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Description : L'Observatoire international sur le racisme et les discriminations publiait un bulletin annuel faisant état de l'actualité et des développements dans le domaine du racisme et des discriminations*. Lancé en mars 2003, l'Observatoire international sur le racisme et les discriminations avait pour but premier d'établir un pont entre la recherche universitaire sur le racisme et les discriminations, et la réflexion publique sur ces questions, dans les milieux d'intervention, tant gouvernementaux que non-gouvernementaux. Dans ce numéro : Résumé du Mémoire de l'Observatoire international sur le racisme et les discriminations, à la Commission parlementaire portant sur une politique gouvernementale de lutte contre le racisme et la discrimination Briser les murs du silence et de l'indifférence : Stratégies locales de lutte contre le racisme et la discrimination raciale à Val-d'Or La méconnaissance et le racisme à l'égard des Autochtones ___________ *Les bulletins de l'Observatoire international sur le racisme et les discriminations étaient hébergés sur le site du Centre de recherche en immigration, ethnicité et citoyenneté (CRIEC) de l'UQAM. Ce dernier a cessé ses activités à l'été 2020.

This volume brings together a group of renowned experts to discuss the question of whether international law could have developed differently. Contributors explore contingency in theory and practice across a range of fields, including those related to migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, and human rights.

The world is currently witnessing the third wave of globalisation, certainly the most widely debated and fiercely contested. The first wave, known as the 'Age of Exploration', began with the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India, in 1498, followed by the exploration of the American continent in the two subsequent centuries. The second wave took place in the nineteenth century, with the multiplication of international relations, much reinforced by unprecedented improvements in means of communication and transportation. By then, dozens of sophisticated stock and bond exchanges existed in many countries and financial integration attained levels comparable to those observed today. European investors were advised to internationally diversify financial applications, and English, French, Dutch and German capital flew in torrents to finance infrastructures in Russia, Asia, Africa and America. Most of these links were broken with the First World War, and subsequent episodes such as the Russian Revolution and the Great Depression contributed to maintain some degree of suspicion over international economic relations. The third wave of globalisation did not start until much later in the twentieth century, fostered by the coordinated action of politicians and economists. Naturally, the globalisation phenomenon has been addressed from a variety of distinct perspectives. It was initially a matter for philosophers, concerned with the consequences of the annihilation of space, resulting from the development of the means of transportation, especially with the expansion of railways. Later, social scientists broadened the analysis and provided more comprehensive assessments of the causes and effects of increased cross border relations. More recently, the economic perspective has gained prominence, to the point of being currently common to confound the concept of globalisation with that of economic globalisation. In economic terms, globalisation comprises the international flow of goods, services, capital and labour and has been greatly enhanced by both technological progress and a political will to overcome the barriers imposed by national boundaries. With uneven positive and negative effects across countries and societies, the globalisation of economic activities is a fertile source of new problems and challenges for decision makers, academics and practitioners. In this book, some of the new challenges posed by globalisation to different research areas of the economic science are addressed. Attention is mainly focused on the implications of free trade and financial integration, but political consequences are also examined. The contributions of different authors have been selected from those presented and discussed at the 10th INFER International Conference, held in Évora, Portugal, coincidently close to the birth place of Vasco da Gama, the intrepid promoter of the first globalisation wave.

Abstract
In her much-acclaimed book published in 2017, Anthea Roberts examines whether international law is indeed international. The answer to this question is 'no', one reason being the deep language biases that pervade international legal scholarship. One of the clearest symptoms of this distortion is the unprecedented dominance of English. While such a lingua franca has numerous advantages, it is connected to significant drawbacks. In this article, I first define what I mean by language bias in international legal scholarship before highlighting some of its symptoms. I then show that language bias is an underexplored topic in international legal scholarship and that this lack of engagement with the issue warrants further analysis. Next, I identify possible explanations for language bias, and I delineate its main implications for international legal scholarship and international law-making. Finally, I examine various strategies that can be pursued to minimize the negative consequences of language bias. While there are no easy answers, this article is a first attempt at highlighting the problematic effects of language bias on international legal scholarship, at outlining several strategies for tackling these effects and, importantly, at generating a scholarly debate on the dangers of language bias for the international, legal and scholarly character of our research.