https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Sport-as-a-battlefield https://booksandideas.net/Sport-as-a-battlefield 2025-03-27T08:00:00Z text/html en Michael C. Behrent & François Doppler-Speranza History diplomacy sport war show <p>After 1945, the geopolitical use of sport found a place in the alliances of the Cold War. Ideology and diplomacy slipped into every aspect of the practice of sports.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Social-Diplomacy-of-Multinational-Corporations https://booksandideas.net/The-Social-Diplomacy-of-Multinational-Corporations 2018-11-19T08:00:00Z text/html en Marieke Louis Economy International diplomacy Institut français multinationals <p>Just as an international treaty on the social responsibility of multinational corporations is being negotiated at the United Nations, Marieke Louis reveals how corporations are involved in the arenas of global governance, and highlights the ambivalent relationships between states and multinational corporations.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Kaesong-Caught-between-Two-Koreas https://booksandideas.net/Kaesong-Caught-between-Two-Koreas 2017-06-19T07:00:00Z text/html en Antoine Bondaz Politics International diplomacy nuclear policy Florence Gould Foundation South Korea North Korea sanctions <p>In February 2016, South Korea decided to close the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in protest against North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile tests. Previously, it had not framed denuclearisation as a prerequisite for collaboration between the two Koreas – a change of course that may prove ill advised.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Japan-and-Asia-The-Implications-of https://booksandideas.net/Japan-and-Asia-The-Implications-of 2011-09-09T10:33:51Z text/html en Guibourg Delamotte International Japan diplomacy international community Asia <p>As China's power increases, Japan is moving closer to other Asian countries. This return to Asia is not univocal, and the newly elected Democratic Party is not in a position to change the direction of Japanese foreign policy.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Will-the-Wedding-of-Australia-and https://booksandideas.net/Will-the-Wedding-of-Australia-and 2010-12-22T08:36:44Z text/html en Fabrice Argounes International diplomacy Australia Asian community Asia <p>Where will the borders of the East Asian community end up? Australia is trying to attach itself to this evolving project but, in the eyes of its Asian partners, its western inheritance keeps it on the fringes rather than at the core of the project.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Politics-of-Error https://booksandideas.net/The-Politics-of-Error 2007-10-16T12:36:00Z text/html en Henry Laurens International Carousel international relations democracy diplomacy <p>The Middle East has become the theater of a generalized “politics of error.” Particularly since 9/11, errors of comprehension have intertwined with errors of calculation in ways that destabilize the regional system and make for an even more uncertain future.</p>