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Le présent travail s'intéresse au processus du raisonnement géopolitique et à la construction identitaire chez l'élite politique russe à travers la formation des narratifs géopolitiques à l'égard de la Géorgie et de l'Ukraine, et ce, pour la période s'étendant de 1999 à 2014. Exprimée dans le langage théorique de l'approche poststructuraliste, cette étude s'inscrit dans le champ disciplinaire des Relations internationales. Plus spécifiquement, basée sur les postulats de géopolitiques critiques, cette thèse porte sur le domaine de la politique étrangère russe et sur le processus du raisonnement géopolitique et la construction identitaire des élites politiques russes à l'égard de deux anciennes républiques soviétiques (la Géorgie et l'Ukraine) dans le contexte de leur volonté de se dégager de la sphère d'influence russe et de joindre l'OTAN …
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This article provides a new approach, revolving around contested property relations, for theorizing the constitution, operation and transformation of geopolitical systems, exemplified with reference to early modern international relations. Against the cross-paradigmatic IR consensus that equates the Westphalian Settlement with the codification of modern international relations, the article shows to which degree 17th and 18th century European geopolitics remained tied to rather unique pre-modern practices. These cannot be understood on the basis of realist or constructivist premises. In contrast, the theoretical argument is that the proprietary and personalized character of dynastic sovereignty was predicated on pre-capitalist property relations. Dynasticism, in turn, translated into historically specific patterns of conflict and cooperation that were fundamentally governed by the competitive logic of geopolitical accumulation. The decisive break to international modernity comes with the rise of the first modern state–England. After the establishment of a capitalist agrarian property regime and the transformation of the English state in the 17th century, post-1688 Britain starts to restructure international relations in a long-term process of geopolitically combined and socially uneven development.
Keywords: relations sociales de propriété, capitalisme, dynasticisme, Marxisme politique, souveraineté, accumulation politique, traités de Westphalie, Social Property Regimes, capitalism, dynasticism, Political Marxism, Sovereignty, Political Accumulation, Westphalia, Relaciones sociales, capitalismo, dinasticismo, marxismo político, soberanía, acumulación política, tratados de Westfalia
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These prolegomena deal with the political power in Southern Quebec and Northern Quebec, both located inside a total Quebec. One starts with four assumptions: Major political events have recently happened to the Quebec-Labrador peninsula; there is no Quebec without the North; there is no Quebec without a kind of combined operations made by native and non-native peoples; most of Quebecers have only a tiny emotional linkage with the territory as a whole. An ideology of coexistence and an original project of territoriality provide arguments for a new polity. A readjustment of actual governance structures is proposed.