U.S. Intransigence and the Climate Change Reality

This essay is a response to the U.S. decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and a rejoinder to Donald Trump’s allegations against India and China. It argues that U.S. intransigence poses a serious threat to the multilateral efforts to redress the climate change crisis.     

论马克思的“现实”概念

马克思关注历史中的社会现实问题,他的“现实”概念是在与哲学、社会和历史的关系中得以呈现的,从中产生的一些内容也是我们熟知的东西。当我们对这些关系和内容进行深思熟虑的考察的时候,会发现要真正理解马克思的“现实”概念,需要对哲学与现实的同一关系、社会与现实的具体关系以及历史与现实的总体关系进一步加以思考。而真正理解马克思的“现实”概念,是我们在新时代坚持和发展马克思思想的基本前提。     

Kosovo: Statebuilding Utopia and Reality

ABSTRACT

Twenty years of international statebuilding have made little impact on the ‘stateness’ of Kosovo. This article puts this failure in the broader context of the shift from the liberal internationalist assumptions of the late 1990s to the pragmatic realism of today. It does this through the lenses of E H Carr’s classic work The Twenty Years’ Crisis, UN policy thinking on the problematic assumptions of international statebuilding and the diagnoses in David Lake’s 2016 book The Statebuilder’s Dilemma, which sets out three pragmatic alternatives. The article concludes that all three of these alternatives can be seen in practice in Kosovo.     

民族国家:理论与现实

民族国家理论以民族自决作为理论依据,追求一族一国的经典模式.自其产生之后,这一理论一直是国内外学术界争论的话题,面,临着理想与现实的冲突困境.实际上,民族国家理论的实施是相对的、有条件的,有着特定的时间和空间背景,因此,这一困境可以通过非殖民化背景下的鼓励、主权不可分割原则下的限制、国家认同意识的强化进行尝试性解决.     

Rural Development Policy: Rationale and Reality

America's rural communities have fared poorly in economic termscompared to metropolitan areas. After a spurt of growth in the1970s that seemed to be closing the gap, rural areas are againlosing ground. Rural communities have argued for special helpfrom the national government. Such help can be justified tofacilitate balanced economic growth, create "more equal" standardsof living, and benefit small farmers, a group for whom the nationhas a special regard. The counter-arguments are that specialhelp to rural areas postpones adjustments to an increasinglyurban world and that federal rural programs subsidize a favoredlife-style. In fact, several federal development programs serverural areas. President Carter announced a rural policy in 1979.In 1980 the Congress enacted legislation requiring future administrationsto address rural concerns systematically. The Reagan administrationhas sent Congress the rural development strategy required bythe law, and two annual updates. However, if having a policymeans having a systematic approach to reaching defined objectives,the U.S. has had no rural policy. The objectives of federalrural efforts have never been settled on, and approaches torural problems continue to be unsystematic.