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中国内部的权力转移——下篇

April 20, 2012
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，...

Russia’s Turbulence Could Drive Sustainable Development

April 14, 2015
Falling oil prices and western sanctions have led to hard economic times for Russians. But lingering economic crisis can also allow a country new opportunity to regroup and reform, innovating and transforming the economy. Paradoxically, the long-running crisis could drive Russia to end its...

Wall Street Journal: Russia and North Korea Ties

February 3, 2019
Despite the Russian government’s support for the UN economic sanctions against North Korea in 2017, some Russian business owners, along with ethnic Koreans living in the Far East, are speaking out in opposition to the labor and trade freeze. Anatoly Kurmanaev and Thomas Groves report from Sakhalin...

The Japan Times: Toward a New Global Compact on Migration

January 11, 2018
More than 65 million people have been forcibly displaced from their games due to conflict or disasters. Many more people migrate in search of opportunities, and the total number of migrants approaches 250 million. “Managing migration is one of the most profound challenges for international...

Trump’s North Korea Nuclear Deal Flounders

August 23, 2018
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un skillfully used a June summit meeting with US President Donald Trump to strengthen ties with China and improve his global standing. However, the “North Korean nuclear deal US President Donald Trump signed amidst great fanfare in Singapore in June may be unraveling...

Governments Clamp Down: New York Times

March 9, 2020
The world has more than 110,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and nations impose more restrictions to contain the spread, which also slows spending and hurts businesses. “Italy began one of the largest-ever attempts to restrict the movement of people in a Western democracy, with a lockdown of the...

Keepin' It Cool: How the Air Conditioner Made Modern America

July 18, 2011
The world’s wealthiest can easily ignore rising temperatures by turning up their air conditioners. “But the effects of air conditioners reach far beyond atmospherics to the ways we build our houses, where in the country we live, and how we spend our time,” explains Rebecca J. Rosen of the Atlantic...

A Future Scenario for Asia

May 12, 2011
Asia accounts for 27 percent of the global economy and nearly 60 percent of the world’s population. Analysts anticipate growth and influence, but labels of an Asian Century could be premature, warns an Asian Development Bank report, analyzed by Philip Bowring for the Asia Sentinel. Asia has...
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