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Since 1991 the Courrier de la planète has been approching global issues from a committed outlook, combining the opinions of research, NGOs, politics and the private sector.
The objective is to back up the movement of socially aware international solidarity with intellectual demands, and to move away from ready-made solutions and the militant vade meccum: never taking anything for granted without first debating it and playing a critical role without ever proposing a 'line' of action on the issues at stake.
|The age of emerging countries|Knowledge and Power|The agricultural exception|
Global civil society|Biosafety |
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84 - International relations :
The age of emerging countriesThe concept of emerging countries has crept in almost unnoticed from the financial sphere to take centre stage in political and economic communications. Today it is part of the public arena, in particular in international relations, and is used to describe some major new players in global issues. Following on from a symposium organised by the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in July 2007 (“Emerging Powers in Global Governance: New Challenges and Policy Options”), this issue is therefore a useful opportunity to take a fresh look at this concept
In the early years of the 21st century, American neo-conservatives tried to identify those countries that could threaten the hegemonic stability of the United States. This was logical in the sense that the collapse of the communist system in Europe had left the country without competition. Where might danger be lurking? In China, first of all, but also in rogue states or radical Islam (and beyond that, to put it briefly, the question of the caliphate). September 11 brought a change of perspective: for a while, the “war on terror” was the be-all and endall of American foreign policy. The convenient conclusion (though a paradoxical and highly questionable one) was the invasion of Iraq and the stream of tactical errors that followed in its wake, quickly revealing a major strategic blunder.
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74- Social sciences and development
Knowledge and PowerSocial sciences have hosted the project of modernity and development. How do they assess this project today?
In which way do they support the politics in its reflecting on social change?october-december 2004
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65 - International negotiations
The agricultural exception
How to support the "agricultural exception" in international trade nagotiations ? For what? For whom? How is treated the issue out of Europe (United States, India, Senegal, Brazil, Japan)?2001-volume V
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63 - Global civil society
Its rise to powerNGOS have become true and powerful stakeholders of global governance. Highlights on the first World Social Forum.
2001-volume III
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The Carthagena protocole on GMOs has opened new hopes and conflicts on the regulation of trade of GMOs.
2000-volume V
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