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In the post-WWII period, the claims over the savoirdévelopper were numerous, coming from diverse ideological and institutional origins, and dealing with multiple topics, from rural welfare to community development, from education to health and labour. Many were the competing arguments and plans to intervene about those topics in various geographic spaces. Among the international actors participating in the promotion of a developmentalist agenda with global impacts, two interimperial organizations were particularly active, sometimes cooperating, sometimes rivalling with the specialized agencies of the United Nations system: The International Institute of Differing Civilizations (INCIDI, 1949) and the Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa South of the Sahara (CCTA, 1950). Associated to projects of imperial and colonial resilience in contexts characterized by mounting anti-colonial pressures, both organisations contributed to the growing internationalization of social policies, gathering numerous experts in various conferences, in Europe and in Africa, promoting the production and transfer of original knowledge, publishing diverse reports and enquiries with considerable reach, and even sponsoring specific interventions on the ground. These dynamics were meaningfully, and frequently, shaped by disputes about the motivations and applications of social policies that occurred at the imperial metropoles. This paper addresses these two institution’s roles in the internationalization of social policies, analysing some of their major meetings, key publications, and significant projects, taking the topics of education, ‘social’ and ‘rural welfare’ and, mostly, labour as main observatories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at analyzing the emergence of European militaries capabilities--understood as a tool incorporated in a wider security continuum -- as the expansion of European bureaucratic struggles towards new arenas. Drawing on sociological work in EU studies and in International Relations, it presents an account of the EU-UN cooperation as a central locus enabling the construction of CSDP. The argument is articulated through a dual-dynamic of internationalization and autonomization, and on the role-played by the former High Representative for CFSP, Javier Solana, and his staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The West, and especially Europe, often understands globalization as a new process that will eventually challenge the domination of traditional politics. This paper will attempt to question the idea of a gradual disappearance of war in human affairs, using Raymond Aron s thoughts on the subject. In the first part we will see how the concepts of "procès" (process) and "drame" (drama) provide a method to analyze historical developments. Then, in a second part, we will apply such concepts to three general causes of conflict (namely passions, economic interests and principles) to show that pacifistic hopes must be refrained. Even the pacification in Europe does not mean an end of war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to evaluate the contributions of the theoretical researches of the "new political economy" and the "international political economy" in the field of European integration. The former starts from the principle of individual rationality assuming as exogenous the identities and the preferences of agents; the latter analyses the institutional and collective dynamics, in particular the interstate conflicts and compromises or the constructivist power of institutions over the identities and preferences of the agents. The article shows why and how the two political economics must be taken together, in particular to analyze three topics: the institutional products; the organization of powers; the fiscal and social competition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on prevailing political conditions in the U.S. and around the world, as of April 22, 1897. The protests against the Dingley bill by European countries are based upon the idea that the U.S. is abandoning the policy of non-discrimination in foreign tariff, notwithstanding its treaties, and that the way to meet this action on the part of the U.S. is for the various European Governments to lay their duties so as to keep out American products whenever possible. Another development focuses on the teaching methods of English language in the schools of the U.S. and Great Britain.

The article reports that the American internet giant Google announced the creation of a European cultural institute, in a bid to bring actors from the continent's cultural scene closer, and to foster the digitization of a number of cultural archives.