Analyser les politiques publiques internationales

Abstract

Currently, the research agendas of Public Policy Analysis and International Relations are converging and thus have begun to challenge the epistemplogical distance between these two parts of political science. Two trends that are evident in both are accelerating this process : the Europeanisation, internationalisation and transnationalisation of public action ; the institutionnalisation of international relations, the consolidation of international regimes and the reinvention of multilateralism. This article argues that both of these « sub-disciplines » can benefit from the cross-ferilizations which can arise from studying « international public policies », be they the foreign policy of states or the European Union or the « multilateral public action » produced by the major international organizations.