Transatlantic tensions over the United Nations and the use of force
The question of the legality and/or legitimacy of the use of force in international affairs has caused a debate within the transatlantic community, and therefore, […]
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Transatlantic tensions over the United Nations and the use of force
The question of the legality and/or legitimacy of the use of force in international affairs has caused a debate within the transatlantic community, and therefore, […]
Transnational firms, corruption, States
International corruption has become a normal means of conquering public exportation markets. At the same time, transnational firms, whose power is everincreasing, begin to compete […]
The UN Security Council and the campaign against terrorism
The evolution of the terrorist threat – from the development of Al Qaïda to the risk of binding ties with certain rogue States – requires […]
The international community seen by jurists
This paper, drawing on the thinking of H. Lauterpacht, an international jurist in the first half of the 20th century, attempts to go beyond the […]
General considerations on violence and international law
Confronted with the conflictive nature of international relations, the contemporary establishment of peacekeeping law rests on a necessary selection of values : either primacy is […]
A praise of the Security Council
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, […]
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 […]
Political responsibility on the international scene
The finality of this paper is not to analyse the principle of political responsibility in all of is dimensions. To opt for such a perspective […]
For a theory of the diplomatic discourse
Presupposing the concept of discourse (factitiveness, interactivity, contextuality and intertextuality), the diplomatic discourse is analysed in its specificity, that is as a set of structures […]