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Based on findings pertaining to the institutional behavior of six major and one middle powers in fourteen different cases, this article argues that in conflictual cases powers are careful and conspicuous in the way they resort to ISI; they tend to use them in order to orient these institutions in directions that coincides as much as possible with their preferences. In cases where powers seek to regulate security relations, the recourse to ISI seems to be less prone to careful judgements and more open to accepting unpredictable results. In the case of the Security Council's reform, there are major differences between major powers as to the issue of reinforcing the Council, but near total agreement on issues concerning its enlargement. The latter two positions stand in contrast with those of the middle power which maintains opposite views given its interest in a more radical transformation of the Security Council.
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The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities is fundamental in international environment law, as it structures the distribution of burdens between developing and developed countries in all major environmental treaties. In the climate change regime, where differentiation takes the most drastic form, only developed countries have the obligation to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while developing countries benefit from capacity-building measures. With the rise of emerging nations as major polluters and new economic powers, this operationalization, devised in 1992, has been called into question. The difficulty faced by the party States in reaching agreement on the equitable sharing of the burdens associated with the fight against global warming have paralyzed negotiations on the future of the system. This paper outlines the problem, before setting out the case for a more subtle approach to differentiation, which appears to be the only sustainable way to break the current deadlock. The stakes are high, since the future of equity in international environment law depends on it.
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The study of Quebec is of increasing interest abroad. This is often to the astonishment of Quebecers themselves who wonder at the reasons for such a development, not only in countries which are politically, culturally or geographically proximate, like France and the United States, but also in distant countries like Russia, Brazil, India and China. When did this interest for Quebec Studies begin? How has it been institutionalized? What are its cultural and scientific affiliations?
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In this article, the author analyzes representations of the Orient (China, Korea, Japan) created by four Quebec writers of different origins as expressed through one topos, that of Chinatown. Based on a sample of four novels—Les lettres chinoises by Ying Chen, L'enfant chinois by Guy Parent, Kimchi by Ook Chung and Tsubame by Aki Shimazaki—, he brings to light a critique of Orientalism expressed in these works through a poetics of disorientation. Finally, he raises questions about the future of “disorientalism,” a writing strategy focusing on a deliberate effort to disorient, in contemporary Quebec literature.