中国对阿拉伯国家的公共外交：实践与评估

作为中国外交的“战略板块”之一,阿拉伯世界与中国的经贸关系发展迅速,这与中国经济总量上升趋势的“硬实力”相一致。但一直以来,特别是阿拉伯世界发生动荡的近三年来,部分阿拉伯国家和民众对中国的认识和理解,特别是对中国相关的外交政策等,还多有龃龉,从而表现出中国整体实力上升时“软实力”的差距。中国亟需加大对阿公共外交的力度以缩小这种差距,尽管中国在此方面已做出了较大努力和较多实践．但其效果同预设目标以及中国国家形象的提升尚有很大差距。今后中国对阿公共外交在机制建设、实务办理和技术提升等不同层面都有完善和改进的空间,需要付出更大的努力。     

阿拉伯世界新闻事业的发展逻辑

在国际或世界新闻史的研究中,选取的对象往往因语言或文献原因而集中于西方发达国家（尤其是欧美）,其实这样的做法是不全面的.当我们在做新闻史研究时,不一定完全依照西方国家的发展模式,阿拉伯世界的新闻传播发展逻辑还应该遵循自身情况来定位,单纯地追寻西方和固守传统模式显然都缺乏充足的理由.单纯用西方模式来理解其他地区的新闻事业,存在着“西方中心主义”风险.     

Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha,Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the ‘global knowledge-based economy’

This paper investigates how the developmental ambitions of governments to attract university offshore campuses to Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah and these universities’ internationalization strategies affect the three cities’ positionalities. It links interdisciplinary literature on globally uneven geographies of higher education to geographical debates on the intermediating role of cities in regional and global economies. The paper conceptualizes the three cities as a triadic ensemble of gateways for transnational higher education (TNE), thereby contributing to further theorization of gateway cities. The paper shows that the three cities fulfil two crucial gateway functions. First, they connect internationalizing universities with particular student segments from their regional hinterlands seeking access to TNE. Second, they thereby amplify and disperse hegemonic regimes of the globalising knowledge-based economy in their regional hinterlands. While all three cities share similar functions and rationales, they also have distinct positionalities rooted in different strategies of the respective governments.