Georges Dobias

Toward Intelligent Automobiles Traffic and Security

Catherine Guisan

The Meaning of Europe Winning the Peace (1950-2003)

Philippe Jurgensen

The Error of the West In the face of globalization

Philippe Jurgensen shows how the growing economic gap between North and South is responsible for four major threats that, in the short or long term, will endanger the small group of rich nations that possess three-quarters of the world’s wealth. These four threats — demographics, health, the environment, strategy — are each analysed in turn in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. Jurgensen shows that the current selfish attitude of the West is not only reprehensible but, above all, dangerous and therefore politically untenable. Philippe Jurgensen is a senior official of the French Treasury.

Mario Bettati

The Right of Interference Transformation of International Order

Inventor of the "right of interference", Mario Bettati, a professor of International Law, explains in this book the precise political circumstances and the legal context under which the right of humanitarian interference came about. This book is divided into four parts which follow both a chronological and a logical order. Beginning with interference as verbal denunciation, following with interference as medical assistance, he speaks of forced interference (Yugoslavia, Somalia and Rwanda) and finishes by dissuasive interference (courts for crimes against humanity and conflicts observatories). A thorough presentation of an important subject.

Pierre Lévy

Cyberdemocracy

“This book offers a synthesis of the various ways in which the advent of the Internet has transformed daily life in democratic societies, both on a regional and international level," writes Pierre Lévy. This ambitious and down-to-earth analysis is well served by Pierre Lévy’s style and prophetic vision. He has taken into account the latest and most innovative developments, as well as the political changes brought about by the new “information society”. Pierre Lévy, a philosopher, teaches at the University of Quebec, in Trois Rivières. He is the author of Cyberculture and World Philosophy.

Jean-Michel Severino, Olivier Ray

Social Issues on a Global Scale

Global interdependence has raised social issues to a central position in contemporary debate. But will we know how to deal with these issues?

Marcel Boiteux

High Voltage

Claude Bébéar

The Courage to Reform

"We need to reconstruct political thought. Antiquated ways of seeing, archaic thought patterns, and bygone paradigms anaesthetise France and paralyse the nation’s ability to act. Political action must now provide a global reply to the question: What must be done? Courage depends above all on independent thought freed from all customs and conventional patterns, ” writes Claude Bébéar.