比利时的无政府状态已经持续了一年多的时间。去年，荷兰语政党与法语政党谈判破裂，荷语开放自由党宣布退出执政联盟，首相宣布解散政府；而后，在全国立法选举中，既没有哪个政党获得过半数选票的单独组阁权，又由于党派林立，无法筹组联合政府，目前，比利时只有一个临时看守内阁，而没有正式的政府。但是，即便如此，大多数的比利时人都对无政府危机一笑置之。于海洋通过追溯比利时的建国历史和将比利时放入全球化时代的语境，分析了这种心态的缘由。由于历史原因，比利时是一个有国家、有政府却无民族的政治存在。在欧洲权力政治时代，比利时身处大国夹缝之中，这一天然局限使得比利时始终没有建立强烈的民族认同，进而形成统一民族国家。...
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India’s buffer with China is shrinking, and India’s leaders should have anticipated China’s incursions in the Ladakh region, suggests Brahma Chellaney for Project Syndicate. China opposed India’s designation of Ladakh as a new federal territory, and labeled its recent moves as defensive. “While...
The latest failure of the WTO's Doha round centered on a predictable culprit – agricultural subsidies. This editorial in the Financial Times argues that the failure of discussions on agricultural protection could not only be the death knell of the Doha round, but, worse still, could provoke...
Yesterday's failure by World Trade Organisation negotiators to agree a framework for agriculture negotiations is the most severe blow yet to the ailing Doha trade round. The deadlock is more than just a stark reminder...
The conventional wisdom in recent weeks has been that Israeli settlements in Palestine inflame anti-American sentiments in the region and harm American interests. But this opinion article argues that a major source of grievance for Palestinians is global American culture, represented, in this...
Pop quiz—What does more to galvanize radical anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world: (a) Israeli settlements on the West Bank; or (b) a Lady Gaga music video?
If your answer is (b) it means you probably have a grasp of the historical roots of...
As the US tech industry saw rapid growth during the 1990s, immigrating students and workers from Asia heeded innovation’s call. Engineers and programmers from India settled in Silicon Valley and enjoyed immediate success. About one out of six tech startups was launched by immigrants from India. Now...
Silicon Valley roots: Chairman of HCL Infosystems Ajai Chowdhryshows off the new ultra-portable laptop in Delhi
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中国最高领导人的选择过程是机密，以防市民或有野心的下属利用内部分歧。随着特别利益不断增长，站稳脚跟，假意的联合战线也许看起来比较审慎，也没什么吸引力。本期耶鲁全球系列评估中国准备在十月进行领导人接班时所面临的挑战。在下篇中，中国专家谢淑丽（Susan Shirk）分析了中国发展中的领导人选择过程，提出了能推动公开性的其它途径。谢淑丽是加州大学圣地亚哥分校国际关系和太平洋研究学院“21世纪中国”项目的主任，也是克林顿政府时期的副助理国务卿。每个政治家团结支持的力量和市民来选择自己所喜，这本是人的天性。中国领导人承认腐败和不平等是对体制的威胁，也许会支持改革，这可能让外国投资者和大量中国人受益，...
纽黑文：中国著名政治家、重庆市委书记薄熙来令人瞩目的解职让外国观察家想起中南海那宏伟的大门后面挥之不去的不确定。如果我们看向未来，中美关系中最大的不确定，也是最大的风险，就是中国国内政治会发生什么事。在中国，国家政治家不止要担心是否在下次选举中获胜，还要担心让中国共产党继续掌权。
我们每天都会读到中国的崛起，在这些标题的背后是一个政治领导人极其没有安全感、老是害怕可能到达统治尽头的国家。这也是个决策过程不太灵光的国家，决策过程由强大的利益集团主导，而很多利益集团来自国家内部。
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The US-China trade clash centers on intellectual property theft. “An underlying factor is the Chinese government’s rigorous censorship of imported cultural products,” explains Ge Chen, professor of law. The US Constitution protects speech as a check against excessive government power with the First...
Market without freedom: China’s authoritarian government incarcerated Nobel laureate and democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo who died in Chinese custody in 2017; Chinese citizens enjoyed a brief moment of freedom in 1979 when the government allowed...
More than 40 percent of the world’s population is under age 24, and many hold concerns about globalization, rising inequality, corruption, fewer democratic protections and a warming climate. So the young, like so many from history hungry for change, are protesting. “Yet while younger people, in any...
