Risk,Social Protection and the World Market

Abstract

This paper sees market building in Asia as part of the larger project of constructing a global market economy – a project which can be traced back to Adam Smith and, more recently, to the founding of a set of global liberal institutions in the post-World War II period. In the last two decades the global liberal impulse behind the creation of these institutions has gained momentum, in step with the emergence of a “world market” of genuinely global scale. The issue of risk is central to the project of building a world market. Following an introduction to the global liberal project, the first section of this paper addresses the question of risk through a critical analysis of the difference between negative risks (both external and internal) that pose a threat to the global liberal project, and the positive risks that the project seeks to embed and incentivise. The second section outlines the treatment of risk in the literature on the “political economy of reform,” and the third provides a detailed analysis of Social Risk Management at the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank over the last decade. The final section reflects on the implications for “building markets in Asia.”     

Lord Sydenham of Combe's World Jewish Conspiracy

Abstract

Ruotsila's article is the first in-depth examination of the development of the racialist and antisemitic thinking of one of the main expositors of British radical-right doctrine in the first three decades of the twentieth century, Viscount Sydenham of Combe. An active participant in all the major debates of the radical right, a popularizer of conspiracy theories to explain Bolshevism, Zionism and modern internationalism, Sydenham had unusually close connections with a wide variety of conservative (and later fascist) organizations and opinion-formers on both sides of the Atlantic. These gave him notable, and notably well-seized, opportunities to influence debate and help shape the categories that have, ever since, guided radical-right thinking. Ruotsila charts Sydenham's commentary on socialism and perceived German subversion in the pre-First World War period, and explores the linkages that he, and the wider movement of which he was a representative, forged between German power politics, Bolshevik revolutionaries and a supposed Jewish conspiracy. Ruotsila's particular contribution lies in the link made between these fairly commonplace radical-right notions and anti-Zionism, and opposition to the League of Nations and to the international projects of liberalism more generally. These points of the anti-modernist and anti-internationalist argument are shown to have been derivatives of a racialist, eventually antisemitic, conception of a world Jewish conspiracy. Ruotsila shows the development of Sydenham's thought to have proceeded from general, at the time almost consensual, racialist assumptions through anti-socialism to a full-blown antisemitic conspiracy theory.     

The Consequences of Victim Physical Attractiveness on Reactions to Injustice: The Role of Observers’ Belief in a Just World

Two studies explored Dion and Dion’s (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 775–780, 1987) suggestion that the belief in a just world may contribute to the “beauty is good” stereotype. In Study 1, we found that participants rated the death of a woman as more tragic and unfair when she was physically attractive than less attractive. Participants were also more punitive towards agents of harm when the victim was physically attractive. In Study 2, we varied the extent to which a woman suffered from a house fire and asked participants to later recognize the woman’s picture among several choices varying in physical attractiveness. Participants who learned that the woman suffered a great deal remembered her to be less physically attractive than when her suffering was minimal. The results are discussed in terms of how the justice motive contributes to the evaluative and moral importance attached to physical attractiveness.

在国际格局变动中成长起来的东南亚

东南亚这一区域概念是在国际格局的变动中形成的 ,东南亚区域体系的形成也经历了一个漫长的过程。东南亚区域体系不只是被动受制于国际体系 ,它对国际体系也有一定的反弹。     

《身见录》与《海国闻见录》之比较

鸦片战争以前中国人对世界的认识十分贫乏。康熙六十年（1721）,山西人樊守义著《身见录》。雍正八年（1730）,福建人陈伦炯著《海国闻见录》。这是18世纪上半叶中国人开眼看世界的珍贵文献。有必要从作者身世、写作背景、撰著经过、写作目的、内容特色等方面,对这两部书进行比较分析。     

Queering the World or Worlding the Queer? New Readings of Anna Kavan’s Who Are You?

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This essay explores world-literary and queer approaches to Anna Kavan’s little discussed 1963 novel Who Are You?. It argues that world-literary scholarship demonstrates the centrality of white colonial masculinity to capitalist modernity, while a queer reading highlights the anxious performativity at the heart of such power. The most distinctive feature of Kavan’s text is its unusual format, whereby the story is told once, in detail, before immediately being retold, in more concise fashion and with some adjustments. What both fields add to the analysis of this formal deviation is a shared concern with the failings of normative order—whether that be the bourgeois, heteropatriarchal family or the capitalist system itself—and, in turn, the relationship of such failure to narrative disjuncture.     

当代资本主义世界体系论要

二战结束后的资本主义世界体系,是全球范围的资本主义一系列历史发展阶段的产物。较之战前它显示出诸多变化：国外直接投资成为重要纽带,行为主体由国家拓展至国家集团和跨国公司,国际组织的干预和协调得到加强,新科技革命强化了各国之间的联系,一些国家在对等的条件下限制了本国主权。就其特点来说,资本主义世界体系内部始终存在的发展模式不统一、发展水平不平衡、经济关系不平等在战后表现得更加突出。用列宁的有关理论审视当代资本主义体系,资本主义制度的内在矛盾没有变,一些国家仍然靠控制和剥削他国人民获得超额利润,由此而来的帝国主义主要矛盾仍然存在。     

论毛泽东的独立自主思想

毛泽东独立自主思想的精神实质是把马克思主义的普遍真理同中国的具体实际结合起来,走自己的路。独立自主地走自己的路,必须在坚持实事求是、群众路线和促使矛盾转化上下功夫,必须确立全心全意为人民服务、敢于创新、敢于胜利、艰苦奋斗和只争朝夕的精神境界。     

在新的历史起点上全面深化改革的指南——深入学习习近平总书记关于改革开放的重要论述

在新的历史起点上全面深化改革开放,是党的十八大提出的新的目标任务。党的十八大以来,习近平总书记围绕进一步深化改革开放作出大量调查研究和深入理论思考,发表了一系列重要论述。这些重要论述,深刻阐明了改革开放的重大意义,科学总结了改革开放的宝贵经验,庄严宣示了改革开放的坚定决心,精心谋划了改革开放的总体方案,为我们在新的历史起点上全面深化改革开放凝聚了共识和力量,指明了路径和方向,提供了科学的指南。     

发挥地缘优势 提升黑龙江省对外开放水平

要提升黑龙江省对外开放水平，一是要全方位提升黑龙江省对俄经贸合作水平，即在对俄农业合作、能源合作、科技合作方面寻求突破；二是黑龙江省应深度开发对俄边境旅游资源；三是黑龙江省应加速融入东北亚区域经济。