US Intervention in Colombia: The Role of Transnational Relations

In July 2000, US President, Bill Clinton, signed into law the aid package popularly known as ‘Plan Colombia’. Foreign policy analysts examining the ‘US drug war’ have generally focused upon the perceived national security interests of the US state and/or the intermestic nature of domestic politics, or the economic interests of an imperial US state in explaining US drug policy. I posit that the development, initiation and implementation of Plan Colombia cannot solely be understood through these various nation‐state paradigms, as this process was aided by, and facilitated through, an incipient transnational state. The emergence and consolidation into power of a neoliberal state within Colombia, the role of transnational lobbying by US and Colombian policy‐makers, as well as the influence of transnational corporations all played instrumental roles in the initiation, development and implementation of Plan Colombia.     

中美文化的差异和对跨文化管理的建议

本文从霍夫斯泰德研究结果出发,对中美两国的文化进行比较,发现两国在个人主义或集体主义、权力跨度、对不确定性的避免、阴性或阳性等方面存在很大差异.处理好这些文化的差异将有利于双方跨国公司的管理和发展.     

全方位进入--我国跨国直接投资的区位战略选择

文章首先对我国跨国直接投资的区位现状进行了分析,然后探讨影响区位选择的因素,在此基础上,提出我国企业跨国投资区位选择的基本指导思想,即全方位地对国际市场投资进入,明确主攻方向,区别不同地区的战略层次和地位,逐步把投资由区域转向全球,实施投资市场的多元化.     

Economy

正RMB 2nd-most Used Trade-Finance Currency Latest statistics from global transaction services organization SWIFT(the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications)show that in October 2013,China’s Renminbi(RMB)overtook the euro to become the second-most used currency in world trade finance.According to SWIFT,the RMB usage rate in trade     

我国警务联络官现状分析与前景展望

警务联络官,或称国际警务联络官,因其具有警察和外交官的双重身份和特定职能,又被称为“警务大使”和“警察外交官”。警务联络官是打击跨国犯罪、开展国际警务执法合作的纽带,是维护世界和平与稳定的重要力量。我国警务联络官起步晚、发展快．在国际警务执法合作中的地位和作用日益显现。     

Corporate power,US drug enforcement and the repression of indigenous peoples in Latin America

Abstract

The question that motivates this article is: what are the mechanisms through which the prosecution of the drug war in Latin America lead to human rights repression? In answering this question, I theorise that drug enforcement is a coalition of actors that facilitates domestic and international consensus around prohibition as a mechanism for corporate expansion. Drug war infrastructure financing is likely to facilitate the expansion of corporate investments by resource-seeking industries that require greater land use, which encroaches on the ancestral territories of indigenous peoples. And, in response to indigenous resistance to corporate appropriation of ancestral lands, resource-seeking transnational corporations will collude with private security firms and paramilitary organisations to repress and eliminate indigenous resistance. In the process of accumulating capital in Latin America, transnational corporations, domestic security, and paramilitary organizations are the drug enforcement coalition’s mediators of terror.     

国际投资法体系及其跨国证券投资制度的历史演进——以中国证券市场开放为视角

在论述国际投资法体系化进程中的跨国证券投资法律地位问题基础上,认为纯以国内法的视角界定投资含义有失偏颇。这一方法无视国际法的规则,有可能引发法律冲突。尽管如此,就证券投资而言,其国内法的色彩极为浓厚,国际层面的证券投资法仍处于初步阶段,因此,从国内法视角界定证券投资所可能引发的法律冲突将相对较少。只有当国内法未作具体规定时,一般的国际投资法规则才适用到证券投资之上。国际投资法规则的默示适用功能恰恰表明,跨国证券投资属于广义国际投资法重要的组成部分之一。     

Standard Form Contracts as Transnational Law: Evidence from the Derivatives Markets

This paper uses new research into the derivatives markets to develop our understanding of standard form contracts as transnational law and to show how transnational law theory may be usefully informed by empirical work. Traditionally, it has been assumed that international business communities seek to avoid the courts. However, the paper shows that the national courts play a prominent role in adjudicating disputes involving derivatives. Basing the discussion on the detail of these decisions by the English courts, the paper demonstrates that adjudication does not necessarily undermine widely used standard form contracts, and that it may even reinforce practices that underpin them. This is particularly the case where there is imperfect co‐incidence between a trade association's members and a standard form contract's users. Having explored recent cases, the paper reconciles its findings with a more open and imaginative account of the role of national courts within transnational law theory.     

企业海外投资：问题和解决之策

近十年来,我国企业进入海外投资高峰期,总体规模不断扩大,跨国并购比重越来越大;投资主体呈现多元化发展趋势;投资行业、地区多元且聚集度较高。但同时我国企业海外投资也存在着一些问题,如缺乏清晰明确的战略意图和目标,海外整合能力欠缺,政府支持乏力,国际投资保护主义抬头。要想使我国海外投资获得较好的收益,必须提升战略意识,做好战略规划;提升跨国整合能力和管理水平;加大政府支持企业海外投资的力度;理性应对投资保护主义。     

试论在华跨国公司环境侵权的责任承担机制

跨国公司在华子公司因拥有法人地位,其法律责任的承担通常是依据《公司法》的规定,承担有限责任,但也不排除在特殊情形下适用公司法人格否认。由印度博帕尔案可以看出。在跨国公司子公司从事高污染、高环境风险生产经营行为的情形下,依照有限责任制度则可能给无过错的环境侵权债权人带来极大的不公正,有限责任制度的缺陷与困境尤其凸显。因此,在跨国公司环境责任的追究机制中,合理采纳法人人格否认责任制度是十分必要的,此外,美国在某些环境侵权的特定情形中将母公司纳入责任承担主体的范围,追究跨国公司“整体”责任的做法也值得借鉴。