The Beginning of a New History

If the 20th Century was the century of physics, the 21st Century is the century of cybernetics, biology and ecology. Technological advance has both crossed new frontiers and discovered old limits. Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine broke new ground with his understanding that nature, including its human component, seeks to establish order out of chaos by “self‐organizing,” not only according to pre‐determined laws, but through random creative choices as well that are responsible for the endless novelty and potentiality of being. The technologically‐armed purposive role of humans in the Anthropocentric Age thus takes on a new significance: “What we do today depends on our image of the future rather than the future depending on what we do today” as Prigogine puts it. “The equations of the future are written in our actions as well as in nature. Time becomes construction.” Nowhere is this truer than in the new science of genomics, which touches the soul, and in the effort to preserve the ecological balance that has enabled humanity to flourish within the narrow band of earth's livable climate. In this section we bring together leading thinkers, scientists and technologists of our age to address these issues of mankind's fate.     

开创中印关系的新纪元

中国和印度是世界上两个最大的发展中国家,有着悠久的文明、独特的历史和相似的奋斗目标。中印关系的走向,将直接影响亚洲地区乃至世界的和平与稳定。 中印交流源远流长,可以追溯到两千年前的秦朝初期。尤其是两国历史上的文化交流,无论其规模和内容,在世界文化交流史上都是不可比拟的。两国的交流延续了两千多年没有中断,     

大陆学界台湾史研究的宏观检讨

台湾史是一门兼具学术与政治意义的新兴特色学科。中国大陆的台湾史研究,从学科建设的角度来说,属于中国历史学的分支学科。从研究史的角度,对于60多年来大陆学界台湾史研究成果做一宏观性的检讨,具体分析各个不同时期台湾史研究的特点,剖析唯物史观与“台独”史观论争的典型事例,提出新的研究问题,展现新的研究趋向,将有助于推动台湾史研究的深入拓展。     

论"当代中国社会转型"的历史定位

学界通常在社会形态或经济体制层面对当代中国社会转型进行的历史定位,前者忽视对象的特殊性因而无法揭示其丰富内涵,后者不够全面和准确.当代中国的社会转型应为"由传统的社会主义向有中国特色的社会主义的转型".     

Middlemen in the Chinese Welfare State: The Role of Philanthropists in Refugee Relief in Wartime Shanghai

This paper examines the impact of different models of public/private partnerships for refugee relief. Through case studies of different refugee relief programs in China, the paper shows that philanthropists are attractive but risky partners for state officials in welfare provision. Their cooperation can indeed expand access to welfare, improve state capacity, and enhance state/society relations. But because philanthropists can control significant resources and gain considerable social prestige, weak states can find it very difficult to control and contain them. In some circumstances, the relationship can turn competitive, and philanthropists can even threaten the state’s efforts to expand its capacity and build up its own legitimacy. The key to the balance of power between state officials and private philanthropists is control over the funding for the partnership.     

不忘历史,共谱中日友好新篇章

去年中日双方隆重纪念了中日邦交正常化30周年,今年又迎来了《中日和平友好条约》缔结25周年。25年来,中日关系发展的经纬已充分证明,条约的缔结是正确的,完全符合两国人民的愿望和利益。在新形势下,双方应秉承和发展条约的原则和精神,推     

中国特色的国际关系与外交理论创新研究——新议程、新框架、新挑战

随着中国崛起及其世界政治影响,需要进一步总结和概括中国特色的国际关系与外交理论。为此,需要探究中国外交与国际关系理论的历史和文化根源,分析和总结新中国的外交历程和实践,对世界主要大国的外交思想和外交理论进行比较研究,梳理并借鉴现有国际关系理论,形成一整套有“中国视角”的知识体系和解释系统,以此为新兴大国中国的对外政策和主张提供理论支持,表达中国的国家利益和战略诉求,从而实现中国特色的国际关系与外交理论的创新。     

重庆两江新区——新十年西部大开发开篇之作

在国家吹响新一轮西部大开发进军号角的重要时刻,重庆两江新区应运而生了。这是继浦东、滨海之后,国务院批准的第三个国家级开发开放新区,也是国家推进新十年西部大开发的突破口和新引擎。承载着改革开放由沿海向内陆推进、经济发展由外需向内需转型的国家战略,两江新区正式扬帆启航。     

欧洲现代史中的苏联史

苏联史就是现代史的同义语,只有把苏联包括在内才有可能书写20世纪的世界历史;苏联的存在对20世纪世界历史的事件序列和结构,对国际体系,对文化关系和微观环境(不只局限于苏联),对政治和社会话语,对有关政治、经济、社会理论的形成,都产生了决定性的作用;不能把苏联史错误地理解为苏联疆域内的历史,也不能理解为现代史部门内众多国别史中的一部,因为苏联史同时显示出欧洲和全球的维度,波及西欧和欧洲以外的社会乃至日常生活和生活环境。因此,本文在兼顾欧洲背景的情况下,试图突出苏联史的几个主要线索,如人口损失、暴政、非斯大林化、苏维埃社会国家、合法性基础的改变、社会的转变、帝国的形成等,并探讨了与苏联现代化和工业化有关的理论问题。