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Keywords: performance, art urbain, installation vidéo, écologie, miniature
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AbstractWhile Canada has reviewed foreign policy for the last three decades, the first Australian white paper on foreign policy was not published until 1997. « In the National Interest » sought to articulate a strong national-interest conception of foreign policy. In October 2002, Australia published « Advancing the National Interest », which sought to articulate Australia's response to the war on terror. The purpose of this paper is to examine these two white papers as a tool of foreign policy by Australia as it sought to relocate itself in global politics. We will compare the different uses of white papers in Australia and Canada, arguing that in Canada they have been driven by domestic dynamics, notably the efforts by new prime ministers to articulate their foreign policy perspectives. In Australia, the purposes of the two foreign policy statements have been more global than domestic.
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After showing the dynamic character of the world market of telecommunications equipment, the authors analyze the main factors which have contributed to the elaboration of the industrial structure in this field. Particular stress is laid on the role played by technological evolution as driving force of the industrial reorganization which is taking place right now in the field. This reorganization movement on a world scale has sometimes given rise, in industrial policy, to totally different behaviours from governments. Thus, the strategies of the Japanese and French branches are countered by measures taken by the US Government to deregulate and liberalize the market. The authors conclude by pointing out that, given the limited means at its disposal and faced with an international market of electronics threatened by competition from the Newly Industrialized Countries, there is a need for Canada to adopt a differential strategic approach which will allow it to acceed to technological sovereignty and to counter the delocalisation process which profit the NIC of South-East Asia.
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The crisis of the State preceded structural adjustment, the latter only exposing a pre-existing economic and financial crisis. As a result of this financial crisis, the State's ambitions have fallen into discredit. Its leaders are less able to redistribute wealth and, as one problem leads to another, their political survival is threatened. The « revolt of the belly » has been carried over to the political playing-field thanks to favourable international circumstances which have forced states to accept multipartygovernment. From this viewpoint, the collapse of ideological models and the structural policies of adjustment are as much factors in the crisis of the African State as they are in its renewal.
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Based on ethnic entrepreneurship literature and a survey conducted in 2010, in Brazzaville, among 220 respondents among Malian immigrant entrepreneurs, this article looks at the extent to which the entrepreneurial performance of Malian immigrants, operating in Congo, via family SMEs do they proceed from social capital? This means a high degree of networking of ethnic resources according to Menzies, Brenner and Filion (2003). Our hypothesis is that these entrepreneurs, operating in the Congo since the 1960s, form “a sustainablemiddleman minority” (Bonacich, 1973). The study elucidates the factors of success of this entrepreneurship in connection with the risk management via the social capital leading to a reduction of transaction costs. The impact of these entrepreneurs on the local development for the home Country and the host Country is evaluated; strategies for adapting to the risk of crowding out of the market are also revealed, because of the recent competition from the Chinese immigrants trading networks.