Dr. Givens seeks to explain why unrest has continued to rise in China, despite a major attempt by the Chinese government to reduce peasant tax burdens, previously the largest source of unrest. He hypothesizes that local officials, strapped for cash after a series of tax reforms, increasingly resorted to another form of extraction: the expropriation and sale of land used by peasants.

In the globalizing world, what are the determinants of fisheries income in South Korea? What should be considered and investigated before formulating, designing and implementing fisheries policies? Hwang’s research starts with a concise history of fisheries management before and after colonialism based on a literature review and proceeds with the analysis part using an econometric model and quantitative analysis.

Nikolai Gogol’s work of historical fiction about Cossack life, Taras Bulba, is much more rarely a subject of scholarly scrutiny than Gogol’s other major works. The mainstream interpretation of Taras Bulba as primarily an adventure tale concerned with patriotism for Ukraine, the Russian empire, and Orthodoxy may explain the critical lacuna. The work strikes academic readers as one-dimensional, not to mention chauvinistic, and therefore is presumed to be of value only as light entertainment.

Professor O’Callaghan explores the role of collective memory in the Eurozone crisis from a lawyer's perspective. The idea of collective memory features prominently in several disciplines but rarely in legal scholarship. He argues that the idea of collective memory can help us to better understand fundamental aspects of the EU Treaty framework and secondary legislation, and may also provide instructive insights about the policy responses to the Eurozone crisis.

Cengiz Haksöz has a BA degree in Political Science and International Relations at Marmara University, Istanbul, and MS degree in Sociology at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology, at the University of Pittsburgh. He is studying food, collective memory, and social identities. His dissertation research is on identification strategies of Pomak communities (Slavophone Muslims) in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey.

Change and calls for change are constants in the region of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The Bolshevik Revolution, the annus mirabilis of 1989, color revolutions and the drive towards EU membership - all were, at least in their time, viewed as massive upheavals which, for many, promised to bring better days. Today, public discourses throughout the region are replete with themes of change: Changes in existing values to more "progressive" ones, regime change in semi-authoritarian states, "modernization" of economies, bureaucracies, political parties, societies and social structures.

For the past two months, hundreds of thousands of protesters have gathered in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev to express broad displeasure with the ruling government. Join CILE in a discussion of these protests and the political crisis in Ukraine led by three Ukrainian guests of the law school.

The Guardian first revealed the NSA's comprehensive surveillance program in early June of last year, working from information from the now-infamous Edward Snowden. Two weeks later, a series of articles exposed NSA and British spying on European and South American officials at a G20 meeting and by the end of the month, Der Spiegel had published details of America’s electronic surveillance and bugging of European Union offices and the embassies of France, Italy, Greece, and others.

International efforts to improve the quality of local or municipal-level governance in developing societies often produce mixed results. In this article, the authors draw on new institutionalism to argue that the impact of international assistance for better local governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina is shaped by the opportunities for local leaders to form pro-reform pacts (Goetz 2007) and by interaction with locally distinct, informal “rules-in-use” (Ostrom, 1999) in local administrations.