The US military-technological revolution and the ‘Europeanization’ of the French defence industrial sector during the 1990s
RUSI JOURNAL FEBRUARY 2004 This article suggests a possible correlation between the United Statesled military-technological revolution and the cab for 'Europeanization' of the French defence industry during the 1990s. It presents French views with regard to the US-promoted 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA) and points to elements that fostered an intensified European orientation of the French defence industry during the 1990s. I
Mapping European Defence Cooperation
The post-Cold War era has witnessed a set of changes in the security landscape faced by European states which have important implications for the institutional architecture of European security. The bi-polarity of the Cold War and threat of attack by the Soviet Union has given way to a more uncertain and diffuse range of security threats, including environmental security, transnational crime, global pandemics, international terrorism, failed states and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).1 At the same time, several more traditional security issues persist. As North Sea oil and gas reserves begin to mature, European states face the challenge of ensuring security of gas, particularly oil, supplies in the context of an increased scarcity of resources. European states must also cope with the challenge of managing the rise of new powers in the international system: the emergence of China and India as global players and the re-emergence of Russia.2
EL TRATAMIENTO NEOPRAGMATISTA DE LA VERDAD EN RICHARD RORTY NEOPRAGMATIST TREATMENT OF TRUTH IN RICHARD RORTY
Richard Rorty, one of the most influential authors of our time, presents a critique of the philosophical concept of truth as correspondence. The conclusion of Rorty's neopragmatism is that the idea of truth as correspondence between language and facts is ineffective because it no longer works. The neopragmatist conception of truth indicates the only possible uses for the term «truthful,» revolving around the idea of jus - tification. In this article, the neopragmatist notion of truth is presented in order to