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J. Meynaud's PRESSURE GROUP IN FRANCE & H. W. Ehrmann's INTEREST GROUPS ON FOUR CONTINENTS are evidence of the progress made in the study of pressure groups outside of the US. Yet they show that though we have arrived at a definition of such groups, the actual mechanism of pressure still generally escapes investigation. On the other hand, recent studies by historians have indicated that the actual influence of such groups has frequently been exaggerated: their activities are not always organized nor do they always achieve success. Despite the present multiplication of monographs, we are still a long way from being able to evaluate their influence in public affairs. The study of international pressure groups can only be sketched out; the documentation of the pol'al action of the large international corporations will undoubtedly have to await some future date, but it should be possible to study the international org's which are not attached to Gov: the understanding of the techniques by which pressure groups exercise their influence should allow for more adequate studies & a better understanding of international relations. Tr by J. A. Broussard from IPSA.

Just as the study of economics moved ahead by distinguishing between modes of production, International Relations (IR) may profit from distinguishing modes of foreign relations. In this way, IR can perhaps be saved from virtual irrelevance in a world in which state boundaries are increasingly permeable to all but the poor. Also, the prehistory of the Westphalian state system, which is everywhere around us, may be properly integrated into the understanding of world politics & global political economy. In this paper, two modes of foreign relations prior to relations of multiple sovereignty (IR properly speaking) will be distinguished: tribal relations, & empire! nomad relations. It will be argued that far from have been overcome by later history, these modes still inform the contemporary reality of world politics/global political economy. Adapted from the source document.

Interview with Dominique de Villepin, France's Foreign Affairs Minister; focuses on world politics and France's role in the international arena.

Among the several humanitarian issues which arose after the First World War, the future of war prisoners and Russian refugees was of the utmost difficulty. In the face of the various governments' reluctance to be politically and financially engaged in the solving of those two issues, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the League of Nations (LON) undertook joint efforts. This article studies the relationship of the ICRC and the LON regarding the repatriation of prisoners of war and the relief of Russian refugees. It seeks to shed light on the core elements of post-war humanitarian politics as well as to elucidate the increasing role of international organizations in world politics. Adapted from the source document.

Interview with former Secretary of State and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Henry Kissinger on key issues of world politics. Summaries in English and Spanish p. 461 and 473-4.

This paper is about the ways in which forces of globalization have impacted on, and shaped the construction of citizenship in Africa generally and Kenya in particular. It is also about globalization and violence associated with the resurgence of ethnic nationalism. The empirical part of the paper focuses on Tana River region, a marginalized, poor and bandit-prone multi-ethnic region on the delta of Kenya's largest river. (...) The World Bank has funded several projects in Tana River, but its funding, management policies and the overall impact of the investments have accentuated ethnic conflict within and between herders and farmers over water-points, pasture and farmlands. These conflicts have engendered the reconstruction of new ethnic identities and alliances (...). The paper maps the contours of the historical process through which globalization has undermined social citizenship and the nationalist project in post-colonial Africa, thus everywhere animating ethnicity and localizing citizenship. (Afr Dev/DÜI)