以友城为纽带开展多领域的交流与合作

国际友好城市工作是国家总体外交在地方的延伸,是民间外交的重要形式,是地方政府开展国际交流与合作的重要渠道.自1980年福州市与日本长崎市缔结为我省第一对国际友好城市以来,我省的国际友好城市工作已走过了24年历程.目前,全省已与19个国家的41个省(州、县、大区)、市建立了友好城市关系,初步形成了覆盖亚洲、欧洲、美洲和大洋洲的友好城市交往格局,在经贸、农林、水产、科技、文化、教育、体育、卫生、环保、旅游和人才培养等领域开展了富有成效的交流与合作,取得了可喜成果.     

中日韩城市外交——动力、模式与前景

城市外交是当前中日韩三国合作中的重要组成部分。本文从国际、国家和地方三个层次考察中日韩合作中城市外交的发展动力,发现全球化、国家激励和地方主导三个因素共同推动着中日韩城市外交的发展。在保持友好城市双边交往的基础上,中日韩通过建立论坛机制、搭建协作平台等形式,将友城外交推向深入,并积极发展基于议题领域的跨国城市网络,推进城市外交发展模式的完善。目前,中日韩城市外交在加强沟通、完善全球治理、塑造区域认同方面发挥着积极作用,同时也受制于东北亚政治局势以及城市外交本身的限度。加强在观念、机制和能力层面的持续建设,是中日韩未来城市外交稳步推进的重要路径。     

拓展友城交流平台,发挥民间外交优势,促进成都经济社会发展和对外开放

<正>成都作为四川省省会和西部特大中心城市,在新时代肩负着建设承东启西、联通欧亚的西部国际门户枢纽的重大使命。近年来,在习近平外交思想的指引下,成都坚持服务国家总体外交,以国际友城交流为重要平台,发挥地方民间外交优势,开展全方位、多层次、宽领域的对外交流合作,为推动成都经济社会发展和对外开放发挥了积极作用。     

助力山西开放发展的城市外交实践

正随着世界多极化、经济全球化、文化多样化、社会信息化深入发展,城市作为全球化的"节点"、跨国合作的纽带、全球治理的前沿,在国际合作中的作用和对外关系中的影响日益凸显。2014年5月15日,习近平总书记在中国人民对外友好协会成立60周年纪念活动上第一次明确提出了"城市外交"的理念,要求大力开展国际友好城市工作,促进中外地方政府交流,推动实现资源共享、优势互补、合作共赢。城市外交作为次国家层面的外交渠道,是夯实国家关系民意基础、推动构建人类命运共同体的重要抓手。近年来,山西省高度重视城     

关于山东与东盟合作的几点思考

<正>准确定位:东盟是山东重要的合作伙伴从双方近二十年的交往历史来看,山东与东盟在政治、经济、友城、人文交流等各个领域开展了广泛交流,具有良好的合作基础。推动山东与东盟加深交流合作,首先应对东盟在山东省对外开放中所占的位置有一个准确的定位。政治交往层面,东盟高层来访频繁标志着双方政治关系日益密切。这也是增进相互了解、推动合作、服务国家外交大局的重要契机。近年来,已有八个东盟国家的领导人来鲁访     

首届"2005四川国际友城合作与发展周"成功举办

5月23日,四川省在成都举办了首届"2005四川国际友城合作与发展周".参加此次活动的有来自16个国家的18个代表团,与会外宾人数达145人.这是我省首次举办如此大规模的友城交流活动.省、市相关部门组织了200多个项目、198家企业参加推介活动.全国政协副主席黄孟复,省委书记、省人大常委会主任张学忠,省政协主席秦玉琴,国家发改委副主任、国务院西部开发办副主任李子彬,全国政协副秘书长张龙之,全国对外友协副会长刘志明出席开幕式.开幕式由省委副书记、省长张中伟主持,省委书记张学忠致欢迎辞.     

东北亚大变局下中韩城市外交的重要作用与努力方向

城市作为国际关系中的行为体日益活跃.中韩两国一衣带水,两国城市间的经贸交流早于两国建立外交关系,是推动两国正式建交的重要因素之一,中韩建交后又推动了两国城市外交的发展,形成了良性互动的局面.据韩方统计,韩国对外缔结的1743对姐妹城市或友好城市关系中,中韩之间就有668对,数量最多.特别是在新冠肺炎疫情下中韩城市之间相互支持,互助防疫物资,联防联控,及时分享抗疫经验,共建抗击疫情的命运共同体,为中韩城市外交增添了新的内涵.随着中美战略竞争日益加剧,韩国越来越难以把握对美同盟与对华关系之间的平衡.在这样的背景下,中韩城市外交可发挥特殊的作用,在相当程度上能有效避开美国施加给韩国政府的地缘政治压力,焕发新的生机活力,成为未来中韩关系发展的重要抓手,推动两国关系行稳致远.     

社会组织"走出去"与外交统筹能力提升

中国社会组织对外开展民生合作和国际公益活动,是实现民心相通的重要桥梁。要服务好社会组织"走出去",必须进一步提升中国外交的统筹协调能力。通过政府对社会组织相关活动的政治引领、在多边外交中与社会组织的立体配合、加强对社会组织海外活动的本地支撑等,社会组织的国际活动才能更好地融入到中国特色大国外交的总体布局中。     

适应新形势,推动友城工作再上新水平

纵观当今世界,一方面经济全球化和区域经济集团化是不可逆转的两大趋势,另一方面也形成了以中心城市为核心的全球城市层级体系,城市和城市体系的发展与城市之间的合作,已不仅仅局限于所在区域乃至所在国家的影响,而是与世界经济的发展息息相关.为顺应经济全球化和区域经济合作的趋势与特点,加强世界城市体系发展中城市之间的交流与合作,把友城工作作为与国外进行交流与合作的平台,推动全方位、宽领域、多层次对外开放,是新形势下推动友城工作再上新水平的策略和举措.     

不断发展、日益深化的中国多边外交

多边外交,指两个以上的国际关系行为主体在多种领域开展的国际合作、交往、协调的行为和方式.作为一种外交战略,多边外交在中国和世界各国已经出现了很长时间.     

Power and transformational and transactional leadership in public and private organizations

Ten public and 35 private organizations located in Central New York State participated in a university- sponsored research project to study the effects of organizational characteristics upon types of leadership (transformational/transactional) and power demonstrated by supervisors. Public sector organizations in which managers had low control over rewards were compared to private sector organizations in which managers had high control over rewards.

Followers perceived public sector supervisors as more inspirational by their followers and they used more active management-by-exception behavior than those in private organizations. Private sector supervisors had more reward, legitimate and coercive power than supervisors in public sector organizations.     

Russian stereotypes and myths of Ukraine and Ukrainians and why Novorossiya failed

This article discusses two inter-related issues. Firstly, the factors lying behind Russia's fervent belief that its Novorossiya (New Russia) project, aimed to bring back to Russia eight oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhhya, Odesa, Mykolayiv, and Kherson in eastern and southern Ukraine and launched during the 2014 “Russian Spring,” would be successful. Russian identity misunderstood, and continues to misunderstand, Ukraine and Ukrainians through stereotypes and myths of Ukraine as an “artificial state” and Ukraine's Russian speakers as “fraternal brothers” and Russians and Ukrainians as “one people” (odin narod). Secondly, why Ukrainian national identity was different than these Russian stereotypes and myths and how this led to the failure of the Novorossiya project. Russian stereotypes and myths of Ukraine and Ukrainians came face to face with the reality of Russian-speaking Ukrainian patriotism and their low support for the Russkij Mir (Russian World). The article compares Russian stereotypes and myths of Ukraine and Ukrainians with how Ukrainians see themselves to explain the roots of the 2014 crisis, “Russian Spring,” and failure of Russian President Vladimir Putin's Novorossiya project.     

Natural Resources and Small Island Economies: Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract

Historically, small economies, especially resource-rich ones, underperformed on average relative to their larger counterparts. Small island economies appear still more disadvantaged due to remoteness from both markets and agglomeration economies. Yet a comparison of two small island economies with similar initial conditions other than their mineral endowment suggests that policy outweighs size, isolation and resource endowment in determining economic performance. Resource-poor Mauritius adopted an unfashionable policy of export manufacturing that systematically eliminated surplus labour, which drove economic diversification that sustained rapid GDP growth and political maturation. Like most resource-rich economies, Trinidad and Tobago pursued policies that absorbed rent too rapidly, which impeded diversification and created an illusory prosperity vulnerable to collapse.     

Country size and economic growth and development

This paper attempts to provide limited empirical evidence on the nature of the relationship between country size and rates of economic growth and levels of economic development, and on the possible effects of trade concentration and dependence on trade on this relationship. It suggests that there is no discernible association between country size and economic development, nor between country size and economic growth, and that neither the dependence on trade of small countries nor their commodity and geographic export concentration are necessarily important factors in economic growth and economic development.     

Government and Corruption: Scylla and Charybdis

Using public sector employment and corruption perception data for 72 countries across the world, this article demonstrates that despite common notion countries with “smaller” governments do not tend to have lower corruption. Under general assumptions, one can demonstrate that there is an optimal size of public sector employment corresponding to the highest capital intensity. The model has several implications: lower optimal sizes of governments for labor intensive countries and higher sizes for capital intensive ones, possibility to reduce corruption paying a cost of suboptimal output, and a higher “price” of an oversized government for labor intensive countries.     

“两抢”犯罪的趋势与防控

根据最近16年的统计数据，我国“两抢”犯罪总体呈上升态势，且出现多方面的特点。当前，影响“两抢”犯罪变化趋势的因素主要有：社会管理机制完善的程度、社会成员之间收入的差距、“两抢”犯罪主体特点、社会成员的防范意识以及公安机关的防控机制等。预防“两抢”犯罪需要整个社会尤其是公安机关的共同努力。     

现代化与未成年人犯罪

未成人犯罪随着现代化的发展而发展，这可以说是一种国际现象。在现代化进程中，我国未成年人犯罪大量增多的原因在于：未成年人生理、心理发展不平衡，家庭教育存在缺失，学校教育存在不足，社会上存在着很多消极因素。在现代化进程中，必须采取有效对策，控制未成年人犯罪增多，才能保障未成年人健康成长。     

Earnings and ethnicity in Trinidad and Tobago

This study employs 1993 Continuous Sample Survey of the Population (CSSP) data for Trinidad and Tobago to investigate the determinants of earnings by ethnicity. The data, organised into three ethnic groupings, reveal lower levels of remuneration in the labour market for Africans and Indians than for individuals of other ethnicities taken as a whole. While the larger portion of the earnings differentials generally appears to be explained by ethnic differences in characteristics valued by the labour market, Africans and Indians would benefit substantially if they were to receive the same rates of remuneration for their educational endowments as workers of other ethnicities in the Trinidad and Tobago labour market. Notwithstanding Indians’ lowest average earnings, Africans appear more likely to be discriminated against.