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2005年7月11日,是明成祖朱棣下诏郑和下西洋600周年的日子。当欧美媒体围绕郑和是否最先发现北美、澳大利亚考证之际,中国人则把郑和视作中国“和平崛起”的象征。一个被普遍忽视的事实是,今年也是“国际法之父”格劳修斯着手写作《海洋自由论》400周年。尤其耐人寻味的是,6个世纪来坚持典型的“海洋闭锁论”的中国,事实上以前所未有的热情亲近于16世纪的荷兰和17世纪的英国对海洋文明的格劳修斯古典主义立场:为海洋自由、贸易自由辩护。
July 11, 2005 is the day when Ming Chengzu and Zhu Di decreed Zheng He’s 600th anniversary. When the European and American media center on whether Zheng He first discovered North America or Australia, the Chinese regarded Zheng He as a symbol of China’s “peaceful rise.” One fact that has been generally overlooked is that this year is also the birth of “Father of International Law” Clausius, writing for the 400th anniversary of “the theory of freedom of the seas.” Particularly intriguing, the six-century adherence to the classic “theory of the occlusion of the sea,” in fact unprecedented enthusiasm, is close to the Grauns classical position on the maritime civilization of the 16th-century Holland and the 17th-century Britain: Freedom of the sea, freedom of trade defense.