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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.

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.

International law relating to the rights of civilians during war, status of prisoners of war, and chemical warfare; some focus on role of the UN and the Red Cross; 6 articles.

Der Sahelstaat Niger ist zwar bekannt für institutionelle Stabilität, doch durchlebt er seit 1982 eine wirtschaftliche und finanzielle Krise. Programme für einen nationalen Aufschwung endeten in verstärkter Abhängigkeit von intenationaler Hilfe. Daten zur aktuellen Wirtschaftshilfe; Aufschlüsselung nach Sektoren und Geberländern von 1987; historische Entwicklung der Abhängigkeit in verschiedenen Phasen seit 1960. (DÜI-Wsl)

International aid.
Niger, a Sahelian country known for its institutional stability, has been confronted since 1983 to an economic and financial crisis. Its programme for national recovery has resulted in an increasing dependence on international aid.

S'appuyant principalement sur la guerre de l'Otan contre la Yougoslavie, l'auteur examine les soubassements juridiques qui ont été avancés pour justifier cette intervention. Il montre les incohérences d'un «droit cosmopolite» ou d'une «justice universelle» qu'on voudrait présenter comme en gestation et leur dérive certaine vers un usage d'habillage du droit du plus fort qui doit être interprété comme l'absence grandissante de droit dans les relations internationales.