试析南方丝绸之路在中印关系中的作用

南方丝绸之路从古至今在推动中国西南地区与周边国家，特别是中印关系发展的过程中都扮演着十分重要的角色，它不仅为中印两国的经济发展和文化繁荣作出了巨大贡献，而且为中印两国的民族解放事业中立下了不朽功勋。进入二十一世纪以来，这条连接中国西部与南亚的国际大通道正在继续为推动中印关系发展和中国实施新一轮西部大开发战略发挥着越来越大的作用。重振“南方丝绸之路”，让这条古老的大国际通道重振昔日雄风，对中印两国都具有十分重要的现实意义和历史意义。     

Treaty Commitment as a Signaling Device: Explaining the Ratification of the International Covenant on Economic,Social, and Cultural Rights

This study investigates the determinants of the ratification of International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). To do so, it proposes an explanation that postulates that states employ treaty ratification as a device to signal their resolve to implement polices required by the treaty at issue in order to appease demanding domestic constituencies, predicting that states with lower compliance capacity tend to commit faster than states with higher compliance capacity. Applying this explanation to the ICESCR leads to two expectations. First, the larger government spending a proxy of high compliance capacity is hypothesized to delay the ratification process. Second, states with the unitary system are expected to ratify the ICESCR more promptly because the centralized power structure in unitary states significantly restricts the pursuit of the policy autonomy by minorities at local level that the right to self-determination entails. The Cox proportional hazard analysis lends support to both hypotheses.