Special report by Bertrand de Montluc [Associate researcher at the French 'Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI, Sciences Po, Paris) and senior lecturer at the political science faculty of the'Institut d'Etudes Politiques' (IEP)]
People are often tempted to look at political bodies and the state system as relics from times past, given that globalisation in this new millennium demonstrates the dominance of economics. It is well known that globalisation operates in waves or...