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”.
譚偉恩：The Need for International Food Security Legal Norms
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.