Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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I. From a state-centric and west-centric international society to a multi-polar and multi-civilizational global society

1. The state-centric and west-centric international society of the 20th century.

2. Conflicts destabilizing the international order.

  • The conflict between the transnationalization of economics and information, and the sovereign states system.

  • The conflict between the global quest for human dignity and the sense of humiliation shared by developing nations.

  • Emerging discrepancies between asian economic power and western intellectual/informational hegemony in global society.

II. The trans-civilizational perspective as compared with the international and transnational perspectives

1. The international perspective.

2. The transnational perspective.

  • Significance of the transnational perspective.

  • Problems with the international and transnational perspectives.

3. The trans-civilizational perspective.

  • Civilizational factors and perspectives as preserved and utilized within the sovereign states system.

  • Decline of the non-intervention principle and the problematization of civilizations.

  • The need to minimize conflicts between egocentric, unilateral universalisms.

  • The functional trans-civilizational perspective.

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