http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/213/alyson-m-chouinard Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:13:53 -0400 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:13:53 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/360/wine-appellation-regulation-in-the-us-and-france-as-a-response-to-globalization By Alyson M. Chouinard - This paper explores the link between cultural identity and globalization through the lens of wine appellation regulations in the United States, with the American Viticultural Areas (AVAs), and in France, with Champagne. The expansion of economic globalization and some forms of cultural globalization has served to highlight that which is important to many countries, and has even led producers to try and define themselves by more exclusive labels.[i] Even as the reach of product dissemination has increased dramatically through globalization, communities have become even more protective of what was... Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/360/wine-appellation-regulation-in-the-us-and-france-as-a-response-to-globalization http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/252/a-response-to-tanzimat-sultan-abdul-hamid-ii-and-pan-islamism By Alyson M. Chouinard - Under the rule of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the late nineteenth century the concept of Pan-Islamism, the concept that all Islamic peoples should unite under the Caliphate, was used as a means of supporting the declining power of the Ottoman ruler. This was done for three distinct reasons that will be argued in this article. The first reason was to counteract the growing power of European powers in the area; the second to undo the secularization that occurred during the Tanzimat period; and the last reason was to give the Sultan political power both in the international arena and domestically... Fri, 14 May 2010 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/252/a-response-to-tanzimat-sultan-abdul-hamid-ii-and-pan-islamism