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The St.Lawrence River has three geopolitical functions. As an important gateway of the continent, it always induced those holding the key-positions of Montréal and Québec to build large empires. As a Québec inland sea, it is the basic axis of organization for the linguistic community settled in the St.Lawrence Corridor, and as a big cut in the North American space, it has been chosen as an international boundary, while being an obstacle for all the transcanadian transportation arteries. This paper studies the places of these functions in the present constutional debate, and shows that the St.Lawrence River will play an important part, whatever the option may be.
Keywords: Géopolitique, Canada, Province de Québec, Saint-Laurent, Voie maritime du Saint-Laurent, Geopolitics, Canada, Province of Quebec, St.Lawrence River, St.Lawrence Seaway
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This article examines how geopolitics can enrich the study of the analysis of the context of companies involved in megaprojects from a risk identification perspective. By detailing this particular method of analysis and with the analysis of the case of the Jaitapur nuclear power plant in India, it highlights the interest of detailing the relational chains between the risks themselves by reasoning in terms of territory, representation, creation of imbalance or disruption of balance through multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary observation. It calls for the development of a geopolitical approach to megaprojects in order to minimize investment risks.
Keywords: mégaprojets, identification des risques, géopolitique, megaprojects, risk identification, geopolitics, megaproyectos, identificación de riesgos, geopolítica
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AbstractThe heuristic suitability of dominant Western geopolitical approaches to the Ukrainian crisis is examined through an examination of their epistemological foundations. The most influential discourses today, essentially culturalist, derive from widely disputed paradigms of International Relations and have trouble overcoming the methodological biases and limitations of realist, statist, or neorealist approaches. Deconstruction of the various models reveals the self-same ethnocentric and prescriptive notion of a world order that serves as a foundation for a full-blown “hegemonistic consensus.” Such a vision of international relations however, structured around the assumption of u.s. pre-eminence, is unable to address the complexity of a conflict reducible neither to age-old Russian imperialism nor to a return of the Cold War.
Keywords: géopolitique, conflit ukrainien, Occident, identité et culture russes, convention hégémoniste, Geopolitics, Ukrainian conflict, the West, Russian identity and culture, hegemonistic consensus, Geopolítica, conflicto ucraniano, Occidente, identidad y cultura rusas, convención hegemónica