十年争吵终有"说法"--俄罗斯从格鲁吉亚撤军述评

俄罗斯、格鲁吉亚两国外长5月29日在莫斯科签署联合声明,商定俄将在2008年内自格分阶段撤除军事基地,格则承诺不在其领土部署他国军事基地或军队.至此,困扰两国关系近十年之久的俄驻格军事基地问题,终于在争吵和讨价还价声中落幕,有了一个令双方均能接受的初步"说法".     

美国加紧在里海地区抢占石油

冷战结束后,美国为实现独霸世界战略,欲夺取更多的石油资源和控制世界石油市场,并为此不惜在伊拉克发动了两次战争。如今,伊拉克的石油资源已被美国抓在手中,那么,美国的下一个目标在哪里呢?有国际评论家指出,美国征服伊拉克后,下一个目标将是里海。 美国急于抢滩的原因 美国急于在里海地区抢滩,其主要原因有四:一是那里有丰富的石油和天然气资源。里海是世界上最大的咸水湖,里海地区的自然资源十分丰富,尤其是石油蕴藏量估计在1100亿到2430亿桶,占世界总储量的8％,价值高达4万亿美元。据美国能源部评估,仅在阿塞拜疆和哈萨克斯     

The decline of an export industry,or the growth of Peruvian sugar consumption in the long run

Growth of domestic consumption of agricultural exportables is a neglected aspect of LDCs’ long‐run primary export performance. Price and income elasticities of local demand for specific exportables vary with economic development, so the Peruvian sugar industry was chosen to illustrate how and why such changes occur. Elasticity estimates for different types of sugar are presented for several time periods between 1913 and 1978. A comparison of these results with those of other researchers suggests that aggregating raw, refined and plantation white sugar consumption may bias income elasticity estimates for refined sugar upwards, and price elasticity estimates downwards.     

China's Youth: Ravenous for the West,With No Memory of the Past

Will China's authoritarian leaders succeed in building a future by erasing the past? Can the ideology of “nationalist consumerism” obliterate memory altogether? Will the Olympic applause drown out the weak and exiled witnesses of the Tiananmen crackdown? In this section we listen to a key Tiananmen student leader two decades on as well as check in with today's young elites in Beijing. A political leader from the reformist regime in 1989 calls for justice from house arrest and a young Chinese novelist wonders what kind of identity is possible without memory.