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Building a Digital Agenda for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions : UNESCO, new governance norms and power dynamics
En savoir plus Télécharger le document :Antonios Vlassis, "Creación de una agenda digital para la diversidad de expresiones culturales : UNESCO, nuevas normas de gobernanza para la cultura y las dinámicas de poder " Quaderns del CAC , Nº 43, Vol. XX, julio 2017
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2017 19 juil.
Toward a Free Trade Agreement with China
En savoir plus"A possible free trade agreement (FTA) with China represents a great opportunity for Canada, since it would give the latter preferential access to the world’s third-largest economy after the European Union and the United States. It would also help level the playing field for Canadian businesses vis-à-vis their Australian, New Zealand and Swiss competitors, which operate under FTAs that their countries have signed with China. This special report examines the opportunities and challenges of a (...)
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2017 30 juin
Linking International Norms to Regions : Mercosur and ASEAN facing the challenge of cultural diversity
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The Convention on diversity of cultural expression (CDCE), adopted by Unesco in 2005, became a main mechanism within the multilayered global governance of cultural industries, establishing new pratices regarding the cultural sector. My article encourage an orignial view on norm diffusion and implementation focusing on two regions : Mercosur (Southern Common Market) and ASEAN (Association of the Southeast Asian Nations). Through the analysis of the CDCE’s transfer from international (...)
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2017 26 juin
Actionnariat et Pouvoir dans les multinationales
En savoir plus“La plupart des sociétés multinationales, à quelques exceptions près (la firme suédoise IKEA, le négociant de matières premières Cargill ou l’industriel Allemand Bosch par exemple), sont cotées en bourse. Il est donc théoriquement possible d’acheter des titres de ces sociétés et d’en devenir actionnaire.
Mais le plus souvent, la majorité de l’actionnariat n’est pas composé de monsieur et madame tout-le-monde, mais bien d’investisseurs institutionnels, de banques, d’assurances et autres fonds (...) -
2016 31 déc.
From regionalism to cross-regionalism
En savoir plus Télécharger le document :« Commenting on the relationship between prolific and pioneering regional trade agreements and a faltering WTO, the author questions whether the latter can regain initiative and control on trade regulation.
The multilateral trading system is geared towards a disciplined opening of markets and liberalisation of trade. Cooperation is regulated in order to ensure that equal treatment is respected by states, both in their relationships to one another and towards foreign operators on their (...)
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2016 16 juil.
European Commission, trade agreements and diversity of cultural expressions
En savoir plusThe Convention on diversity of cultural expressions – adopted by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2005 – is a main international instrument within the global governance of cultural and audiovisual industries. For its part, the European Commission played a critical role in the negotiation, leading to the Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions’ adoption. In this respect, the article aims to explore why and how the Commission uses the Convention on (...)
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2016 14 mars
A Century of Marxist Debates Concerning Capitalism, Imperialism and Imperialist Competition
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The mechanicist association of capitalism to western imperialism has paved the way for current "globalisation" and "empire" discourses while minimising the importance of the nation-state. Conversely only a small number of neo-Marxists think otherwise, and our paper, by retourning to classical Marxist theorists of imperialism, tends to valorise thier minority position.
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2015 30 sept.
Culture in the post-2015 development agenda : the anatomy of an international mobilisation
En savoir plusThis article was published on
Third World Quarterly
Volume 36, Issue 9, 2015
Abstract
Throughout 2012–15 several actors were advocating that culture be explicitly integrated within the post-2015 UN development agenda. My article offers an anatomy of the recent international mobilisation in order to understand the cleavages and the contrasting visions. In doing so, it seeks to analyse the policy process through which the agenda is made, why and how a critical mass of actors is attempting (...) -
L’ORGANISATION MONDIALE DU COMMERCE ET LE PROGRAMME DE DOHA POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT
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Cette contribution développe une analyse d’économie politique internationale systémique de l’enlisement de l’agenda de Doha pour le développement. Cette analyse a pour point de départ la réfutation de la thèse du nombre comme principal déterminant des difficultés rencontrées par l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC). Elle fait la proposition d’une dissonance entre l’institution – le régime OMC – et le système commercial international qu’elle régule. Cette dissonance apparaît à deux niveaux : la (...)
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2015 18 août
Beyond NAFTA with Three Countries : The Impact of Global Value Chains on an Outdated Trade Agreement
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This article shows how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is significantly affected by the redeployment of transpacific specialized value chains and production networks. More specifically, our study looks at the repositioning of NAFTA partners with new transnational production networks which point to the need for new trading schemes redeploying regional strategies on the transpacific axis. We used the ICT sector as an (...)
