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Relations internationales
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Les Relations internationales (avec majuscule car il s'agit ici de l'aspect académique du sujet) sont aussi appelées Études internationales (en anglais International Studies ( IS )) [ 1 ] . Sous ces vocables, sont en général désignés l'étude des affaires étrangères et des grandes questions du système international : rôle des États , des organisations internationales , des organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) ainsi que des entreprises multinationales . Les relations internationales appartiennent à la fois au domaine académique et au domaine politique. Elles peuvent être étudiées soit dans une optique positiviste soit dans une optique normative, toutes deux cherchant tant à analyser qu'à formuler les politiques internationales des pays .
Anthony Kwame Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and a member of the UNDEF Advisory Board for 2010-11, spoke at the Board's Spring meeting on 29 March. His remarks were a concise yet profound reflection on the nature and philosophy of democracy: "The trouble with most accounts of democracy is that they want to insist that it has a simple definition and a few virtues. But democracy, which emerged in the modern world, in response to monarchy and empire, has many elements and many inter-connected virtues, which are mirror images, if you like, of the vices of the Ancien Régime. In democracies, unlike monarchies and aristocracies, elites have to live with the discipline of knowing that they may be replaced; and they have to permit public criticism, from which they can learn about the impacts of their decisions on the life of their citizens, and through which citizens can organize to replace as well as to support them.
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