Les ambassadeurs
First Edition
What purpose do ambassadors serve? After a historical retrospective beginning in the Third Republic, the author shows that in spite of all these changes, the profession of ambassador has conserved its specificity and its usefulness. Read More
What purpose do ambassadors serve? In an age of summit diplomacy and diversification of information sources, the diplomatic institution is seen as a vestige of a golden past. In a world where the power of States grows weaker, ambassadors have to face the competition of other players more recently appeared on the iternational scene.
After a historical retrospective beginning in the Third Republic, the author shows that in spite of all these changes, the profession of ambassador has conserved its specificity and its usefulness. Ambassadors act on behalf of the States they symbolize and represent. It is they who can, as a last resort, achieve a compromise between opposing interests, indispensable to the conservation of international equilibrium.
Rich in anecdotes and portraits, this exhaustive book on the history and evolution of the diplomatic function in France stands at the crossroads of political science, sociology and history.
Marie-Christine Kessler is a CNRS research director, at the CERSA (Centre d'études et de recherches de sciences administratives et politiques).
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Specifications
- Publisher
- Presses de Sciences Po
- Author
- Marie-Christine Kessler,
- Collection
- Académique
- Language
- French
- Publisher Category
- > Political Science > Governance
- Publisher Category
- > Fields > Governance
- Publisher Category
- > Political Science > Political Life
- Publisher Category
- > Political Science
- Publisher Category
- > Politics
- Publisher Category
- > Society
- Publisher Category
- > The State - Government
- BISAC Subject Heading
- POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Onix Audience Codes
- 06 Professional and scholarly
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3283 SCIENCES POLITIQUES
- Title First Published
- 11 June 2012
- Subject Scheme Identifier Code
- Thema subject category: Politics and government
- Original Language
- English
Paperback
- Publication Date
- 01 January 1983
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-7246-0484-9
- Extent
- Main content page count : 287
- Code
- 9782724604849
- Weight
- 430 grams
- List Price
- 20.50 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPITRE 1 FONDEMENTS DE LA DÉLIMITATION SOCIALE DE LA SCIENCE
L'axiome pluraliste et ses implications pour la recherche épistémologique
Identité des caractères positifs des activités scientifiques et technologiques
Différenciation des activités scientifiques et technologiques par les rapports de production
Première exploitation du modèle et formulation d'une énigme
CHAPITRE 2 OBJECTIVITÉ SOCIALE DE LA DISCRIMINATION ENTRE SCIENCE PURE, SCIENCE APPLIQUÉE ET TECHNOLOGIE
La théorie des classements sociaux de Pierre Bourdieu
La différenciation sociale de la science pure, de la science appliquée et de la technologie
CHAPITRE 3 SCIENTIFICITÉ ET STATUT SOCIAL
Du modèle statique au principe explicatif privilégié
La classe dominante et sa fraction dominée
Lutte idéologique et lutte symbolique
Contraintes pour la stratégie d'intégration à la classe dominante
CHAPITRE 4 COHÉRENCE STRUCTURALE DE L'ÉCONOMIE PURE
La production sociale de la croyance en la science pure
Etude théorique des structures internes de l'économie pure
Le paradoxe de la fermeture sociale de l'économie pure
Un test empirique simple
Eléments de diagnostic
CONCLUSION