非关税壁垒对外贸的双重影响

非关税壁垒对中国企业的外贸既有不良影响,又有积极影响。非关税壁垒使得中国企业的产品在国际市场上受到各种壁垒的限制,使得企业遭受巨大损失,且随着时间的推移而愈演愈烈。同时,非关税壁垒又促使中国企业加大技术创新力度,实施知识产权战略,提高管理水平,提升产业和产品结构,进行企业之间的联合和协作,改善生态环境,走内涵式的发展道路,加强对国际市场的调查和研究,有利于提高中国企业的市场竞争力,为改善其未来的外贸出口局面,扩大更大赢利空间创造了条件。     

当前农村城市化进程现状及展望

党的十六届四中全会提出统筹城乡发展的新思维,这是符合我国国情和阶段发展要求的重大战略选择,是经济社会发展的必然趋势,也是我国社会长治久安和建设社会和谐的基本途径。本文从当前我国农村城市化进程的积极意义、存在问题及对策等三方面进行阐述。     

我国企业所得税法的统一及对外资的影响

在我国,内外资企业所得税法的统一已酝酿多年。时至今日,就两法统一问题已形成一些基本认识。只是对两法统一对外资可能产生的影响,利益各方争议较大。就此问题,本文从我国对外资的开放、投资环境、税收优惠的作用、两法统一的设计4个方面进行了分析,指出那种认为两法统一必定会对外资进入中国产生巨大冲击的担心是没有必要的,而在现行税制下内资企业处于一种极不公平的竞争地位。因此,为了给内外资企业创造一个公平竞争的税收环境,必须尽早实行企业所得税法的统一。     

朝鲜战争对毛泽东外交战略思想的影响

朝鲜战争使毛泽东确立了联苏反美的外交战略，使毛泽东充分认识到了联合国的作用，认识到了世界上大多数弱小国家的作用，为其提出第三世界理论奠定了基础。朝鲜战争也使毛泽东对人的力量的认识达到了极至，反映在外交战略上，形成了他以人口大国立足世界和制衡美苏的战略思想。     

The UK and EU Foreign and Security Policy: An Optional Extra

Foreign and security policy were not areas in which Prime Minister Cameron was seeking to renegotiate the relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU), but security may be a key issue in the EU referendum. The untangling of Britain's foreign and security policy from the EU following a Brexit vote would be relatively uncomplicated. The EU's arrangements for collective foreign and security policy, the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), are conducted on an intergovernmental basis which allows the UK to preserve independence in its diplomacy while allowing for the coordination of policy where interests are held in common with other member states. The UK retains substantial diplomatic and military capabilities which would allow it to continue to pursue a separate national foreign, security and defence policy in the case of either a ‘Leave’ or ‘Remain’ outcome.     

State transformation and the domestic politics of foreign aid in Taiwan

Abstract

This article challenges the dominant narrative that overlooks the role of domestic factors in Taiwanese foreign aid in favour of politics cast at the cross-Strait and international levels. It examines the emergence and effects of partisan politics on Taipei's foreign aid policies, including aid budgets and the motivation for providing foreign aid. It argues that, rather than the cross-Strait conflict as such, it was contests and rivalries among Taiwan's political parties and government agencies – underpinned by ongoing projects of state building – that shaped the variable objectives, policies and processes of Taipei's foreign aid-giving.     

The domestic politics of international development in South Korea: stakeholders and competing policy discourses

Abstract

The paper examines the domestic politics surrounding South Korea's foreign aid policy. It delineates the institutional characteristics and strategic interests of key government and non-government stakeholders, and suggests an analytical framework to comprehend the country's aid policy regime. It suggests that two competing policy discourses exist – one emphasising ‘intellectual leadership’ and the other ‘ethical leadership’ as the key principle of aid policy. In practice, the country's political leadership promulgates a complex amalgam of these discourses in alignment with their own political imperatives and interests. The paper discusses ‘Global Saemaul Undong’ as such an example under the incumbent Park Geun-Hye administration.     

Belarusians between East and West

Belarus has a divided identity that reflects its complex history and culture. A mixed-methods investigation incorporating focus groups and national representative surveys conducted over a decade or more suggests that Belarusians themselves are more likely to regard themselves as “European” than their counterparts in Ukraine and Russia, but less likely to do so than in other European countries. There is substantial support for a hypothetical European Union membership, particularly among younger respondents, but there is also strong and widely distributed support for a closer association with the other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Consistently, it is the “multidirectional” foreign policy promoted by the current leadership, which seeks closer relations with East and West at the same time, that finds the greatest support. But a “Slavic choice” is also popular, and much more so than a “Western choice” or isolationism.     

A battle of principles: South Africa's relations with Iran

This paper provides a detailed case study and theoretical explanation for one of the least appreciated bilateral relationships of democratic South Africa. It analyses South Africa's post-apartheid relations with Iran as a case study to illustrate and discuss the contradictory principles that appear to guide South Africa's foreign policy. South Africa's tempered reaction to Iran's nuclear programme is in contradiction with its non-proliferation stance, but can be understood by looking into the ideology of the ruling African National Congress.     

Sub-state diplomacy and the foreign policy-development nexus in South Africa

This article examines the role of sub-state diplomacy, defined as the transnational linkages of sub-national governments, in bridging the gap between foreign policy and the domestic development agenda in South Africa. It argues that, as territorial sub-state actors, provinces and municipalities are strategically positioned to use their international relations to make foreign policy more responsive to domestic socio-economic priorities. In the South African case, however, this potential is yet to be fully realised, mainly because of institutional fragmentation of the foreign policy apparatus, but also owing to enduring challenges in the foreign activities of sub-national governments. The article concludes by making the case for a new diplomatic paradigm in South Africa, one that actively promotes and harnesses the foreign activities and capacities of different national stakeholders, including those of sub-national governments, in the interest of the domestic development agenda.