对中亚各国若干问题的初步评析

本文从国家的“全息”现象、国家定位、政治经济转型、危险的“盆地”现象和怎样融入国际社会等层面分析了中亚各国的战略走向。中亚各国面临两个战略过渡:一是从苏联的组成部分向完全的独立状态过渡;二是从传统模式向新的模式过渡。本文还指出,中亚地区正受到三股极端政治势力的威胁。若干内外因素影响到中亚各国的稳定。独立后中亚各国越来越展现出独特的社会风貌。重塑自我和融入国际社会成为中亚各国的两个主题。     

2008年度日本经济财政白皮书述评

每年一度的日本经济财政白皮书2008年7月发表,副标题是"风险中的日本经济",重点分析了日本经济面临的短期、中期和长期风险,认为短期的风险在于美国经济下滑、石油价格及原材料价格上升等外部风险,而中期的风险是日本经济的脆弱性,家庭和企业不能积极地应对各种外来风险,长期的风险是人口老龄化对经济和财政结构的影响.     

Casuistry,Commentary and Killing Cattle: Transgressing Notional Borders of Belonging

In 2011, ABC Television’s Four Corners broadcast “A Bloody Business”. The program’s confronting subject was the live cattle trade to Indonesia, and in particular, disturbing slaughtering practices. Notable was repeated use of the phrases “Australian cattle”, “Australian livestock” and “Australian animals”. The inference was that these were “our” cattle, some of which suffered shockingly cruel deaths. The implicit nationalism informing the program’s emotional provocation begs the question in what sense were the cattle, an introduced cloven-hooved domesticated animal, Australian? This raises related questions: if cattle are “ours”, why not other exotic flora and fauna, and what of settlers and more recent immigrants too? After briefly discussing this program, the paper considers a range of different engagements with Australian landscapes. Of principal interest are affinities to landscape based on social organisation. Pivotal to this are notions of lifescapes and emotional geographies. These notions form the foundation for following discussion on several disparate entanglements with landscape. The discussion ranges across cattle, pastoralists, Aborigines, water buffalo, other exotic flora and fauna, kangaroo shooters, shearers and immigrant responses to national parks. In doing so, the paper explores the vexed issue of who and what can be included in the embrace of Australian nativeness.     

一部通用于中国-欧盟关系领域的杰作——评F·斯奈德编著的《欧洲联盟与中国,1949-2008:基本文件与评注》

This article makes a review on The European Union and China,1949-2008:Basic Documents and Commentary by Prof. Francis Snyder,a book published at the coming of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and of the 35th anniversary of the EU-China diplomatic relationships. It is a comprehensive reference book and commentary on basic documents about the EU-China relationships since 1949,including both documents originally published in English and English translations of documents pr...