21世纪香港面临的机遇与挑战

回归十年,在中国大陆改革开放推动下,香港国际贸易与金融中心的地位得以巩固和发展.21世纪香港与内地均面临结构调整、产业升级和提高产品在国际市场竞争力的严峻挑战.在可预见的未来,在陆港两地经济贸易关系加强的有利形势下,香港经济的实力和竞争力将被提升到新的高度.     

Regionalism and the WTO: Opportunities and dangers for Africa

An examination of regionalism and its ramifications for the African region within the framework of the World Trade Organization and other economic partnership agreements being negotiated with this and other regions.     

Security in Asia: Roles and tasks for Japan and the US

Beyond any doubt, Japan and the United States share common security interests in Asia and must take active measures to strengthen their alliance, because their alliance is the foundation for Asia's peace and prosperity, argues Motohide Hashimoto. Hashimoto is a senior research fellow at IIPS who was seconded from the Ministry of Finance, where he is a specialist in fiscal and monetary policy. He worked at the Defense Agency's Bureau of Defense Policy from 1990–1992.     

经济全球化背景下印尼华人进一步融入当地社会的机遇与挑战

印尼新政府重建经济,努力适应经济全球化的要求.新政府对中国友好,开始善待华人,给华人进一步融入当地社会提供了许多有利条件.但由于印尼社会还存在排华因素,华人的生存与发展仍面临许多挑战.     

From Patrimonialism to Profit: The Changing Flow of Funds from the Chinese in Malaysia to China

ABSTRACT

Unlike the period before World War II, the Malaysian Chinese no longer look towards China as a home they will ultimately return to. This is seen in the flow of funds to China from the Malaysian Chinese. Before the war the motivation was patrimonial. The funds were in the form of patriotic bonds and collections and remittances that went to the home provinces of the Malaysian Chinese mostly in Fujian and Guangdong. Since the 1990s the funds flow has mainly been in the form of investment meant for gaining profit. This motivation was not different from that of business investors from other nations investing in China. It is important to demonstrate this motivation in order to allay suspicions by indigenous Southeast Asians that the Chinese who live in Southeast Asia are diverting funds meant for Southeast Asia to China.     

中国东南亚研究面临的学术挑战

本文探寻了中国东南亚研究自上世纪50年代以来的发展轨迹,回顾了主要从事东南亚研究的学术机构之现状。通过对中国东南亚研究重要刊物的载文分析,指出其研究重心和兴趣的转变。文末,作者还点明了中国东南亚研究所面临的学术挑战。     

全球化背景下新加坡宗教和谐的机遇与挑战

新加坡地处东南亚重要交通枢纽,东西文明交汇,国土虽小但种族、宗教多元。由于特殊的地缘政治等因素,新加坡政府在处理种族、宗教问题上十分注重和谐,而全球化的进程对新加坡维持宗教和谐局面既是机遇也是挑战。本文分析了新加坡宗教如何与时代紧密结合,把握全球化所带来的发展机遇,同时也考察了新加坡宗教自身如何应对全球化所带来的新挑战,总结新加坡政府、宗教团体、社会三个层面的经验,以期为我国宗教的和谐发展提供参考。     

Women and AIDS in Africa: The experience of the society for women and AIDS in Africa

Women and girls constitute a growing proportion of those who are HIV positive or living with AIDS, especially in Africa. Various social, economic and cultural realities make women and girls particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection. The Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA) is a pan‐Africanist organisation which works in AIDS prevention through various educational programmes targeted at women. The SWAA uses local networks to get its message across, and realises the importance of involving men in the fight against AIDS in Africa.     

Political Representation and Gender in Brazil: Quotas for Women and their Impact

In the 1990s, Brazilian Congress approved an electoral quota for female candidates in parliamentary competition (with exception of the Senate). The reticence of the law and the peculiarities of the Brazilian open lists electoral system have given rise to concern that the quotas will fail. In fact, there has been no great increase in the number of women in Brazilian legislatives – there has been some change in the municipalities, a little less in the states and almost nothing at the federal level. Analysing in detail the results of four elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies, two before and two after the quotas, it becomes apparent that, in Brazil, the impact of quotas is mediated far more than in other countries. Quotas provide, above all, an incentive to party elites to support an increase in the number of female political leaders, and the results may appear only at mid term.     

Problems in Contemporary Applications of Islamic Criminal Sanctions: The Penalty for Adultery in Relation to Women

Taking the penalty for adultery (hadd al-zina¯ ) as a case study, this essay attempts to address some of the practical problems associated with contemporary applications of Islamic penalties known as hudud. In empirical terms the study will investigate some court cases of zina¯ taken from Sudan, a country in which the Islamic criminal penalties were introduced for the first time in 1983, then in 1991. My aim in the investigation of these cases, all of which involve women, is to address the question of whether the penalty of zina¯ as currently imposed in some Muslim countries is discriminatory against women. In conclusion this essay argues that women accused of zina¯ (adultery or fornication) have suffered injustices ranging from discriminatory treatment on grounds of their biological makeup to penalization of potential victims of rape. The presumption of zina¯ on grounds of pregnancy puts a woman defendant in a disadvantageous position compared to a man accused of the same offence. Furthermore, the categorization of rape as a form of zina¯ does not just result in the virtual impossibility of convicting a rapist, but may even lead to incrimination of the woman victim of rape instead.