Sea grant — A new university-industry cooperative program for development of ocean technology

Companion papers by Drs. Horn and Doelling have described the objectives of the National Sea Grant College Program and the breadth of activities presently sponsored, ranging from research and education through information and technology transfer. Dr. Doelling in particular has dealt with the university-industry interface and a specific attempt at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop a mutually profitable dialog on current problems in ocean engineering and related university research. This paper deals with a planned program aimed at the development of new ocean technologies through university research in cooperation with industry.     

Organized transnational crime in the Black Sea Region: a geopolitical dilemma?

States are unique and individual entities. However, geographic proximity, a common history and fate may cause existential threats to have common causes and solutions. To understand how, and why, states experience transnational organized crime as a national security threat differently, it is necessary to learn about the states and the culture of organized crime in the geographic region in which they are embedded. The objective here is to present the Post-Soviet Political Criminal Nexus as a part of the identity of Newly Independent States in the Black Sea Region (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) which poses an international security threat and impedes democratic development.

Are Public-Led Arts Incubating Programs a Double-Edged Sword? A Case Study of the Arts Council Korea’s Performing Arts Grant Program

A nation’s cultural policy is derived from its political and governance history, and its past practices. Taking the genealogical traits of South Korean cultural policies into account, the authors examine the contributions and risks of a public-led arts incubator program. One of the Arts Council Korea’s grant programs in the arts-incubating structure was involved with a public funding scandal of political intervention during the grant review process. Consequently, questions were raised about the current bureaucratic system for cultural policy. This article discusses the legitimacy of state intervention in the arts, and analyzes the case with relevant collected documents and interviews.