地方性与全球性：地方权力与全球化

在几内亚沿海地区，分权表现为一定程度的权力下放，而在地方层面上又为世俗权威1牢牢控制，好像当地政府是唯一的掌权人。这是农村权力关系的现有制度。地方权力始终与更为广阔的世界息息相关。权力负责行使所有社会不可或缺的内部职责，又因外在需要而构建。“权力及其象征是向社会证明其内聚力和‘个性’表达，以及涉及异己时如何自处和自卫的手段”（Balandier1967，P．44）。

The local and the global:local power and globalisation

Local powers are permanently connected to the wider world. While power responds to the obligations of internal organisation,which are indispensible to all societies,it is also constructed in relation to external necessities. Taking the Republic of Guinea as an example and using research conducted between 2003 and 2007,this article will attempt to show how the changing international context influences power strategies at the micro-local level. The aim is to review the various exogenous influences that shape both domestic and local power strategies. Processes of adaptation to the global context will therefore be examined through the prism of the strategies adopted by customary authorities,with emphasis placed on their adaptive and reactive nature. The article concludes with an examination of the conditions which enable local authorities to open up to external changes,and the extent of their willingness to do so.