La mondialisation du doux commerce ou la logique d’un wishful thinking

Avant même que l’on ne mette le « mot » sur la « chose », Charles-Albert Michalet publiait en 1976, Le Capitalisme mondial, un ouvrage précurseur consacré à la mondialisation et devenu depuis un classique. Ce n’est qu’entre 1990 et 1995, que le terme « mondialisation » s’est imposé largement. En premier lieu, chez les économistes pour lesquels il s’agissait tout d’abord d’analyser le fonctionnement des firmes transnationales et celui des marchés. Ensuite, chez d’autres chercheurs en sciences ..

Fred Halliday, Rethinking international relations

Laroche Josepha. Fred Halliday, Rethinking international relations. In: Revue française de science politique, 46ᵉ année, n°1, 1996. pp. 156-160

Le Nobel comme enjeu symbolique dans les relations internationales

more than that. As models of excellence and reference, constituting an elite, Nobel prize winners work at building an international community, a sort of "world republic" of the mind. Their authority having been consecrated by a ceremonial, they invest themselves with an international right to speak. Even if that resource is far from being devoid of a trade-off for the winners ― e.g. the very constricting grasp their public role has on their private life ― the Nobel prize is undoubtedly an element of the general movement of challenge to state monopoly. In putting forward its own norms, it sometimes even competes with states in their diplomatie activity : its action pertains to the transnationalization logic that now characterizes international relation.Initiative d'Alfred Nobel, la création à la fin du siècle dernier d'un prix international correspond à un projet individuel scientiste et philanthropique mais ne s'y résume pas. En effet, modèles d'excellence et de référence constituant une élite, les Nobel travaillent à construire une communauté internationale, sorte de «république mondiale» de l'esprit. Forts de leur autorité consacrée par un cérémonial, ils s'investissent d'un droit de parole internationale. C'est pourquoi, même si cette ressource est loin d'être sans contrepartie pour les lauréats ― comme en témoigne l'emprise très contraignante du rôle public sur la personne privée ―, le Nobel participe incontestablement du mouvement général de remise en cause du monopole étatique. En énonçant ses propres normes, il va parfois jusqu'à concurrencer les États dans leur activité diplomatique: son action s'inscrit donc dans la logique de transnationalisation qui caractérise à présent les relations internationales.Laroche Josepha. Le Nobel comme enjeu symbolique dans les relations internationales. In: Revue française de science politique, 44ᵉ année, n°4, 1994. pp. 599-628

Prerrogativas estatais, integração regional e lógica distributiva State prerrogatives, regional integration, and distributive logic

Analisa-se a emergência de um novo paradigma de ordem internacional, baseado em processos de integração regional no lugar do decadente Estado nacional, tendo em vista os limites a ele impostos pela persistência da dinâmica do Estado nacional. Assinala-se a dificuldade para substituir a lógica intergovernamental pela lógica supranacional. A ausência de organizações supranacionais efetivas impõe restrições à distribuição dos ganhos obtidos pela dinâmica integracionista. Examina-se isso com base nos casos do Mercosul e da União Européia.<br>The emergency of a new paradigm of international order, based on processes of regional integration instead of the decadent national State is examined in view of the limits imposed on it by the persistence of the dynamics of the national State. The difficulty in substituting a supranational logic for the intergovernmental one is pointed out. The absence of effective supranational organizations imposes restrictions on the distribution of the gains attained through the integrationist dynamics. This is examined on the basis of the cases of the Mercosul and of the European Union

Lithuania's participation in the reconstruction process of Afghanistan: a case of a small state's engagement in the international arena

Because the international arena is too focused on the interests of big states as structuring international interactions, small states continue to appear merely as objects (versus subjects) in the eyes of a large number of researchers, sometimes unconsciously following the (neo)realist tradition of International Relations (IR). Consequently, small states appear to be devoid of any analytical interest. In fact, such a trend in the field of IR neglects the significance of ever increasing interactions between states. Moreover, these interactions need not reflect incompatible interests of different states. The article argues that the case of the reconstruction process of Afghanistan, implemented by the international community, presents a positive-sum logic. In other words, the efforts of the coalition in the Afghan territory allow the engaged states, be they big or small, to pursue their own interests. The degree of their contributions corresponds to the benefits their engagement might provide. As the analysis of the Lithuanian case demonstrates, a small state need not be a passive object trapped in the interactions of powerful states and can arrange itself in order to proceed with actively pursuing its own foreign policy

Mainstreaming African Diasporic Foodways When Academia Is Not Enough

More than a decade after Britain's bicentennial commemoration of the 1807 Abolition Act to end the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Scotland still struggles to reconcile her colonial past. Unlike in North America, historical archaeology centered on the history and legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is still highly marginalized in British academia. Furthermore, Scotland's roles in slave-based economies is only recently being considered a relevant area of historical studies. This paper emerges from my evolving perspective as a Black American scholar and resident in the United Kingdom, as I strive to create intellectual spaces in and outside of academia. Through civic engagement, I use my work on African diasporic foodways in the French Caribbean to link with a similar material basis of resistance in the British Caribbean and engage British audiences whose connections to Atlantic slavery are yet to be fully recognized