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Résumé À l'occasion de la présentation du rapport « La coopération entre la France et le Royaume-Uni en Afrique, des capacités sous-utilisées » à l'Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI) le 3 novembre 2010, Tony Chafer et Gordon Cumming donnent leurs points de vue sur un demi-siècle de politique africaine de la France. Ils proposent une vision originale d'une Afrique en mutation et d'une France qui garde, à de nombreux égards, une vision passéiste de ces anciennes colonies.

"As Americans and citizens of other industrializing countries began to enjoy lives of increasing affluence and ease during the first half of the 20th century, a rising tide of heart attacks and strokes displaced infectious diseases as the leading cause of death, killing millions in the United States and throughout the world. Although cardiovascular disease remains serious and widespread, the significant decline of per capita deaths is one of the greatest accomplishments of modern public health and medicine. Death rates from heart attack and stroke have fallen dramatically by 80% in the past 50 years -- the progress has been hard won by a combination of basic and applied laboratory research, broad and far-reaching epidemiological studies by physicians, scientists, and public health experts. Cardiovascular disease is no longer viewed as an as an inevitable feature of the natural course of aging, and complacency has given way to hope. This book focuses on developments that influenced the rise and decline of cardiovascular mortality since 1900, but also includes insider insights from the author, a 42-year NIH employee"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. An Introduction to Analytical Marxism -- 2. The Classical Marxist Assault on Capitalism -- 3. The Analytical Marxist Rejection of Classical Marxism -- 4. Analytical Marxism versus Libertarian Rights -- 5. Cohen on Proletarian Unfreedom -- 6. The Socialist Alternative -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Abstract
When libertarian political philosophy attracted wide public notice in the 1970s, a common view was that the distinctive individual rights advocated in libertarian theory required grounding in a theory of ethics. Recently, this view has come under challenge. It has been argued that resort to such grounding in ethical theory is unneeded. An appeal to common sense intuitions suffices to justify libertarianism. First, a brief account of libertarianism will be presented. Then, some examples of the older, pro-grounding position will be discussed. Then, the principal defense of the newer view, Michael Huemer's The Problem of Political Authority, will be examined. This discussion constitutes the substance of the present paper. The principal contention of the present article will be that the argument to libertarianism from intuitions does not succeed. In conclusion, it will be suggested that a return to the earlier, grounding view is indicated for philosophers who wish to defend libertarianism.

I would like to thank the organisers and the PIDE for giving
me the honour to present this year's Allama Iqbal Lecture on the subject
of Child Poverty and Economic Growth and the opportunity to talk to such
well-informed and distinguished audience. I believe that child poverty
and economic growth is a subject that is rarely discussed but I think it
is a crucial subject for the 21st century. I have only got a brief time
to talk to you, so I will only be able to skim over the surface of many
issues. If you want to go into a greater depth, there is a website for
the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, where you can
find more details about the issues to which I am going to
talk.