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Hans J. Morgenthau's contribution to international relations and political theory appears to have been fully recognized to date. However, his ideas have undergone surprisingly little comprehensive investigation: an attitude that made it possible to grasp only a few aspects of his reflections. The main argument of this article is that the main area of inquiry in Morgenthau's scholarship – international politics and foreign policy – is based on general considerations regarding the role of reason in politics and the limits of knowledge of the social universe. Not only does the question of the possibility of such knowledge lie at the root of his considerations on political action, but it also forms the mainspring of his reflection on ethics. Through an inquiry into the red thread that tightly links his diverse body of thought on social sciences, ethics, and foreign policy, the article aims to show that Morgenthau was a systematic political thinker who set out from theoretical observations on the limits of knowledge to develop particular insights into ethics and, from there, a particular notion of how foreign policy should be conducted. In other words, Morgenthau established links of essential continuity between knowledge, ethics, and action.

Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) ; S'agissant de l'Algérie, la question posée par le thème « Genre et migration » doit être appréhendée en premier lieu par rapport aux périodes historiques qui se sont succédées depuis l'indépendance à 2010 ; ensuite au regard des mutations intervenues dans l'ordre juridique interne algérien venues affranchir la condition féminine des servitudes, vécues de façon très inégale par les femmes. En réalité, la ligne de partage entre hommes et femmes, au regard des migrations internationales algériennes, est d'une pertinence toute relative. Elle a indéniablement un intérêt historique, puisque seuls, à l'origine, les hommes pouvaient émigrer. Mais d'une façon générale, le clivage hommes/femmes, aussi pertinent soit-il, ne peut à lui seul rendre compte de la nature très composite des migrations algériennes, surtout dans un pays où l'élite intellectuelle est majoritairement féminine et où les différentiations socioculturelles à partir des classes sociales transcendent largement celles inhérentes au genre. Par ailleurs, il est très important, pour cerner au plus près les réalités des migrations algériennes, de raisonner, à partir du couple, ce qui permet d'évaluer, a priori, la vocation des couples migrants (avec ou sans enfants) à s'intégrer dans la société occidentale. Les couples de culture occidentale et issus de milieux aisés s'adapteront facilement à l'environnement du pays d'arrivée, ce qui permettra à la femme algérienne de poursuivre ses activités et d'avoir des relations sociales aussi bien avec les populations algériennes comparables que les populations de souche. En revanche, les couples de culture arabophone et issus des milieux les plus conservateurs éprouveront des difficultés considérables à s'intégrer. Ceci dit, les pays d'arrivée ont d'autant moins de raisons de céder aux extrémismes religieux que les législations internes des pays de départ consacrent dans leur majorité, l'égalité entre l'homme et la femme, ont réaménagé profondément leur code de la famille, en y supprimant les dispositions les plus discriminatoires à l'endroit des femmes, faisant même obligation aux formations politiques d'appliquer la parité aux élections locales et générales. / For Algeria the question raised by «Gender and Migration» has to be addressed according to successive historical periods from independence to 2010 ; then through modifications in the Algerian legal order which released women from a series of servitudes. The separation between men and women in Algerian international migration is actually not fully relevant. It is of mainly historical interest since only men used to be able to travel. But the difference between men and women cannot explain, in itself, the diversity of Algerian migrations, especially in a country where the intellectual elite is mainly female and where socio-cultural differences based on social classes are more relevant than differences based on gender. Besides, it is important to address migration regarding couples, which enables an evaluation a priori of the probability that migrant couples (with or without children) will be integrated into Western society. Couples with Western culture from a high social class will easily adapt and Algerian woman will be able to share activities and social relations with Algerian or local populations. Couples of Arab-speaking culture and from a conservative social class will have huge difficulties in being integrated. Receiving countries have no reason to accept religious extremism, all the more since the national regulations of countries of origin mostly guarantee equality between men and women, have reformed their family code and have suppressed the most discriminatory provisions.

The Anthropocene as a new epoch brings into question the traditional modes of conceptualising International Relations. We believe that it does this by forcing students and practitioners of International Relations to think through how the discipline works as a set of ideas and practices, in fact, as a way of understanding the nature of problems and policymaking per se. As a discipline, International Relations is particularly sensitive to the questioning of the problematics of human exceptionalism, rationalist problem-solving and liberal modernist imaginaries of progress, which have shaped the agendas of international peace, development and democracy. Beyond the dark days of the Cold War, when International Relations was essentially a strategic exercise of Realpolitik, the discipline has staked a lot on the basis that Enlightenment liberalism is the universal panacea to human ills and that irrational structures or agencies can be civilised or tamed to further the interests of humanity, both in national or global regimes of good governance and the rule of law. These dreams of liberal universal solutions appear to have run aground in the Anthropocene as the last decade has marked a shift away from universal, modernist or 'linear' understandings of power and agency. In a world, construed as more complex, contingent and relational and replete with crises and unpredicted 'tipping points', traditional assumptions are up-ended and unintended consequences seem more relevant than 'good intentions'. Concomitantly, the methodological focus has switched away from understanding the essence of entities and towards privileging the analysis of relations, networks and contexts. Key to this has been debates focused around climate change and global warming which explicitly cast policy problems not as external threats to the 'good life' (that requires securing) but as instead questioning the starting assumptions of separations between inside/ outside, humanity/ nature, solutions/ problems and referents/ threats. This elicits a very ...

The authors argue that theories regarding the relationship between trade and conflict could benefit greatly from accounting for the networked structure of international trade. Indirect trade relations reduce the probability of conflict by creating (1) opportunity costs of conflict beyond those reflected by direct trade ties and (2) negative externalities for the potential combatants' trading partners, giving them an incentive to prevent the conflict. Trade flows create groups of states with relatively dense trade ties, which we call trading communities. Within these groups, the interruptions to trade caused by conflict create relatively large costs. As a result, joint members of trading communities are less likely to go to war; however little they directly trade with each other. The authors systematically measure and define trading communities across various levels of aggregation using the network analytic tool of modularity maximization. The authors find significant support for their hypothesis, indicating that interdependence theory can be extended to extra-dyadic relations.

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How can we lay the foundation for a more just and peaceful world? How can we prevent communications from fracturing and societies from tearing themselves apart? How should we prioritize economic, social, and cultural demands for resources and opportunities? International Development answers these questions and presents a view of development "in practice." Written by experts in the field, this book covers a range of contemporary developments, as well as providingcoverage of the theory and practice of international development. The book: . Covers a range of contemporary topics such as global security, new technologies, ethics and learning, and participation . Has chapters on Global Health and Development in Practice, Environmentally Sustainable Development in Practice and Corruption and Development . Features learning objectives, summaries, reading lists and questions for discussion . Works as a practice-driven text packed with case studies Global in perspective, this is your go-to book for your studies in international development.

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