Wei-en Tan
Member of Slow Food, NYC
Reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) and designing the Post-Kyoto Climate Regime tend to dominate discussions on climate change so far.[1] But to the booming world population, one emerging issue caused by climate change may be even more worth noting and demand no delay: food insecurity.
(本文於 2012年10月18日刊登於 Foreign Policy 網站，請點選連結觀看原文）
全文轉自Nicholas Kristof 於紐約時報之部落格。
Diaoyu Island is recorded under Kavalan, Taiwan in Revised Gazetteer of Fujian Province (1871).李慶平
前中國廣播公司總經
四十年前在美國、台灣、香港所發展的保衛釣魚台運動，似乎很遙遠的事了，但對現今六、七十歲，曾在美國留學及在台灣讀大學的知識分子，因為受過保釣運動的洗禮，對年輕時期參與過的愛國運動，仍留下一份激情、一份回憶、一份反思。四十年的歲月，因時間的拉長，有了一定的距離後，可以將這一個為爭國家主權、保國土的運動，看得更清楚，也可根據更多史實的披露，加以詮釋及評價。
釣魚台紛爭越演越烈，中華民國、日本、中國大陸各說各話，沒有交集。我國必須更主動、更開創性提出和平雙贏之方案。畢竟釣魚台是台灣屬島，我國不能置身在外。欲使日本接受我方「東海和平倡議」，必須採取攻心為上之策。
Christine I. Lin
Integration, as Aspinwell puts it, is a process that binding rules lead to a reducion or a potential reduction in state power. Actors in various levels are involved in the process, and whether their political backgrounds make a difference of their preferences in the integration is often asked. This essay will first review the actors’ behaviours in European integration under the scope the cleavage theory. Further, it examies whether the Euoprean institute representing its people, and does the European parliament reflects the left-right policy in European politics? Lastly, it looks into how does the Euro Crisis influence on left-right policy on the EU level. The left-right policy dimension serves one of the indicators in European integration as Knutsen words “ the language of left and right helps citizens as well as elites to orient themselves in a complex political landscape”.
Wei-en Tan
Slow Food NYC board member
Introduction
The international community undoubtedly has made progress over the past 40 years by reducing the population worldwide who suffer from starvation; however, as is known to us, the total number of people living with hunger continues to increase.
In 1996, the World Food Summit impressively concluded that the right to food is “firmly established in international law, but its operational content and means of application are generally little understood.”[1] More than 10 years later, global hunger has now seriously expanded to over 1 billion people, and the international community is far from achieving the goals of reducing famine.
宋承恩
英國牛津大學國際法博士候選人
在兩岸四地與日本社會因釣魚台所起風波不斷之際，馬總統8月21日接受日本 NHK 專訪時，在堅持中華民國對釣魚台列島之主權主張以外，力陳「擱置爭議、共同開發」為最符合各方利益之暫行措施，並拋出「訴諸國際法院」作為爭端和平解決之方式之一。在民族主義情緒熾烈感染的時刻，馬總統結合長期鑽研與深思而來的洞見，以總統的高度，提出冷靜務實的主張，是值得肯定與歡迎的。畢竟，至遲自1960年代末期浮上國際檯面以來，釣魚台的主權爭端即存在於台、中、日三方；歷年來的大小事件，至多是爭端持續存在的佐證，並不構成法律上決定主權歸屬的相關事證。各方的「積極作為」，固然增加了各政府當下危機處理的壓力，長遠的對策為何，仍將形塑未來方案的可能走向。在此意義上，我政府之「東海和平倡議」仍是值得各方思考的。
【聯合報╱陳純一／政大外交系暨法律系合聘教授（台北市）】
2012.08.15 02:15 am
「釣魚台列嶼是台灣的附屬島嶼，中華民國的固有領土。」這句話不能單純的視為口號，它能有效地從國際法上駁斥日本的主張。
日本的主要法律主張有二：一是一八九五年時，釣魚台是不屬於任何國家的「無主地」，故日本先占之；二是日本先占後，並未受到任何國家抗議。
