Studies
The use of force in a changing world
The 1990s witnessed an increasingly heated international discussion about humanitarian intervention and what obligations states had to secure the rights of individuals in cases where […]
The control on weapons of mass destruction
Facing the complex and changing reality of threats stemming from the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), to which international terrorism added new ramifications […]
The European Union’s Policy of Security and Defence
The European Union has recently committed itself towards a defence policy. If it fails, the whole current European enterprise would certainly receive a severe blow. […]
About the necessity of a theory for international relations
In the field of international relations, social sciences paradigms -not without prejudices- hide an unexpected object within their self-deprecation : political ideas. Realists often summon, […]
History of mental maps and perceptions
Historians Pierre Renouvin and Jean-Baptiste Duroselle have extended the practice of diplomatic history to transform it into the history of international relations, a history of […]
The international object in the economic theory
This essay tries to analyse the illegitimate status of the international object in standard pure economics. It shows that the difficulty to think the international […]
Thinking security in a fluid world
The shock provoked by the events on September 11th, 2001, does not create a new world, but suggests new frames of interpretation. The world of […]
War against terrorism
Is the use of the term of « war » by the American administration, referring to the struggle against world terrorism, a judicious one, when […]
