From Nomos to Hegung: Sovereignty and the Laws of War in Schmitt's International Order

Carl Schmitt's notion of nomos is commonly regarded as the international equivalent to the national sovereign's decision on the exception. But can concrete spatial order alone turn a constellation of forces into an international order? This article looks at Schmitt's work The Nomos of the Earth and proposes that it is the process of bracketing war called Hegung which takes the place of the sovereign in the international order Schmitt describes. Beginning from an analysis of nomos, the ordering function of the presocratic concept moira is explored. It is argued that the process of Hegung, like moira, does not just achieve the containment of war, but constitutes the condition of possibility for plural order.     

Le suivi de la performance,de I'incantatoire au passage à I'acte:Une étude du suivi de performance de six programmes d'aide aux entreprises1

Sommaire: Cet article étudie le suivi de la performance dans les programmes publics et exprime le potentiel que représente cet outil de gestion pour les organisations publiques. Les auteurs traitent d'une question de recherche portant sur la conformité du suivi de la performance dans les programmes sous étude pour la période 1993–1998, et des causes des écarts observés par rapport au modèle‐type de suivi de la performance. Le suivi de performance fut réaliséà cette époque de manière ad hoc et opportuniste. Leurs recherches ont permis de conclure que le suivi de performance s'est heurté d'abord à la difficulté de définir de manière univoque le concept de la « bonne » performance d'un programme. S'ensuivirent des difficultés intellectuelles et pratiques pour mesurer et évaluer ladite performance. Cependant, la difficulté de mettre en place un réel processus de suivi n'est pas imputée à cette seule cause. On observerait plutôt la convergence de plusieurs causes qui se manifestent en efforts conceptuels insuffisants, au moment de la conception et de la mise en Deuvre des programmes, pour développer et implanter un authentique suivi de la performance. Abstract: This article focuses on performance monitoring in public programs and demonstrates the potential this management tool has for public organizations. The authors examine studies dealing with the consistency of performance monitoring during the period 1993 to 1998 for the programs under review, and the reasons for the differences observed when compared with the standard model for performance monitoring. During this period, performance monitoring was done on an ad hoc and opportunistic basis. Based on their research, the authors conclude that the first obstacle to performance monitoring is the difficulty of defining, unequivocally, the concept of “good” performance with reference to a program, as well as the intellectual and practical difficulties of measuring and evaluating the said performance. However, this is not the only reason why implementing a real monitoring process is so difficult. Rather, it could be that the convergence of several causes at the time the programs are designed and implemented, which results in insufficient conceptual efforts to develop and establish an authentic performance monitoring process.