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AbstractFrance/nato relationship remains based on a mix of solidarity, reluctance vis-à-vis a us dominated alliance, and disappointment for an unachieved adaptation to the times of post Cold War. However, the rapprochement, since 1992, has been spectacular. Today, paradoxically, the Alliance appears to French eyes, and at the same time, necessary and unclear considering its actual role and ambitions. Present French decisions are unlikely to solve the problem by themselves. Only a basic debate on the future of the Alliance could give President Sarkozy's choices a positive impact for France and the Alliance.
Keywords: Alliance atlantique, otan, France, Atlantic Alliance, Nato, France
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A one-day conference about Music and nation in the inter-war period (Europe-The United States and South America) took place on 10th December 2015 at the Maison de la Recherche in Paris. Musicologists and historians questioned the connection between music and the national feeling that can be found in interwar democracies. In studies about the 19th century and authoritarian regimes, this link has already been put forward. However, this day is the first step of an international research project launched by the Department of Cultural History of Contemporary (or Modern) Societies at the University of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and by the laboratory of Synergy, Languages, Arts and Music (slam) of the University of Evry-Val d'Essonne as well as the Institute of Research in Musicology (cnrs, University Paris-Sorbonne). The association between “music and nation” was questioned again in 2016 in Manchester. In the near future, the issue will be at stake in Montreal during a symposium which will take place in October 2018.
Keywords: musique, nation, entre-deux-guerres, Europe, Amériques, Music, nation, inter-war period, Europe, America
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One of the biggest challenges for Europe in the 21st century will be to manage all of its complexities. On the one hand, progressive continentalization causes official state functions to redeploy at regional and European levels, in an effort to ensure optimum decision-making (by using the principle of subsidiarity or decentralization). On the other hand, European societies are diversified, open and fluid. The experience of contemporary Canadian federalism shows how useful are the dynamic interactions among numerous political fora and various institutional actors, in order to develop innovative decision-making solutions. The structural interdependence of the recognition of identities, the management of diversity and the protection of fundamental rights is a central component of the conceptualization of this complexity within an open, inclusive and integrative democracy. If the Canadian model is specifically situated in time and space and thus not exportable, federalism, as a multi-layered model of governance, offers forms of management of this complexity by favouring the expression of diversity. The active, constitutional protection of fundamental rights at every layer of government is the essential ingredient for cultural diversity and social plurality, both of which contribute to forging a multiform, national identity. Ultimately, a dimension, to which Katia became very sensitive, is the collective perception that this “culture of rights” is a veritable source of citizen power as well as a recognition of plural identities drives its appropriation by the individual and the group and, in so doing, ensures the promotion of diversity at the heart of the Canadian polity. A possible source of inspiration for Europe and the European countries.
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AbstractThis article shows how Yugoslavia's citizens who accepted the idea of mixing, notably through the nomenclature used in the census, have been the first victims of the process leading to the country's collapse, process which restored patrilinearity as the unique principle of collective identification. Through the failure of the austro-marxist conception underlying the Yugoslav Federation, the concept of nationality itself, as a legitimate projection of ethnicity, is put under question by the spatial and political redefinitions of the Balkan peninsula, and more broadly of the Central and Eastern Europe. The diverse acceptations of the notion of minority (“minority rights”, “protection of minorities”) are only confirming the paradoxes of the principle of nationalities within the New World Order.
Keywords: Gossiaux, ethnicité, nationalité, minorité, austro-marxisme, Yougoslavie, Gossiaux, ethnicity, nationality, minority, austro-marxism, Yugoslavia