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    The Practice of Sovereign Statehood in Contemporary International Society
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    1. JHPxSciencesPo 14 Sep 2016
      Even a state with huge political assets Ænds that there are many circumstances inwhich, as a practical matter, it cannot do what it would like to do. Lesser statesare likely to Ænd themselves more circumscribed although there are alsooccasions on which, paradoxically, their smaller size may give them a greaterimmediate freedom

      Cette remarque est particulièrement intéressante quand on pense au cas de la Suisse. Pendant des décennies, la Suisse était un paradis pour les évadés/fraudeurs fiscaux grâce au principe du secret bancaire dont l'inviolabilité est consacrée dans la législation helvète. -> article 47 de la loi fédérale sur les banques et les caisses d'épargne. Or progressivement, la Suisse a dû renoncer au secret bancaire sous les pressions successives des Etats-Unis, de l'OCDE et du G20.

      En outre, le scandale de la FIFA témoigne également de la grande liberté dont jouissait la Suisse. Aujourd'hui, cette liberté et donc la souveraineté de la Suisse est amoindrie/restreinte. La souveraineté relative de la Suisse est touchée.

      En savoir plus sur http://www.lemonde.fr/evasion-fiscale/article/2015/02/11/comment-la-suisse-a-renonce-au-secret-bancaire_4572485_4862750.html#VE5o4LkqlrlYtRzT.99

      http://www.slate.fr/story/103211/suisse-perdu-souverainete

    2. JHPxSciencesPo 14 Sep 2016
      A state is therefore made up of territory, people, and a government

      We saw in the last Public international Law course a more precise definition of the constitutive elements of statehood. For instance regarding the population, we saw that the population needed to be permanent while there is no mention of permanency in the reading

    3. JHPxSciencesPo 13 Sep 2016
      n consequence, virtually all states are equipped withconstitutions which fulsomely embody democratic principles

      L’usage du mot “virtuellement” est étonnant. Nous pouvons en déduire que les constitutions de certains états contiennent des principes démocratiques qui ne sont en réalité qu’apparents. Un exemple frappant de principe démocratique "virtuel" peut être incarné par la constitution gabonaise. Je vous renvoie à cet article de Libération. http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/09/09/la-cour-constitutionnelle-derniere-cartouche-de-l-opposition-gabonaise_1491268 En quelques mots, Jean Ping a saisi la Cour constitutionnelle présidée par Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo. Or, cette dernière est membre de la cour depuis 1991 et sa présidente depuis 1998. Or la Constitution stipule que la durée du mandat est de 7 ans renouvelable une fois. Cela fait 25 années que Mborantsuo est membre de la cour. En définitive, la constitution n’est pas respectée et un principe démocratique majeur est bafoué. On notera pour conclure qu'en matière de "cumulards", nous sommes, en tant que Français, plutôt bien placés... Mention spéciale en tant que dunkerquois à l'ancien maire de ma ville, Michel Delebarre

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    doi:10.3402/egp.v1i4.1892
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    1. JHPxSciencesPo 07 Sep 2016
      ‘The border is not merely a place of separation where differences areasserted; it can also be a place of exchange and enrichment where pluralist identitiescan flourish. One can have encounters there that cannot take place elsewhere’.

      I live 10 minutes away from Belgium. The frontier between France and Belgium is definitely a place of exchange and enrichment. French come back from Belgium full of cigarettes and cheap alcohol while Belgians make a bundle. Regarding the last point of the statement, I would say that you can definitely have as many enriching encounters around the border as in cosmopolitan cities or at Sciences Po. We just need to talk to our neighbors. In my eyes, this statement praises the border too much. I mean with respect to my experience and the borders I crossed...

    2. JHPxSciencesPo 06 Sep 2016
      a move away from the nationalistnarratives which cultivate ‘the belief that territory is a form of property to be ownedby a particular national group, either because the latter has established a‘‘first occupancy’’ claim or because it regards this territory as a formative part ofits identity’

      Deep ! I was born in France. So be it. Does it mean that I deserve to live in this country more than a man born abroad ? It goes back to what Arash Abizadeh states : "the demos of democratic theory is in principle unbounded" -> we are all citizens of the world, why do we need borders ?

    3. JHPxSciencesPo 06 Sep 2016
      Part of the political tragedy of the contemporaryMiddle East and Africa, for example, lies in the attempted reconciliation of the Euro-American style territorial state of sharp borders with ethnic and religious identitiesdistributed geographically in ways that do not lend themselves to it.

      It reminds me of the Tuareg Rebellion of 2012 in Mali when members of the MNLA strove to get their independence in the North. Mali got its independence from France in 1960 but the Tuaregs wanted to be part of the current Algerian Sahara. As a matter of fact, another cutting was chosen and Mali began to be ruled by the Bambara people. Was the sharp border a great find ? I doubt it

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