translate English to French: The nature of the topic as a cross-cutting issue requires an approach that is different from the one to be adopted if the goal would be to codify a specific area of international law.
Maximilian Malirsch and Florian Prill, “The Proliferation Security Initiative and the 2005 Protocol to the SUA Convention”, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, vol.  67 (2007), pp.