Essay on a post-modern despotism: demo-despotism
To want democracy all at once and everywhere is a magical and ideological approach. The democratic injunction and prediction will fail. We live in a […]
Studies
The African Union between texts and reality
The successor to the AUO, the African Union has the ambition of reviving and consolidating the economical and political integration project planned in 1963. In […]
Discourse analysis as a method for studying CFSP : an important contribution
Theoretical debates in the field of International Relations and the relative success of constructivism have led an increasing number of researchers to use tools and […]
Power and demography
By growing almost four-fold during the twentieth century, the world population has also undergone a far-reaching redistribution throughout the globe. It carries a potential for […]
Before and beyond Cancun
This article was written in the immediate aftermath of the WTO Ministerial Conference held in Cancun in July 2003. It aims at demonstrating that this […]
How are NICT compatible with the informal economy in Africa ?
In Africa, formal and informal activities are intertwined. The duality between urban areas, connected up to modern networks, and rural areas which are completely remote, […]
Is trans-regionalism the new horizon of regionalism?
Since the end of the Cold war era, North America, Asia and Europe have emerged as the three main economic regions of the world. In […]
Transatlantic allergy
As one dresses the inventory of transatlantic tensions, one brings to light more than a misunderstanding: a real difficulty to agree on security interests and […]
NEPAD: an African political initiative
At the end of the 1990s, the African Heads of State and Government had become aware of the continent delay and of the deadlock of […]
The policy of navigable ways and the territorial integration of Mercosur and the European Union
Infrastructure policies are on the agenda in Europe where, with the Union enlargement, there exists an important problem of territorial cohesion and continental communications. This […]
