The Abstracts of Vol.6,2013
Releasing Time：11.16.2013Source：
An Analysis of the Security Situation in
Afghanistan after NATO’s Military Withdrawal
Gao Hua
With the date of NATO’s International Security Assistance Forces withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014 approaching, the contention among big powers in the region is getting more complex and intense. Such a withdrawal will not only make the US and NATO face serious challenges, but also the Central Asian region face bigger risks. Afghanistan’s future is full of uncertainties. In view of her future strategic need in the region, China should get herself well prepared and planned for the “post NATO era” in Afghanistan.
The Prospect of the Constitutional Monarchy in
Cambodia in the Post Prince Sihanouk Era
Li Shuaihu
Would Cambodia’s constitutional monarchy established in 1993 be nullified after its main founder Prince Sihanouk passed away? The author deemed that the Cambodian people is profoundly influenced by historical and cultural traditions, the main political forces in the country have identified themselves with the current system, and the international political forces have no intention to overthrow the present political system in Cambodia. As a result, we may reasonably be optimistic about the constitutional monarchy in the post Prince Sihanouk era.
India-Malaysia Strategic Partnership: Genesis, Prospect and Effect
Li Yibo
Of late, the strategic partnership between India and Malaysia has developed very fast. This paper has analyzed the important factors that pushed the India-Malaysia relationship forward from the geo-political and economic perspective. The continuous development of such a relationship will exert great impact on regional security and integration in Southeast Asia, which also included the adverse factor of counterbalancing China, of which we should have a comprehensive understanding.
The Reasons of the US to Enhance Asian-Pacific Alliance System:
An Analysis Based on the Three Elements of Alliance Theory
Jin Xin, Pan Feng
The particularity of international systems in the Asian-Pacific region has made China confront tremendous pressure from the US Asian-Pacific alliance systems in her course of rising. The Obama administration has incorporated the soft side of the US type hegemony into its Asian-Pacific alliance policy, resulting in its allies in the region admiring and playing up to its waning power and viewing China as a threat to the regional stability. As the balance of power viewpoint can hardly fully explain this phenomena, the balance of threat and benefit alliance viewpoints may after all provide a better perspective for observation.
On the AirSea Battle and China’s National Security
Cheng Guilong
As a support base for the US eastward shift of its strategic focus, the AirSea Battle plays an important role in America’s Asian-Pacific strategy, which constituted a significant threat to the national security of the Asian-Pacific countries, with China in particular. Given this, it is highly necessary to analyze and understand its theoretical origin, development goals, tactical operations and obstacles to provide a strategic stockpile and intellectual support for China to safeguard her national security and construct favorable security environment.
A Brief Analysis of the US Practice of
Carrier Diplomacy and Its Revelations for China
Xu Ke
Carrier is an indispensible diplomatic leverage for big powers. As the most powerful sea power in the world, the US has for more than half a century used carriers for diplomatic maneuvers, especially in Asia and Africa where nations are many, contradictions are complex and interests are great. This paper mainly analyzed the characteristics as well as pros and cons of the US carrier diplomacy, and offered some insights into the issues that China in the future may be concerned with and refer to.
Cultural Security and the Vicissitude of Big Powers:
Russia’s Cultural Security Strategy and Its Revelation for China
Zhen Wendong
The influence of cultural security on the fate of a state or a nation is subtle and silent, and its strategic significance and long term value are most likely neglected. A study from cultural security perspective of the former USSR’s strategic mistakes that caused its decline and disintegration, Russia’s cultural security undertaking in the post Cold War era and the four basic elements for cultural security of big powers is of great significance for China to construct her cultural security strategy.
South Africa’s Environment Diplomacy:
Measures, Achievements and Challenges
Zou Yingmeng
South Africa, trying to play a leading role in global environment politics, has taken a series of environment diplomacy operations and achieved some favorable results. Nonetheless, its fragile eco-environment, weak infrastructure and pressing social-economic development issues have limited the space for the operation of its environment diplomacy policies. South Africa can hardly go further unless it has resolved the contradiction between domestic social-economic development and the pursuit of leadership in global environment politics and realized long term sustainable development.