全球域名系统知识产权保护措施最新发展研究

全球域名系统在2012年1月起全面开放通用顶级域名空间.届时,全新的商业机会和市场竞争将给全世界知识产权人带来新的机遇与挑战.为了保护知识产权人的合法权益、预防和制止顶级域名的恶意抢注行为,域名系统的全球管理机构ICANN在新增通用顶级域名的项目中制定和实施了一系列预防和解决纠纷的措施.ICANN的知识产权保护措施主要有关于新增通用顶级域名申请的异议程序、商标优先注册和通知服务、统一快速中止域名系统和新增通用顶级域名授权后争议解决政策四类.这些措施具有在域名系统全球应用的特点,提供了知识产权获得全球性保护的机会,同时也是域名系统直接介入知识产权法律领域的全新实验.     

How domestic contexts shape international private governance: The case of the European Accord and American Alliance in Bangladesh

The international nature of supply chains has led to the rise of private authority in regulating the environmental and social impacts of production, which companies frequently address through corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the form of private governance (PG). Despite its claim to establish “global” rules, PG usually has national origins, and multiple efforts to address the same issue from different national perspectives frequently coexist. Numerous studies have explored the impact of national business systems on companies' domestic CSR practices, yet little is known about what factors shape CSR practices like PG internationally. Therefore, this study seeks to understand how differing domestic contexts shape approaches to CSR in the form of PG in host countries. I explore this empirically through the comparative case study of competing PG initiatives in the post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh garment industry, uniquely conceived to govern companies' practices rather than certify products. It combines empirical findings with the comparative CSR literature to hypothesize about ideal types of PG organizing in US and European contexts. It extends the analysis to also account for other influential factors, such as stakeholder pressure, thus demonstrating how institutional and agentic factors amalgamate to shape firms' choices. By explicating linkages between international PG and its domestic context, as well as between the comparative CSR and PG literature studies, this study extends our understanding of how and why international PG practices and preferences vary for firms originating from different environments.     

China's provincial diplomacy to Africa: applications to health cooperation

There is a prevailing view of China as a unitary actor in its relationships with African countries. This view is incomplete: on the contrary, China is a collection of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities with myriad strategic ties to African countries, with decentralization shaping the current form of Chinese government and its level of efficiency. In this paper, factors have been explored for why Chinese provinces have played a role in foreign cooperation in health of African countries, in addition to trade and foreign direct investment. Incentives and disincentives for Chinese provinces to engage internationally in foreign cooperation and health assistance have been identified. The concept of paradiplomacy for health has been presented and this typology has been applied to the example of Chinese medical teams. Finally, we draw linkages between China and other members of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.     

Arrested development? Sub-Saharan Africa in the stratified world economy 1965–2015

ABSTRACT

The central concern of this paper is with Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) standing in the stratified world economy. Country standings are determined for the period 1965 through 2015, based on the Arrighi and Drangel method of calculating world-system position. We find that the region as a whole remained in the bottom of the global economic hierarchy and was particularly sensitive to macroeconomic-historical changes and pressures. Of note too is the clear link between the SSA countries that are performing well in the semiperiphery of the global economic hierarchy and those with a concentration of natural resources.     

投资条约仲裁中法庭之友的局限性及其改进

全球行政法理论要求投资条约仲裁应当具备问责、透明和公众参与、阐明理由及复审程序，其中法庭之友作为公众参与的主要方式影响有限，申请人是否适格、能否参与和表达、表达能否被接受完全属于仲裁庭的自由裁量范围。法庭之友的广泛参与、有效表达和及时反馈是全球行政法理论下投资条约仲裁的应有之义，完善法庭之友对于国际投资条约仲裁走出合法性危机具有重大意义。结合仲裁规则和最新投资协定相关规则，完善法庭之友规则应明确法庭之友的主要审查标准，降低身份、重大利益关系、程序负担等次要标准对法庭之友广泛参与的限制；形成以披露信息、申诉方和被申诉方意见，仲裁庭意见为主要内容的有效反馈模板；通过限定篇幅、允许联合声明、规定时限等方式加强程序控制。     

Japanese civil society in global governance: the case of 2015 UN World Conference on disaster risk reduction

In 2015, the Hyogo Framework for Action on disaster risk reduction (DRR) expired, necessitating the introduction of a new international agreement. This article investigates the activities and achievements of the Japan civil society organization coalition for the 2015 UN World Conference on DRR (JCC2015) from the point of view of its involvement in the shaping of the new Sendai Framework for DRR. Although JCC2015 contributed to agenda setting and policy development processes and managed to secure recognition for its position on nuclear risk at a regional level, its participation did not translate into impact on the Sendai Framework to the extent it wished to achieve. The article’s findings testify to the on-going and active inclusion of non-governmental stakeholders in the UN-led global policy-making processes concerning reducing disaster risk, but they also illustrate difficulties that actors who aim to introduce new elements into the agenda need to tackle.     

Technology and Global Capitalism in Don DeLillo's Fictions

In Underworld and Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo has depicted the interaction between technology and global capitalism. It is through technology that global capitalism abuses its power. The hegemony of global capitalism is criticized due to its instrumental ethics of technology in DeLillo's fictions. On the other hand, DeLillo has constructed a counter-narrative to the hegemony of global capitalism by developing a sense of justice for technological ethics with a promotion of an aesthetic and moral dimension for technology.     

技术民族主义对全球价值链的影响分析——以全球半导体产业为例

目前,由新技术引发的新一轮产业革命正推动全球政治经济权力结构发生重大调整,围绕新技术特别是影响下一代生产方式的关键技术的竞争呈加速态势。在此背景下,技术民族主义作为一种新的地缘政治思潮快速兴起,并与大国传统战略博弈叠加,驱动全球技术主导国美国对中国的战略认知改变和战略行动升级。美国对中国实施的全面技术封锁与技术遏制战略行动,以影响和破坏全球半导体价值链和产业链最为典型,影响了全球重要产业链的正常运转,压制了全球技术链协同,并对未来全球政治经济治理带来更多不确定性风险。     

新冠肺炎疫情对现代世界体系的影响 ——兼谈中国在全球治理体系重塑中的新作用

2020年全球暴发的新冠肺炎疫情对现代世界体系中的经济与政治均产生了重大影响,并加速了当今世界百年未有之大变局。自从人类社会进入资本主义阶段,现代世界体系便开始形成,并在百余年前发展成为全球性体系。这一体系内部始终存在着最为基本的两对矛盾——资本主义生产社会化与生产资料私有制之间的矛盾和主权国家与资本主义世界市场之间的矛盾,这两对基本矛盾推动了现代世界体系中的百年未有之大变局。新冠肺炎疫情对现代世界体系中的世界市场经济体系和以主权国家为主体的国际政治体系产生了冲击,加剧了世界经济动能转换以及国际格局和力量对比的深刻变化。在当今世界面临百年未有之大变局的时候,以中国为首的新兴大国在全球治理体系重塑中将发挥新的作用。     

评述斯塔夫里阿诺斯的全球史观

历史学家斯塔夫里阿诺斯秉承18世纪启蒙思想进步史观的传统,以全球史观统帅文明模式理论、地缘政治理论、文化交流理论、长时段和宏观历史理论,构建了全球通史体系。他的《全球通史》使我们看到当代文化的丰富性和多样性以及正在发生的文化间的相互影响和对话。