Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Chartier Denis, Foyer Jean
    Rio+20 : la victoire du scénario de l’effondrement ?
    in Ecologie et politique , n. 45, Écologie et politique, vingt ans après… ,  2012 ,  117-130
    The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in June 2012 (UNCSD Rio+20) has disappointed many participants and observers. Its results are seen as somewhat inadequate in the face of the urgency of the ecological, social and economic situations and no clear alternative has emerged. In a context of global financial crisis and of transformation of geopolitical relations in favour of emergent nations, Rio+20 marks a return to the logic of realpolitik. Not only does multilateralism seem exhausted, but an integrated vision of sustainable development is losing steam to the hard form of developmentism still promoted in the deregulated world market. The increasing presence of the private sphere in the modes of management of the environment and the incapacity of the international community of truly taking into account the finitude of resources are manifestations of this political realism. Rio+20 reveals the difficulties that social movements (be they those present at the People’s Summit or those accredited to partake in the official conference) have in truly impacting on international politics. Although it is difficult to draw a definitive assessment of Rio+20 so soon after the end of the conference, nothing seems to predispose the structuration – nevertheless urgent – of institutions and paradigms that will facilitate a politics of the Anthropocene.
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