从丝绸之路到石油之路

丝绸之路千年之后又获重生,尽管现在称它石油之路更为合适.现在丝绸(且不提电脑部件、衣服和玩具)依旧由东流向西,但石油却正在向东奔流,而且不久天然气也会加入其中.     

Where the Low Road and the High Road Meet: Flexible Employment in Global Value Chains

This article examines production organisation and employment patterns in the export-orientated centres of Denizli (Turkey) and Tiruppur (India). It argues that Denizli and Tiruppur's involvement in global value chains has resulted in segmented production patterns and insecure employment arrangements. Larger producers use sub-contractors as a strategy to mediate the instability of international contracts and pass the uncertainty in their global linkages on to smaller firms and their workforces. Such flux, then, has become a regularised feature of manufacturing work within the ranks of sub-contractors. Employers have solidified these production arrangements by recruiting rural and female workers. The article sheds light on the relationship between new production forms and rising employment insecurity.     

东南亚农业:可持续发展之路

对东南亚经济发展模式的反思在金融危机之后一度成为热潮 ,东南亚诸国到底是“龙行天下” ,还是“虎落平阳”众说纷纭 ,不一而足。但东南亚国家宏观经济政策对农业发展的损害却已成为一个不争的事实 ,在这一方面国内外的专家学者都有了相当多的论述。在国际农业的研究领域 ,实现可持续发展已是各国的共识 ,但具体国情的差异也使得东南亚国家必须结合本地区的实际来推动本国农业的进一步发展 ,既要克服宏观经济政策对农业所产生的负面影响 ,又要与国际上先进的发展模式接轨 ,走可持续发展的道路 ,这就不得不引起我们的深思与探讨。本文旨在从东南亚的具体国情出发 ,对这一地区的农业发展道路作一些可行性的粗浅分析 ,以期能得到专家学者的批评指正     

The Doha Development Agenda: Reflections on the Road Ahead

From 9 to 14 November 2001, Qatar hosted the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and a new trade round, the successor to the Uruguay round, was successfully launched in Doha. This was by no means a foregone conclusion and was a major feat. The outcome of the Doha Ministerial Conference was in doubt until the very end. Failure at Doha to resolve the issues left over from the inconclusive Seattle Ministerial Conference of 1999 would have seriously weakened the WTO and threatened the future of the multilateral trading system. In this article, WTO Director-General Mike Moore, describes the steps taken in a more transparent and inclusive preparatory process for the Doha meeting and the key achievements of the new round--the Doha Development Agenda. He concludes that as a ''member-driven'' organization, all WTO members share joint responsibility for a successful and inclusive multilateral trading system and describes the current preparations being made for the conclusion of the new round by the three-year time-frame, as agreed by ministers.     

U.S.-Saudi Relations: a Rocky Road

The following report was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. The meeting that generated it took place in Bellagio, Italy, July 19–23, 2004. The authors of the report are Clifford Chanin of the Legacy Project and F. Gregory Gause, III, professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont.     

U.S.‐Saudi Relations: Bump in the Road or End of the Road? Rockefeller Foundation Report

The following report of a Saudi-American dialogue held at Bellagio, Italy, June 2–6, 2003, was written by Clifford Chanin and F. Gregory Gause, III. Mr. Chanin is president of The Legacy Project and Dr. Gause is an associate professor at the University of Vermont (see participant list at end).     

Neutralism Made Positive: Egyptian Anti-colonialism on the Road to Bandung

Many assessments of the trajectory of positive neutralism in Egypt have presented it as a foreign policy implemented in response to the Cold War context, and ineffective in the shadow of superpower rivalries. This contribution contends instead that positive neutralism developed out of the pursuit of a particular combination of foreign policy and nation building in Egypt, by elites whose political formation was dominated by an anti-colonial rather than Cold War consciousness. This is demonstrated through the analysis of three foreign policy episodes and parallel nation building programmes unfolding between 1952 and 1955. Together they illustrate the origins of positive neutralism in the positions taken by Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Free Officers on the British presence in Egypt, on regional alliances and the Baghdad Pact, and on development and pan-Arabism in nation building, all before Egypt's participation in the 1955 Bandung Conference after which the policy of positive neutralism was formally adopted. The use of Egyptian documents throughout foregrounds Egyptian agency and motivations in drawing up policy, and enables an evaluation of the contributions of positive neutralism identified in Egypt at the time.     

Victoria's Unique Approach to Road Safety: A History of Government Regulation*

The Australian state of Victoria has a record of proactive and determined legislative action addressing road safety. Its processes and deliberations concerning the introduction of road safety laws serve as a noteworthy case study of political rationality and public policy development. Victoria has taken a unique and pioneering approach to traffic regulation. Using the seatbelt and handheld phone laws as examples, this article examines the political dynamics involved in, and the forms of political reasoning underpinning, the road safety policy decisions taken by Victorian governments. I argue that the different approaches taken by governments are partly due to the interaction of the political imperatives of state institutions imposing regulations for the public good and the protection of individual liberties.     

Israel's Exit from Africa, 1973: The Road to Diplomatic Isolation

In 1973 25 Black African states severed diplomatic relations with Israel. This article examines the motives that brought the African countries to shun Israel and the manner in which the Israelis attempted to cope with their growing ‘pariahtude’. The African states sought to achieve unity on their continent, avoid their own isolation, and advance the international norms that they espoused. The Black African countries claimed that no hostility attended their decisions to break ties with Israel. Yet, as this article demonstrates, their imposition of a quarantine on Israel was an act of indirect violence. By early 1974 officials of the Israeli Foreign Ministry attempted a reformulation of policy toward Black Africa but could ameliorate in no effective manner the isolation imposed upon their country.     

迎接WTO挑战走可持续发展之路

可持续发展是当今人类的共同选择.我们济南钢铁集团总公司在"九五"计划时期,遵循可持续发展的要求,狠抓节能降耗,成效显著."十五"计划期间,我们决心迎接WTO挑战,走可持续发展道路,创建"节能清洁型工厂".     

普京新任期面临的挑战

普京以71.3％的选票获得连任。在第二任期中,普京面临许多问题,但经济 翻番、推进社会改革和行政改革三大任务是解决其他问题的关键。