Securing security through prosperity: the San Francisco System in comparative perspective

The integrated system of political–economic relations that has prevailed in the Pacific since the September 1951 treaty of peace with Japan, known here as the San Francisco System, is distinctive in comparison with subregional systems elsewhere in the world. This paper outlines key defining features, such as (1) a dense network of bilateral alliances; (2) an absence of multilateral security structures; (3) strong asymmetry in alliance relations, both in security and economics; (4) special precedence to Japan; and (5) liberal trade access to American markets, coupled with relatively limited development assistance. After contrasting this system to analogous arrangements elsewhere, especially in the Atlantic, it explores both the origins and the prognosis of this remarkably durable political–economic entity. Complementary domestic political–economic interests on both sides of the Pacific, reinforcing a brilliant original Japan-centric design by John Foster Dulles, account for persistence, it is argued, while forces for change center on the dynamic emerging role of China.     

STAR METRICS and the Science of Science Policy

STAR METRICS is a data platform that is being voluntarily and collaboratively developed by U.S. federal science agencies and research institutions to describe investments in science and their results. It initially emerged as a result of reporting requirements associated with the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; it has developed in response to a recognized need to begin to systematically document federal investments in science and their immediate and long‐term results. The eventual goal is to draw information from existing data on scientific and economic activities as well as from research institutions' and federal science agencies' systems to provide data that can be used for a more scientific analysis of science investments and their outcomes.     

人与自然的双重解放——福斯特生态学马克思主义理论评析

福斯特的生态学马克思主义以符合时代特征的生态范式重新解读历史唯物主义理论,建立起马克思主义和现代生态学之间的有机联系;借助"马克思的物质变换断裂"理论所完成的对十九世纪资本主义的生态批判以及通过揭示当代资本主义化解生态危机的经济学路径和技术路径的虚伪性和不可能性,指出资本主义制度的反生态本性;强调消解生态危机的出路与社会主义前景密不可分,希冀引导生态运动等新社会运动转向社会主义变革道路,最终实现人与自然的双重解放。在找寻社会变革的现实力量方面,福斯特的理论都还处在探索阶段,有待进一步地深化与完善。     

What Liquidation Does For Secured Creditors, And What It Does For You

This article analyses the liquidation process, challenging the much repeated proposition that secured claimants 'stand outside' liquidation. It is argued that this proposition (i) is a product of a misunderstanding of the dual duality in the nature of liquidation proceedings, in that, in principle, they serve both public and private functions, and they further the interests of both secured and unsecured creditors; (ii) overlooks how secured creditors benefit from liquidation, and also how unsecured creditors have a real interest in the proper administration of their debtor's encumbered assets; (iii) mistakes the secured creditor's choice in usually being able to gain immunity from the liquidation process, for a compulsion to stand exiled from this process; (iv) is incorrect as a matter of history and practice; and (v) is rendered unsustainable by the statutory text. It concludes that secured creditors have never 'stood outside' liquidation, that liquidation is an important tool for the protection of their interests, and that it is right to require floating charge holders to pay their fair share of liquidation expenses.     

华兹华斯诗学中的语言乌托邦王国

在批判继承英国经验主义哲学家约翰·洛克的语言观的基础上，华兹华斯诗学形成了自已语言观的三大基本原则：一是语言重要性原则；二是语言规约性原则；三是情感表达性原则。现代语言学理论已证明了华兹华斯诗学中语言规约性原则带有明显的理想色彩。由于语言规约建立的不可能性，导致了华兹华斯诗学中的语言乌托邦王国的产生。     

政治参与和公民精神的互动——约翰·密尔《代议制政府》解读

在《代议制政府》中,约翰·密尔一方面强调政治过程的有效运转有赖于公民品质的支撑,尤其民主制度对于公民精神提出了更高的要求。另一方面,政治参与本身就是培育公民精神的重要途径。《代议制政府》中的各种制度设计和安排都可以从培育公民精神的角度来理解。从公民教育这一角度,密尔为民主制度做出了更加有力的辩护,而对于公民精神的强调则是构成其整体思想的一个重要方面。     

试论肯尼迪政府联合印尼对华遏制孤立政策

中美关系解冻前,印尼在美国对华冷战政策中一直居于突出地位。肯尼迪非常看重它的国力及其在不结盟世界的影响,他联合印尼遏制孤立中国的意图比艾森豪威尔明显加强。但围绕西伊里安问题、马来西亚问题,美国与盟国矛盾激化,这在某种程度上避免了他在拉苏加诺加入反华轨道时可能采取的极端决策,肯尼迪政府借助印尼强化对华遏制孤立的政策作法最后与初衷背道而驰。     

Chapter 8: The “Citizen” in Youth Civic Engagement

SUMMARY

The concept of citizenship is a central, necessary, and defining feature of youth civic engagement. Any effort to educate young people for citizenship entails an implicit idea of what a “good citizen” is. There are a number of different and sometimes competing versions of what is a “good citizen.” This chapter reviews “standard” accounts of citizenship in political theory and offers lived citizen as a critical expansion and bridging dimension to current discourses of citizenship. We develop this idea through our readings of the three initiatives in conversation with the writing of Hannah Arendt and John Dewey. Our reading of Arendt and Dewey provides a grounded, embodied, and fluid understanding of the relationship between doing citizen activities (PA, YIG, YSC), becoming citizen (learning through interaction), and being citizen.