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AbstractThis article offers an analysis of China's Africa policy that, while maintaining the connection with economics, emphasizes China's concern with its reputation, soft power and other international players' competition in Africa. Also, Chinese-African relations can be properly understood only by adopting a “longitudinal perspective”. This allows one to understand their specificities as well as why African governments have responded so positively (in general) to China's presence. Also, this perspective focuses on the current, rejuvenated ‘scramble for Africa' in order to explain why China's Africa policy today is so accommodating. For given the competition between international powers on the continent, China faces constraints and its dominance on the continent has been much exaggerated.
Keywords: Chine, Afrique, focac, coopération, aide chinoise, soft power, China, Africa, focac, cooperation, Chinese aid, soft power
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AbstractThe Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, as well as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001, both had direct impacts on Canadian-American relations, notably by accelerating the process of defence integration between the two countries. There is, however, a debate in Canada about the consequences of the phenomenon, with some fearing a loss of sovereignty while others seeing an opportunity for reinforcing political and economic links with the us. This paper compares the evolution of the bilateral relationship prior to and following the crises of 1941 and 2001. We can see that the dynamics of the bilateral relationship follow certain patterns, in spite of the temporal difference, which are faithful to the tenets of the « Sermon of Kingston ». We can also conclude that many of the fears and hopes in Canada caused by the process of integration with the us often are not well-founded.
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Is Quebec society being militarized ? The question may appear nonsensical given the fact that it is commonly accepted that Quebeckers are more pacifists than their Canadian neighbours. This article rigorously examines the question. It begins by providing a typology of potential attitudes held by Quebeckers regarding international security issues. It then tests these against dozens of polls conducted during the last quarter of a century. The results are paradoxical. While Quebeckers continue to hold longstanding anti-imperialistic values, they nonetheless express strong militaristic attitudes vis-à-vis foreign and defence policy issues.
Keywords: militarisme, anti-impérialisme, opinion publique, Québec, Canada, militarism, anti-imperialism, public opinion, Québec, Canada, militarismo, anti-imperialismo, opinión pública, Québec, Canadá
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This article analyses legitimation processes of nato's member military intervention over Libya in 2011. By using Foucault's methodological tools for discourse analysis, our aim is to study discursive structures in which the justifications of the operation were inserted. Thus, by displacing our analytical focal from argument contents to their organization in discursive structures, we suppose that the legitimation of the intervention did not rely on precise and delimited arguments, but on a network of moving and interdependent justifications.
Keywords: otan, Libye, intervention militaire, légitimation, Foucault, discours, nato, Libya, military intervention, legitimation, Foucault, discourse, otan, Libia, intervención militar, legitimación, Foucault, discurso
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Japan has a tradition of borders, not only at sea but also on land. Given the country's insularity and historical development, the former kind are the ones that will be of concern to international relations. Their demarcation, and the disputes that may arise with adjacent maritime countries (Russia, China, Korea), are a legacy of both history and geography. A remote island is not necessarily an ideal point for marking off a territory, as exemplified by the Takeshima/Tok-to islets which Japan and Korea have been disputing. The recent delimitation of maritime Exclusive Economic Zones is raising the stakes and stirring up tensions.