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The European Union is an interesting political space for analyzing the points of contact between research on international communication and research on intercultural communication. Indeed, the European Union (EU) is obviously with 28 countries (soon 27) a space where unfolds an international multilingual communication. It is also a political institution that seeks to create an intercultural public sphere to legitimize a “united in diversity” political structure (EU motto). Is this institutional goal achieved? Can the communication policy implemented by the EU executive (the European Commission) for 500 million Europeans help to create a space for mediation and engagement that is common as well as respectful of cultural diversity? The purpose of this article is to answer this question.
Keywords: Union européenne, espace public, communication interculturelle, politique de communication, communication internationale, European Union, public sphere, intercultural communication, political communication, International communication
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The first part of this paper analyses some of the fundamental aspects of the debate on political theology, mainly on the basis of Carl Schmitt's work. The second part of this paper examines Giorgio Agamben's updating of this controversy by identifying its main theoretical and political stakes. Finally, in the third section, the paper contrasts Michel Foucault's concept of pastoral power with the version of secularization of the theological-historical paradigm.
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Participation is increasingly present in French public discourse. This discursive institutionalisation of participation is supported in particular by the development of a constitutional rhetoric deployed by the discourse of the political leaders themselves. This observation, based on an empirical analysis of the French case, raises the question of the effects of this constitutional trajectory of participation. The central hypothesis of this article is that this institutionalisation of participation via political and constitutional rhetoric helps to preserve the interests of a ruling elite. An analysis of French political discourse reveals the semantic and syntactic mechanisms used to compartmentalise the imaginary of participation. Acting like a newspeak, this rhetoric neutralises participation. It is assimilated and reformulated by the dominant representative paradigm. This alienation of the participatory imaginary thus has an analgesic effect and reduces the scope for more radical socio-political transformation.
Keywords: participation, institutionnalisation, rhétorique politique et constitutionnelle, analyse du discours, novlangue, participation, institutionalisation, political and constitutional rhetoric, discourse analysis, newspeak
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AbstractThis paper criticizes some optimistic hypotheses implied by the Economic Council in proposing its new commercial policy for Canada.More specifically, it shows why the Samuelsonian free trade model has been misused by the Council and that its reasons for explaining the weak comparative productivity of the Canadian secondary sector are clearly insufficient. Also, the Council underestimates the total costs of the proposed policy and its regional effects.The paper suggests that the Council's recommendation would be more politically acceptable if it could demonstrate that the new policy will not continue to benefit only the Ontarian peninsula. It would also help if the Council could name the industries able in the medium term to absorb the factors displaced by the tariff elimination, and if it could refute the proposition that more free trade sectorial tests are needed before adopting the proposed very general commercial policy.
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: The municipal elections in French cities always have a national dimension. The objective of this article is to draw the portrait of the urban mayor in 2006 thanks to the results of an empirical investigation made on all the communes above 5 000 inhabitants in order to appreciate the change that occurred after the municipal elections of March 2008.
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