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Foreign Affairs Review is supervised by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC, and sponsored by China Foreign Affairs University. It was launched in 1984, aiming to locate its domain within looking at the world based on China and observing China from the perspective of global view, and take “big international relations” and “big diplomacy” as its main subjects. Its scope covers Chinese diplomacy, big power relations, regional and international order, as well as global governance with its distinctive features. Among the well-known Chinese journals in terms of bibliometric indicators, it has become one of the best journals in the field of international relations. Moreover, it also acts as the authorized journal for China National Association for International Studies (CNAIS). The journal is included in CSSCI.
Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Qin Yaqing

Associate Editor
Zhu Liqun

Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Chen Zhirui

Editorial Board
Yin Jiwu, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Wang Fan, China Foreign Affairs University
Wang Yizhou, Peking University
David M. Lampton, The

Economic globalization, alienation of interests and political tearing: the new watershed in the contemporary world economy and politics

CHENG Yawen

Foreign Affairs Review,2019,Vol 36,No. 06

An important reason for the rare political tearing in the US in recent years was the fact that different social strata in the US have become alienated instead of related in their interests. To a large extent, it is the result of economic globalization. Economic globalization transforms the interest structure and economic relations among and within countries at the global level. The alienation of interests and political tearing caused by globalization can be traced back to the mid-late 19th century to the early 20th century when the UK was dominating the process. Economic globalization has resulted in the conflict between capital’s going for profit globally and interests’ being distributed nationally. The global expansion of capital and its anti-state characteristic lead to the weakening of the coordination and distribution functions of national interests. In the process of economic globalization, due to the global allocation of industrial capital and the highly financialized global economy, the national economy tends to collapse. Wealth concentrates on the minorities. The formation of the elite alliance beyond transnational boundaries and its universal values have resulted in the emergence of the interest chasm between the beneficiaries and the injured. The will of capital influenced the will of the state; the contractual ethics of the sovereign state was damaged; and the phenomenon of state disability was aggravated. The antagonism between countries is intensified, and the international pattern is increasingly chaotic, demonstrating more signs of the imminent collapse of the contemporary global order. The lack of political globalization, or, the lack of management and regulation of economic globalization, reflects the limits of governance of sovereign countries in the process of economic globalization. Such limits demonstrate that economic globalization should have its political dimension and should adapt to the political fact of existing sovereign countries. At the same time, through the renewal and establishment of global governance system, efforts should be made to manage and regulate the process of economic globalization to form a global interest coordination and redistribution mechanism and to control the political tension caused by economic globalization.

Development of China’s IR theories: contributions and challenges

QIN Yaqing

Foreign Affairs Review,2019,Vol 36,No. 06

A revisit to the theoretical and practical significance of the history of international thought

SHI Bin

Foreign Affairs Review,2019,Vol 36,No. 06

From government promotion to market orientation: the sustainable development path of overseas industrial zones

TANG Xiaoyang;TANG Xiyuan

Foreign Affairs Review,2019,Vol 36,No. 06

Reshaping of the world: from the empires to the nation-states

LIU Debin

Foreign Affairs Review,2019,Vol 36,No. 06