Trade and the environment in North America

Environmental assessments of trade agreements remain in its infancy, and demonstrate that trade in itself will not green our economies. By examining various aspects of the environmental effects of trade in North America, this special issue not only contributes to deepening our understanding of the key issues in the trade and environment debate, but also helps to formulate mutually supportive trade and environmental policies.     

外国对俄远东地区直接投资结构分析

1998年金融危机后,外国对俄远东地区直接投资迅速增加。分析外国对俄远东地区直接投资结构的演进轨迹、投资部门结构和投资空间结构,对推动、扩大我省对远东地区的直接投资具有重要意义。     

Legal Transplantation in the Judicature: Employing Foreign Laws in China’s Judicial Practice

For wholly domestic cases, when there are no suitable domestic provisions and similar precedents, the courts in some countries will directly incite relevant foreign legislations or precedents. While in China, never before had its judicature ever used foreign laws or comparative law to handle non-foreign cases. However, in recent years, with the gradual opening of China’s judicial area, its judicature also begin to use precedents of foreign and comparative laws.     

资本外逃--一个需要解决的紧迫问题

近年来,我国经济领域出现的资本外逃现象,已给我国的经济秩序和经济发展造成一定的不利影响.我国即将加入世贸组织,如不严加防范和制止,这种现象有可能加剧,对此有关部门应予以重视,更重要的是建立以"说得清、管得住、服务好"为基本特征的科学、高效、灵活的新型外汇管理体制.     

核武器对同盟的影响——以朝核问题与日美同盟的互动为例

核武器通过对威胁能力与威胁认知的修正对同盟建立产生影响。核武器及其拥有国的数量影响同盟的结构样式和结构变动。核武器拥有、部署及威慑功能的变动持续塑造同盟参与国对威胁的认知,从而影响同盟参与国的对外政策。同盟内核保护的明确性与可信性、核武器功能及部署的分享与分工、国际核安全机制的构建,都将影响同盟的内部互信。综观朝核问题对日美同盟的影响:日美同盟参与国对外政策的不协调为其表,日美同盟内互信的动摇为其中,日美同盟结构的进一步"平等化"为其里。     

International lawyers in the aftermath of disasters: inheriting from Radhabinod Pal and Upendra Baxi

Abstract

In the present lives in the postcolony are beset by relentless disasters, generating great suffering and loss. How should an international lawyer conduct herself in response? Resisting the urge to construct these times as entirely unprecedented, this article attempts a response by drawing out the conduct of two ancestral Third World international lawyers responding to disasters in their own time. It reveals how disasters never simply occur but are actively produced by particular modes of conduct deployed by international lawyers. From their conduct we learn how to attend to the tasks of justice and responsibility in the aftermath of disaster by being responsive to the suffering and by recognising the disastrous effects of our action. We also learn how attending to the tasks of inheritance is vital for this.     

The frustrating partnership: Honor,status, and emotions in Russia's discourses of the West

This paper analyzes Russia's presidential discourses and emotions of the West from March 2008 to December 2012. By studying the languages of inclusiveness and exclusiveness in annual addresses to the Federation Council and public statements, I have identified several distinct stages in the Kremlin's emotional evolution from fear to hope to frustration: the initial fear (March 2008–June 2009), hope (September 2009–the late 2010), and frustration (since the early 2011). The Russia's emotional shifts are shaped by the country's historically established social relations with the West and are not to be reduced to the dynamics of power and prestige/status. Russia's deep emotional connection to the West as well as Russia's own concept of national honor are the two factors that drive the nation's leaders' complex actions, feelings, and rhetoric. Russia displays emotions of hope each time it feels that its honor is being respected and those of frustration, fear and anger when in the eyes of Kremlin its identity/honor as not recognized.     

Status conflicts between Russia and the West: Perceptions and emotional biases

This article looks at the status conflicts between Russia and the West and asks: why do these conflicts exist despite attempts to avoid them? If status conflicts refer to merely a symbolic recognition, then they should arguably be easier to solve than conflicts stemming from competition for power and resources. Yet, status conflicts can be difficult to solve even when they were not conceived as zero-sum games. The article argues that status conflicts cannot be understood without the interplay of perceptions and emotions. First, what really matters is not objective status but perceptions thereof and there seems to be a gap how Russia and the West perceive status in general. Secondly, the perceptions of when status is gained or lost seem to be emotionally loaded. Russia is more willing to understand its relative status when military or economic issues are at stake, but if the dispute deals with international norms and questions of justice Russia is more likely to interpret Western action as violating its status and conversely, it is more likely to interpret its own action as enhancing its status when it is defending such values differently from the West.     

中国外汇储备:困境与出路

经常项目下的贸易项目顺差与资本和金融项目下的外商直接投资导致的国际收支双顺差使得中国的外汇储备急速增长,并产生诸多负面影响,而且这种趋势仍将继续。扩大内部消费需求,发展亚洲债券,推行人民币国际化,才能缓解外汇储备的高速增长。目前,则应采取多种措施,管理好高额外汇储备。     

梁启超文学思想初探

梁启超文学思想是梁启超学术人生中的重要组成部分。梁启超文学思想立足点是知行合一论;梁启超文学思想的核心观点是镕炼新理想以入旧风格;主张的具体实践“新民体”散文是言文合一。