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I. ∙ OVERVIEW
The Court of Auditors is an administrative court. It monitors the management of all national government, public or para-public bodies and even private agencies. She judges the accounts of the public accountants. It certifies the accounts of the state and the general social security regime.
The court assists Parliament and the Government in monitoring the application of state finance laws and social security financing laws.
Certification of State accounts
2007
Court of accounts
The Financial Laws (OLF) Act of 1 August 2001 defined the constitutional role of assistance that the Accounts Court fulfils with Parliament and the Government for the control of the enforcement of financial laws. As such, the court is given a mission to certify the regularity, sincerity and fidelity of the State's accounts. The document by which it formulates its position on the general account of the State is annexed to the bill of regulation. As for the year 2007, the court here, for the second time since the LOLF came into force, provides an opinion on the State's accounts based on audits conducted in accordance with international auditing standards.
2008, La Documentation française, 80 p. ― 7 €. ISBN: 978-2-11007243-6. ― Ref.: 9782110072436.
High Authority to Combat Discrimination
and for equality
Annual report 2007
Independent administrative authority established by Act No. 2004-1486 of 30 December 2004, the High Authority to Combat Discrimination and Equality (HALDE) presents its third annual report. An increase of 53% in one year of the claims filed with the institution is noted. Employment remains the first area of discrimination (more than 50% of registered claims) and the complainant's origin is the first criterion (27.1%). Then came the "health-handicap" criterion (22 per cent) and, on an equal basis (6 per cent), that of age, sex and trade union activities. The report records other means of contacting HALDE: more than 32,000 calls were registered in 2007 on a Azur number and, since January 2008, 580 referrals were made directly to the institution's website. In addition, the HALDE report notes that the impact of the decisions it has taken since its inception is now quantifiable. Thus, 69 per cent of the recommendations issued resulted in legislative or regulatory amendments and 83 per cent of its observations before the courts were adopted. The use of mediation has also become more common with results up to several hundred thousand euros of compensation for the victim. On the other hand, HALDE notes that the difficulty of gathering evidence of discrimination remains an obstacle. She wishes that an offence of intrusion be put in place to deal with information retention.
2008, La Documentation française, 184 p. ― 10 €. ISBN: 2-9526389-2-6. ― Ref.: 9782952638920.
The Lisbon Treaty
Text and comment, article by article,
new European treaties (TEU-TFUE)
François-Xavier Priollaud
David Siritzky
La Documentation française
The Lisbon Treaty: a "similated" treaty probably, but not a "simple" treaty. On the contrary, a very complex text that amends several hundred provisions of the treaties in force, and to which dozens of new protocols and 60 statements are adopted... It was therefore important to facilitate the approach, as its impact on current Europe will be important.
It is the objective of this book, which presents a comment, article by article, of European treaties: Treaty on the European Union (TEU) and Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) as they will be amended by the Lisbon Treaty.
The authors hoped that this text, despite its complexity, would remain accessible to non-specialists. They specify the contours of the work already accomplished and emphasize with precision, and without partisan considerations, the issues, innovations, sometimes the uncertainties that underlie the new drafting of the treaties called to "relause Europe".
This volume includes the tables of consistency of the protocols annexed to the TEU, the TFEU and, where applicable, the Euratom Treaty. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, as adapted on 12 September 2007, in Strasbourg, is included at the end of the volume.
The authors: François-Xavier Priollaud is a director of the National Assembly. David Siritzky is a director of the National Assembly, and currently a reference to the Court of Justice of the European Communities. Both also teach at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris.
2008, La Documentation française, 528 p., index, 21 €. ISBN: 978-2-11-0071002. ― Ref.: 9782110071002.
Social Security History Committee
The French Social Problem
General common course
Promotion "Albert Thomas" of 1954
Pierre Laroque
Social Security History Committee
NAC history committee
The decision of the Social Security History Committee to publish this course by Pierre Laroque is a concern for information and should allow us to recall the importance of the social problem which, as Pierre Laroque had already pointed out in the conclusion of his lessons in 1954, to the NAC students, "never lose their news".
2008, Association for the Study of Social Security History, 296 p. ― 25 €. ISBN: 978-2-905882-70-0. ― Ref.: 9782905882707.
Council of Europe
Extradition
European standards
Council of Europe
Book all in English
The fight against today's new forms of criminality, across Europe and beyond, can only succeed if we have the necessary tools, in particular through effective mechanisms dealing with extradition. For over fifty years, the Council of Europe has been developing a set of instruments dealing with extradition, be it in the form of conventions or resolutions and recommendations to member states. This publication presents notes and comments on the Council of Europe's legal instruments on extradition. It includes the current status of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on extradition matters and on other transnational criminal proceedings. It also brings together the non-binding instruments on extradition adopted by the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers. Practitioners, policy makers and researchers dealing with extradition matters will find this publication a useful and up-to-date reference document.
2008, Council of Europe, 168 p. ― 19 €. ISBN: 978-92-871-6076-8. ― Ref.: 9789287160768.
Cultures France
The Neolithic Necropolis of El-Kadada in Central Sudan
Volume I. ― Cemeteries A and B
(NE-36-O/3-V-2 and NE-36-O/3-V-3)
Jacques Reinold
Cultures France
This book opens a series dedicated to the publications of the excavations of the French section of the Directorate of Antiquities in Khartoum, Sudan, which is a French research institute dependent on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This first volume deals with Neolithic Cemeteries of the North Necropolis of El-Kadada, in the region of Meroé in Central Sudan.
If, for the Neolithic period, habitat sites are rare, the cemeteries are numerous in the Nile Valley and their organization as the funeral ritual are of great interest. In addition, these cemeteries are an important milestone in understanding the mechanisms of social transformations, mechanisms that will lead, towards the end of the 4th millennium, to the emergence of complex societies, in Egypt at first, then in Nubia a few centuries later.
Thanks to a complete documentation of the burials and furniture they contained, one of the most interesting aspects of this funeral package is highlighted: the type and disposition of the furniture according to the person buried. In this regard, the accuracy of the data provided may be a reference in this regard. To date, no Neolithic Cemetery in the Valley has been published in full and detailed, that they have been incompletely published in the early last century, or that they are known only by preliminary articles. In this bibliographic context, the publication of this first volume on El-Kadada is of paramount importance. It makes available to the research community a sepulchral ensemble of a great archaeological interest that is part of a period of Sudanese prehistory (about 3500 BC) so far still poorly known. Interesting both prehistories, archaeologists and historians working in the Sudan and those studying the same period in Egypt, this book will contribute to the development of studies on protohistoric necropolises in the Nile Valley.
2008, CulturesFrance / Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, 308 p., sch., 35 €. ISBN: 978-2-86538-315-3. ― Ref.: 9782865383153.
OECD
Multinational activities
Vol. II. ― Services, 2000-2004
Activities of Multinationals
Volume II. ― Services: 2000-2004
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
This publication presents detailed data on the industrial activity of multinationals in OECD countries. The series covers twenty-three countries for the period 2000-2004.
Volume II presents data for services. Nine variables are covered: number of businesses, employment, turnover, value added, personnel costs, R & D personnel, exports and imports. These data measure the impact of direct investment on OECD economies. From this perspective, they are an indispensable complement to data on direct investment flows.
2008, OECD 412 p., stat., 80 € ISBN: 978-92-64-04521-7. ― Ref.: 9789264045217.
For memory:
Measuring Globalization: Multinational Activities
Volume I. ― Manufacturing Sector: 2000-2004
Volume I provides data on the manufacturing sector and covers 18 variables, including production, employment, investment, research and trade.
2007, OECD, 516 per cent, 100 €. ISBN: 978926408.
For now, this volume I is only available on the OECD website: http://www.oecd.org.
Brazil
OECD Economic Studies
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
This new edition of the OECD series of Economic Studies in Brazil shows that the country has made undeniable progress, as well as its macroeconomic stability and growth prospects. However, the authorities should strive to consolidate macroeconomic adjustment, stimulate innovation and improve the use of labour. The study contains a series of recommendations in each of these areas.
2008, OECD 166 p., stat., 45 €. ISBN: 978-92-64-03001-5. ― Ref. : 9789264030015.
Long-lived carriageways
for high traffic roads
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
Long-lived coatings can significantly reduce the maintenance costs of road networks, including the waste of time caused by this work, especially on high traffic roads. These coatings are composed of new materials that are more expensive than asphalt and require specific treatments. This study presents the results of a collective research aimed at assessing the technical and economic potential of new long-term coatings and emphasizes to public policy makers all the advantages related to the introduction of such coatings on high traffic roads.
2008, OECD, 208 p. ― €60. ISBN: 978-92-821-0161-2. ― Ref.: 9789282101612.
Policy coherence in the fisheries sector
West Africa
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
The fisheries sector accounts for more than 30% of the state budget revenues of West African countries and employs 7 million people in Central and Western Africa. Fisheries agreements provide an important source of income to the West African States, but it appears that better-adapted management policies would yield greater benefits than those agreements, if these policies are carried out over the long term.
In this context, the Club du Sahel et d'Afrique de l'Ouest (CSAO/OECD) and the Fisheries Policy Division of the OECD have worked with regional organizations, including Enda Diapol/REPAO, to help them deal with policy coherence by providing an analytical framework adapted to the local context, based on the realities of the field. This report will be of particular interest to local decision makers and OECD member countries, as well as all stakeholders involved in sustainable fisheries development in West Africa.
2008, OECD, 90 p., stat., 24 €. ISBN: 978-92-64-04060-1. ― Ref.: 97892640601.
Convention concerning Administrative Assistance
in Tax Matters
20th anniversary edition
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
In today's globalized economy, mutual assistance in tax matters and, in particular, the effective exchange of information is essential for countries to maintain their sovereignty over the application of tax laws and to ensure the proper application of tax treaties. Mutual assistance provisions provide them with a legal framework to cooperate across borders without violating the sovereignty of other countries or the rights of taxpayers. At the end of the 1980s, the OECD and the Council of Europe jointly developed a convention on mutual administrative assistance in tax matters which was opened for signature on 25 January 1988. This multilateral convention came into force in 1995 and nearly half of the countries that signed it over the past five years. This reveals the growing interest in the exchange of information and other forms of cooperation between tax administrations in a world of business where borders are increasingly fading.
2008, OECD, 136 p., stat., 24 €. ISBN: 978-92-64-04105-9. ― Ref.: 9789264041059.
Development cooperation
Report 2007
Volume 9-1. – Efforts and policies
Development Assistance Committee members
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
The Development Cooperation Report prepared by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is the reference document where statistics and analyses on the most recent developments in the international aid scene are available each year. It also reports on the ongoing efforts to implement the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, particularly in the field of health.
This book is also published online to improve the accessibility of CAD products. In this way, we can meet the needs of donor countries by providing them with prompt and easy access to the best available analyses and statistics.
2008, OECD, OECD Development Review, 253 p, stat., 85 €. ISBN: 978-92-64-04149-3. ― Ref.: 9789264041493.
Corruption
Glossary of international criminal standards
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
This glossary defines the key elements necessary to describe corruption as criminal acts, according to three major international conventions:
– the OECD Convention on Combating Corruption of Foreign Public Officials in International Trade Transactions;
– the Council of Europe's criminal convention on corruption;
the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
The objective of this glossary is to assist the countries of the OECD Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia in their efforts to bring their national anti-corruption legislation into line with the standards of the conventions mentioned.
The glossary presents and explains the standards introduced by the conventions and how they can be effectively transposed into domestic law. It is also a useful tool for assessing country compliance with international anti-corruption conventions and raising awareness among regional experts on these conventions.
Finally, this glossary will be useful to legislators and public authorities in all countries that have committed themselves to ensuring that their anti-corruption legislation complies with international standards, in order to support the global fight against corruption and to provide foreign investors with a commercial environment under effective anti-corruption legislation.
2008, OECD, 100 per cent – 24 €. ISBN: 978-92-64-04402-9. ― Ref.: 9789264044029.
Income Tax 2006-2007
Special study: tax reforms and pressures
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
Salary taxes provide unmatched data on income tax paid by employees and on social security contributions that apply to employees and employers in OECD countries. This annual publication also specifies what benefits are paid in cash to families. The amounts of taxes and benefits are detailed for eight types of representative households whose composition and level of salary differ. The results also highlight the average and marginal tax pressure on households with one or two wages, as well as labour costs for employers.
The data on tax pressure and family benefits presented in this publication are widely used for academic research, such as the preparation and evaluation of economic and social policies.
This year's edition includes a special study entitled "Tax Reforms and Tax Pressure 2000-2006".
2008, OECD, 508 p., stat., 120 €. ISBN: 978-92-64-04212-4. ― Ref. : 9789264042124.
African Economic Outlook 2007/2008
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
The African Economic Outlook is based on data from the African Development Bank and OECD expertise, which publishes the OECD Economic Outlook twice a year. Each year, this book provides, according to a unique analytical framework, a comprehensive and accurate overview of the economic situation and the short-term developments of a number of African countries. This edition also presents an analysis of technical education and vocational training. Finally, a statistical annex completes the work.
This reference book will be able to inform policymakers from African and OECD countries working in both the public and private sectors (e.g. aid agencies, investors and government officials from aid recipient countries).
Dynamic links (StatLinks) are provided for the graphs and tables of this publication. These StatLinks direct the drive to a web page where the corresponding data is available in Excel format.
2008, OECD, 680 p., stat., 80 €. ISBN: 978-92-64-04643-6. ― Ref.: 9789264046436.
Environmental policies
What combinations of instruments?
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
To deal with a given environmental problem, a series of instruments can be used, as opposed to a single instrument. What are the impacts of these "instrument combinations" on environmental efficiency and economic efficiency? What are the main arguments that justify the use of such combinations, and are the combinations of measures currently used effectively well designed in response to these arguments? These are the main issues addressed in this report, based on a series of in-depth case studies. These case studies analyze the combinations of instruments applied in OECD countries to address the following problems: household wastes, diffuse sources of water pollution in agriculture, energy efficiency in the residential sector, regional air pollution and atmospheric emissions of mercury.
2008, OECD, 262 p., stat; 50 €. ISBN: 978-92-64-01842-6. ― Ref.: 9789264018426.
Support to agriculture, value of land assets
Sectoral adjustment
Consequences for reform
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
Governments intervene in the agricultural sector through measures that at the same time support and guide production. The result is two important effects. First, agriculture-specific programs designed to increase the well-being of producers, through support of product prices, input subsidies or direct money transfers, can be capitalized in the value of assets. This increase in heritage values enriches existing operators, but the resulting higher cost structure may have adverse effects. Second, many provisions, in particular regulatory measures, reduce the mobility of assets, i.e. the ease with which capital, land, labour and other inputs are transferred from one economic activity to another. This factor reduces economic efficiency due to a sub-optimal allocation of resources and risks exacerbating the phenomenon of capitalization.
2008, OECD, 128 p., stat., 24 €. ISBN: 978-92-64-04475-3. ― Ref.: 9789264044753.
Tourism in OECD Countries 2008
Trends and policies
Organization of cooperation
and Economic Development (OECD)
Here is the first edition of a biennial publication that analyses a number of initiatives taken by governments and businesses in the field of tourism, in OECD countries and in some other non-member states. The study provides a first overview of key issues and challenges. It then examines in detail two important aspects of tourism policy: the impact of global value chains on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of tourism and the role played by the liberalization of services trade on tourism development. Finally, they are presented: budgets, policies, programmes and tourism statistics in thirty-two countries. This publication represents an important contribution to political and professional debates related to international tourism.
2008, OECD, 268 p., stat., 60 €. ISBN: 978-92-64-03968-1. ― Ref.: 9789264039681.
OPOCE
EU Integration Seen Through Statistics
The European integration seen through statistics
Key figures on European policy in 18 regions
European Commission
Eurostat regions
Work in English
18 major European policy areas are introduced in terms of keys statistics. The statistics show the progress of the European Union but also indicate remaining issues. World trade, government debt, migration, approximately, information society and dependancy on energy imports are among subjects covered. The publication provides an overview on similarities and differences between the economies and societies of the EU. The statistical information is generally given both for the total of the European Union (EU-25 or EU-15) and for its Member States. When available, statistics are also provided for EU candidate countries, Japan, the United States and other countries.
The 2006 edition of EU Integration Seen Through Statistics presents eighteen major European regions seen through the prism of European policy. Global trade, public debt, migration, the environment, information society and energy dependency are addressed. The study offers a comparative overview of economies and societies. Statistical information focuses on all EU countries (here again, the EU at 25 or at least 15) and on each of its member states. Whenever possible, statistics are also given for candidate countries as well as for Japan, the United States and other major industrialized countries. A selection of statistical tables and graphs then illustrate the data.
2006, OPOCE, European Union Panorama collection, 112 p., maps, graph., 20 €. ISBN: 978-92-79-00453-0. ― Ref. : 9789279004537.
The Life of Women and Men in Europe
A statistical portrait
European Commission; Eurostat
This statistical publication focuses on studying the economic, cultural and social differences between the sexes that often affect their adult work life, in terms of power, freedom or not career, decision-making or conciliation between work and family life. From their childhood and the type of education received to their departure from the family home, the study follows them in their professional life, focusing on their different perspectives or career opportunities, respectful type of occupied functions, responsibilities... There are as many topics analysed here that make up a comprehensive overview as possible of the gender gap in status.
2008, OPOCE, 244 p., stat., 30 €. ISBN: 978-92-79-07070-9. ― Ref. : 97892790709.
II. - REVUES
Review of the Autorité des marchés financiers
Financial Markets Authority
Letters and notebooks.
Letter Control and Asset Management.
Consultations.
Synthesis of the responses to the public consultation on the establishment of a simplified procedure of instruction and visa for the prospectus of financial transactions of listed companies.
Studies and analyses.
Analysis of the annual monitoring reports prepared in 2007 by the Investment Services Compliance Officers (IRBs) for fiscal year 2006.
Analysis of annual internal control reports prepared in 2007 by portfolio management companies for fiscal year 2006.
Pro forma information and financial report: what news?
Part control of voting policies and reports on the exercise of voting rights in 2006 by management companies.
Positions.
Guide to the development of OPCVM prospectus.
AMF's position on the issuance of bonds for repayable shares (OBSAR), followed by a transfer of BSAR to the benefit of the social workers and/or agents of the issuing company.
"Best regulation": a simplified procedure for investigating visa applications for prospectus established by certain companies as part of a public savings appeal.
AMF's position with respect to the development of financial management delegation diagrams for CSA or mandates.
Record of decisions on performance swaps on OPCVM or investment funds and on active management structuring.
Press releases.
Judicial order against Edelweiss Management.
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) publishes instruction No. 2008-01 of 8 February 2008 on investment service providers other than portfolio management companies.
Signature of a cooperation agreement between the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to strengthen technical exchanges.
The Autorité des marchés financiers warns the public against an investment proposal called "Plan 629".
The mediator of the Autorité des marchés financiers updates the charter of mediation.
Decisions of the sanctions commission.
Jurisprudence.
« AMF Review » March 45, 2008. ― 160 p. ― 16,00 €. ― Ref.: 33033600457.
Cultures Sud
Cultures France
Maghreb-Black Africa: what cultures in sharing?
History, civilization and religion.
Setting up and overcoming borders between Maghreb and Black Africa: geo-historical approach (Karine Bennafla).
Kairouan-Tombouctou: the mythical journey of the caravans (Ridha Tlili).
The Arab-Muslim slave trade (Tidiane N'Diaye).
Metis Logic in Essaouira (Bouazza Benachir).
The maghrebo-African historical relationship: an Islamic dimension (Jean-Louis Triaud).
Vitality of Berbers (Monique Zetlaoui).
"I am unable to imagine Africa." – Interview with Yasmina Khadra. ― Proposal collected by Yves Chemla.
Literary challenges.
Mohamed Faytouri, Arab poet of the Sudan (Tahar Bekri).
Images, myths and figures in the Maghreb and Black Africa literature: comparative literature essay (Kangni Alem Alemdjrodo).
The boat and the citadel: the novels of the underground crossing (Marc Kober).
Frantz Fanon in Algeria: a pan-African vision (Alice Cherki).
African literature: comparative approach (Benaouda Lebdai).
The pores of the Hoggar (Tierno Monenembo).
And the Caribbean joins in the Mediterranean (Louis-Philippe Dalembert).
Literary creation and defence of oppressed peoples. ― Back to Wole Soyinka's work. ― A statement collected by Denise Coussy.
Artistic and cultural connections.
Cinemas of the Maghreb/Cenemis of Black Africa: opposite or complementary? (Ferid Boughedir).
The Gnawa: African by the sap, Maghreb by the graft (Sylvie Clerfeuille).
Identity and representation of contemporary African art.
Pan-African cultural initiatives: state of the scene (Feriel Berraies-Guigny).
Mémoires du premier festival culturel panafricain : Algiers, 21 July-1 August 1969 (Jacques Bisceglia).
Genesis, disappearance and rehabilitation of Hispano-Muslim culture in the Niger loop (Ismael Diadié Haidara).
Unpublished.
Yasmina: Khadra. Wadigazen.
Moha Souag: Name.
Mohamed Faytouri: A white face.
News.
Reading notes.
Reading notes index.
Come on.
Quick.
"South Cultures" No. 169, April-June 2008. ― 224 p. ― 12,50 €. ― Ref.: 9782917195031.
World Heritage
UNESCO
World Heritage and Biodiversity
Case.
World Heritage and the 2010 Goal.
The World Heritage Convention plays an important role in realizing the 2010 biodiversity target to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss, through, among other things, the conservation of habitats for threatened species and the contribution of mass- and cross-border sites to the establishment of biological corridors.
The Red List of IUCN Threatened Species and Their Habitats in World Heritage Sites.
The synergies between the IUCN Red List and the world heritage sites that house some of the most endangered species on earth.
Towards a broader concept of world heritage. ― The natural links between biodiversity and cultural diversity are a source of exchange, creativity and innovation that promotes sustainable development.
Focus.
World Heritage Forests. – Loss of connectivity, loss of integrity?
Forests that enjoy protection status, including world heritage forests, are increasingly facing a future of isolation, given the acceleration of forest transformations into cultivable land for food or biofuels.
Maintenance.
Interview with Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Our consultative organizations.
Biological diversity of world heritage.
Combining gaps.
IUCN gap analysis.
What are the gaps in the World Heritage List when it comes to the recognition of biodiversity sites?
Conventions.
The UNESCO programme on man and biosphere.
The convention on migratory species.
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
News.
Preservation.
Preservation efforts for Wadi Al-Hitan; Grand Rift Valley Conservation Initiative: An African Initiative; the world heritage and the Arctic; revised methods for new needs; Sundarbans hit by a cyclone; develop the appropriate listing proposals for Africa; new challenges to global heritage in Asia and the Pacific.
Sites at risk.
International aid for the conservation of Zabid; increasing tension at Virunga National Park; emergency operation against poaching in Salonga.
Promotion.
Sustainable development learning laboratories; training programme for cultural heritage guides adopted by Asian countries; guides learn the values of the world heritage of the Loire Valley; ceremonies for heritage; First Iberian American meeting of Patrimonitos; journalism and world heritage.
Publishing and multimedia.
A selection of books, brochures and publications, press articles and multimedia documents dedicated to the world heritage.
Calendar.
Subscription Bulletin.
“World Heritage”, No. 49, April 2008. ― Ref.: 8424499000099.
Local authorities
The Cahiers de la decentralization
Institute of Decentralization
Right away.
Local or/and national? The ambiguous meaning of municipal elections (Rémi Lefebvre).
"Comforting the cohesion of the territories...": interview with Patrick Heintz.
The issues of the new municipal mandate or how to give meaning to the intercommunal qualifier (Vincent Aubelle).
CO2 emission Quotas and White Certificates: Innovative Financial Tools for Territorial Communities (Laurent Guyon).
Economy.
Transport, mobility and climate: the imperative of Factor 4!
Towards a "climate tyranny"? (Yves Crozet).
Local power.
The regionalization of prefectures.
Hierarchy between prefects of region and departments: finally! (Nicolas Kada).
Europe.
The European Union, regions, cities and countries: how is the territorial administration of Europe organized in the face of the global economy?
What geo-alliance in the globalisation movement? (Robin Degron).
Public policies.
Change model: dare territorial cleaning!
Will sustainable development revolutionize land use planning? (Alain Cluzet).
Dossier: "Territories and Globalizations".
"Toward a territorialization of politics" (Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin).
Globalization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization: winners and losers (Hervé Théry).
The world on our plate: Will the local war take place? (Jean-Michel Dauriac).
Territories in globalization: the benefits of fragility (Roman Lajarge).
Contemporary globalization: what economic specificities? (Martine Azuelos).
The economic question of urban territory: a "global-local" dialectic? (Bernard Pecqueur).
Are middle cities the losers of globalization? (Guy Baudelle and Josselin Tallec).
Lorient, a territory in economic globalization (Florence Gourlay).
Partnerships between local authorities and international organizations.
Marseille and the World Bank (Vanessa Kuzay).
Cities, actresses of global politics? (Cyria Emelianoff).
"Communities have become key players in the game of adaptation to globalization": interview with Pierre Veltz.
The geohistoric factory of the world and the local (Christian Grataloup).
After the generic city: put the clocks of local urbanism at the time of the world (Marc Dumont).
The world as a place (Jacques Lévy).
Law and decentralization.
What territorial jurisdictions and responsibilities?
Territorial authorities and responsible public action (Marthe Le Moigne).
Try it.
Sociology of professions.
The developer or initiator of another reality!
The apories of the developer profession (Philippe Duez).
Books.
The intelligence of the urban project in the corridors of the scientific company (Marc Dumont).
Browse the paths of interterritoriality... follow the geographer! (Pierre-Jean Lorens).
Public Internal Financial Control: the most "mysterious" and the least finalized public management techniques (Xavier Poulet-Goffard).
Mal-housing, a reflection of evil living: between alarms and hopes (Michel De Carvalho).
"Local Powers", no. 77, February 2008, 148 p. ― 15,00 €. ― Ref.: 9782909872537.
International issues
La Documentation française
The Future of Europe
The European Union, the United States, China, Russia and others (Serge Sur).
The Lisbon Treaty and the institutional revival of the European Union (Alain Laquièze).
Dynamics and blockages of the European construction (Michel Foucher).
Europe and the regulation of globalization (Jean-François Jamet).
The internal market: tangible accomplishments, a perfect balance sheet (Emmanuel Maiais-Jauvin).
About some misconceptions about the European Union (Interview with Jean Quatremer).
The future of European foreign policy (Franck Petiteville and Fabien Terpan).
The Franco-German couple: necessary but not enough (Stephan Martens).
The new Mediterranean question (Jean-Robert Henry).
And the contributions of: Roseline Letteron, Christiani Buani and Guillaume Le Grand.
European issues.
Belgium: the roots of the crisis (Philippe Copinschi).
Look at the world.
Iraq, five years after: between reconstruction and deconstruction (Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer).
International questions on screen.
Vietnam in Hollywood. Movies that don't explain the war (Jacques Portes).
Reference document.
European thought in its historical development (extracts from Stefan Zweig).
International issues on the internet.
Abstracts.
"International issues", no. 31, May-June 2008. – 128 p. ― €9.80. ― Ref.: 30303331600312.
