Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Two scenarios framed Japan's hostage crisis in April 2004, illustrating the power of narrative to police critical ruptures in the spatial imagination of states. In the first, lesser viewed mediascape, the empathetic bonding expressed by the Mujahideen Brigades with the anti-war Japanese public defied, first, the conventional U.S./coalition policy subordinating Japan the key loyal surpassing all expectations, and second, the symbiosis of (U.S.-led) state humanitarian, rhetorical and military objectives. Immediately prior to the release of the hostages, the narrative transmogrified to legitimate not just the Japanese state, but the broader American coalition objectives in Iraq. Conservative political leaders in Japan framed the issue as one in which the hostages embarrassed and caused trouble to the Japanese people and therefore owed the state both an apology and monetary reimbursement. As this news travelled globally, Japan became receptacle of traditional Asian values, turning a cold shoulder to the hostages who might elsewhere (in warmer countries?) be regarded as heroes. Shaming the hostages in Japan territorialized the crisis and averted the trouble the circumstances of their release may have posed to the moral authority of America's occupation.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In the last decades a number of socio-legal scholars devoted studies and research to decipher prospective evolutionary trends concerning legal professionalism. If one now looks retrospectively at this scientific literature one cannot but being astonished by the gap that exists today between certain predictions and the present situation.
The aim of the the paper is to enlight the reason of such a scientific failure and to suggest constitutional scenarios about current and emerging trends concerning the legal professions in Europe.

Publication Type: Presentation Proposal
Abstract: Come to this hands-on session to fine-tune your English Language Learner teaching techniques. Using video-based teacher interviews and field observations, participants will first observe, and then practice, these practical skills. Participants will receive the ELL training curriculum and video.

Publication Type: Paper Presentation
Abstract: Chilika Lake, the largest brackishwater lagoon of Asia, experienced drastic deterioration in its environmental quality. Implementation of diverse ecorestoration measures in recent years has once again enriched its biodiversity, enhanced the fish production and ameliorated the sustenance of fisherfolk.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: To better understand the causal route from war to trade, this paper redirects thelong-standing but unresolved question of Does war reduce trade? to How does warimpact trade? The impact of war is disaggregated into short-term dying-out effects andlong-term persistent effects to shed light on which aspect of war can be associated withtrue causality. By incorporating such conceptualization, four alternative hypotheseson trade consequences of war, abrupt temporary impact, gradual permanent impact,abrupt permanent impact and multi-stage impact, are formulated and tested againsteach other on Anderton and Carter (2001) data, applying the interrupted time seriestechnique. The findings support the trade disruption by war hypothesis. Twentythree out of 27 cases identify significant and persistent negative impacts of war ontrade. The bilateral trade will be reduced to a minimal level as the immediate shockfrom war abates. However, the detected negative causality from war to trade alonedoes not warrant the conclusion that trade will actually decrease once war breaksout. The potential negative effect of war may be mitigated or not even realized atall if interventions of the opposite effect such as trade promoting policies follow. Thecomparison between what the trade change was and what the trade change would havebeen without war using simulated counterfactual scenarios shows that the negativecausal linkage from war to trade can easily be broken: only in 8 cases out of 23cases where a significant negative impact of war was identified, no war counterfactualsproduce higher trade than the actual observations and the model prediction. However,when the return to peace effect is controlled for, by comparing no war counterfactualswith no postwar peace counterfactuals, trade disruption by war holds up to the derivedevidence.