邵漢儀:保釣責任/捍衛釣島 先說服日本人民

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。

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王冠雄:東海和平倡議的主權權利觀

本文刊載於旺報,2012-09-24

馬總統於8月5日提出「東海和平倡議」,呼籲相關各方自我克制、擱置爭議、和平處理爭端、研訂東海行為準則、建立合作開發機制。可以見到馬總統在「東海和平倡議」背後思維,仍強調我國擁有釣魚台列嶼主權,一貫的主張未有絲毫的改變。同時為了避免未來發生衝突的可能性,建立合作開發資源的機制,應是當前最務實的考慮。

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林宜亭:Left-Right Politics in the EU

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”.

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