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association with its West African neighbours, while at the same time the country maintained close ties to the West, especially to France. However, since the end of Houphouët-Boigny rule, the country has experienced two coups d’état (1999 and 2001) and a civil war, but recent elections and a political agreement between the new government and the rebels have brought a return to peace. The country, through its production of coffee and cocoa, was an economic powerhouse during the 1960s and 1970s in West Africa

de la terre, de la monnaie et de la force de travail. C’est dans le contexte de la consolidation du capitalisme agraire que se développe l’éthique de l’improvement à laquelle Locke donna une expression philosophique dans le traité du gouvernement civil (Locke 1992 [1690]; Wood 1984; Wood et Wood 1997). Selon les positions qualitatives, ce sont ces transformations en milieu rural qui pavèrent la voie à l’avènement du capitalisme, entendu comme un : System in wich goods and services, down to the most

l’extreme droite se focalise souvent sur la ´ ´ theorie du complot, et ce dernier illustre son propos par l’allegation ´ ´ recurrente chez les extremistes selon laquelle depuis 1920, il y a en ´ ` Amerique ‘un complot communiste qui vise a saper l’“American way of ´ life”, une idee essentielle au cœur du maccarthisme’ (Eatwell 1989b: ´ ´ 71). Dans leur etude sur le pouvoir blanc separatiste aux Etats-Unis ´ (White Power separatists), Dobratz et Shanks-Meile affirment egalement que tous les White separatists

œuvre de bienfaisance ouvrière factice, le Foreign Committee for the Organisation of Worker Relief for the Hungry in Soviet Russia dont le but était de faire croire que les secours humanitaires provenaient d’autres sources que de la Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration. Lénine craignait non seulement que Hoover utilise son projet humanitaire pour envoyer des espions en URSS (ce qu’il fit) mais également – chose peut-être plus importante – que le premier État communiste au monde ne souffre fatalement

qui visait à doter l’Eglise protestante d’un corps de doctrines sur la vie économique équivalent à celui fourni par les encycliques pour la religion catholique : Goals of Economic Life, The American Economy and the Lives of People, Social Responsibilities of the Businessman, The Organizational Revolution, American Income and its Use, Ethics and Economic Life. 12 En 1951, le conseil fédéral fusionna avec d’autres agences interconfessionnelles pour former le Conseil National des Églises du Christ aux

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the growth is stronger and the poverty decreased. Thanks to it, the East Asian countries, which appeared among the poorest of the planet 40 years ago, became for the greater part dynamic and prosperous. Beside it, In the 70s and 80s, numerous Latin American countries and African countries, have kept a politic turn into their own country and their economy stagnated or declined, the poverty increased and a strong inflation became the standard. However, as these countries modified their politics, their

3/29/05 2:17 PM Page 4 In 1776, America’s Founders gathered in Philadelphia to draft the Declaration of Independence, which dissolved the political ties that had bound the American people to Great Britain. A new nation was thus born, free and independent, the United States of America. Eleven years later, in 1787, after American patriots had won our independence on the battlefield, many of the men who had met earlier in Philadelphia, plus others, met there again to draft a plan for governing the new

individualisme endurant, notre féroce défense de la liberté et notre sain scepticisme de l’Etat) Mais aussi et surtout il tient à souligner également leur altruisme, comme faisant partie intégrante de la mentalité américaine : It, too, is part of the American character -- our ability to stand in other people's shoes; a recognition that we are all in this together, and when fortune turns against one of us, others are there to lend a helping hand; a belief that in this country, hard work and responsibility

BERNARD, (1990), "Révisionisme, Japonisme, Culturalisme. Comment expliquer le succès économique japonais?", Anthropologie et sociétés, Vol. 14, No 3, pp.21-42. BLAINE, MICHAEL, (1993), "Profitability and Competitiveness: Lessons from Japanese and American Firms in the 1980s", California Management Review, Vol. 36, No 1, pp.48-74. BREWSTER, CHRIS et Ariane Hegewisch, (1994), "Human Resource Management in Europe: Issues and Opportunities", in Chris Brewster et Ariane Hegewisch, eds, Policy and Practice