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International audience ; This paper seeks to conceptualize the field of child and teen consumption as a system of social practices at the cross roads of six strongly intermingled subsystems covering social, institutional, technological, narrative, economic, and political stakes. Children's and teens' consumption is shaped and transformed by a mix of managerial action, public policy, cycles of technological change, the evolution of related institutions like parenthood and schooling, changing cultural references, values, modes of socialization as well as by the actions of children and teens themselves. Within such a framework, child and teen consumption appears as a complex arena of competing moral and ideological perspectives. In such a volatile context, forms of resistance to ideologies of unending consumption emerge, continuously calling into question the responsibility of business for unwanted long‐term effects.

International audience ; Depuis 2002, l'unité Eurojust constitue le premier office judiciaire européen en charge de favoriser la coopération entre les juridictions nationales des Etats membres de l'UE. Créée dans un contexte institutionnel et politique particulier, cette unité va avoir pour objectif principal de réussir à s'imposer comme un acteur incontournable de la coopération européenne en particulier vis-à-vis des autres instances nationales et supranationales compétentes. Cet article se propose d'analyser les logiques institutionnelles et sociales qui structurent le travail quotidien d'Eurojust dans cette quête de légitimité. L'étude des ressources mobilisées par les membres judiciaires de cette unité et les contraintes qui pèsent sur leur travail, nous permet de comprendre les raisons et la façon dont ces derniers tendent à retraduire le cadre formel et ainsi à redéfinir l'action d'Eurojust dans l'espace européen de sécurité.

The article covers the analysis of the discussions of the consequences of the global climate change and the mitigation measures taken by such international institutions as the UN Security Council and the G-8 Summit. Noting with approval the growth of the world public attention to the issues of global warming, nonetheless, A.Veber draws attention to deep differences between industrially developed and developing countries in the approach to these problems. He is also concerned about the fact that governments and the leaders of big corporations put all their hopes on new technologies and market mechanisms in their attempts to design the mitigation measures of climate change consequences. The author believes that without changes in social and economic development neither the technological progress nor the market will resolve problems caused by the global warming.

The reordering of the international system has deepened asymmetries & allowed the East-West dispute to continue in terms of a North-South or center-periphery axis. The new geostrategic order is overwhelmingly unilateral. U.S. conceptions of security & economic-commercial policy constitute an integrated geostrategic whole; the expansion of global commerce is part of the security strategy of the United States. Latin America is an essential area for the United States because of the importance of its "great southern border." Although there is no concerted regional strategy for avoiding the imposition of unilateralism, countertrends are arising & new forms of interaction & collaboration are emerging. The challenge for regional politics is to entertain the possibility of prioritizing common problems & interests & making what unites Latin America & the Caribbean prevail. References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2007.]

This article first gives attention to the ongoing debate about the role of remittances on development. The author presents evidence showing that monetary transfers can induce economic vitality but also expand inequalities in countries of origin. Second, the author examines a phenomenon given little attention until now: the extent to which policies aimed at curtailing unauthorized immigration to the United States are promoting instead the permanent immigration and settlement of vulnerable workers and their families, thus increasing the likelihood that some of their children will respond to hostility and limited opportunity through downward assimilation. When deported, those youngsters transfer deviant styles of life learned abroad to their home communities. International migration has thus become a key element in the study of development. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2007 The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]