Global governance

The environmental importance of forests and their global relevance were not an occasion, at the Earth Summit (Rio, 1992), to assert a compulsive commitment about […]

Public health’s governance came to a turning point when the SARS epidemic occurred in 2003. The crisis was managed by working out a strategy which […]

The growth of world demography and the acceleration of the development processes of the most economically backwards States will create a disquieting progression in the […]

A combination of expatriate and stateless person (« apatride » in French), the « expatride » becomes the hyperbolic figure of a globalization which does […]

This paper considers the reasons for the United States’ return to UNESCO in 2003, in the light of those put forward for their departure in […]

Catalysis diplomacy, a concept made popular by Brian Hocking, is defined as an association of plural actors (States and civil society representatives, for the main […]

Global climate is a collective world asset and the fight against the greenhouse effect raises issues of equity and efficiency. The first issue : how […]

For 30 years, a political process, aiming at finding a response to the problem of global warming caused by the greenhouse effect, has developed in […]

This essay underlines the main difficulties faced by the United Nations in « peacebuilding » activities. They are linked to persistent institutional and financial issues […]

Far from being unified and homogenous, the anti-globalization protest movement includes different types of organizations, whose propositions and means of action are often divergent, and […]