Themes

This text by William Gale and Peter Orszag is a critical and theoretical analysis of Bush's budgetary policies since 2000.

Can the JSF industrial cooperation model be applied to space exploration programs?
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The emergence of global production networks (GPNs) has a major impact on trade between low- and high-wage countries. This paper explains that multinationals from Japan, the United States and Europe have nevertheless not developed their global networks to the same extent and with the same...

After the failures of the Seattle and Cancun summits, the cycle of negotiations begun at Doha must without a doubt be revived if the WTO is to truly become the organisation for globalisation for all concerned. But on what basis? The advocates of a “wide“ cycle which would include cultural...

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Abstract

The question of iraqi biological weapons is as delicate an issue today as it was fifteen years ago. Although it is now a certified fact that Iraq did indeed develop such a program as early as the 1980’s, this was...

AbstractIraq was, at the end of the 1980’s, the world’s third “chemical power” ranking behind the United States and the Soviet Union. During that time, the manner in which this power was turned against Iran or against the Kurdish population of Iraq did not provoke any strong...