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Paris
Global diplomacy and natural resources
Stakes, practices and influences of non-state actors (18th-21st centuries)
Since the end of the Cold war, the activity of non-State actors has attracted considerable attention as part of an increasingly globalised governance and diplomacy. As Richard Langhorne has remarked, the 1961 Congress of Vienna ‘marked both the culmination and the beginning of the end of classical diplomacy’, in which ‘the State ha[d] been, since the seventeenth century, the principal and sometimes the only, effective actor’. As Langhorne and Hamilton have convincingly argued in The Practice of Diplomacy, today’s diplomacy is characterised by a ‘blurring [of] the distinctions between what is diplomatic activity and what is not, and who, therefore are diplomats and who are not’.Quite revealing of this change on the international diplomatic stage is the proliferation and the increased importance of multifarious non-State actors (NSA). The waning of classical State diplomacy has thus been paralleled by the advent of transnational organisations, which, whether public or private, now play a key role in the conduct of diplomacy.
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Copenhagen
Call for papers - Urban studies
Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos
The ‘Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos’ conference explores the culture, economy, and politics of towns and cities based on islands worldwide. It considers common attributes of island cities, the influence of island status on urban development, and how and why different island cities have developed in different ways. Throughout history, islands have been sites of urban development. Physical separation from the mainland, spatial limitations, and maritime tradition facilitate transport of products and ideas, defence infrastructure, construction of social capital, consolidation of power, formation of cultures, and concentration of population.
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Le Havre
Conference, symposium - Geography
Ports, maritime transport and regional development
The adaptation of maritime and port actors and the vagaries of globalisation
Pour la première fois depuis plusieurs années en France, le laboratoire IDEES – Le Havre de l’université du Havre, associé au CNRS, organise un colloque international sur les ports, le transport maritime et le développement régional les jeudi 12 et vendredi 13 juin 2014 à l’université du Havre. Cette manifestation scientifique d’envergure internationale a pour objectif de réunir les chercheurs et professionnels du domaine maritime et portuaire pour deux journées d’échanges. Les sessions plénières, tables rondes et ateliers permettront de comparer différentes approches disciplinaires aux questions maritimes et portuaires,et de dresser un état des lieux des recherches dans une démarche de prospection des tendances émergentes.
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Paris
The notion of "individual" in Japan
Observations on a keyword in the understanding of intellectual history in an extra-western world
Monsieur Yoichi Higuchi est professeur de droit constitutionnel et membre de l'Académie du Japon. Invité par l'assemblée des Professeurs, sur la proposition du professeur Anne Cheng, titulaire de la chaire Histoire intelectuelle de la Chine, il donnera deux conférences au Collège de France.
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Paris
The international financial history of the franc zone
History of the Franc Zone seminar
L'université de Rouen inaugure un programme triennal de recherche sur l'Histoire de la zone franc, baptisé HIZOF (Histoire financière internationale de la zone franc). Dans ce cadre, un séminiare est organisé pour favoriser les échanges au sein de la communauté des chercheurs. Il est hébergé alternativement par la Banque de France et le ministère des Finances, à Paris.
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Rennes
Regions and the European Union’s cohesion policy
La cohésion économique, sociale et territoriale est un objectif stratégique fondamental pour l’Union européenne et ses États membres tant en termes de politique qu’en termes budgétaires. Le colloque permettra de développer la connaissance scientifique et la discussion dans un cadre pluridisciplinaire (sciences politiques, juridiques, économiques et sciences sociales) à travers des contributions transversales (pour tous les types de régions, régions en retard de développement, régions en transition, et régions plus développées) et thématiques (recherche et innovation, PME, politique sociale, numérique, environnement, Réseaux européens de transport, etc). Cette manifestation scientifique abordera les questions clefs des objectifs, du financement, de l’impact de l’action publique européenne sur les territoires / le territoire de l’Union européenne. Les communications pourront aussi porter sur les acteurs (acteurs politiques, acteurs de gestion), les parties prenantes et la société civile, sans négliger les questions de la pertinence et de la légitimation de la politique de cohésion.
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Maastricht
Conference, symposium - History
Crisis, Idea and Policy Transformation
Experts and Expertise in European International Organizations, 1973-1987
Crisis and crisis experience were central to Western European history between the first oil crisis of 1973 and the creation of the Single European Act. European international organizations (IOs) such as the OECD or the EC played a crucial role in debating and addressing manifold dimensions of crisis, shifting discourses and transforming policies at national and European level. These IOs drew heavily on experts and their expertise in debating and managing crisis and seeking solutions for structural problems. Organized jointly by the University of Portsmouth and Maastricht University on 30-31 January 2014, the workshop will investigate who were the experts active within IOs and what type or form of expertise they had and draw upon in agenda-setting, policy deliberation and decision-making. It will also discuss the role of experts in policy-making in the respective IOs and their influence on the development of the policy area concerned.
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Basel
Revisiting the Historical Connections between Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a Global Context
The workshop posits that after 1945, the interconnectedness of questions of nutrition, agriculture and poverty became a central aspect of international governance, and that issues of food and agriculture posed particular challenges to national sovereignty. We thus approach the history of FAO as a history of the ideas and practices of economic and social ‘development’ embedded in local, regional, national, and global contexts and with implications on all these levels. We propose to examine the process by which the FAO facilitated the institutionalisation and globalisation of debates on agricultural production and food security, how it integrated previous international and transnational networks, and how it navigated the tension between agrarian commercialisation and rural welfare during the Cold War and Decolonisation.
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