中国与世界文明交汇的新篇章——写于中国2010年上海世博会开幕之际

百年期盼,八年筹办。火树银花上海夜．绚丽缤纷黄浦江。2010年4月30日晚．在多国元首和亿万观众的见证下．举世瞩目的2010年上海世博会拉开了惟幕。     

对外宣传向公共外交的转型——从奥运会到世博

“宣传”是外来词,指一种传播行为,可以说是在国际传播中最早被讨论的一种功能和作用。然而从传播主体和传播客体双方关系看,宣传更强调行为主体的意志和行为,带有主方主导的色彩。在现代汉语中,“宣传”一词是褒义词,或是中性词,至少从推翻帝制的民主革命起就开始流行,有公布、描述、推广、沟通、说明、说服、解释等诸多含义。     

从世博会看“韬光养晦”的现实意义

后金融危机时期,中国经济总量跃居世界第二,成功的中国与陷于困境的西方形成鲜明对比,中国的国际地位和影响已经不可替代,这些都是当今世界不争的现实。美西方国家除了心理上的不适和焦虑与日俱增之外,     

2010年国际形势的特点

2010年的国际形势继续发生着复杂深刻的变化.深刻认识并准确把握国际形势的新变化新特点,不仅有助于我们理解世界潮流和国际格局的未来走向,对于继续抓住和用好中国发展的战略机遇期,推动外交事业的进一步发展也具有十分重要的意义.具体说来,2010年的国际形势呈现出如下特点: 第一,在后然机时代,国际宏观政策协调的难度上升.     

Putting the City on the World Art Map: Star Curators and Nation Branding

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society - Over the last two decades, we have seen a worldwide expansion of the concept and practice of cultural diplomacy, along with the emergence...     

Leading and Managing at the Boundary: Perspectives Created by Joined Up Working

Based on a process of action inquiry, this article reflects on the capacities that chief executives need in order to engage effectively with ‘joined-up’ working. It begins by examining the paradoxical feelings that chief executives can hold about their roles – feeling both powerful and powerless at the same time, for example. By adopting the notion of boundary, it is possible to understand more about the complexities that chief executives need to work with. These boundaries are emotional as much as they are structural. They imply a duality in the role as the chief executive works with the shifting relationships between the organisation and its external world, between organisational and political leadership, and between ‘knowing’ and ‘not knowing’. To be able to work at the boundary, there is a premium on the capacities for sense-making through systemic analysis, for maintaining personal perspective and for seeing leadership as synonymous with learning. In the end, leading at the boundary challenges the chief executive to think from time to time about what he or she stands for as a person.     

2010年世界经济形势回顾与展望

2010年的世界经济,在后次贷危机的调整和转型中,在欧债危机风险频现和流动性泛滥的环境中,脆弱但缓慢地复苏着。     

让美丽三亚放飞世界——"世界海南青少年冬令营"赠书活动的启示

加强文化建设,提高三亚文化软实力,不仅有利于增强三亚市民和国外华侨、华人的凝聚力和创造力,也有利于国外投资者与三亚在旅游经济的交流中开展合作,进而不断增强三亚区域的竞争力、吸引力,推动三亚走向世界.     

Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank

This article explores the ways in which discussions of social capital have emerged within the World Bank, and how they interacted both with project practices and with larger debates in the institution. These debates are understood as a ‘battlefield of knowledge’, whose form and outcomes are structured but not determined by the political economy of the Bank. Understanding the debates this way has implications for research on the ways in which development discourses are produced and enacted, as well as for more specific discussions of the place of social capital in development studies. The article concludes with a reflection on implications of these debates for future research, policy, and practice.     

Address of Foreign Minister of Pakistan at SIIS(Shanghai,24 February 2010)

<正>Honorable President, Distinguished Scholars, Ladies and Gentlemen, I consider it a special privilege to speak at the prestigious Shanghai institutes for international studies(SIIS).This institute has come to signify the intellectual vigour of the great Chinese nation.Through its extensive web of institutes and centers of learning,the SIIS encapsulates the rich thought and intellectual traditions of a civilization that spans 5 millenniums.This is indeed a heritage in which you,as scholars,can take justifiable pride.     

The Imagined Globe: Remapping the World Through Public Diplomacy at the Asia Society

Debates about public diplomacy have recently turned to the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in what had been primarily a conversation about state-to-state affairs. We contribute to this conversation through an in-depth analysis of the Asia Society. Founded by John D. Rockefeller III in 1956, the Asia Society was established to educate Americans about Asia at a time when there was much less contact between the USA and Asia. Since then, the institution has undergone several reinventions, each contributing to and reflecting changing understandings of Asia and its relationship to the USA. We track the kinds of artwork the Asia Society collects and puts on display, the range of countries it categorizes as Asian, and the goals and content of its programming to reveal these shifts in scale and focus and demonstrate how they mirror and drive forward shifts in US-Asian relations. We argue that understanding how cultural institutions contribute to changing geographic imaginaries and geopolitics is an important, often overlooked aspect of public diplomacy. They are both a catalyst and reflection of changing political economic dynamics that, in turn, shape how citizens imagine their world and their nation’s place within it.

     

Disjunction between policy research and practice: Social benefit-cost analysis and investment policy at the World Bank

One often comes upon cases where, even allowing for long lags, policy-makers do not utilize readily available policy research. The gap between policy research and practice has important consequences, both for researchers and for practitioners. In an effort to clarify the causes of the phenomenon, this paper discusses a specific experience: social benefit-cost analysis for investment choice in the World Bank. The analysis may be useful both to the social scientists who do policy research and to the practitioners who might make more use of it.     

Recreating the Third World Project: possibilities through the Fourth World

Abstract

In this paper, we make a theoretical argument that the Third World be returned to its political origins to inspire an updated Third World Project (TWP), revived as a global movement for progressive, anti-imperialist forces, through the Fourth World movement, which highlights internal colonialism. Both the TWP and the United Nations recognise only nation states as full members. We examine how a Third World strategy that brings in the Fourth World, or indigenous, minority and/or stateless groups, can help oppressed groups gain more autonomy and rights through a transnational solidarity rooted in empathy. We trace the intellectual roots and history of the TWP and consider obstacles in bringing together the TWP and the Fourth World movement. A Fourth World strategy corrects the TWP’s implicit approval of an underlying imperialism, and the TWP provides the Fourth World movement a model to accomplish its goal of resisting uncritical modernity.     

Post‐Olympic Powershift: The Return of the Middle Kingdom in a Post‐American World

In the minds of its leaders and intellectuals, China is more than just another successful emerging economy and a rising regional power. For them, what is going on today might be considered a renaissance that will bring a neo‐Confucian sensibility to a post‐American world. In this section NPQ editor Nathan Gardels reports on his recent visit to Shanghai. Wang Hui, China's leading new left intellectual and author of The Rise of Modem Chinese Thought, offers his, views on subjects ranging from modernity to Tibet.     

关于世界格局演变趋势与“无极化”世界的思考与探讨

冷战结束后，美国成为世界上唯一的超级大国，作为唯一的一个“极”，它在国际社会的权势处于顶点。但阿富汗战争余烬未冷，伊拉克战争又使美国颜面扫地，突如其来的金融风暴更使美国陷入了尴尬的境地。随着各国政治、经济、军事、科技力量的不断变化，作为一个“极”的美国似乎正逐渐失去曾经拥有的统治力。而俄罗斯、中国以及印度等新兴大国却成为潜在的“极”，再加上欧洲、日本等旧有大国，这一格局既非单极支配，亦非多极结构，是否预示着另一种“极”时代格局的到来？     

Organizational Forms and Incentives in Public Procurement: Natural Experiment at a Large Public Sector Organization in Russia

This article analyses how the intensification of centralized monitoring within public organization may impact incentives for efficiency in those divisions of the organization that have different levels of financial autonomy. The efficiency of divisions’ activities was estimated through their procurement effectiveness. All the divisions were classified as non-commercial units (NCU) funded by the government or as income earning units (IEU) operating in the market and having broader financial autonomy. The results show that under standard monitoring, the IEU had more efficient procurements compared to the NCU. After intensification of centralized monitoring, the differences in performance became insignificant. These findings show that stricter monitoring is efficient for organizations with soft budget constraints, while for organizations with hard budget constraints it is preferable to use more flexible regulations.