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新加坡大戰略
小國的政治、經濟和戰略之道
by Prof Ang Cheng Guan (Nanyang Tech RSIS)
洪清源教授（香港中文大学/南洋理工大学） 著
新加坡在1965年8月9日脫離馬來西亞而宣布獨立，當時國土面積只有581.5平方公里，人口不到190萬，自然資源貧乏，沒有自己的水源，沒有腹地，也沒有可自衛的貿易港口，長期被鄰近大國虎視眈眈，隨時面臨遭吞併的危機，但獨立後的新加坡，以戰略方式整合其所掌握的不同外交、政治和國防工具後，逐漸發展為在經濟、政治、外交與軍事等方面均傲視東亞，在國際事務上更是經常被形容為叱吒風雲、「力量超過體量」的國家，同時擁有世界上最強大的軍隊之一。
這本書以新穎而實際的角度聚焦於新加坡的外交、經濟、國防和安全史，內容從1965年獨立到2020年代的戰略調整時期，詳細論述這個國家如何把國防安全與經濟成長視為不可分割的重要戰略。
以往對大戰略的研究大多集中在超級大國或至少是中等強國，但洪清源的書對國際關係和戰略研究做出了重要貢獻，說明了大戰略概念如何有助於解釋小國的戰略形勢和成就。此外，洪清源將歷史學家的觀點帶入戰略與外交議題，不只對該領域研究具重要意義，對於一般讀者來說，從外部觀點巧妙地重述新加坡的故事也很有說服力。
這本書從歷史、理論、實踐和軍事這四個角度，同時也採納彼得．費弗（Peter Feaver）的論述，把大戰略描述為「來自學術界的術語」，指的是「國家有意採取的計畫和政策的集合，旨在協同運用政治、軍事、外交和經濟工具，以推進該國的國家利益。大戰略是調和目標和手段的藝術。它涉及有目的行動，受到領袖明確認識以及他們可能只是內在感受到的因素限制。」這項研究將直接或間接地透過文獻和回憶錄與實踐者進行交流。
這本書詳細論述新加坡大戰略自從1965年至今的各種演變，以及填補了新加坡於1965年後的外交、國防與安全歷史等文獻上的空白，更對各種有關「大戰略」的學術討論做出精密的梳理。除此以外，本書另一重要貢獻，相對於過往的多數研究都是以大國為焦點，作者把研究聚焦在小國之上。作者的研究證明，小國也可以擁有大戰略。書中更有許多新加坡與周邊多個國家包括中國、馬來西亞、印尼，多年以來外交大事與各種文獻分析，對台灣來說這樣的研究更是意義非凡，相當具參考價值。
縣裏的文革
江蘇豐縣的動亂十年
by Prof Dong Guoqiang (Fudan) and Prof Andrew Walder (Stanford)
董國強（复旦大学）、魏昂德（Andrew G. Walder）（斯坦福/史丹福大学） 著
董國強（复旦大学） 譯
文革的展開是均質的嗎？偏遠縣城和中心城市各自能揭示怎樣的文革景象？變幻的高層政治在縣級政治中如何得到執行、遞進或者扭曲？基層群眾派性鬥爭真正的動力何在？
本書通過對江蘇豐縣十年文革史的研究，試圖為上述問題提供新的思考。董國強與魏昂德藉由十餘年調查走訪搜集而來的傳單、小冊子、工作筆記、官方文件與檔案等一手文獻，以及對派性鬥爭親歷者所做的大量訪談，原原本本呈現了一幅區別於既有認知的「縣域文革」圖景：當運動以不同於北京、上海、武漢等中心城市的模式發動後，派性鬥爭迅速走向深入，幹部、軍人、工人、學生、造反派等角色次第登場，各以錯綜複雜的利益考量，與中央、軍隊等其他層面的勢力展開角力。
校長畢業了
亦師亦友心底話
by Prof Joseph Sung Jao-yiu (CUHK and Nanyang Tech)
沈祖尧教授（香港中文大学/南洋理工大学） 著
大學教育的價值和理念，談何容易？怎樣做一個儉樸、高尚和謙卑的人？提倡人文關懷、高舉道德，往往與今天的市場價值、競爭排名背道而馳。大學的校長面對著校園內外的爭論與風波，便需要在各種張力之間找出平衡點。
就任大學校長之後，沈教授身體力行，與老師和學生近距離享受大學生活，同憂同樂。《校長畢業了》收錄了沈祖堯擔任香港中文大學第七任校長期間在大學網頁發佈的57 篇網誌，就大學的教育理念與社會責任，年青人的成長路與抉擇，校長的使命與挑戰、價值觀和生命觀等話題，以情理兼備的真摯筆觸，跟他一代又一代的學生與關心年青人的人娓娓道來。
Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L. Trump (Donald Trump is her uncle)
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.
Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who occupied the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.
A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.
Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.
Freedom
Memoirs 1954 – 2021
by Dr Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021)
For sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German states—East Germany until 1990, and reunified Germany thereafter. How did she, coming from the East, rise to the top of the Christian Democratic Union to become the first woman to hold the office of chancellor? And how did she then become one of the most powerful heads of government in the Western world? What guided her?
In Freedom, Angela Merkel recounts daily life in the chancellor’s office as well as the dramatic days and nights when she made far-reaching decisions in Berlin, Brussels, and beyond. She traces the long lines of change in international cooperation and reveals the pressure politicians face when seeking solutions to complex problems in a globalized world. Here, she takes us behind the scenes of international politics, demonstrating both the importance of personal conversations and, crucially, their limits.
Reflecting on politics in a time of increasing confrontation and division, Angela Merkel’s memoir offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power—and is a determined and timely plea for freedom.
高等教育的心盲：台灣、香港、大陸與全球大學的困境和危機
The Absence of Soulware in Higher Education
郭位教授（香港城市大學） 著
by Professor Way Kuo (CityU HK)
大學怎麼辦？應該辦什麼？什麼可以辦？什麼不該辦？
什麼時候什麼地方辦些什麼？到底誰來辦？否則怎麼辦？
此書反映近五年來全球及台灣、香港、中國大陸高等教育（高教）發生的鉅變，
並舉出實例分析優勢及缺失
《高等教育的心盲》從「高教國際化、教研合一、政教分離、品質與評鑑、創意與創新」等五個方向，分27章闡述台、港、大陸的高教，並穿插列舉以美國高教為主，值得學習的特質。大家要努力做到嚴守程序、簡化行政、博採眾議、主管負責等基本訴求，否則一切都是空中樓閣。
The Insiders’ Game
How Elites Make War and Peace
by Professor Elizabeth N. Saunders (Columbia)
One of the most widely held views of democratic leaders is that they are cautious about using military force because voters can hold them accountable, ultimately making democracies more peaceful. How, then, are leaders able to wage war in the face of popular opposition, or end conflicts when the public still supports them? The Insiders’ Game sheds light on this enduring puzzle, arguing that the primary constraints on decisions about war and peace come from elites, not the public.
Elizabeth Saunders focuses on three groups of elites—presidential advisers, legislators, and military officials—to show how the dynamics of this insiders’ game are key to understanding the use of force in American foreign policy. She explores how elite preferences differ from those of ordinary voters, and how leaders must bargain with elites to secure their support for war. Saunders provides insights into why leaders start and prolong conflicts the public does not want, but also demonstrates how elites can force leaders to change course and end wars.
Tracing presidential decisions about the use of force from the Cold War through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Saunders reveals how the elite politics of war are a central feature of democracy. The Insiders’ Game shifts the focus of democratic accountability from the voting booth to the halls of power.
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition
by Assistant Professor Jeffrey Ding (George Washington)
When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the moment of innovation—the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In this book, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological revolutions affect competition among great powers. Rather than focusing on which state first introduced major innovations, he investigates why some states were more successful than others at adapting and embracing new technologies at scale. Drawing on historical case studies of past industrial revolutions as well as statistical analysis, Ding develops a theory that emphasizes institutional adaptations oriented around diffusing technological advances throughout the entire economy.
Examining Britain’s rise to preeminence in the First Industrial Revolution, America and Germany’s overtaking of Britain in the Second Industrial Revolution, and Japan’s challenge to America’s technological dominance in the Third Industrial Revolution (also known as the “information revolution”), Ding illuminates the pathway by which these technological revolutions influenced the global distribution of power and explores the generalizability of his theory beyond the given set of great powers. His findings bear directly on current concerns about how emerging technologies such as AI could influence the US-China power balance.
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Professor Daron Acemoglu (MIT) and Professor James A. Robinson (Chicago)
Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Failshows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny.
Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is our man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it). Korea, to take just one example, is a remarkably homogenous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created those two different institutional trajectories. Acemoglu and Robinson marshal extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, among them:
• Will China’s economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West?
• Are America’s best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority?
The End of History and the Last Man
by Professor Frankcis Fukuyama (Stanford)
With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty.
The End of History and the Last Man was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like. Boldly outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, Francis Fukuyama examined what had just happened and predicted what was coming next.
Now updated with a new afterword, Fukuyama shows how the central issue today remains the same. Have any political and economic models arisen that could challenge liberal democracy as the best way of organizing human societies? He remains unconvinced.
Tackling religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes and war, The End of History and the Last Man is as compelling today as it was when it was written – and just as provocative too.
The China Questions
Critical Insights into a Rising Power
Edited by Professor Jennifer Rudolph (Worcester Polytechnic) and Professor Michael Szonyi (Harvard)
“Cuts through the cacophony of information, misinformation, and nonsense on China that circulates in our modern world to give us reliable answers to crucial questions… Should be on the shelf of anyone seeking to understand this fast-rising superpower.”
—Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of China
After years of isolation, China is now center stage as an economic and global power, but its rise has triggered wildly divergent views. Is it a model of business efficiency or a threat to American prosperity and security? Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts from Harvard University’s renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies answer key questions about this new superpower, distilling a lifetime of scholarship into short and accessible essays about Chinese politics, culture, history, economy, approach to the environment, and foreign policy. Their contributions provide essential insight into the challenges China faces, the aspirations of its people and leaders, its business climate, and the consequences of its meteoric ascent. Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake.
The China Questions 2
Critical Insights into US-China Relations
Edited by Professor Maria Adele Carrai (NYU Shanghai), Professor Jennifer Rudolph (Worcester Polytechnic) and Professor Michael Szonyi (Harvard)
Following the success of The China Questions, a new volume of insights from top China specialists explains key issues shaping today’s US-China relationship.
For decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does this mean for the US-China relationship? For the global economy and international security? Seeking to clarify central issues, provide historical perspective, and demystify stereotypes, Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi and an exceptional group of China experts offer essential insights into the many dimensions of the world’s most important bilateral relationship.
Ranging across questions of security, economics, military development, climate change, public health, science and technology, education, and the worrying flashpoints of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Xinjiang, these concise essays provide an authoritative look at key sites of friction and potential collaboration, with an eye on where the US-China relationship may go in the future. Readers hear from leading thinkers such as James Millward on Xinjiang, Elizabeth Economy on diplomacy, Shelley Rigger on Taiwan, and Winnie Yip and William Hsiao on public health.
The voices included in The China Questions 2 recognize that the US-China relationship has changed, and that the policy of engagement needs to change too. But they argue that zero-sum thinking is not the answer. Much that is good for one society is good for both—we are facing not another Cold War but rather a complex and contextually rooted mixture of conflict, competition, and cooperation that needs to be understood on its own terms.
Living the Asian Century
An Undiplomatic Memoir
by Professor Kishore Mahbubani (NUS)
In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouse.
In Living the Asian Century, Kishore Mahbubani vividly chronicles his own life going from a poor childhood in a multiethnic neighborhood to an illustrious diplomatic career that led him far from Singapore to the United States.
Along the way Mahbubani has become one of Asia’s most widely known commentators and spokespeople, with a unique perspective that straddles India, China, and the West.
The Dean of Shandong
Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University
by Professor Daniel A. Bell (HKU)
On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University—the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China’s history. In The Dean of Shandong, Bell chronicles his experiences as what he calls “a minor bureaucrat,” offering an inside account of the workings of Chinese academia and what they reveal about China’s political system. It wasn’t all smooth sailing—Bell wryly recounts sporadic bungles and misunderstandings—but Bell’s post as dean provides a unique vantage point on China today.
失序的造反
文革初期集體行動的內在機制
魏昂德 教授（史丹佛大學）著
by Professor Andrew G. Walder (Stanford)
魏昂德分析了一個烏托邦式的政治構想如何造成分裂，繼而激起人類對權力的渴望，引發難以想像的連鎖反應和意想不到的沉重後果，淪以悲劇作結。《失序的造反》不僅講述了中國現代歷史上最重要的事件之一，最終更揭示了現代化進程的陰暗面。
—趙鼎新，浙江大學社會學系教授
《失序的造反》為文革研究的一部上乘之作，在該段歷史仍然模糊不清的情況下，魏昂德依托大量新數據和案例，幫助讀者更好地理解群眾派系政治的本質，對討論中國語境下的抗爭政治做出了重大貢獻。
—嚴飛，清華大學社會學系副教授
鐵水流
戰時中共革命系統的運作 1937–1945
黃道炫 教授 (北京大學) 著
1937至1945年，中國共產黨經歷了「奇跡般的發展道路」：由剛剛結束長征、在夾縫中求取生存的貧弱力量，迅速成長為中國最重要的政治勢力之一。不唯如此，這一時期由特定歷史現實所鍛造的黨的特性，在戰後相當長的時間內，仍持續對這個政黨、乃至中國的歷史和現實產生深刻的影響。
本書將對抗戰時期黨組織的分析和對黨員個體的觀察結合起來，為中共政治文化的形成和革命體系的締造提供了「最詳密的近距離特寫」和「具有突破性的總體理解」，展示幹部規訓、政策執行、生存和抵抗等系統的運作與演進，如何為中國共產黨帶來前所未有的控制力和凝聚力，將之打造成一支「鋼鐵般的政治力量」。
巨變第二天
新興民主的得失與選擇
「對於民主的喜劇與悲劇，歷史已經傳遞給我們太多耳語， 站在同一條河流裏，失憶是對文明的辜負。」
很長一段時間裏，對政治發展的分析聚焦於民主轉型的動力，定格於轉型完成的時刻。許多人似乎相信，「民主轉型」意味着政治發展劃上一個美好的句號。
然而，在「歷史的終結」處，是另一段歷史的開始。轉型國家有可能走向民主穩固，也有可能走向民主倒退和崩潰，甚至可能走向戰火紛飛。「句號」並非真的句號，而是意味深長的省略號，對這個省略號，我們所知甚少。
本書在20世紀末、21世紀初的時間框架中分析新興民主國家轉型後的發展境況，從民主鞏固、經濟發展、暴力衝突、國家能力等維度，全景式呈現「巨變第二天」各國分叉的道路，並挖掘這種分叉背後的原因。歷史常常詛咒未來，而觀念驅動的選擇則是每個社會自救於轉型泥沼的一根細線。
Liberalism as a Way of Life
by Professor Alexandre Lefebvre (USYD)
Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was. Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in Liberalism as a Way of Life, many of us are liberal without fully realizing it—or grasping what it means. Misled into thinking that liberalism is confined to politics, we fail to recognize that it’s the water we swim in, saturating every area of public and private life, shaping our psychological and spiritual outlooks, and influencing our moral and aesthetic values—our sense of what is right, wrong, good, bad, funny, worthwhile, and more. This eye-opening book shows how so many of us are liberal to the core, why liberalism provides the basis for a good life, and how we can make our lives better and happier by becoming more aware of, and more committed to, the beliefs we already hold.
牛津通識讀本：政治哲學
David Miller 著；李里峰 譯
我們應該如何共同生活於社會之中？我們究竟為何需要政府？社會正義意味着什麼？至善的現實政治真的只能是海市蜃樓嗎？政治哲學的關注重心隨着社會和政府的變化而變化，政治哲學給予我們的，究竟在多大程度上是一種普遍真理。這些問題中最基本的是關於政治和政治權威的問題。我們為什麼非得要有政治？無論是誰，有權強迫另一個人去做違背其意願的事嗎？當法律不符合我們的要求時，為什麼還要服從它？這些問題離我們並不遙遠，它和我們的人生息息相關。在本書中，作者還努力使政治哲學與那些新近才被提上議事日程的問題(例如女性主義)之間保持一種平衡。
牛津通識讀本：批判理論
Stephen Eric Bronner (Rutgers) 著；孫晨旭 譯
什麼是批判理論？顧名思義，它是一種「批判」精神。在本書開篇，作者布朗納以蘇格拉底的例子所表明的，這種哲學傾向奠基於審視傳統觀念、超越既定秩序這一遺產之上。批判理論的形成大致在第一次和第二次世界大戰之間，與法蘭克福學派息息相關。法蘭克福學派將自己的哲學—社會學理論稱為「社會批判理論」或「批判理論」。這種理論誕生於馬克思主義的思想熔爐，但又與馬克思主義在類型上有所不同。批判理論與傳統理論有什麼不同？
批判理論試圖診斷，甚至試圖治療社會的各種弊病，特別是法西斯主義和資本主義。作者在本書中勾勒了批判傳統的代表人物阿多諾、馬爾庫塞、哈貝馬斯等的主要思想，以及這一傳統的許多重要文本和經驗研究，並解釋了諸如異化和物化、文化產業和壓迫性寬容、非同一性和烏托邦等概念。書中還揭示了一系列概念和主題，正是它們將批判理論與更為傳統的哲學理論區分開來。
Why America Misunderstands the World
National Experience and Roots of Misperception
by Professor Paul R. Pillar (Georgetown)
Being insulated by two immense oceans makes it hard for Americans to appreciate the concerns of more exposed countries. American democracy’s rapid rise also fools many into thinking the same liberal system can flourish anywhere, and having populated a vast continent with relative ease impedes Americans’ understanding of conflicts between different peoples over other lands. Paul R. Pillar ties the American public’s misconceptions about foreign threats and behaviors to the nation’s history and geography, arguing that American success in international relations is achieved often in spite of, rather than because of, the public’s worldview.
美国百年全球战略
第一次世界大战以来美国全球霸权的历史演进
窦国庆 博士（国防大学战略学博士后，解放军陆军上校）著
本书试图从整体高度分析一百多年来美国在不同国际条件、不同实力对比背景、不同国内政治氛围、不同决策机制下的军事战略演变。作者力求把握国际关系、战争战略、军事变革三大领域的内在联系，探索美国外交、国际危机应对、对外战争行为的规律。本书指出，美国在危机、战争时期的决策，有时表现得理性、坚定，有时却相当轻率、鲁莽;美国历届领导人高谈世界和平、避免核战争，却又热衷于军事变革，甚至主动挑起军备竞赛;美国各届政府的安全战略强调其特殊性和创新性，同时又有鲜明的历史连贯性;美国国防领域的精英人物极富个性，但仍能在制度框架中发挥作用;美国的制度创新、技术创新成果，涉及复杂的决策因素，却能够迅速转化为各类法规与政策。上述这些矛盾现象，远远超出了军事领域，却是探讨美国军事霸权能够长久维持的原因所必须要研究的问题。本书独树一帜，有许多新鲜思想和独特见解。
How China Sees the World
Han-Centrism and the Balance of Power in International Politics
by Assis. Prof. John M. Friend (St. John’s University) and Dr. Bradley A. Thayer
Han-centrism, a virulent form of Chinese nationalism, asserts that the Han Chinese are superior to other peoples and have a legitimate right to advance Chinese interests at the expense of other countries. Han nationalists have called for policies that will allow China to reclaim the prosperity stolen by foreign powers during the “Century of Humiliation.” The growth of Chinese capabilities and Han-centrism suggests that the United States, its allies, and other countries in Asia will face an increasingly assertive China—one that thinks it possesses a right to dominate international politics.
The Transformation of Foreign Policy
Drawing and Managing Boundaries from Antiquity to the Present
Edited by Professor Gunther Hellmann (Goethe), Professor Andreas Fahrmeir (Goethe), and Professor Miloš Vec (Universität Wien)
The study of foreign policy is usually concerned with the interaction of states, which date back to the so-called “Westphalian system,” also the time at which modern “foreign policy” vocabulary was invented. Given the close semantic ties between the two, examining foreign policy in earlier as well as in later periods involves conceptual and terminological difficulties. Questions concerning the status of “post-national” foreign policy actors like the European Union or global cities echo problems that involve the study of ancient Greek “city-states” or federal and imperial entities. This volume presents a novel understanding of what constitutes foreign policy which seeks to offer a way out of this dilemma. The authors argue that foreign policy is the outcome of processes that set some boundaries apart from others, and differentiate those within an internal space from others that mark foreignness. The creation of such boundaries can be observed at all times, and they designate specific actors—which can be, but do not have to be, “states”—as capable of engaging in foreign policy. Such boundaries are, however, unstable, and do not provide a single or a simple distinction between “insides” and “outsides.” Multiple layers of foreign policy actors with different characteristics are thus not a post-modern development, but a perennial aspect of foreign policy. This case is argued in a broad perspective extending from early Greek polities to present-day global cities via “classical” nation-states and empires, and it is presented by political scientists, jurists, and historians.
失落的一代
中國的上山下鄉運動 (1968-1980)
潘鳴嘯 教授（法国社会科学高等学院当代史研究员）著、歐陽因 譯
by Professor Michel Bonnin (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS)
1966年中國掀起文化大革命,學校停課,城鎮中學生先「鬧革命」,當紅衛兵,後被遣送到農村去。統計1968至1980年間,大約有一千七百萬人。這場有組織的重要人口遷移,是一場徹底的政治運動,名為「上山下鄉運動」。在世界或在中國來看,都是史無前例的。這場運動對整整這一代城鎮青年產生了深遠的影響。不僅打亂了他們的生活秩序,使他們失去了受教育的機會,而且影響到他們的家庭,以及整個城市社會,甚至農村社會。因此,這整一代人可以被稱作「失落的一代」。
本書揭示發起這場運動的領導人的公開或隱蔽的動機,與他們為達到目的所使用的手法,同時分析他們的這些決定在整個社會上引致的後果。此外,本書探討了下鄉運動進行了二十多年,包括文革前小規模的運動,為何會在1980年突然壽終正寢,並且研究這場運動在中國社會、政治及經濟上留下了什么印記,以及它在中國當代歷史上應該佔一個什么位置。
The Sentinel State
Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China
by Professor Minxin Pei (Claremont Mackenna College)
Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human resources of the Leninist surveillance state.
For decades China watchers argued that economic liberalization and increasing prosperity would bring democracy to the world’s most populous country. Instead, the Communist Party’s grip on power has only strengthened. Why? The answer, Minxin Pei argues, lies in the effectiveness of the Chinese surveillance state. And the source of that effectiveness is not just advanced technology like facial recognition AI and mobile phone tracking. These are important, but what matters more is China’s vast, labor-intensive infrastructure of domestic spying.
The views of this book do not represent Frank’s perspectives at all.
Study Gods
How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition
by Assistant Professor Yi-Lin Chiang (NYU Shanghai)
Study Gods offers a rare look at the ways privileged youth in China prepare themselves to join the ranks of the global elite. Yi-Lin Chiang shows how these competitive Chinese high schoolers first become “study gods” (xueshen), a term describing academically high-performing students. Constant studying, however, is not what explains their success, for these young people appear god-like in their effortless abilities to excel. Instead, Chiang explores how elite adolescents achieve by absorbing and implementing the rules surrounding status.
Drawing from eight years of fieldwork and extensive interviews, Chiang reveals the important lessons that Chinese youth learn in their pursuit of elite status. They understand the hierarchy of the status system, recognizing and acquiring the characteristics that are prized, while avoiding those that are not. They maintain status by expecting differential treatment and performing status-based behaviors, which guide their daily interactions with peers, teachers, and parents. Lastly, with the help of resourceful parents, they rely on external assistance in the face of potential obstacles and failures. Chiang looks at how students hone these skills, applying them as they head to colleges and careers around the world, and in their relationships with colleagues and supervisors.
Highlighting another facet of China’s rising power, Study Gods announces the arrival of a new generation to the realm of global competition.
民粹的理性
On populist reason
厄尼斯特．拉克勞 教授（雅息士大學）著、林峯燦 黃上銓 譯
by Professor Ernesto Laclau (Essex)
英國脫歐、川普旋風，乃至於台灣近年的若干政治熱潮，都曾被貼上「民粹主義」的標籤。然而，到底什麼才是民粹？許多論者把民粹連結到保守右翼，然而，從昔日的美國人民黨（Populist）、阿根廷的裴隆（Perón），到當今西班牙的我們能（Podemos），都讓人見證了左翼民粹政黨的活躍。由此可知，我們很難從左／右或統／獨等政治立場的「內容」來界定所謂的民粹；民粹，毋寧是一種政治邏輯，而每種政治形態多少都含有民粹主義的成分。
本書指出，當民粹發生時，社會將被一分為二：一方是「人民」，而其敵對陣營則是統治集團。然而，現代社會高度複雜，每個群體都有各自的訴求，要統合它們從來不是一件容易的事。唯有從中確立彼此的「最大公約數」，讓各方團體願意求同存異，並指認共同敵人，「人民」才能被建構起來，進而演變成支配階級不得不正視的力量。
如果說常規政治意味著權力集團盼望以差異化邏輯，滿足主張各不相同的人群；那麼民粹政治，就是抵禦權貴的「各個擊破」，並企圖以等同性（equivalence）接合眾多殊異訴求的結盟嘗試。這正是民粹理性之所在。一旦代議政治失靈，民粹確實有機會挽救民主。本書架接了豐富的歷史案例與理論取徑，展現出左翼民粹實踐的可能性，因此有助於公民團體思索，如何讓自身訴求銜接到更異質的群眾？
香港日記
The Hong Kong Diaries
彭定康 著；陳榮彬/ 徐嘉煜/ 袁曼端/ 黃瑜安/ 林庭如/ 沈函儀 譯
by Chris Patten (Chancellor of Oxford; last Governer of Hong Kong under British Colonial Rule)
一百多年前，英國以租借方式從清末中國手中獲得香港大部分的土地（即新界）。到了1992年7月，彭定康以末任英國派任總督的身分前往香港履新，準備在1997年將香港主權移交給中國，而非依循過去數十年英國處理其他殖民地的慣例讓其獨立。接下來五年內，彭定康在其港督任内撰寫這些日記，詳細描述香港作為英國殖民地的運作方式，以及隨著主權移交臨近之日所發生的各種事件。
這本日記對於與北京當局的談判、強化香港（遲來的）的民主制度，以及彭定康如何尋求適度的自治制度讓香港在1997年後能持續運作，提供了前所未有的真知灼見。出乎意料的是，不只中國共產黨反對彭定康的政制改革，一些英國商人和政府高官也對彭定康的作為非常不悅。對這些人來說，與北京保持良好的關係似乎比較重要，香港的政治自由和法治反倒是枝微末節。
本書英文版在香港主權移交25週年之際出版，作者反思過去到現在與北京當局打交道的種種經歷。
書中觀點不代表本網站所有人之立場與見解。
中产上海
中国式现代化与新阶层的崛起
李成 教授（香港大学） 著、林华 译
中国中产的崛起是对共同富裕理念和中国式现代化的有效诠释。今日中国中产既有强烈进取的经济发展动力、强有力的爱国与世界眼光，同时对全球化、西方霸权衰落、动荡中的中美关系有着独立且敏锐的观察、研判，具备坦率与直接的批评谏言能力。中国中产的迅速兴起和爆发性增长，将驱动中国国内的发展，并直接影响中国的对外姿态。作者从社会、经济、学术、艺术等各个层面介绍分析了以上海中产为代表的中国中产的生活状态，并且以大量的数据分析和调查为切入点，理性看待中国崛起与发展，聚焦“中产”这一中国社会力量，并置于当今中美关系的大背景以及全球化新局势中来理解这一讨论。
革命的年代
從十七世紀至今的全球化、科技化、地緣政治的衝擊
法理德·札卡瑞亞（CNN）著、江威儀 譯
by Fareed Zakaria (CNN)
民粹主義的憤怒、意識型態的分裂、經濟和科技的衝擊、戰爭，以及充滿災難性風險的國際體系――二十一世紀最初的幾十年可能是現代史上最具革命性的時期。這些革命為何發生？它們如何幫助我們理解當前這個充滿危機的世界？
札卡瑞亞在這部重要著作中，探討十七世紀至今，對人類發展有重要影響的革命。這些革命定義了我們當前所處的這個兩極對立與動盪不安的時代。此刻我們正面對一個多極發展的世界，單一強權已無法主宰全球，我們在動盪不安中很容易對未來感到擔憂。但札卡瑞亞強調，高談悲觀還為時過早。如果我們採取明智的行動，自由主義國際秩序就能復興，民粹主義就會被丟進歷史的垃圾堆裡。
很少有公共知識份子能夠做到這一點，札卡瑞亞將知識的廣度、深刻的歷史洞察力和超乎尋常的先見之明結合在一起，再次重塑並闡明我們動盪的現狀。他大膽而令人信服的論點，使這本書成為我們身處革命時代的必讀之作。
The Book Proposal Book
A Guide for Scholarly Authors
by Dr. Laura Portwood-Stacer (PhD in Communication, USC)
The scholarly book proposal may be academia’s most mysterious genre. You have to write one to get published, but most scholars receive no training on how to do so—and you may have never even seen a proposal before you’re expected to produce your own. The Book Proposal Book cuts through the mystery and guides prospective authors step by step through the process of crafting a compelling proposal and pitching it to university presses and other academic publishers.
Outsourcing Empire
How Company-States Made the Modern World
by Associate Professor Andrew Phillips (Queensland) and Professor J. C. Sharman (Cantab)
From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove European expansion, building the world’s first genuinely international system. Company-states were hybrid ventures: pioneering multinational trading firms run for profit, with founding charters that granted them sovereign powers of war, peace, and rule. Those like the English and Dutch East India Companies carved out corporate empires in Asia, while other company-states pushed forward European expansion through North America, Africa, and the South Pacific. In this comparative exploration, Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman explain the rise and fall of company-states, why some succeeded while others failed, and their role as vanguards of capitalism and imperialism.
Outsourcing Repression
Everyday State Power in Contemporary China
by Professor Lynette H. Ong 王慧玲 (Toronto)
This book
- Analyzes repression in China, not by examining state coercive apparatus, but from the perspective of grassroots nonstate actors to whom coercion is outsourced
- Includes a decade’s worth of ethnographic research in China
- Draws upon more than 200 field interviews and quantitative data, half the book covers violence outsourced to street gangsters and thugs
- Offers a novel concept of outsourcing repression that expands the scope and existing contours of state power
The views of this book do not represent Frank’s perspectives at all.
Currency Politics
The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy
by Professor Jeffry A. Frieden (Harvard)
The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity. Despite the critical role of exchange rate policy, there are few definitive explanations of why governments choose the currency policies they do. Filled with in-depth cases and examples, Currency Politics presents a comprehensive analysis of the politics surrounding exchange rates.
Identifying the motivations for currency policy preferences on the part of industries seeking to influence politicians, Jeffry Frieden shows how each industry’s characteristics—including its exposure to currency risk and the price effects of exchange rate movements—determine those preferences. Frieden evaluates the accuracy of his theoretical arguments in a variety of historical and geographical settings: he looks at the politics of the gold standard, particularly in the United States, and he examines the political economy of European monetary integration. He also analyzes the politics of Latin American currency policy over the past forty years, and focuses on the daunting currency crises that have frequently debilitated Latin American nations, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.
With an ambitious mix of narrative and statistical investigation, Currency Politics clarifies the political and economic determinants of exchange rate policies.
A Field Guide to Grad School
Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum
by Professor Jessica McCrory Calarco (Wisconsin-Madison)
Some of the most important things you need to know in order to succeed in graduate school—like how to choose a good advisor, how to get funding for your work, and whether to celebrate or cry when a journal tells you to revise and resubmit an article—won’t be covered in any class. They are part of a hidden curriculum that you are just expected to know or somehow learn on your own—or else. In this comprehensive survival guide for grad school, Jessica McCrory Calarco walks you through the secret knowledge and skills that are essential for navigating every critical stage of the postgraduate experience, from deciding whether to go to grad school in the first place to finishing your degree and landing a job. An invaluable resource for every prospective and current grad student in any discipline, A Field Guide to Grad School will save you grief—and help you thrive—in school and beyond.
Provides invaluable advice about how to:
- Balance teaching, research, service, and life
- Choose and apply to a graduate program
- Stay on track in your program
- Publish and promote your work
- Get the most out of conferences
- Navigate the job market
理解国际外交
理论、实践与伦理
Understanding International Diplomacy
Theory, Practice and Ethics
科内留尔·波乔拉 教授 / 马库斯·科恩普罗布斯特 教授 著
任远喆 / 周幻 译
by Professor Markus Kornprobst (Vienna School of International Studies) and Professor Corneliu Bjola (Oxon)
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of international diplomacy, covering both theory and practice. This second edition has been revised and updated, with new material on such key contemporary issues as Syria, Ukraine, migration and the South China Sea.
The text summarizes and discusses the major trends in the field of diplomacy, providing an innovative theoretical approach to understanding diplomacy not as a collection of practices or a set of historical traditions, but as a form of institutionalized communication through which authorized representatives produce, manage and distribute public goods.
在學術界謀生存
李連江 教授（香港大學）著
學術界是怎樣的江湖？在其中要如何生存？作者以二十多年在學術界探索的親身經歷與清醒思考，揭開學術圈的生存法則和注意事項、規則與潛規則，分享學習研究的方法與捷徑。所涉及內容包括選題、研究方法、論文寫作、期刊發表、英語學習、學者生涯等等，皆是當下年輕學者或學生切實面對、卻往往無路可循甚至誤入歧途的問題。
作為出色的政治學研究者和教授者，作者不僅清楚了解研究的方法與訣竅，也深知當下年輕學者的問題和苦惱。全書既有生存之「道」，又有生存之「術」，誠懇直率，不弄玄虛，傾囊相授，令人讀來豁然開朗，不僅適用於社科、人文領域，對所有想進入或剛進入學術圈的研究者都極有啟發。
政治哲學緒論
喬納森·沃夫 教授（牛津大學）著
by Professor Jonathan Wolff (Oxon)
本書為讀者介紹了政治哲學中的核心問題，以及為了解決這些問題，政治哲學家曾經作過的努力嘗試。就一系列相互關聯的問題，作者搜索政治哲學的寶庫，探求答案和方法。
入門書常給人的印象是，把該學科描述成一成不變的教條，學習者只須看懂入門指南，然後就可以按圖索驥。本書作者力圖避免這種簡單化的弊病。書中每一章的主題，都是從前一章推演出來，論述互有關聯，作者並希望書中任何一章都能當作獨立成篇的文章來讀，都能引導讀者去思索那些特定的問題。
本書梳理政治哲學諸重要課題，簡潔清晰，令人佩服……本書為學生、普通讀者娓娓道來的寫作風格，非常成功。—— Matt Matravers
作者從柏拉圖到羅爾斯，以及通過一系列相關的重大課題，為學生和普通讀者介紹了政治哲學的核心問題。既給讀者提供了必需的論述架構，又帶出「財產所有權」、「無政府主義」等特殊的問題。
The Abuse of Power
Confronting Injustice in Public Life
by Rt Hon Theresa May
Fmr Prime Minister of United Kingdom, 2016-19
As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to devastating results for individuals and significantly damaged the reputation of, and trust in, public institutions and politicians. From the Hillsborough and Grenfell tragedies, to the Daniel Morgan case and parliamentary scandals, the powerful repeatedly chose to use their power not in the interests of the powerless but to serve themselves or to protect the organisation to which they belonged.
The Abuse of Power is a searing exposé of injustice and an impassioned call to exercise power for the greater good. Drawing on examples from domestic and international affairs she was personally involved in at the highest level, including Stop and Search and the Salisbury Poisonings, the former prime minister argues for a radical rethink in how we approach our politics and public life.
Chen Chaofan Frank 
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