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This article is about the politics of 'the exception' and the role of 'exceptionalism' in contemporary international theory. The concept of 'the exception' was coined by Carl Schmitt and has in recent years become an inspiration for international relations theorists and foreign policy analysts, especially when engaging with issues such as great power politics, humanitarian intervention and the war against terrorism. It is concluded that attempts to apply Schmitt's concept of 'the exception' seldom are persuasive and sometimes even contradictory to Schmitt's theory. When dealt with out of context, 'the exception' becomes just an expression about something else. It is shown that there are other ways of handling the kind of political problem observed by Schmitt than what he and his followers are offering.

Intangible capital is an increasingly important factor of production in advanced economies. Governments in Europe and elsewhere promote investment in intangible assets. However, the potential role of intangibles for business cycles and the international transmission of shocks is not well understood. In this paper, we investigate the international business cycle effects of intangible capital. To this aim, we build an otherwise standard two-country real business cycle model augmented by a production sector for intangibles and allow for the non-rivalrous use of intangible capital in the production of final output goods and new intangibles. We find that a model including intangibles is associated with international co-movement of tangible investment, which is a feature observed in the data that many models fail to produce.

La crise dite des sous-marins entre la France et l'Australie a mis en exergue la fragilité de la position et des engagements de la France dans cette zone que l'on nomme l'indopacifique. Elle a montré aussi le niveau critique atteint par la compétition stratégique, par les concurrences et les rapports de force entre puissances majeures dans un climat tendu et un contexte de sécurité précaire. Dans cette immense région, les enjeux de puissance et la confrontation qui se jouent entre les États-Unis et la Chine ne cesseront de marquer les relations internationales pour le 21e siècle. Cet article fait le point sur ce qu'est aujourd'hui la problématique de l'indopacifique et comment elle est au coeur des réflexions nécessaires quant à l'exigence d'un tout autre ordre international.

Literacy researchers and educators are currently involved in exciting international literacy projects. However, many in the field are not aware of these initiatives. In compiling this edited volume, our intent is to provide a resource book for university instructors and research faculty with examples of international literacy projects and what was learned from the projects. Chapter contributors offer stories of real people who collaborate across nations to exchange ideas, promote literacy development, and increase global understandings. The literacy initiatives presented in this book show how literacy colleagues have provided opportunities for students and educators of different countries to communicate in meaningful ways. Through international literacy projects and research, participants work to forge relationships based on mutual respect, despite their differing cultures and languages. They see their work as based on the mutual connectedness to the human community.

Although the promotion of international humanitarian law (IHL) in academic circles is a relatively new activity for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), it has made rapid progress since the mid 1990s. Today, the organisation is following up on university-related activities in some 130 countries around the world. Overseen and harmonised by the ICRC headquarters in Geneva but implemented primarily by operational and regional delegations in the field, the ICRC's programmes targeting university professors and students are notable for their variety and diversity. Nevertheless, the organisation has made a concerted effort to ensure that all such programmes further the same broad objective and operate according to the same principles of action. In the second section of this paper, we examine the issues related to including IHL courses in the regular curricula of the universities and faculties concerned and present themodus operandiadopted by the ICRC on the basis of 'lessons learned'. In the third section, we highlight the ICRC's experience of promoting IHL in academic circles in the Russian Federation. Section 4 draws some conclusions.

Preliminary Material / Jutta Brunnée --Introduction / Jutta Brunnée --The harm prevention rule / Jutta Brunnée --Harm prevention beyond the "neighbourhood" / Jutta Brunnée --Complex harm prevention : multilateral environmental agreements / Jutta Brunnée --conclusion / Jutta Brunnée --Bibliography / Jutta Brunnée --List of Abbreviations / Jutta Brunnée --About the Author / Jutta Brunnée.

Considers the effects of uncertainty on the magnitude of prospective welfare gains from international macroeconmic policy coordination. Three different sources of uncertainty are studied: the initial state of the economy; the correct welfare weights to be assigned to policy targets; and the impact on the economy that economic models attribute to policy changes. (Abstract amended)

On constate une ambivalence des rapports entre l'Afrique et la Cour pénale internationale. Ce qui conduit à épiloguer sur la perspective du retrait des États africains de cette juridiction. Si le droit positif est favorable à ce projet, la réalité montre que les États africains membres de la CPI ne doivent pas porter à terme leur projet de quitter cette organisation Internationale. En effet, valider le retrait des États africains de cette juridiction serait une négation du droit sur la force et une prime à l'impunité.