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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.

Tout le monde a, un jour ou l'autre, entendu parler de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce, du Fonds monétaire international et de la Banque mondiale. Peu nombreux en revanche, sont ceux qui en connaissent les mécanismes. À travers cette deuxième édition, Philippe Vincent familiarise le lecteur avec les institutions économiques internationales, leur fonctionnement et les règles qui leur sont propres.La première partie traite des institutions de la coopération commerciale internationale : l'Organisation mondiale du commerce, la réglementation de l'investissement international, les différentes

This last paper in the volume tries to pull the threads together and to detect trends of evolution in the analysis of international relations. The discussion is limited to three issues deemed basic to this evolution: 1) the increasing g importance of technology and its impact on the world System, and especially on one of its basic components: the nation-state ; 2) contents and characteristics of the new industry of futurology ; and 3) the rise of political economy as a basic approach to the study of international relations. It is suggested that we are growing beyond such simplistic divisions as "High" and "Low Politics", and obsession with methodologism per se, and that we are increasingly putting rigor and interdisciplinarity in the service of analysing "substantial" issues of international relations.