Fundamentos de derecho comparado y global: ¿Cabe un orden común en la globalización?

The current crisis is global, for historical reasons (for the end of a period dominated by the national-State), space (planetary-scale) and materials (affecting almost any social institution). We can take the opportunity to evaluate and to come back to the beginning of the new paradigm, the spirit of San Francisco, after World War II, when people believed in the possibility to contribute all together to the common good, by international organizations.     

From global workers to local entrepreneurs: Sri Lanka’s former global factory workers in rural Sri Lanka

Abstract

Working in Sri Lanka’s urban free trade zones (FTZs) introduces Sri Lanka’s rural women to neoliberal ways of fashioning selves, which subsequently not only shape village entrepreneurial activities but also initiate negotiations in kinship, marriage, domestic arrangements, and community relations. The knowledges and networks that they develop while at the FTZ allow former workers to connect with global production networks as subcontractors, making them part of the cascading system of subcontracting that furthers the precarity of regular FTZ work. This article explores how these former workers manipulate varied forms of capital – social, cultural and monetary – to become local entrepreneurs and community leaders, while simultaneously initiating changes in rural social hierarchies and gender norms. When neoliberal economic restructuring manifests within local contexts it results in new articulations of what it is to be an entrepreneur and what it is to be a worthy, young, married woman. Overall, the paper sheds light on the fragmented and uneven manner in which neoliberal ethos take root in rural South Asia.     

国家级科技企业孵化器的时空特征及影响因素

该文运用点密度渲染、全局自相关分析和地理探测器方法对中国国家级科技企业孵化器的时空分布特征和孵化器效率的影响因素进行了分析。研究结果表明,第一,在所考察样本及其时空阶段内,中国国家级科技企业孵化器分布密度基本呈现由东部沿海往西部内陆递减的特征,同时呈现孵化器数量空间集聚态势;第二,各个影响因素对科技企业孵化器效率的影响力度不同,且在中国的东、中、西和全国四个层面各因素的影响力度也存在差异;第三,不同因素交互作用后呈现双线性加强态势。创新水平、政府政策、基础设施水平和外商直接投资水平对国家级科技企业孵化器的效率有重要影响。不同地区为提高科技企业孵化器的效率,应注意多种因素的协同和搭配。     

后脱欧时代“全球英国”外交战略及其前景

英国约翰逊政府将"全球英国"作为后脱欧时代对外政策的目标,宣称要利用重新获得的自主权,在国际舞台上积极作为,维系英国具有全球影响力的大国地位。然而在实践中,"全球英国"面临诸多挑战,甚至陷入左右为难的选择困境。其原因有多个方面,主要是"全球英国"构想存在内在缺陷,英国内部政治嬗变削弱了对外政策的弹性。当然,英国仍试图在外交上有所作为,尤其是维持某种程度的战略自主,因而仍将是国际格局中的一个重要变量。     

Internet Regulation Process Model: The Effect of Societies,Communities, and Governments

The Internet is often seen as borderless and unmanageable and, therefore, not fully understandable. Starting from the assumption that it can be understood, we begin an attempt to organize the Internet by characterizing it as a behavior space in which groups categorized as societies, communities, and governments interact. We emphasize the utility of organizing the Internet and focus specifically on attempts by societies, communities, and governments to regulate the flow of information. We posit an Internet regulation process model that, we believe, explains most of the efforts to regulate the Internet. In addition, we provide some insight into the relationships between and within the various groups involved. Our conclusions center on the observation that political power (especially Western political power) has been a defining factor in the regulation of the Internet as governments have played a prominent role in regulatory action.     

Knowledge as civilizational role play: China watching by its Southern neighbours

Colonial and postcolonial relations have always constituted sites of knowledge production in the Global South. This is particularly noticeable when it comes to the production of knowledge of a Global South self vis-à-vis the West. However, the literature has not seriously attended self-knowledge production in the Global South with regard to non-Western others. The paper compares South and Southeast Asian think tanks to reflect upon a common identity strategy of small nations to become a civilizational bridge between competing major neighbours. Specifically, China experts in these areas host more or less a common wish or even a desire to be a bridge over the difference of China and its potential rival in India, the West, or both. The bridge role is a rare sensibility in the postcolonial critique of the West. Watching China from its Southern Third World neighbourhood incurs such an agenda. Relying on interviews of retired diplomats and think tank experts, the paper also discusses how the abovementioned methodological characteristics affect the enactment of the bridge role.     

From Socio-nature to Spectral Presence: Re-imagining the Once and Future Landscape of Johannesburg

What distinguishes the global novel from other kinds of boundary-crossing narrative? And why are there so few examples of this genre from South Africa, a country of such salient worldwide interest? This essay reads Mark Behr’s 2009 novel Kings of the Water as a conflicted attempt to globalize South African literature, specifically the farm novel or plaasroman. In contrasting the complexity of the work’s South African setting with its under-developed representation of San Francisco, it traces Behr’s problematic relation to conventional thinking on global émigré fiction. The essay concludes that Kings of the Water is a timely case study in the ethical challenges of locational fixation, one that through its narrative configuration questions the dominance of the transnational paradigm.     

新兴国家参与全球治理的成就与挑战——兼论中国的对策

进入21世纪以来,新兴国家的崛起对西方国家主导的全球治理体系产生重要影响。通过对全球治理的积极参与,新兴国家为国际社会提供了新的合作机制雏形和多样化的经济发展模式,提升了自身在国际事务中的话语权。但新兴国家在参与全球治理方面仍面临一系列现实挑战：国际格局尚未改变,受制于现有大国;新兴国家间差异大,磋商机制效力不足;各国经济存在短板,制约着其治理作用的发挥。作为新兴国家群体的一员,中国在参与全球治理进程中,应坚持发展中国家定位,以全球经济治理为主攻方向,注重新兴国家内部合作,并与西方传统大国积极协调,构建合理、公正、有效的全球治理体系。     

Collective Action and Citizen Responses to Global Warming

This paper expands the relevance of the collective interest model of mass political action to explain collective-action behavior in the context of global warming and climate change. The analysis is an attempt to answer Ostrom’s call for a behavioral model of collective action that can be generalized beyond political protest to other collective-action problems. We elaborate, specify, and empirically test a collective interest model approach to citizen policy support, environmental political participation, and environmental behavior related to the issue of global warming. Key elements of the collective interest model—perceived risk, personal efficacy, and environmental values—are found to be directly, and positively, related to support of government policies and personal behaviors that affect global warming. We also discuss the links between the collective interest model and other important approaches to political behavior.

How Serious is the Global Warming Threat?

Despite the media’s and politicians’ insistence that the science of global warming is “settled”, there are good reasons to distrust climate model projections of future global warming. While the supposed scientific consensus is that mankind is very likely to blame for recent global warmth, this is mostly a statement of faith made from a position of relative ignorance about natural variability in the climate system. Since we do not understand what causes decadal- to century-scale natural climate variability, it has simply been assumed to either not exist, or to be relatively small. But even if predictions of catastrophic warming are accurate, the worldwide demand for energy is so large that there is little mankind can do without radically new energy technologies. Since it is only the wealthy countries of the world that can afford the R&D efforts to develop those technologies, punishing the use of fossil fuels, and the resulting negative impact on economies, might well delay the development of cost effective carbon-free energy sources that so many people are now calling for.