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Both Europes within the European Union : cohabitation or coexistence
The European Union with its 25 Member States constitutes already an unprecedented success and a guarantee for a victorious future perspective. This fact, however, is leading also a considerable complexity of problems, as well as tensions and troubles in the big European family. A serious reason for these problems is the presence in the EU of at least two different socio-political, economic and cultural realities - the one of the Western Europe and the other of Central and Eastern Europe. (...)
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The Russian-Chechen War, an Endless Conflict
The Russian-Chechen war is far from being over ; it is relevant task oneself about the mechanisms of such a situation : why does not the intensity of this conflict decrease ? The conflict is based on the opposition between logic of power and logic of values, yet this double electric shock does not explain everything. The Russian-Chechen war echoes a matrix based on a specific representation of the relationship between space and time : on a spatial axis, the Russians and the Chechens answer (...)
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Security cooperations tackling transnational crime in Central Asia
In Central Asia, beyond tension over ethnic, gas or water disputes, low intensity conflicts against Islamic terrorists and drug traffickers are posing increasing threats to the security of the West. Thousands of weapons of mass destruction are poorly controlled in the region, giving rise to fears that terrorists will steal them. These Islamic terrorists groups are expanding, adapting and changing rapidly, joining forces and increasing their drug trafficking. Central Asia has indeed become a (...)
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Justice for Saddam Hussein
This article deals with the various questions of judicial policy raised by the prospects of a Saddam Hussein trial, which are of international concern, A Special Iraqi Tribunal has been chosen, the accusations have been raised, and the process has begun. Nevertheless, their content, the judicial procedure, the venue and the development of the trial : the independence and impartiality of the judges, the rights of defence, the risks of a judicial show, its length and its conclusion, and the (...)
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Peacekeeping and strengthening in African post-colonies
The key to conflict settlement and exiting crises in Africa resides in the faculty of disarming belligerents and reinserting them into a normalised social life. The particular African context makes this process an especially difficult one ; moreover, it is undermined by mutually exclusive individual interests. The role of international organisation, the UN in particular, proves to be decisive, even if different approaches are necessary. Bilateral conflict settlement may prove to be, in this (...)
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Georgia in the heart of the "great game"
A year after his 2004 election, Mikhail Saakachvili can be credited of a first very positive outcome : Georgia is engaged in a deeply reform process and is securing its switch to the West, provoking some grumpy reactions from the Kremlin. The new reformist team still face real challenges : boosting the reforms ; improving their bilateral relationship with Moscow ; resolving the internal conflicts. Pressured by Washington and Moscow (both capitals focusing on their own energetic agendas), (...)
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The renewed French commitment in African conflicts and the Ivory Coast challenge
The French intervention in the Ivory Coast crisis revives the interventionnist tradition of France in Africa and sketches the first lines of a new type of French commitment on the Dark Continent by initiating new intervention principles (a regional and comprehensive multilateralization of the conflict). The French intervention has a mixed outcome : it has allowed preventing the burst of a true open war but the Ivory Coast has not recovered its peace since, almost two years after the (...)
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A praise of the Security Council
AFRI 2005, volume VI
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SUR Serge - 1er 2006
Reforming the Security Council is a current theme, concerning its composition, as well as the threats it has to face, and its action capacities. Yet, even in the current condition of the Charter, it remains an unrivalled source of international legality and legitimacy. The Council may be, following situation and the support brought by member States, an architect or an instrument. It possesses a normative ad operational flexibility allowing it to adjust to all challenges. Three levels of (...)
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A new challenge for the Security Council : how to deal with deliquescent States, or States torn by intern conflicts
Considering that conflicts and crises irrupting within a State posed threats to international peace and security, the Security Council has progressively been brought to intervene in increasing number of crisis situations, especially starting from the 1990s. Yet, faced with these conflicts, the reunion of certain intervention criteria is not enough to provoke the seizing of the Security Council : each situation is assessed individually. The pragmatic approach also prevails when dealing with (...)
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The Artemis prototype of multinational organization and the diversification of European military action
The Artemis operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo binds two international organizations together (the United Nations Organization, the European Union), as well as one of the member States (France), as a pillar of multinational action. Because of this, it is an unseen triptych. The success of this three-head hydra resides in a strict separation of tasks between the three actors : while the United Nations took care of asking for and giving capacity to the Artemis operation, the (...)
