For some fifteen years, the debate relating to civil society and the roles of the latter accompanied the crisis of post-colonial African societies and the reshaping of international development policies. The "historical hindsight" allows to highlight a vast debate, of a theoretical nature, on...

</titre> This article introduces the volume dedicated to popular initiatives of international solidarity setting up by citizens in Belgium, in France as in Netherlands. The author underlines a set of stakes which represents the emergence of these initiatives for the international cooperation, in...

The notion of civil society, although regularly criticized, occupies an important place in the politics of development today. The author here aims at formulating certain reflections allowing approaching the study of the non-western civil societies under the angle of projects at the junction of...