时抓好机遇,认真应对挑战,坚定地走和平发展之路,才能实现中华民族的伟大复兴,并为建立和谐世界、促进人类共同繁荣做出积极贡献.     

Peace and Disarmament are Still the Common Aspiration of the People of All Countries

Thecurrentoverallinternationalsituationiscom鄄plicatedandvolatile熏nevertheless熏theoutbreakofaworldwarintoday'sworldisunlikely.Peaceanddevelopmentremainthemajorthemesofourtimes熏anditisquitehopefulforthewholeworldtoenjoypeaceandstabilityforalongperiodoftimetocome.Evenso熏nobodycandenythefrequentemer鄄genceofeconomicandpoliticalcrisis.Theworldsituationisfarfrombeingtranquilandpeaceful熏sincetheterrorismisnoteliminated熏hegemonismandpowerpoliticsshownewmanifestations熏thesit鄄uationinMiddleEas…     

坚持和平发展,维护战略机遇期

“9·11事件”是冷战结束后最具标志性的事件。值此“9·11”五周年之际,《现代国际关系》编辑部举办了“‘9·11’以来国际形势变化与中国外交”专题研讨会,邀请在京二十余位国际问题专家就五年来的国际形势变化、反恐形势、当前国际体系中的深层矛盾、大国关系的调整、国际格局的演变趋势、美国反恐的得与失、美国国际地位及实力的升与降、中国国际地位与国际战略等问题进行了深入分析和探讨。现将与会专家学者的主要观点辑录刊发,以期对读者把握国际战略形势及理解中国对外战略有所裨益。     

非洲2012年：和平与发展

2012年,非洲大陆虽然存在一些热点,诸如北非和西非的一些国家,但是政局整体上和平、稳定;非洲一体化进程加快进行,有力推动了非洲大陆的发展;中非关系继续向纵深发展,成为南南合作的典范。总之,“和平与发展”依然是非洲大陆发展的主旋律。     

和平、发展与祖国统一相互关系辨析

正确把握和平、发展与祖国统一三者之间的辨证关系是当前我国对外大战略中必须高度重视的问题之一。谋和平 ,求发展是当代世界各国人民的普遍愿望。只有顺应这一历史潮流 ,通过与世界各国人民一道 ,共同努力维护世界和平与稳定 ,才能谈得上中国的和平崛起与发展。保持世界和平与稳定是中国发展与实现祖国统一的基本前提 ,和平促进发展 ,发展促进祖国统一 ,没有和平与发展就谈不上实现祖国统一和中华民族的伟大复兴     

The World in 2014:Peace and Development

The year 2014 was the centennial of World War I,and it was marked by chaos.Wild predictions that a new Cold War was coming,or even World War III were proved to be wholly wrong.The Cold War was a period marked by two military powers armed with nuclear and conventional weapons and engaged in an arms race.Their antagonistic ideologies were crossed swords.Today,the U.S.and Europe,are maybe on the same chorus,but they are singing different tunes,while Russia is a lonely soloist.More importantly,the U.S.,the only country that could really reignite汪Cold War,has shown no signs that it intends to do so.Ironically,U.S.President Barack Obama described Russia as a regional power,a thinly-veiled sarcasm,seeming to imply that Moscow is no longer     

Anchoring the Peace: Civil Society Actors in Peace Accords and Durable Peace

Is peace more likely to prevail when the peace accord includes civil society actors such as religious groups, women's organizations, and human rights groups? This is the first statistical study that explores this issue. The article develops key claims in previous research regarding the role of civil society actors and durable peace, and proposes a set of hypotheses that focus on legitimacy in this process. The hypotheses are examined by employing unique data on the inclusion of civil society actors in all peace agreements in the post–Cold War period. The statistical analysis shows that inclusion of civil society actors in the peace settlement increases the durability of peace. The results further demonstrate that peace accords with involvement from civil society actors and political parties in combination are more likely to see peace prevail. The findings also suggest that inclusion of civil society has a particularly profound effect on the prospects for overall peace in nondemocratic societies.     

From Aftermath to Peace: Reflections on a Photography of Peace

International Relations (IR) literature on the visual construction of the international does not systematically engage with the visualisation of peace. In this article, I make photographic discourses available to IR scholars interested in the visual construction of the international and invite IR scholars to substantialise these discourses based on their specialist knowledge on war, violence, conflict and peace. I engage with aftermath photography by challenging its almost exclusive focus on war and the legacy of violence. Furthermore, I engage with Fred Ritchin's notion of peace photography and Cynthia Weber's attempts at visualising peace. Problematising claims to universality, generalisability and causality, I emphasise that the relation between images and peace is episodic, not causal; that visions of peace, reflecting specific cultural configurations, cannot claim universal validity; and that peace photography has to move beyond aftermath photography's focus on the legacies of the past. Finally, I briefly look at the work of Joel Meyerowitz and Rineke Dijkstra, the one displaying aftermath as a beginning sustaining power, the other photographically accompanying a person's adaptation to a new, more peaceful environment.     

Make All Efforts to Promote Development of Women International Exchanges

<正>The year 2014 witnessed profound changes of International situation.In this year,the diplomacy of China fully demonstrated the Chinese styles and Chinese spirits.Meanwhile,women international exchanges also progressed steadily and displayed a series of highlights,thus presenting the demeanor and charm of the Chinese women on the international stage.I.Staging the 2014 APEC Women and the     

朝鲜半岛和平协定与和平机制

2007年以来东北亚局势的重大变化,使签定取代1953年朝鲜半岛《停战协定》的《和平协定》时机日渐成熟。签定新协定的主体应是朝、韩、美、中四方。达成新协定的主要障碍在于实现持久和平的途径,尤其是美国的立场与政策。只有从"停战机制"转向签订《和平协定》,建立和平机制,东北亚地区的和平与稳定才能得到保障。     

国际金融危机下印度促进小型企业发展的对策

伴随着国际经济形势急剧恶化,金融危机愈演愈烈,印度小型企业发展不可避免会受到冲击。为保持经济稳定快速增长,保证劳动力就业,印度采取了一系列政策措施支持小型企业发展,取得了某些成效,当然不可避免存在一些问题。在当前经济形势下,我国经济要保持良好发展势头,需要小型企业快速健康发展。印度的一些成功做法,值得我们学习与借鉴。     

Strengthen Sino-lndian Cooperation and Promote Common Development

Editorial DepartmentAt the invitation of Chinese Association for International Understanding （CAFIU）, a 7-member delegation of Indian Delhi Study Group （DSG） headed by Mr. Ashok Garg, Vice-President of DSG, visited Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing from May 18 to 24.In Beijing, Mr. Luo Haocai, Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People＇s Political Consultative Conference （CPPCC） and Vice-President of CAFIU,     

Preferences and the Democratic Peace

A debate exists over whether (and to what degree) the democratic peace is explained by joint democracy or by a lack of motives for conflict between states that happen to be democratic. Gartzke (1998) applies expected utility theory to the democratic peace and shows that an index of states' preference similarity based on United Nations General Assembly roll-call votes ( affinity ) accounts for much of the lack of militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) between democracies. Oneal and Russett (1997b, 1998, 1999) respond by arguing that UN voting is itself a function of regime type—that democracy 'causes' affinity . Oneal and Russett seek to demonstrate their thesis by regressing affinity on democracy and other variables from a standard model of the democratic peace. I replicate results reported by Oneal and Russett and then extend the analysis in several ways. I find that the residuals from Oneal and Russett's regression of affinity remain highly significant as a predictor of the absence of MIDs. Further, significance for democracy is shown to be fragile and subject to variable construction, model specification, and the choice of estimation procedure.     

An Economic Limitation to the Zone of Democratic Peace and Cooperation

Scholars such as Walker Conner have argued that ethnically based nationalism is likely to reinforce trends toward political fragmentation, particularly in the Third World, even as the momentum of integration and interdependence continue apace. There has been little or no discussion of the implications this sort of fragmentation poses for multi‐national states threatened with such disintegration. This article examines the problem from the vantage point of multi‐ethnic societies and from the perspective of the government's extractive capability vis‐a‐vis society. The exploratory data analysis suggests that ethnic cleavages alone may not constitute serious separatist potential without the presence of substantial systematic political discrimination.     

The Challenge to the Peace and Security in East Asia

Today, there are three major economic communities in the contemporary world: North America, Europe and East Asia, among which the East Asian economic community distinguishes itself as the most dynamic and energetic one. The peace and stability in this region are not only of vital importance to the national security and economic development of both China and Japan,     

振兴东北老工业基地的思路与措施

东北老工业基地作为我国重要的工业基地之一 ,曾经为国家做出了巨大贡献。因此 ,国家高度重视东北老工业基地的改造。要振兴东北老工业基地 ,就应以可持续发展战略为指导 ,在深化国企改革的基础上 ,大力发展民营经济 ,以市场为导向 ,创造优势产业 ,并依靠科技创新来实现老工业基地的产业结构升级。