Dominique Vidal, journaliste et historien, auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur le Proche-Orient des questions d'Orient, est spécialiste des questions internationales.
This 2016 edition of State of the World offers new perspectives for understanding contemporary inequalities on a global, regional, and national scale. Relying on solid statistical resources and countless examples on five continents, the specialists who contributed to this volume have studied and analyzed the controlling mechanisms, thus providing some approaches to combatting them.
Bertrand Badie, a university professor at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), is the author of numerous landmark works on international relations, including La diplomatie de connivence (La Découverte/Poche, 2013).
Dominique Vidal, a journalist and historian, specializes in international issues and is the author of numerous books on the Middle East.
This edition contains a section with maps and statistics by Philippe Rekacewicz.