The trial of Slobodan Milosevic
The First Head of State to be indicted by international justice for crimes committed during the exercise of its functions, Slobodan Milosevic appears before the […]
Juridical policies
Relations between States and the International Penal Tribunal for Rwanda
The international criminal justice seems disabled in the absence of police means. The assistance of States is therefore necessary. With regard to the International Criminal […]
The three generations of international penal justice
This article focuses on the various forms of international justice operating today in the world : ad hoc international criminal tribunals, international criminal court, joint […]
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 […]
Death penalty as a new stake in international relations
Death penalty became recently an important issue for international relations, and no more a purely domestic matter, as it used to be. On the one […]
The use of armed force and the international court of justice. Attempts at politically intrumentalizing the principal judicial organ in the United Nations
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ in the United Nations, is meant to exercise the function of a « world tribunal », but […]
Precaution principle, international law and international relations. A few remarks
The precaution principle that is often referred to in the field of environment and public health, imposes to take the measures required to avoid the […]
Towards paradigm changes in international action for development ?
New notions have appeared in the dialectics of North-South relations since the mid-1970s, and have eventually deeply modified the traditional approach to international action for […]
The stakes of world governance
The events on September 11th prove that globalization not only endorses an economic character, but also an important political dynamics. This dynamics transforms the nature […]
The rise of multilateralism : principles, institutions and common actions
Multilateralism is a recent phenomenon (beginning of the 21st Century), somehow unknown. It is both a historical and theoretical concept that evolved after World War […]
