The idea of «borders» and the challenges of international relations

Abstract

More and more spaces have become legal territories in addition to the classic state areas: Internet, information space, the living world (natural molecules and genes), environment and virtual money. In addition, with regard to industrial innovation, it is those who propose tomorrow's norms that will build the next legal territories, and lawyers note a lag in relation to technical progress. Many of these evolutions call into question some of the sovereignty rights of the state, and we note the evolution of the law in favor of large companies and NGOs. Each state thus has to introduce innovations in the right to be present in the fields of technology and social sciences, to put forward their diplomatic advantages in the service of the new world concepts. And here France has its own cards, its approach has largely changed in recent years.