美国对国际刑事法院的政策转变

美国对国际刑事法院的政策经历了从积极支持到极力反对的大转变。克林顿政府虽然积极参加法院规约的制订,但最终因为在管辖权、检察官独立启动调查起诉程序和侵略罪等问题上存在着重大分歧而投了反对票。布什政府则根据《美国军人保护法》采取了一系列极端敌视国际刑事法院的措施,其中尤以所谓的"第98条协定"为甚。但是,缔约国与美国签订的这种豁免协定实际上违背了规约的宗旨,与罗马规约第98条第2款不相符合,是非法的。     

美国私立高校董事会建设给我国高校独立学院的启示

美国私立高校董事会建设为我国高校独立学院的发展提供了不可多得的宝贵经验:充分认识董事会的作用,强调董事会的独立性;加强法律法规的建设,使董事会的运行体制更趋成熟,法律保障更加完善;多元筹集资金,注重董事会成员构成的合理性。     

美国军事心理学的发展与运用

第一次世界大战以来,美国军事心理学发展迅速并广泛地应用于军事领域,从人员选拔、训练绩效、战斗士气以及心理健康等方面促进了部队战斗力的提高。认真总结美国军事心理学的发展与运用,对于推动我军军事心理学研究及应用具有重要的借鉴意义。     

Shifting Terrain: Styles of Liberalism, Periodization, and Levels of Analysis

The appraisal of background conditions is an important but often neglected element of political interpretation. Influential interpretations of American politics, such as Louis Hartz's The Liberal Tradition in America, dismiss the importance of changing political contexts. Set in terms of the debate over American exceptionalism, this article explores changes in political mood in the United States during the twentieth century. Hartz is not wrong to assert the persistence of a uniform underlying political culture in the United States, nor the lasting impact of Lockeanism in establishing boundaries to possibility—for the left and the right. But a finer-grained appraisal of the interaction between political-cultural ethos and activism is possible. As David Greenstone rightly argued, contestation still occurs within a predominantly liberal society. This article contends that the character of this contestation is determined by the nature of political periods produced by interpretations of the underlying Lockean bedrock by political actors. It makes explicit that Hartz and Greenstone were operating at different levels of analysis—Hartz established the persistence of dedication to Lockean liberal tenets in the deep structure of American politics, while Greenstone's interpretation established a meso-level of analysis, above this deep structure. The present article adds temporal periodization to this meso-level. Political actors make history upon a stage received from the past—in the United States, the Lockean bedrock—but they inflect this stage with crucial interpretations that set or stretch the limits of political expression in a new period. It discerns four varieties of liberalism—economic liberalism, social state liberalism, social movement liberalism and cold war liberalism—that have interpreted the deep structure differently since the 1920s. It also suggests that sensitivity to historical changes in political mood does not necessitate repudiation of Hartz's thesis of Lockean liberal predominance in the United States.     

Developmental patterns of sex differences in delinquency among African American adolescents: A test of the sex-invariance hypothesis

This paper addresses a developmental issue concerning longitudinal patterns of sex differences in delinquency. Hirschi and Gottfredson argue that the age-delinquency relation is invariant across sex and that sex differences in delinquency are invariant over time as well. A combination of these two propositions generates a hypothesis, called here the sex-invariance hypothesis, that sex differences in delinquency are invariant over developmental stages of adolescents. To test the sex-invariance hypothesis, nine waves of panel data collected from a representative urban sample of African American adolescents are analyzed. The overall findings show that sex differences in delinquency tend to vary as the subjects grow older, rather than remain constant as the invariance thesis posits. Specifically, sex differences in delinquency peak at the age of 15 and thereafter declines with age. We also find that parental supervision significantly explains sex differences in delinquency for younger adolescence, but not for older adolescence.     

20世纪美国教育史学的思考

由于教育史学的跨学科性质,它一直受到历史学和教育学的双重影响,并处于学术取向还是职业取向的两难境地。反思20世纪美国教育史学我们可以认识到,教育史学的发展不应脱离历史学“母”学科主流,同时也应保持自己的独立地位;传统教育史学和新教育史学各有其利弊,对于教育史的再认识是教育史学发展的基本形式。随着我国高等师范教育课程改革的深入,外国教育史学的未来发展可有两条并行不悖的路线：一是继续教科书传统,以满足师范教育的需求;二是摆脱学校教育史传统模式的束缚。加大学术研究的力度,提升教育史家的主体地位。     

South Africa's Economic Diplomacy: Constructing a Better World for All?

The article raises questions such as: 'Is South African "economic" diplomacy primarily "economic"?' and 'how altruistic in intention are the diplomatic efforts currently being undertaken by South Africa?' These questions flow from the interplay between the premise that economic diplomacy seeks to serve economic interests through diplomatic means, and the pronouncements made by South African decision makers that point to a broader, more altruistic agenda being pursued. In exploring the political and economic elements of current South African economic diplomacy, some pertinent aspects of South Africa's foreign and economic policies are highlighted, and South African economic diplomacy is broadly sketched. The focus is on the post-1994 period, but developments are put in historical perspective. The article concludes that current South African economic diplomacy serves both economic and political interests and that it is deployed in an extremely complex environment in which it is virtually impossible to disentangle the economic from the political and the altruistic from self-interest.     

美国多元主义政体成因探析

美国的政治过程是由一批权力中心的运作来体现的美国是典型的多元主义政体国家，这一强调个人和公民社会权利的政治体制表现为权力中心的多元化。多元主义政体在美国的形成不是偶然的，而是由美国独特的历史背景、自由主义的政治哲学、人们对纯粹民主政治可能导致弊端的担心以及美国利益多元化等多方面因素决定的。了解美国政治本质特征及其成因，有助于我们认识美国政治和美国政府的决策过程。     

论"三权分立"的美国权力架构及其对中美关系的影响

“分权”和“制衡”原则是美国政府权力的宪法基础,也是美对外政策复杂性、困难性和不确定性的根源。美国国会正越来越多地以立法或非立法形式影响着美国的对华政策,客观上已成为对中美关系的主要干扰。美国总统出于其国内政治和国家利益的双重需要,对华政策总是具有两面性,近年来正逐步使“一个中国”原则空洞化。美国联邦法院在中美关系中的作用有所突出,值得注意。     

The American Right and the Framing of 9/11

On September 11th, 2001, 2 hijacked airliners were crashed into the World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon. The Bush administration's response, both in regard to civil liberties at home and the launching of military action abroad, has been the subject of considerable controversy. As we might expect, the Bush administration's framing of events met with acclaim among many on the American right But here, as elsewhere on the political spectrum, how to understand and react to 9/11 was also the subject of bitter dispute, a dispute that sheds new light on the ongoing arguments among American conservatives in the aftermath of the Cold War.