AFRI, volume VII, 2006

Variations on the Global Society

Jacques Chevallier, Rule of Law and International Relations

Jean-Pierre Colin, Variations on Development

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, The Apathetic Citizen. When State Institutions Do Not Reflect Human Rights Consistently

Julian Fernandez, ICC: Genesis and Decline of ‘Rome spirit’

Gaidz Minassian, For a Geopolitics of Diasporas

Jean-Bernard Raimond, John-Paul II, a Pope at the Heart of History. 1978-2005

Philippe Blanchard, The Death of Pope John-Paul II in the French Media

Gérald Arboit, How the Media Cover Catastrophes. The Case of the Tsunami on Saint-Steven 2004

The European Area : Stakes and Debates

Pierre Buhler, Europe and Power

Guy le Borgne, European Union and the Rule of Law

Baptiste Chatré, National minority: a European concept

Laurent Hassid, Slovenia, Caught between the Alps and the Balkans

Tetyana Boburka and Stéphane Delory, Which Solutions for Ukraine? The Orange Revolution and New Security Perspectives

Jérôme Pasinetti, The Russian-Chechen Conflict, an Echo for the Clash of Civilizations?

Levent Unsaldi, Defence in Turkey. Between Continuity, Singularity, and Unanimity

India, China and the Others

Samuel Berthet and Côme de Carpentier de Gourdon , India on the Verge of a Multi-polar World

Baskar Rosaz, The Second Nuclear Indian Age. The Range and the Limits of the Nuclear Diplomacy of a Pivotal Power

Laurent Gayer, Privatising Foreign Policy in Southern Asia. Analysing ‘Cricket Diplomacy’ between India and Pakistan

Isabelle Saint Mézard, Chinese-Indian Relations. Recent Evolutions and Upcoming Trends

Philomène Robin, Chinese Diplomacy Faced with the Second North-Korean Nuclear Crisis

Chronology 2005

Coordinated by Yann Bedzigui and Hewane Serequeberhan, research associates, with the participation of students from the Master in International Relations of the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II).

Specific Issue

France and the World, edited by Daniel Colard

Introduction

Charles Cogan, The French Style of Diplomacy

Georges Ayache, Power and Influence within Post-Cold War International Relations. The Case of France

Philippe Bourassé, The French Parliament and International Relations

Gérald Arboit, France’s International Information Channel. Coming to Terms with Old Facts

Hewane Serequeberhan, France’s African Policy. A Wavering Policy Since 2002

Habib Gherari, French-Israeli Relations from 2002 to 2005. Between Passion and Reason

France in the Construction of Europe, edited by Fabrice Picod

Introduction

Jean-Claude Gautron, The Failure of the European Constitution in France

Ch. Bidégaray and Christine Pina, Replicas of the French ‘No’ to the European Constitution

Gérard Soulier, France and Turkey’s Candidacy to the European Union

Chrystelle Nourry, The ‘Special’ Franco-German Relationship: Impending Divorce?

European Union as an Actor in International Relations, edited by Renaud Dehousse

Introduction

Renaud Dehousse, Does Political Europe Still Has a Future?

Eric Dacheux, Reflections on the Audiovisual Covering of the French Referendum

Thomas Bertin and Alexandre Vulic, Ten Years After, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Action of the European Union

Claire Brodin , The Efficiency of the European Aid to Development

Jolyon Howorth, The European Union and the Fight Against Terrorism in the Transatlantic Prism

American Foreign Policy, edited by Guillaume Parmentier

Introduction

Robert Malley, The Bush Administration and the Middle East Peace Process

Mark Tessler, The American Occupation of Iraq. American and Iraqi perspectives

Charles Kupchan, The Travails of Union. The American Experience and its Implications for Europe

Susan Sechler and Joe Guinan, The United States, Europe, and Trade and Agricultural International Negotiations Under G.W. Bush

Célia Belin , Evangelicals in the United States and American Foreign Policy

Media and International Society, edited by Michel Mathien

Introduction

Jean-Paul Marthoz, Journalism’s Quest for Values in the United States

Gérald Arboit, The Journalist is the Hostage during War Information

Alain Kiyindou and Jean-Louis Fullsack, For a Critical Approach to the World Summit on the Information Society

Olivier Arifon and Philippe Ricaud, Controlling the Internet in China: the Two Sides of the Coin. A Look at the Information Society

Michel Mathien, The Future of the France-Presse Agency Is Questioned Again

International Political Economics, edited by Jacques Fontanel and Françoise Nicolas

Introduction

Jacques Fontanel and Fanny Coulomb, International Speculation and Financial Regulation

Michel Aglietta, Global Financial Imbalances and the International Currency System

Mayeul Kauffmann, Do IMF, World Bank and WTO Actions Reduce Domestic or International Conflicts?

Security Doctrines and Theories, edited by Yves Boyer

Introduction

Yves Boyer, European Armies Confronted to Multi-nationality. Modernity or Masked Impotence?

Gilles Rouby, NATO and the EU. Partnership or Competition?

André Dumoulin, Potential Futures of the ESDP after the Rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty. Of Operational Flexibility around a Weakened Common Ground

Stéphane Delory , The Transformation of the Russian Defence System

International Crises and Conflicts, edited by Alexandra Novosseloff

Introduction

Alexandra Novosseloff and Patrice Sartre, The Use of Force in the UN Peacekeeping Operations. Legal Foundations, Political and Military Organisation

Emmanuel Bargues, The United Nations Faced with the Challenge of Strengthening Social Peace

Laurent Gayer, It’s Getting Red. Socio-political Crises and Renewal of Revolutionary Maoism in the Indian Subcontinent

Disarmament, Arms Control and Non Proliferation, edited by Bernard Sitt

Introduction

E. de Gonneville, The Seventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. A Step in a Regime Crisis?

David Bertolotti, The Hague Code of Conduct against the Proliferation of Ballistic Missiles. The Regime that Did Not Exist?

Sébastien Jaunet, G8 Global Partnership. More Cooperation for More Security?

Paul Dahan, From Non-Proliferation to Counter-Proliferation. From a Recomposed Past to a Future Perfect.

Globalization, Multilateralism and Global Governance edited by Philippe Moreau Defarges

Introduction

Philippe Moreau Defarges, The UN Reform: Obsessive and Impossible

Catherine de Ginestel, The UN’s Fate Confronted to States’ Choices. Stakes and Power Relationships around its Reform

Philippe Le Prestre, International Governance of the Environment. A French Initiative

Thomas Bernauer and Thomas Sattler, WTO Disputes on Environmental and Consumers’ Protection

Saskia Sassen, Globalization and the State. De-nationalized Participation

Olivia de Maleville, Towards the Enlarging of the Panamá Canal? Stakes of Adjusting the Inter-Ocean Passage when Global Maritime Trade is being Transformed

Bibliographic Review

Edited by Anne Dulphy, with the cooperation of Yann Bedzigui, Célia Belin, Tetyana Boburka, Baptiste Chatré,Julian Fernandez,Hewane Serequeberhan, Research Associates of the Centre Thucydide.

AFRI, volume VI, 2005

Abstracts are classified by alphabetical order of the authors’ names.

From Doha to Cancún : an analysis of the multilateral trading system and the World Trade Organization crisis , Mehdi ABBAS

Air conditioning and its discontents , Patrick ALLARD

Are forests an object in international relations? , Dominique D’ANTIN DE VAILLAC

Still very much of an Entente Cordiale between France and Great Britain… , Gérald ARBOIT

Media and the political exploitation of information services , Gérald ARBOIT and Michel MATHIEN

The Israeli nuclear armament , Abdelwahab BIAD

The trial of Slobodan Milosevic , Femke BLANQUAERT

The Turkish candidacy to the European Union , Alain BOCKEL

Coalition operations. Organization modes and hidden dangers , Yves BOYER

Transatlantic tensions over the United Nations and the use of force , Esther BRIMMER

France and the European protection of human rights , Laurence BURGORGUE- LARSEN

Strategic cooperation between Nordic countries , Matthieu CHILLAUD and Sophie ENOS ATTALI

Power, conflict settlement and collective security in the era of the African Union , Yves Alexandre CHOUALA

Variations on the European construction , Jean-Pierre COLIN

The European elections in June 2004 : European and French perspectives , Olivier COSTA

PSI : an advanced post in the fight against proliferation , Paul DAHAN

The kingdom of Saudi Arabia , Fatiha DAZI-HENI

Dis-integration of forces, and conflicts by coalition : towards a substantial modification of the Transatlantic link , Stéphane DELORY

The semantics of the European security “Strategy” , André DUMOULIN

Chinese-American relations since the end of the Cold War , Stéphane DUSO-BAUDUIN

The Iranian nuclear crisis , Philippe ERRERA

Relations between States and the International Penal Tribunal for Rwanda , Jean-Pelé FOMETE and Roland ADJOVI

Scarcity and international peace , Jacques FONTANEL

Non-lethal arms , David HUMAIR and Christophe PERRON

South Caucasus and the European Union , Annie JAFALIAN

Transnational firms, corruption, States , Philippe JANOT

The UN Security Council and the campaign against terrorism , Chantal DE JONGE OUDRAAT

The international community seen by jurists , Emmanuelle JOUANNET

New international intervention in Haiti , Sophie JOUINEAU

“Information society” : perspectives for the Tunis Summit , Alain KIYNDOU

General considerations on violence and international law , Robert KOLB

The three generations of international penal justice , Renaud DE LA BROSSE

What if Europe deconstructed itself… , Maxime LEFEBVRE

Francophony as an actor in International Relations , Béatrice MAJZA

American media as an anti-model , Michel MATHIEN

Cryptology and international relations , Ivan MAXIMOFF

Both Europes within the European Union : cohabitation or coexistence , Milan MILANOV

The Russian-Chechen War, an Endless Conflict , Gaïdz MINASSIAN

Security cooperations tackling transnational crime in Central Asia , Lucia MONTANARO-JANKOVSKI

Justice for Saddam Hussein , Nada MOURTADA SABBAH

Medias in the doldrums during the Haiti crisis , Bruno OLLIVIER

Peacekeeping and strengthening in African post-colonies , Mamert Lié ONANA

The United States and NATO , Guillaume PARMENTIER

Technology at the core of European policy , Xavier PASCO

International society and SARS , Michèle POULAIN

Georgia in the heart of the “great game” , Pierre RAZOUX

Darfur : how are African crises managed? , Elodie RICHE

The European Defense Agency : towards the future or from Venus to Mars? , Anita ROTH

The renewed French commitment in African conflicts and the Ivory Coast challenge , Hewane SEREQUEBERHAN

A praise of the Security Council , Serge SUR

A new challenge for the Security Council : how to deal with deliquescent States, or States torn by intern conflicts , Pascal TEIXEIRA

Of the correct use of the reform of Palestinian institutions , François- Xavier TREGAN

Forty years after, IPS , Patricio TUPPER

Developing countries and the Washington Consensus , Dimitri UZUNIDIS

The Artemis prototype of multinational organization and the diversification of European military action , Alexis VAHLAS

Political responsibility on the international scene , Jérôme VANACHTER

The impact of the war in Iraq on the American political scene , François VERGNIOLLE DE CHANTAL

For a theory of the diplomatic discourse , Constanze VILLAR

The strategic illogic of preventive war , Stephen M. WALT

New American practices in the field of legitimate defense? , Philippe WECKEL

Towards a “Europe puissance” or just intergovernmental cosmetics , Wolfgang WESSELS

France and the Constitution for Europe , Jacques ZILLER

AFRI, volume V, 2004

  Abstracts are classified by alphabetical order of the authors’ names.

Understanding American support for Israel , Dana ALLIN and Steven SIMON

France’s international information channel , Gérald ARBOIT

Nuclear weapons and Indian security , Rajesh M. BASRUR

The occupation of Iraq , Madjid BENCHIKH

Global Firms and Social Norms , Pierre BERTHAUD and Michel ROCCA

The fight against weapons mass destruction is at a crossroads , Abdelwahab BIAD

Strategic research structures in Nordic countries: the paradoxical oversize , Nathalie BLANC-NOËL and Matthieu CHILLAUD

CFSP and CESDP in the European constitution : an evaluation on the basis of the Convention’s project , Giovanna BONO

The African Union between texts and reality , Albert BOURGI

Smaller and greater history around the Iraqi crisis , Yves BOYER

The Bush doctrine of preemption , Esther BRIMMER

NEPAD: an African political initiative , Claire BRODIN

Power and demography , Pierre BUHLER

How are NICT compatible with the informal economy in Africa ? , Annie CHENEAU-LOQUAY

International economy according to Paul Krugman , Steven COISSARD

The Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis , Daniel COLARD

Variations on foreign policy , Jean-Pierre COLIN

Essay on a post-modern despotism: demo-despotism , Bernard CUBERTAFOND

Disarmament: preserving the legacy and reviving the enterprise , Paul DAHAN

The Echelon network and the US information power , Claude DELESSE

The euro/dollar face to face , Michel DEVOLUY

Transatlantic allergy , Jean DUFOURCQ

The United States North-Korean policy , Robert DUJARRIC

The initiative of the Four and European Defence , André DUMOULIN

The policy of navigable ways and the territorial integration of Mercosur and the European Union , Gérard DUSSOUY

The Israeli-Palestinian war: between risks of extension, mere exit from crisis and real peace opportunities , Frédéric ENCEL

Security stakes in Central Asia , Isabelle FACON

The international management of great programs in scientific research , Joël FELTESSE

Before and beyond Cancun , Guy FEUER, in partnership with Ange OURAGA

The World Summit on information society , Pascal FORTIN

The United States’ return within UNESCO , Divina FRAU-MEIGS

The contradictions of the US foreign policy during the Iraqi crisis , Thierry GARCIN

Pakistan: a State in formation in a context of domestic and foreign turmoil , Laurent GAYER

The ‘expatride’ , Yves GOUNIN

The transatlantic strategic fight , Jean-Paul HEBERT

Le groupe France-Antilles , Gilles KRAEMER

The UN and the Iraqi crisis , Gabrielle LAFARGE and Alexandra NOVOSSELOFF

France and the Eastern enlargement of the European Union , Françoise de LA SERRE

France and the Convention on Europe’s future , Anne LEVADE

Djihad fighters in Occident , Jean-Luc MARRET

The antipersonnel landmine dilemma , Isabelle MARQUES-GROSS

The crisis of the Anglo-Saxon information model with the ‘War in Iraq’ , Michel MATHIEN

Is trans-regionalism the new horizon of regionalism? , David M. MILLIOT

Transcaucasia is dead, long live Southern Caucasia ? , Gaïdz MINASSIAN

The end of the United Nations ? , Philippe MOREAU DEFARGES

Television coverings of ‘the war in Iraq’ , Claude NOSAL and Vincent LOWY

France and Germany through the Iraqi crisis , Xavier PACREAU

The ‘Iraqi Freedom’ campaign , Jean-Jacques PATRY

Mastering violence in the Ivory Coast Republic , Jean-Jacques PATRY

The consequences of the war in Iraq on the petrol market , Jacques PERCEBOIS

Catalysis diplomacy and normative creation , Frédéric RAMEL

France and criminal law in Europe , Lionel RINUY

China and the outer space , Isabelle SOURBES-VERGER

The new international context of security : a stake for the disarmament process , Serge SUR

Political stakes and diplomacy in the United States , François VERGNIOLLE DE CHANTAL

Security and liberalism in the United States , Christophe WASINSKI

The Unicorn operation in the Ivory Coast , Pierre WEISS

AFRI, volume IV, 2003

Studies

International relations – theories

DELCOURT Barbara, Discourse analysis as a method for studying CFSP : an important contribution

MARTRES Jean-Louis , About the necessity of a theory for international relations

FRANK Robert, History of mental maps and perceptions

KEBABDJIAN Gérard, The international object in the economic theory

Diplomacy and security

DAVID Dominique, Thinking security in a fluid world

ANDRÉANI Gilles, War against terrorism

MOURTADA Nada, Military courts in the United States 25 novembre 2003

COLARD-FABREGOULE Catherine, The Charter of collective security of the OCSE

PRADON Hélène, The stakes of security and stability in Central Asia

CHILLAUD Matthieu, Greenland, between geographic constraints and strategic assets

What transatlantic security policy? a Euro-American dialogue

SUR Serge, Introduction

KORB Lawrence, Problèmes de sécurité dans un nouvel ordre mondial

GRAND Stephen R., Défense territoriale : la mission de l’OTAN dans le nouveau siècle

DAALDER Ivo H., The use of force in a changing world

ALIBONI Roberto, Le Golfe, le Proche-Orient et les Balkans ; divergences et convergences transatlantiques

COBBOLD Richard, Opérations de stabilisation ; faire la guerre, maintenir la paix

SITT Bernard, The control on weapons of mass destruction

BOYER Yves, The European Union’s Policy of Security and Defence

The enlargement of the European Union

PEROTTINO Michel, The enlargement from a Czech point of view

SOARE Sorina , Prospects of Romania’s European integration

LOROT Pascal , The Baltic countries and the enlargement of the European Union

LEBRETON ISabelle, International chronology

Rubriques

1. France and the world

COLARD Daniel, Introduction

COHEN Samy, A diplomatic cohabitation

MOREAU Michel , About the international influence of French laws

2. France and the construction of Europe

PICOD Fabrice, Introduction

GAUDIN Hélène, The presidential elections and Europe

DELOCHE-GAUDEZ Florence, The presidency of the European Convention

3. The European Union as an actor of the international relations

REMACLE Eric, Introduction

FORET François, The protocol of the European Union or the implementation of an unfinished

ROBERT Cécile, Social Europe towards its enlargement

4. American foreign policy

PARMENTIER Guillaume, Introduction

RICHARD Anne C., The post-September 11th and the increase in the American government’s expenditure for foreign aid

SERFATY Simon, Permanent tensing : thinking about Francophobia in Washington

FOMERAND Jacques, The American practice of multilateralism

SIONNEAU Bernard, Conservative networks and the new American security doctrine

JAFALIAN Annie, American policy evolution in the Caspian Sea region

5.International crisis and conflicts

BOYER Yves, Introduction

SUR Serge, Rational or reasonable ? The project of an impending military intervention

FACON Isabelle, Foreign policy in Putin’s Russia

FONTANEL Jacques, Russia’s military expenditures at the beginning of the 21st century

6.New technology and international relations

SITT Bernard, Introduction

KRAUSE Keith, Critical and constructivist approach to security studies

GRONDIN David, Thinking the American strategy of the security of the national territory

SITT Bernard, The American Nuclear Posture Review and the strategic frame of the Bush Administration

7.Media and international society

GUILHAUDIS Jean-François, Introduction

KLEIN Jean, The Treaty on strategic offensive reductions and the new relations between

SIONNEAU Bernard, DUSCLAUD Michel, A limited nuclear weapons-free zone in Northeast Asia : a tale of ten years

LEVAL Henri, How to fight against chemical weapons? Faust among us

DUMOULIN André, Open Skies : the waiting has ended

DAHAN Paul, From disarmament-development to development-disarmament ? The revelation

8.International political economy

FONTANEL Jacques, COULOMB Fanny, Introduction

CHAMPEYRACHE Clotilde, Mafia infiltration in legal economy

GREFFE Xavier , SAMSON Ivan, A white book about the perspective of a common European economic

BRAUER Jurgen, ROUX André, Peace as an international public good

9.Global governance

MOREAU-DESFARGES Philippe, Introduction

VALLÉE Annie, The fight against the greenhouse effect

DENIS Benjamin, States and the politics of global warming

POULIGNY Béatrice, The ‘construction of peace’

10.Media and international society

MATHIEN Michel, Introduction

MATHIEN Michel, Media towards the Occidental security evolution

ARBOIT Gérald, Roles and functions of images of cadavers in the media

TÉTU Jean-François, GARCIN-MARROU Isabelle, The second Intifada and terrorism

BLANCHARD Philippe, Les grands médias français face au conflit israélo-palestinien depuis la seconde intifada, difficile neutralité

MUSSO Pierre, Le naufrage de Vivendi Universal : démembement ou recentrage ?

11.New technology and international relations

WARUSFEL Bertrand, Introduction

GALLOUX Jean-Christophe, Transposing Directive 98/44, July 6th, 1998, concerning the juridical protection