La République des mallettes

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Author : Pierre Péan
Genre : Business and politics

Summary : La démocratie est-elle en train de tuer la démocratie, à bas bruit ? L'actualité a égrené depuis quinze ans des scandales politico-financiers sans que nous ne puissions en comprendre la logique, s'il devait mème y en avoir une. Après plus d'un an d'enquète, au cours de laquelle de très nombreux acteurs, jusqu'au sommet de l'État, ont accepté de lui parler, à condition que cela soit souvent en « off », Pierre Péan met au jour bien des aspects passés inaperçus sur les activités dans les zones grises de l'État. Dans toutes ces affaires, un seul enjeu: constituer un « trésor de guerre », en vue de la campagne présidentielle suivante. À chaque fois, il s'agit de tirer la manne des grands contrats civils ou militaires. Le durcissement de la législation sur le financement des partis a accouché d'un monstre: désormais, la pratique des rétrocommissions est devenue la règle d'un certain commerce international d'État. Cette « République des mallettes » a pris le pas sur l'État démocratique. Son fonctionnement et les décisions les plus stratégiques du pays semblent aiguillonnés, plutôt que par l'intérèt national, par le souci de perpétuer ce système et de le rendre le plus fluide possible par la constitution d'une oligarchie restreinte occupant les postes « stratégiques » à la tète des grandes entreprises à capital public, à l'Élysée et dans les ministères régaliens. Une oligarchie pour qui l'argent est devenu roi. À travers l'incroyable itinéraire de l'un des « facilitateurs » de ce système, personnage au passé des plus troubles, Pierre Péan démonte une à une les pièces d'un mécanisme qui, si nous n'y prenons garde, finira par ronger le système démocratique français, comme c'est déjà le cas en Russie ou en Italie. Pierre Péan est enquèteur-écrivain. On lui doit notamment Affaires africaines (1983), Une jeunesse française (1994) et Le Monde selon K. (2008). Il a publié dernièrement aux éditions Mille et une nuits Carnages.

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Author : Tafsir Ndické Dièye
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Author : Laurent Gbagbo
Genre : Biography & Autobiography

Summary : Ousted from power by the French army on April 11, 2011, following the disputed presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire of November 2010, Laurent Gbagbo was charged with crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on December 5, 2011. This book, written from 2012 onwards, thanks to numerous prison visits and interviews, is the only one to have been produced with the participation of the Ivorian president during his incarceration and trial. This unique testimony is more than ever a document for history, because it sheds light on the manipulations of the 2010 elections, the collusion between Nicolas Sarkozy's France and the ICC to get rid of Laurent Gbagbo, and the stalling tactics and maneuvers that marred "Gbagbogate." Over meetings with François Mattei, Laurent Gbagbo looks back on his seven years in prison, explains what they mean and shares his vision for the future—that of a free man, come what may. Laurent Gbagbo, historian and university professor, has campaigned all his life for the establishment of true democracy in his country, Côte d’Ivoire. He was elected President of the Republic in October 2000. His struggle to give meaning to the word “independence” has always pitted him against powerful interests. François Mattei is a journalist and author of numerous books.

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Author : António Maia
Genre : Business & Economics

Summary : This book fills an essential gap in the existing literature by analyzing fraud, and the weakening of ethical relations as parts of an overall global process, in an interdisciplinary, international and multidimensional perspective. It provides an in-depth analysis of fraud in its multiple facets, including financial fraud (most notably related to banking), fiscal/tax fraud (tax compliance and the role of government in the process), and academic fraud (exams misconduct and plagiarism). It also presents a set of methods and empirical evidence on the prevention and combating of fraud in distinct settings, such as money laundering, fraudulent investments schemes, and public procurement mismanagement, and economies, including Brazil, Canada, France, and Portugal.

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Author : Andreas Mehler
Genre : Social Science

Summary : The Africa Yearbook has won the ASA 2012 Conover-Porter Book Award! The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.

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Author : Carol J. Greenhouse
Genre : Social Science

Summary : International scholars offer ethnographic analyses of the relations between transnationalism, law, and culture The recent surge of right-wing populism in Europe and the United States is widely perceived as evidence of ongoing challenges to the policies and institutions of globalization. But as editors Carol J. Greenhouse and Christina L. Davis observe in their introduction to Landscapes of Law, the appeal to national culture is not restricted to the ethno-nationalisms of the developing world outside of industrial democracies nor to insurgent groups within them. The essays they have collected in this volume reveal how claims of national culture emerge in the pursuit of transnationalism and, under some circumstances, become embedded within international law. The premise that there is inherent tension between nationalism and globalism is misleading. Whether asserted explicitly as state sovereignty or implicitly as cultural community, claims of national culture mediate how governments assert their interests and values when engaging with transnational law. Landscapes of Law demonstrates how nationalism operates in the contested zone between borderless capital and bordered states. Drawing from the fields of anthropology, international relations, law, political science, and sociology, the book's international contributors examine the ways in which claims of national differences are produced within transnational institutions. Insights from case studies across a wide range of topics reveal how such claims may be worked into policy prescriptions and legal arrangements or provide ad hoc bargaining chips. Together, they show that expressions of national culture outside of state boundaries consolidate claims of sovereignty. The contributors offer innovative frameworks for analyzing the relationships among transnationalism, law, and cultural claims at various levels and scales. They demonstrate how overlapping communities use law to define borders and shape relationships among actors rather than to generate a single social ordering. Landscapes of Law traces the theoretical implications generated by an understanding of transnational law that challenges the conventional separation of individual, community, society, national, and international spaces. Contributors: Katayoun Alidadi, Tugba Basaran, Rachel Brewster, Sandra Brunnegger, Christina L. Davis, Sara Dezalay, Marie-Claire Foblets, Henry Gao, Carol J. Greenhouse, David Leheny, Mark Fathi Massoud, Teresa Rodríguez-de-las-Heras Ballell, Gregory Shaffer, Mariana Valverde.

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Author : Laurent Montet
Genre : Biography & Autobiography

Summary : Pour la première fois, le criminologue Laurent Montet revient sur sa carrière internationale dans un récit autobiographique inédit. Le scientifique apolitique, praticien éclectique et fervent défenseur de l’État de droit explique son engagement malgré les nombreux obstacles d’opposants. Après avoir servi la justice et les forces de l’ordre, il continue de dénoncer les graves dérives sécuritaires et politico-commerciales qui ont contribué à entraver sa vie professionnelle et qui gangrènent les coulisses du pouvoir en France. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Laurent Montet est journaliste d’investigation et chercheur indépendant. Docteur en criminologie à l’Uniludes en Suisse, il est spécialisé dans le renseignement et l’analyse comportementale, après vingt-deux ans passés à servir diverses autorités de par le monde. Membre de Transparency International et de la Maison des lanceurs d’alerte, il dénonce les affaires sensibles sur le site lm-media-libre.fr.