Structures " ideationnelles " et figures de la norme onusienne

Abstract

International audience ; Constructing the united Nation's Norm in recent years, important political events have brought researchers in political sciences and com munication to work more explicitly with each other. the last Un General assembly, in September 2011, has confirmed the relevance of such a convergent perspective. Until now, academic research has not questioned the communicational dimension of inter national organizations taken as a highly complex phe nomenon. and yet, the Un is a perfect foundation for examining bordering topics such as authority and new mechanisms of political deliberation, decision and legitimization. Guillaume Devin defines interna tional organizations as meeting points between coo perative behaviour systems and constraining rules. this institutionalization process depends on three kinds of resources - legal, functional and also symbolic. their interdependence is the subject of this contribution, and more precisely the extent to which communi cational processes have become crucial in building and perpetuating what we would call the Un norm. our intellectual purpose is modest and questions the conditions of communication analysis in the field of international organizations. Taking inspiration from liberal institutionalism and constructivism schools in in ternational relations, this research examines the voca tion of these schools of thought to reveal their analytic potential by maintaining a dialogue with information and communication sciences, especially the theory of communicative action, rhetoric and discursive analysis. a multilateral construction of universalism that rests on procedural resources and values the consecration of multilateralism just after the Second World War was based on two presuppositions. First, it would be a specific discourse about values presumed as universal and indivisible, all of them concerning humanity as a whole. thus, this crucial contribution to the international relations civilization process has always been based on a highly normative judge ment. ...