“反经济全球化”现象的剖析

随着经济全球化的迅速发展,“反经济全球化”斗争现象也日渐突出。目前这一斗争现象呈现出自身特点,其实质并非反对经济全球化本身,而是反对少数发达资本主义国家的主导以及这种主导带来的一系列日益严重的全球性问题,这说明发达国家在主导经济全球化过程中,也将资本主义矛盾扩展到全球并日趋激化。     

The World Bank,INGOs, and Civil Society: Converging Agendas? The Case of Universal Basic Education in Niger

This paper explores, through a case study of the World Bank's pursuit of universal basic education, the gulf between the Bank's dialogue with international civil society elites and its treatment of grassroots civil society in its development practice. It argues that the World Bank is pursuing a conscious program to build a global elite governance system similar to Bank vice-president J. F. Rischard's concept of global issues networks, in which experts from business, government, and civil society will set globally binding social and economic policies. There is a risk of co-optation of international NGOs into this autocratic global managerial system.     

Defining Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference: The Role of Science, the Limits of Science

Defining "dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system" in the context of Article 2 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) presents a complex challenge for those developing long-term climate policy. Natural science has a key role to play in quantifying vulnerabilities of elements of the Earth system and estimating the risks from a changing climate. But attempts to interpret Article 2 will inevitably draw on understanding from social science, psychology, law, and ethics. Here I consider the limits of science in defining climate "danger" by focusing on the potential disintegration of the major ice sheets as an example of an extreme impact. I show that considerations of timescale, uncertainty, and learning preclude a definition of danger drawn purely from natural science. Decision makers will be particularly challenged by one characteristic of global problems: answers to some scientific questions become less accurate over decadal timescales, meandering toward the wrong answer, a feature I call negative learning. I argue for a precautionary approach to Article 2 that would be based initially on current, limited scientific understanding of the future of the ice sheets.     

Connected Substitutes and Invertibility of Demand

We consider the invertibility (injectivity) of a nonparametric nonseparable demand system. Invertibility of demand is important in several contexts, including identification of demand, estimation of demand, testing of revealed preference, and economic theory exploiting existence of an inverse demand function or (in an exchange economy) uniqueness of Walrasian equilibrium prices. We introduce the notion of “connected substitutes” and show that this structure is sufficient for invertibility. The connected substitutes conditions require weak substitution between all goods and sufficient strict substitution to necessitate treating them in a single demand system. The connected substitutes conditions have transparent economic interpretation, are easily checked, and are satisfied in many standard models. They need only hold under some transformation of demand and can accommodate many models in which goods are complements. They allow one to show invertibility without strict gross substitutes, functional form restrictions, smoothness assumptions, or strong domain restrictions. When the restriction to weak substitutes is maintained, our sufficient conditions are also “nearly necessary” for even local invertibility.     

“天地之大德”与“中国本色”的生态文明建设

建设中国特色的生态学马克思主义不仅是马克思主义中国化的需要,也是中国生态文明建设的需要。中国古代号称"群经之首"的《周易》蕴含有非常丰富的盛德价值观思想,倡导以"天地之大德"为核心的盛德价值观,不仅有助于我们克服人类中心主义与生态中心主义的局限,建设中国特色的生态学马克思主义,也有助于我们建设以中国传统文化为根基的"中国本色"的生态文明。     

新干涉主义视角下美国的海地政策

冷战结束后,西方国家对外军事干涉政策有了新发展,主要表现在美国打着民主和人权的旗号,奉行一种不受国家主权限制和联合国约束的新干涉主义,美国对海地政变的军事干预就是一例。海地危机引发大规模难民潮涌入美国,威胁到美国沿海地区的社会稳定与安全,美国政府为海地政变开出一剂民主处方,不惜动用武力恢复海地的民主政权。然而,美国对海地军事干预的人道主义初衷和民主目标均遭遇现实挑战。     

中国媒介批评学的世界性视野

中国媒介批评学体系的原创与建设,作为近30年来传播学中国化追求的一个突破口,其意义极为重大。而中国媒介批评学体系的建设,不仅要立足于中国文化的土壤,面向中国的媒介传播实践,更要努力追求这一颇具探索性的批评体系具有更加开阔的世界眼光,更加具有普遍性的意义和价值。那么,这种价值的理论基点和核心性构成是什么？我们从对东西方两大文明的历史回溯中发现,以人为本不仅是西方文艺复兴以来世界文明的基本精神,而且实际上更是中国传统文化相对稳定的价值观。本文将重点探讨“人文精神”何以具有世界性的意义,并详细阐述其对中国媒介批评学体系以及对整个世界传播学发展的潜在价值。     

全球民主的学理性分析

自古以来,民主便以理念和实践的形式同时存在着。虽然对它的阐释与操作差异较大,但当今,民主已经成为一种不可置疑的善和永恒的价值追求。面对全球化对民主的影响,全球化与全球治理理论认为,民主可以在全球层面进行建构与实践。为此,对以下问题应做学理性的分析：人类历史长河中民主规模走过了怎样的发展路径,全球化又对当今的民主形成了怎样的冲击,全球民主的具体设计是怎样的,全球民主是否可行,这些是了解全球化与全球治理理论下全球民主理念的锁匙,也是清楚认识当今民主实践的必须。     

如何理解新时代中国共产党的文化与中国故事——访伦敦国王学院中国研究中心主任凯瑞·布朗教授

凯瑞·布朗是享誉世界的中国问题研究专家。2019年1月,凯瑞·布朗在访谈中谈到了他对中国共产党的文化以及中国故事的理解。他主张以中国共产党的历史为基础,植根中国的传统文化来理解中国共产党的文化,理解中国故事,分析中国政治与全球秩序。中国共产党的力量植根于改革开放的伟大进程中;一部成功的中国故事,就是具有积极愿景的未来的故事,是一个信仰团体的故事,是道德正义的故事;只有植根中国历史与文化,才可以理解并解决中西方的“幻象冲突”问题。     

农业对外投资布局对母国参与全球价值链的影响——基于社会网络分析视角

参与全球农业价值链,是保障国家粮食安全、提高农业产业竞争力和影响力的重要举措。基于TiVA数据库和UN COMTRADE数据库测算64个国家全球农业价值链的参与程度与分工地位,采用社会网络分析方法构建全球农业对外投资网络,实证分析农业对外投资布局对一国参与全球农业价值链的影响。结果表明,当前全球农业对外投资网络由发达国家主导;网络中心性和网络异质性对全球价值链地位有显著正向影响,即一国越处于网络中心且投资金额越分散,其价值链地位越高;网络规模有负向影响,盲目拓展投资网络的规模化优势难以抵消农业对外投资的高风险。基于研究结果,从分环节优化农业对外投资布局、深耕既有农业对外投资网络、逐步嵌入发达国家主导的农业对外投资网络等方面提出促进中国价值链地位攀升的建议。