Initiative on Global Civilisation Praised

<正>President’s proposal critical for pursuit of peace,development,experts say The Global Civilisation Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping is regarded as not only highly relevant in this world fraught with challenges and uncertainties,but also critical for the pursuit of common peace and development,according to Asia-Pacific experts.     

Xi Proposes Global Civilisation Initiative

<正>Xi Jinping,General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President,attended the opening ceremony of the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting via video link and delivered a keynote address in Beijing,capital of China,March 15,2023.In his keynote address,Xi proposed the Global Civilisation Initiative.     

Implement the Global Civilisation Initiative,Jointly Promote Human Civilisation Development

<正>President Xi Jinping s Congratulatory Letter to the Third Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilisations and the First World Conference of Sinologists Prevails among Attendees On July 3,Xi Jinping,General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of PRC,sent a congratulatory letter to the Third Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilisations and the First World Conference of Sinologists,which soon prevails among attendees.     

Global Civilisation Initiative Boosts Human Advancement

<正>The Global Civilisation Initiative,proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping,will inject fresh and strong energy into the common development and progress of human society in a world fraught with multiple challenges and crises.Elaborating on the new initiative at the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties HighLevel Meeting,Xi,also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee,called for respecting the diversity of civilisations,advocating the common value...     

Views on Global Civilisation Initiative by Sinologists

Sinologists all over the world have spoken highly of the Global Civilisation Initiative since it was proposed by President Xi Jinping.They expressed their readiness to contribute wisdom and strength to the implementation of the Initiative.This article is composed of interview excerpts of 16 sinologists from 14countries.     

“Democracy as Civilisation”

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy has come to embody the very idea of legitimate statehood in international politics. It has done so largely through defining a new standard of civilisation, in which “democraticness” determines the limits of international society and helps to construct relations with non-democracies “beyond the pale”. Like the “classical” standard, this new version again reflects a considerable interest in the socio-political organisation of states. Central in this shift back to a more “anti-pluralist” international society has been the democratic peace thesis, which emphasises how the internal (democratic) characteristics of states influence their external behaviour. Against more optimistic interpretations, it is argued that the democratic peace is a distinctly Janus-faced creature: promoting peace between democracies, while potentially encouraging war against non-democratic others. Within the democratic peace, non-democracies become not just behaviourally threatening but also ontologically threatening. Non-democracies are a danger because of what they are (or are not). In sum, the argument presented is that democracy, positioned as the most legitimate form of domestic governance in international society, has become caught up and used in global structures of domination, hierarchy and violence. Thus, the role of “democracy” in international politics is much more complicated, and, at least in its current guise, less progressive than often portrayed.     

Global Civilisation Initiative Outlines the Way to Transcend Estrangement,Clashes and Superiority

<正>The modernisation of humanity should be like a garden where a hundred flowers bloom.This is what President Xi Jinping said in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Communist Party of China in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting via video link.     

Global Civilisation Initiative Proposed by Xi Provides Hope to Heal the World in Turbulence

<正>Xi Jinping,General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President,proposed the Global Civilisation Initiative.Experts said following the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative,China is trying to share its wisdom and plans to bring new hope for all nations to consider together on how to escape the trap of the"Clash of Civilisations"and find a path that can help the world sail through the current turbulence.     

Economic Power Foundations of Cities in Global Governance

This study provides evidence that city government participation in global governance networks is explicable by the larger power hierarchy of cities in the global economy. Extant research on city government participation in global governance networks, or “transnational municipal networks (TMNs)” such as United Cities Local Governments, has largely ignored the relevance of research showing city-level connectivity to corporate and other economic networks among world cities. In this latter tradition of research, the level of a city’s connectivity to such economic networks is understood as commensurate with the hierarchical power it holds in the global economy. Using a sample of UK and Chinese cities, this study shows that patterns of participation in a range of TMNs are explained by varied measures of city-level connectivity to economic networks. Interpreted through structuration theory, findings suggest that city participation in global governance is shaped and stratified by city-level hierarchical power within the global economy.     

Global Cities,International Relations and the Fabrication of the World

The global city presents one available model for understanding urbanisation and associated hierarchies of power. In International Relations (IR), the global city is treated as a unit in a new type of international system, an increasingly important actor in world politics, or a site through which global processes operate. This article forwards an alternative perspective. It treats the global city as a dispositif of power. While the global city captures the fact that power and wealth are spatially concentrated in today’s urbanising world politics, the concept also has a world-making capacity. The article analyses this capacity in two contexts. Firstly, it presents a genealogy of the voyage of the global cities concept from critical academic scholarship to a buzzword of city elites and business consultants. Secondly, it performs a governmental analysis of global city reports and indexes. Finally, the article suggests that conceptualising the global city as a dispositif enables the important task of imagining alternative ways of framing the meaning of urbanisation in world politics.     

全球碳市场研究及对中国碳市场建设的启示

本文运用文献计量和社会网络分析方法,对近万篇碳市场研究的中英文文献进行分析,挖掘出全球碳市场研究领域内容层面的特征关系。结合全球碳市场发展状况,分析了碳核算、碳配额、碳定价三个细分领域的研究概况,全面总结和评价了三个细分领域的研究进展,并根据研究成果和缺口为中国进行全国碳市场建设提出对策建议,以期为中国碳市场顺利运行,兑现减排承诺提供经验指导。     

Transnational Networks and Global Environmental Governance: The Cities for Climate Protection Program

The past decade has witnessed a growing interest among scholars of international relations, and global environmental governance in particular, in the role of transnational networks within the international arena. While the existence and potential significance of such networks has been documented, many questions concerning the nature of governance conducted by such networks and their impact remain. We contribute to these debates by examining how such networks are created and maintained and the extent to which they can foster policy learning and change. We focus on the Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) program, a network of some 550 local governments concerned with promoting local initiatives for the mitigation of climate change. It is frequently asserted that the importance of such networks lies in their ability to exchange knowledge and information, and to forge norms about the nature and terms of particular issues. However, we find that those local governments most effectively engaged with the network are mobilized more by the financial and political resources it offers, and the legitimacy conferred to particular norms about climate protection, than by access to information. Moreover, processes of policy learning within the CCP program take place in discursive struggles as different actors seek legitimacy for their interpretations of what local climate protection policies should mean. In conclusion, we reflect upon the implications of these findings for understanding the role of transnational networks in global environmental governance.     

Human Security as Global Security: Reconceptualising Strategic Studies

The article argues that global security should be seen as synonymous with human security, and that strategic studies should be located within that broader rubric. Mounting such an argument means meeting the charge of those who see the broader construction of strategic studies as vague and meaningless, and as detracting from the ability to make good policy. The article attempts, therefore, to map human security in as inclusive and systematic a way as possible. It attempts to show that the concept is neither vague nor meaningless, and is suitable, therefore, to be the basis for a comprehensive account of global security.     

The Global Foreign Exchange Market: An Interpretation of the Bank for International Settlements' Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity, 2007

Markets for foreign exchange derivatives are turning over $US 5.5 trillion per day and they are having a critical economic and social impact. But they are little understood in the international relations and international political economy (IPE) literature. This paper introduces the key themes of derivative markets and reports on the results of the most recent Bank for International Settlements' triennial survey of global foreign exchange and derivative markets. As well as reporting the enormous scale of growth of these markets, the paper analyses the trends, especially regarding the declining role of the US dollar and the changing roles of different sorts of financial institutions in global financial markets. Finally, it explores what the data indicate about whether these markets can be characterised as being driven by “speculation”.     

Monetary Orientalism: Currency Wars and the Framing of China as Global Cheater

China stands as a paradigmatic sign of deep angst for the United States in late stage capitalism, a menacing spectre of foreignness and otherness that organises Western popular anxieties at a time where nothing is fixed within international markets. Focusing on the so called “currency wars” debate that erupted in the early twenty-first century, when the PRC was accused of devaluating its currency, this article contends that PRC’s representation as a prime currency manipulator and cheater can be conceptualised through what I am calling monetary Orientalism or the ways imperialising thoughts circulate around monetary flows in relation to a rising Asiatic superpower. This framework serves as a prime lens for situating US nationalist sentiment and its sense of an exceptional global self against what it perceives as a global other.     

试论全球性议题与全球政治的新发展

在全球化大背景下,随着国际金融危机的深化,世人的眼光聚焦于全球性议题和全球政治的重大发展变化:挑战激增,议题转换.重点转移,合作共治得到强化,国家权力与作用有了某种回归,全球政治中的力量对比发生了令人瞩目的深刻变化,并迅速而深刻地改变着全球战略格局.     

应对气候变化的全球攻略

气候安全是一个事关各国发展和人类生存的重大全球热点问题,引起国际社会的高度关注与重视。为了遏制日益加剧的温室效应势头,中国和其他各国积极采取防范措施和应对行动。但在国际合作层面,由于发达国家态度较为消极,进展不大。解决地球气候变暖问题任重道远。     

Multinational Enterprises as "Moral Entrepreneurs" in a Global Prohibition Regime Against Corruption

This article explores the incentives and means multinational enterprises (MNEs) may have to create a corruption-free business environment. It draws on Ethan Nadelmann's (1990) article in International Organization , "Global Prohibition Regimes: The Evolution of Norms in International Society" and discerns the emergence of such a regime centered on bribe paying and bribe soliciting.