奥巴马无核世界倡议的战略文化解释

2009年4月5日，美国总统奥巴马在捷克布拉格发表演讲，表示“美国有道义上的责任倡导无核化世界”，呼吁世界逐步消除核武器，主张在一年之内召开有关核武器的领导人峰会；奥巴马还同时表示愿意在伊朗放弃核计划的条件下放弃在波兰和捷克部署反导基地。俄罗斯学者将奥巴马的这个倡议戏称为“奥巴马的布拉格之春”。     

Managing Tax Regimes: A Call for Research

Most academic research on taxation relates to higher-level issues of fiscal policy. Much public debate takes place about the calculation and incidence of different taxes, but little academic research addresses the management problems that are specific to national taxation regimes. This paper identifies emerging issues and calls for joint practitioner/academic attention on an international basis to address these issues.     

The State and the Internet: A Call for Collective Responsibility

The other great transformation in the world besides the rising power of the emerging economies has been the ever deeper penetration of the Internet in civil society and the economy. Alone among world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sought to address the sticky issue of how to “civilize the Internet” in the G‐8, a key forum of global governance which France chairs this year. As a kind of historical document, in this section we publish Sarkozy's speech to the leading information technologists and entrepreneurs he gathered in Paris in May for the first “e‐G‐8” Summit. Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, was among the attendees. We include his report to the 21st Century Council of the Nicolas Berggruen Institute.