Hegel: An introduction,Second Edition

This article explores J.G.A. Pocock's insight that “traces” of civic republican discourse survived within the dominant liberal paradigm of modern political thought. It does so by tracking classical republican themes in the works of American pragmatist John Dewey and English pluralist Harold Laski. The main contribution of the article is to show that the 1920s pluralist theory of the state can be interpreted as a reformulation of the classical republican critique of modern liberal conceptions of state sovereignty. In particular, I suggest that Laski can be viewed as a kind of republican pluralist inspired by Aristotle and Harrington as well as by American pragmatism, itself a late outgrowth of the republican tradition in US history.     

司徒雷登与战后中国的"新革命运动"

战后中国的"新革命运动"是由司徒雷登发起的,其目的是通过国民党政府内部的改革,把CC系的势力排除出去,让自由主义势力进入政府并掌握政权,以维持国民党政权的统治,对抗中国共产党领导的革命运动.由于"新革命运动"是建立在错误的基础之上,司徒雷登试图通过"新革命运动"挽救国民党统治的努力最终失败.     

Absent Regions: Spaces of Financialisation in the Arab World

This paper examines processes of financialisation in the Arab world, a region that has been almost completely absent from the wider financial literature. The paper shows that financialisation is much more than simply the expansion of financial markets within neatly bounded sets of social relations operating at the national scale. In the Arab world, financialisation has been marked by the growing weight of regional finance capital—most specifically, those capital groups based in the Gulf Cooperation Council—in circuits of capital operating at all scales. This has important implications for processes of class and state formation. Approaching financialisation in this manner—moving away from methodologically nationalist assumptions and the literature's largely singular focus on the advanced capitalist core—brings into focus the significance of cross‐scalar accumulation patterns, their spatial hierarchies, and geographic unevenness. The paper thus reaffirms the need for a more spatially sensitive approach to financialisation.     

柏文蔚与二次革命

辛亥革命后,柏蔚亲统“中华民国陆军第一军”坐控津浦线,改任安徽军政府都督后,多次婉拒袁世凯的拉拢、收买,表现了坚定的革命立场。宋教仁案发生后,他力主武装讨袁,提出了一些很好的建议,并通电反对善后大借款,却因革命党人意见分歧,步调不一,而错过了讨袁大好时机,终被袁世凯免职。二次革命爆发后,柏蔚先被黄兴委任为安徽讨袁军总司令,至蚌埠督师,旋又被任命为安徽都督,回安庆平息皖省政潮,辛勤奔走于苏、皖之间,亦未能挽回二次革命之败局。柏蔚对二次革命作出了巨大贡献,但对袁世凯抱有不切实际的幻想,事先未作必要的准备,临事因过于依赖领袖人物而未能当机立断,事发后又未能真正掌握军事指挥权,对二次革命的失败造成了难以估量的影响。