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AbstractThe Anthropocene rupture refers to the beginning of our current geological epoch in which humans constitute a collective geological force that alters the trajectory of the Earth system. An increased engagement with this notion of a rupture has prompted a lively debate on the inherent anthropocentrism of International Relations (IR), and whether it is possible to transform it into something new that embraces diverse forms of existence, human as well as non-human. This article challenges that possibility. It shows how much of the current debate rests on the idea fulfilling future desirable ideals, which are pushed perpetually beyond a horizon of human thought, making them unreachable. As an alternative, the article turns to Jacques Derrida's understanding of the future to come (l'avenir), highlighting the significance of unpredictability and unexpected events. This understanding of the future shows how life within and of the international rests on encounters with the future as something radically other. On this basis, it is argued that responding to our current predicament should proceed not by seeking to fulfil future ideals but by encountering the future as incalculable and other, whose arrival represents an opportunity as much as a threat to established forms of international life.

TheAmerican Journal of International Law(AJIL) stands in dialectical tension between itsAmerican and its internationalidentities. At its founding, and in periodic reassessments on the occasion of anniversaries or changes of leadership, its editors in chief have offered their understandings of the place for thisJournalat the intersection of American and international life. One of our predecessors wrote in theJournal'ssixth decade of "a dual function, both that of laying international law material before American readers, and that of placing American viewpoints on international law before the rest of the world." Poised at the threshold of a new century, we can take this opportunity for reflection in the image of Janus on both our American (internationalist) origins and our increasingly international (yet in some senses still American) future.

L'auteur examine la manière dont la biodiversité est désormais inscrite à l'ordre du jour des organisations internationales, y compris les organisations non gouvernementales, et des programmes internationaux. La biodiversité est couverte par la Convention sur la diversité biologique, mais elle fait aussi l'objet de discussions plus larges qui ont trait aux ressources génétiques, aux points sensibles de la biodiversité et aux services fournis par les écosystèmes. L'auteur recense les principales institutions, organisations, conventions et programmes internationaux qui traitent spécifiquement de la biodiversité, de l'environnement ou des services fournis par les écosystèmes. Plus récemment, l'" approche écosystémique " a radicalement transformé la perception de la biodiversité, en mettant l'accent sur les services rendus par celle-ci. Pour conclure, l'auteur souligne l'impérieuse nécessité de mettre au point des indicateurs des services fournis par les écosystèmes, qui représentent des avantages pour l'être humain et pour les sociétés en général.

At its 1994 session, the International Law Commission (ILC) completed the final adoption ("second reading") of a complete set of thirty-three draft articles on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses, together with a resolution on transboundary confined ground water. The Commission submitted the draft articles and the resolution to the General Assembly and recommended that a convention on international watercourses be elaborated by the Assembly or by an international conference of plenipotentiaries on the basis of the Commission's draft.

Although there has been a significant growth in the literature on the ethics of international politics in recent years, much of this has focused on the normative structure of international relations and has downplayed the role of individuals in constituting the understandings and actions in this practice. However, individual agency and accountability are apparent in recent world events. Meanwhile, developments in moral philosophy have increasingly led scholars to re-examine the role that individual character traits -- virtues -- have in affecting how norms are selected and operationalized. Building on these insights, I argue here that a fully realized appreciation of the morality of international politics requires us to consider what character traits -- virtues -- its individual participants are expected to exhibit to support and realize its norms. To do so, I begin by outlining how the virtues are deemed to underpin ethical practice and highlight two forms of analysis that may be used to explore this: decision-oriented virtue ethics and constitutive virtue ethics. I then suggest that these can be used to analyse the ethical foundations of international society. Specifically, I adopt a constitutive virtue ethics approach to show how the virtues help to constitute international society using the case study of the establishment of the International Criminal Court. In the process, I aim to highlight both the extent to which the virtues are a feature of the rhetoric of global politics, and -- more importantly -- how they play a significant role in normative practice. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Sage Publications Ltd. & ECPR-European Consortium for Political Research.]