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It is generally accepted that the power of NGOs has increased with globalization, but to date, few authors have attempted to explain why. Using a model based on institutional economics, this article aims to identify the determinants of this power and wants to open the debate on its legitimacy. One conclusion of the model is that the system of quasi-regulation resulting from the interaction between NGOs and multinational corporations may carry within itself a cultural bias, or that of the people of the most developed countries.
Keywords: mondialisation, ONG, entreprises multinationales, politique privée, quasi-pouvoir de régulation, pays développés, pays en voie de développement, économie institutionnelle, globalization, NGOs, multinational corporations, private politics, quasi-regulatory powers, developed countries, developing countries, institutional economics, globalización, ONG, corporaciones multinacionales, política privada, poderes de cuasi-regulación, países desarrollados, países en desarrollo, economía institucional
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SummaryThis article analyzes the ethnie community by emphasizing its political dimensions without, however, neglecting its other dimensions. The ethnic community is considered as a political community (polity) without a state, which has led to the question of how it governs itself and in what way it manages its public affairs. Four phenomena related to the capacity for making choices and realizing collective projects are considered here : the definition of boundaries, forms of government and their functioning, management of conflicts within the group, and the mobilization and participation required for collective action. The manner in which the group is governed is influenced by the fact that it is in a minority situation, that membership in the community is voluntary, and that the community itself is heterogeneous and therefore subject to internal divisions. This analysis is limited to groups made up of immigrants and their descendants.
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This paper begins by reviewing some of the theoretical issues to be canvassed in any consideration of trade and foreign policy. The empirical core of the paper is a description of the many recent proposals to enhance transatlantic relations, it then turns to consideration of a puzzle : why has this resurgence of Atlanticist fever in trade policy happened now ? Finally, in the conclusion, it discusses whether the Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFIA) is meant to be an objective of policy in its own right, or an instrument used in pursuit of some other objective. The paper concludes that TAFTA is not significant for trade policy, but it is for foreign policy.
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SummaryThe links between religion and politics have a long history, and studies of them are relatively numerous. In France, the dominant model during the 1960s—which revealed the intensity of the relationship between right-wing voting and integration to Catholicism—is now being questioned. Concurrent models insist on the pluralism of Catholicism and the consequences of plural politics. This article examines the relevance of two models on the one hand, and tests them by applying them to various European countries on the other. It demonstrates that the relationship between religion and politics remains intense and relatively stable no matter which country is studied or which religion is considered. As such, despite the need for some adjustments to the first paradigm, it is no less true that this it is still valid for analyzing the religion-politics couplet.
Keywords: religion, politique, catholicisme, France, Europe, pratique religieuse, vote, droite religieuse, religion, politics, Catholicism, France, Europe, religious practice, voting, religious right, religión, política, catolicismo, Francia, Europa, práctica religiosa, votación, derecha religiosa
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AbstractIn relation to political struggles led by Aboriginal peoples in Canada and elsewhere in the last thirty years, a coherent new stream of thought has developed that can be identified as a “contemporary Aboriginal political thought.” Today, that discourse is largely being heard in a variety of forums, including social, governmental, and academic spheres. That being said, contemporary Aboriginal political thought is still marginalized in the academia in Canada, and it is very little known in the Francophonie. By offering a preliminary study of Aboriginal political literature of the past thirty years, this article aims to contribute to filling such gaps. By way of a close reading of the work of Aboriginal authors Howard Adams, Taiaiake Alfred, Olive P. Dickason, Daniel N. Paul, and Georges E. Sioui, this study engages with the major themes of that literature, and further explores the signification and limitations of the coherence of that contemporary stream of thought. In the end, the results of the study shed a new light upon the relationship between politics and the concept of truth in Western thought.