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.
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)
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
