坎昆联合国气候大会 中国领跑低碳未来

2010年12月11日，联合国坎昆气候变化大会闭幕。除了玻利维亚，193个联合国气候框架公约缔约国通过坎昆协议，使联合国气候谈判得以继续。下一届联合国气候变化大会将于明年在南非德班举行。坎昆气候大会虽然没有在具体议题上形成决议，但协议的通过还是为明年的南非大会达成有法律约束力的协议奠定了基础。     

The United Nations and ethnic conflicts

The involvement of the United Nations in ethnic conflicts is relatively new, made possible only by the end of the Cold War gridlock that enveloped the Security Council. Scholars are searching this recent history for theoretical insights to guide future decision making, but the empirical evidence—examined here in Cyprus, former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda/Burundi—suggests caution before making large theoretical judgments. The evidence does suggest that to be successful in ethnic conflicts, the United Nations requires strong and consistent American leadership, a leadership which in some cases will contradict the UN's dominant culture of negotiation and compromise.     

The United Nations and low politics: Environmental & human security in East Asia*

In a world order characterized by ideological conflicts, low politics’ usually goes by the wayside. Policymakers focus on ‘high politics’ such as issues on state security, diplomacy and warfare. The September 11^th attack was an epitome of terrorism that calls for not only the protection of territorial and political security of the state but also the safeguarding of the individual or group from all threats to human survival. This paper raises the issues on ‘environmental security’ and ‘human security,’ particularly in the context of East Asia and reviews the efforts of the United Nations to safeguard the global environment and human rights. Finally, this paper reflects on the future role of the United Nations in non‐traditional security arenas with special emphasis on its role in East Asia.     

中国美食节巴黎“开席” 阿兴记美食艳惊联合国大使

为了更好地展示和弘扬中华饮食文化,与世界人民共同分享历史悠久、内涵丰富、独具特色的中华传统文化瑰宝,推进重庆市申请加入联合国教科文组织创意城市网络并申报“世界美食之都”,10月13日-22日,由世界中国烹饪联合会和中国烹饪协会共同主办的“中国美食节－巴黎·2010”在法国巴黎隆重举行。重庆阿兴记美食艳惊联合国教科文组织各国大使,让他们真切感受到了中华美食和重庆美食的独特魅力。     

中国美食节 巴黎“开席” 阿兴记美食艳惊联合国大使

为了更好地展示和弘扬中华饮食文化,与世界人民共同分享历史悠久、内涵丰富、独具特色的中华传统文化瑰宝,推进重庆市申请加入联合国教科文组织创意城市网络并申报"世界美食之都",10月13日—22日,由世界中国烹饪联合会和中国烹饪协会共同主办的"中国美食节—巴黎·2010"在法国巴黎隆重举行。重庆阿兴记美食艳惊联合国教科文组织各国大使,让他们真切感受到了中华美食和重庆美食的独特魅力。     

Economic return to political support: Evidence from voting on the representation of China in the United Nations

This study investigates the effect of political support in the United Nations on international trade by taking the votes on the representation of China from 1954 to 1971 as a case study. We document a strongly positive effect of political support toward the People's Republic of China on bilateral trade in the next year. This conclusion is robust when we consider different quantitative methods and sample selections. Two approaches are applied to address the potential endogeneity problem — estimates with the interest similarity with Albania as an instrumental variable and regressions with samples that changed voting attitude. Finally, we find that this positive effect is short-lived. Our empirical results indicate that political relations, reflected by political attitudes in the votes of the United Nations, exert explicit influence on bilateral economic exchange.     

《联合国国际货物销售合同公约》在中国的适用争议与完善

《联合国国际货物销售合同公约》(以下简称CISG)对中国生效已经20多年了,但是中国法院适用CISG的数量较少,并在适用CISG过程中也存在许多争议。这些争议在现存法律制度框架内可以解决,但是从长远来看,需要从立法和司法解释层面,对条约适用做进一步规定。通过完善CISG在中国的适用,中国更好地肩负起相应的条约义务,在国际舞台上发挥着更加重要的作用。     

致力于“让天空更蓝大地更绿” 董明珠被联合国聘为“城市可持续发展宣传大使”

9月17日,格力电器董事长董明珠在珠海格力电器总部从联合国开发计划署驻华副代表何佩德（Patrick Haverman）手中接过＂城市可持续发展宣传大使＂证书,成为联合国在全球宣传城市可持续发展理念的大使。此次董明珠获得这项全球唯一的国际性荣誉,源自其掌舵的格力电器长期以来在技术创新、提高能源效率和缓和环境恶化方面做出的不懈努力与贡献。     

崛起的中国与七国集团、二十国集团

七国集团(G7)是由西方七个发达国家即美、日、德、英、法、意和加拿大共同组成的的一个松散的论坛。随着经济全球化的发展,七国集团越来越朝着引导世界经济发展和各国宏观政策走势的方向发展,原来的“富人俱乐部”正在演变成为“大国论坛”。由于俄罗斯加入和中国经济的崛起,国际社会已经开始讨论中国是否会加入现有的八国集团。七国集团,包括七国集团机制下的财政部长和央行行长会议,以及东亚金融危机之后成立的二十国集团均加强了与中国的接触。2003年胡锦涛主席应邀赴法国埃维昂参加七国首脑与发展中国家的讨论。从2003年9月份,七国集团已四次与中国进行财政副部级对话。2004年10月,中国财政部部长和中国人民银行行长将首次应邀参加与七国集团财政部部长和央行行长的对话。2005年中国将作为东道国举办二十国集团会议。加强与发达国家以及发展中大国的合作是中国多边外交中的一项重要工作。本刊组织的三篇文章对中国如何进一步发展与七国集团、二十国集团的合作进行了较为深入的讨论。     

Economics as Theology: Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations may be read as a work of natural theology similar in general style to Newton's Principia. Smith's ambiguous use of the word “nature” and its cognates implies an intended distinction between a positive sense in which “natural” means “necessary” and a normative sense in which “natural” means “right.” The “interest” by which humans are motivated is “natural” in the first sense, but it may not bring about social outcomes that are “natural” in the second sense. It will do so only if the social institutions within which agents seek their own “interest” are well formed. Smith provides a large-scale, quasi-historical account of the way in which well-formed institutions gradually develop as unintended consequences of private “interest.” In so doing, he provides a theodicy of economic life that is cognate with St. Augustine's theodicy of the state as remedium peccatorum. “If a great book such as Smith's Wealth of Nations is read repeatedly, on even a fifth or a tenth reading one continues to learn new things. I doubt whether anyone will ever fully apprehend all the things that Smith wished to express, and there is even more to learn from an interesting mind than its owner wished to teach us.” George Stigler (1982, p. 108)     

Book Review: Disease and the Destiny of Nations

Book reviewed in this article: Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside, Aids in the Twenty‐First Century: Disease and Globalisation     

国家和跨国公司——冲突与合作

跨国公司由于其跨越国界的特性使得它成为国际政治经济关系中的重要行为体,它与国家之间存在冲突与合作的关系。本文首先讨论了跨国公司的国民身份,在承认跨国公司国别性的基础上,从跨国公司与东道国、跨国公司与母国两个层面分析了三者之间的关系,并分别引用自由主义、民族主义以及马克思主义对这些问题的争论,并试图加以综合以得出折衷理论。在文章的最后,再从整个国际社会的角度,来观察国家与跨国公司之间国际管理体制的发展。