The collective work led by Franck Petiteville and Delphine Placidi-Frot, with a preface by Bertrand Badie, makes a unique contribution to the analysis of multilateral international negotiations. Political scientists and French internationalists - shoulders by some historians of international relations - are presented in a clear and well structured way their research, they often already published some results elsewhere. This book will interest all researchers in international relations, and more particularly the specialists in diplomatic studies, international organizations and conflict resolution. Because it offers syntheses to date on the major issues of contemporary international relations, it could also be used as a textbook in the introduction to international relations framework of a course. Adapted from the source document.
Insists both on the unavoidable interrelation of the disciplines of International Law & International Relations & the problematic nature of combining a critical standpoint with the necessity of decompartmentalizing these fields of study heretofore regarded as separate. The idea of a 'constituent relationship' between the two is presented is presented as the basis of a future reconceptualization for researchers. This new approach would be both critical & holistic. In addition, suggests theories of problem resolution may indicate modes of emancipating these disciplines from familiar restraints, although states an awareness that problem solving techniques themselves are misleadingly presented as simple tools when they involve unexamined assumptions of their own. Due to current statistical methods, the tendency is to do a cost-benefit analysis of the growing institutionalization of international law, focusing on what this or that agent can gain in the way of information or conflict resolution. Some limit this analysis to states; others factor in special interest groups. But the big, unanswered question in research is the two disciplines' interrelation in the problematics of international dynamics. In this regard, a major problem is the predetermined, often binary, rational categories because they make it difficult to deal with the specificity of contemporary problems. Examples given include such oppositions as legal/illegal, stable/anarchic, economic/political, public/private, all categories that do not allow for all possible variables. Two important heuristic dimensions in the future: recognizing that structures & dynamics of international power do not exist apart from the judicial relationships that crystallize & institutionalize them. Law in general & international law in particular cannot be reduced to the 'will' of nations or the idea of 'national interests.' Neither can economics be factored out. Terminology is also an issue because new categories of analysis are needed. References. R. Ruffin
The first enlargement of the European Union took place in 1973, admitting the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark and increasing the Common Market from six to nine members. This enlargement process of the 1960s and I 970s undeniably included an international dimension which can be analyzed in different ways. On the one hand, the history of international relations and European Union history, generally speaking, are closely intertwined. In particular, European trade issues are linked to a global trading order through the GATT. On the other hand, even the internal decision-making process of the Common Market is relevant for the history of international relations and organizations. The leadership of a restricted club of members such as the Paris-Bonn-London triangle, played a paramount role in the decision-making process at Community level. In a sense, the European Community worked and still works as a mini-international organization. Adapted from the source document.
The year 2013 marks the twentieth anniversary of the admission of Monaco to the United Nations, also elected to the vice presidency of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly. This is an opportunity for me to recall, in the light of more than seven centuries of history, and especially through the last two decades, Monaco's commitment to international law and institutions that have emerged to guarantee. Adapted from the source document.
Both perpetrators and forms of violence change. States are no longer the central referents of contemporary conflicts. We can no longer understand them as the outcome of a linear history starting from tribal societies and leading to Western political structures. In the future, different worlds will exist alongside one another: anthropologists are uniquely placed to help understand and manage conflicts taking place within frameworks that do not correlate with our state-based logic. Adapted from the source document.
Following the relative isolation of Spain under Franco, the country has witnessed a major development of its diplomacy, so much so that Spain has become an important actor in international relations. It has reinforced its link with Europe, has joined the Atlantic Alliance, has adopted a more balanced approach of the Israeli-Arab conflict and has managed so far to maintain its historical special relationship with the Spanish-American world. However, its relationships with Morocco remain strained and those with the United States depend on the majority in power in Madrid, the Partido popular being more pro-American and, to a certain extent less pro-European than the Partido socialista obrero espanol. Adapted from the source document.
