新国际平衡:对西方世界的挑战

The New International Balance:Challenge to the Western World

'南北关系'或'南北矛盾'一词,如今已成为国际政治学和国际经济学中最常见的用语之一。但是,此词最初出现于何时?源自何处?为何如此用法?其原始含义为何?却不是人人皆知,更不是人人知之甚详。据日本学者研究,认为此词最初源自1959年英国OliverFranks爵士的一篇著名演讲词。经厦门大学李国安、徐崇利两位教授先后在海外的辗转追寻,终于在美国芝加哥大学图书馆近五十年前的文档'故纸堆'中找出。现将这份难得一见的重要历史文献,用中英文双语刊出,以饷本领域有意追本溯源地深入研究本问题的专业学人和广大读者。

I have been asked to discuss the broad subject of economic relations between Europe and the United States,with particular attention to some specific questions?To tackle this assignment one must first be clear about the general approach?Let me explain what I mean?It makes all the differ-ence whether we are thinking of the economic relations between Europe and the United States as a going concern,and are interested in improvement or modifications to it,or whether we suppose that these relationships have en-tered a basically new phase so that most questions have to be worked out a fresh.