8e Conference internationale des editeurs de Documents diplomatiques - 8th International Conference of Editors of Diplomatic Documents: Des Etats et de l'ONU - About States and UNO

Creee informellement en 1989, la conference des pays editeurs de documents diplomatiques a reuni a Paris en octobre 2005, a l'occasion de sa 8 session, une trentaine de delegations qui ont travaille tant sur des questions de methodologie que sur un theme historique, celui de la naissance et de l'evolution de l'Organisation des Nations unies. L'ensemble de leurs contributions est reuni dans ce volume, dont la direction des Archives du ministere francais des Affaires etrangeres, organisatrice de la reunion, a choisi de confier la publication aux editions Peter Lang, qui publie deja les Documents diplomatiques francais. Le lecteur y trouvera les secrets de fabrication de cette collection et de ses homologues les plus anciennes, et en decouvrira d'autres, plus recentes, voire en cours de creation. Established unofficially in 1989, the International Conference of Editors of Diplomatic Documents brought together in Paris in October 2005, on the occasion of its 8th meeting, more than thirty delegations. The conference concentrated on the methodology of editing and publishing and chose to focus on the historical theme of the birth and development of the United Nations Organization. Reports and papers presented by the participants are gathered in the present proceedings, the publishing of which was entrusted by the Archives of the ministere des Affaires etrangeres to Peter Lang Publishing Group, which is currently responsible for publishing the Documents diplomatiques francais. The reader will find in this publication the trade secrets of the French series and of the earliest analogous series of diplomatic documents, as well as discover other more recent collections or even some in the process of being created.