SA Foreign minister's address

In explaining the eight key factors that drive contemporary Indian foreign policy, the article provides the context for looking at India's engagement with the continent, an issue addressed in different ways by other articles in this volume. It also looks at the non‐drivers, some of which may surprise observers who may have thought them to be crucial elements of the country's foreign policy.     

Foreign minister's budget vote address

This article examines the evolution of the responsibility to protect (R2P) norm through the institutional frameworks of the African Union and the United Nations. The investigation aligns itself with recent constructivist thinking around norm evolution and contestation which holds that diverging interpretations around norms facilitate not only norm contestation, but ultimately norm acceptance. In this case different ‘meanings-in-use’ of R2P within and across both organisations reinforce the contested nature of R2P. This becomes most apparent in the prevailing confusion around the affiliated concept of the protection of civilians, which is not effectively delineated from R2P. Nevertheless R2P is found to be widely acknowledged within both organisations.     

China's Foreign Strategy

This article introduces four trends of China's foreign strategy. Analysis of China's diplomacy since the 1980s based on these concepts demonstrates China's intent to become a great power and its aspirations for a China-centric order.     

试论外国院外集团活动及其对美国对外政策的影响

美国作为全球唯一的超级大国 ,其对外政策关系到世界各国和国外利益集团的切身利益。各种代表国家和集团利益的外国院外集团为维护各自国家、民族和集团的利益 ,通过委托美国游说公司和具有特殊背景的人作为代理 ,在美国设立官方、民间机构 ,争取美国内具有共同利益的特殊集团的支持等方式进行院外活动 ,影响美国对外政策。因此 ,外国院外集团成为影响美国对外政策的重要因素 ,对美国对外政策的调整变化起着至关重要的作用     

评布什政府的对外战略

布什上台以来 ,尤其是九一一事件以来 ,美国的外交政策正在经历深刻变化 ,从目前来看新的对外战略的基本框架已经初步建立起来。本文论述和分析了布什政府外交新战略形成的过程、特点和面临的问题以及对全球安全形势和我国安全环境的影响