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Nicolas Badalassi - Appearance on Europe 1's "Au Coeur de l'Histoire" programme: "The Yalta Conference
Nicolas Badalassi's contribution to the programme "Au Cœur de l'Histoire" hosted by Stéphane Bern on Europe 1 (episode of Tuesday 4 February). Summary Stéphane Bern takes us to Crimea, on the shores of the Black Sea, to relive the Yalta conference that brought together, 80 years ago to the day, the...
Read MoreBook co-edited by Walter Bruyère-Ostells: "Anthologie des penseurs militaires français" (Anthology of French military thinkers)
Walter Bruyère-Ostells, Hervé Drévillon and Jean-Christophe Romer (eds.), Anthologie des penseurs militaires français, Nouveau Monde éditions, 15 January 2025, 1040p. Summary: From the white plume of Henri IV to Napoleon triumphant in the sun of Austerlitz, the French imagination has been nourished by bravura moments in the history of armies to build a national military culture. The result of a...
Read MoreBook by Nicolas Badalassi: "La France, la guerre froide et la Méditerranée" (France, the Cold War and the Mediterranean)
Nicolas Badalassi, La France, la guerre froide et la Méditerranée. Des accords d'Évian à la Perestroïka, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 14 March 2024, 342p. Summary: In a historiography of the Cold War largely devoted to relations between the United States and the USSR, France has long been the poor relation. However, it did play an important role in the...
Read MoreBook by Nicolas Badalassi: "History of European security since 1945".
Nicolas Badalassi, Histoire de la sécurité européenne depuis 1945. De la guerre froide à la guerre en Ukraine, Armand Colin, February 2024, 256p. Summary: With the destabilisation of the Middle East, the migratory crisis, terrorist attacks, the return of the Russian threat, Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, the decade of 2010 seemed...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, editor of a journal issue: "War casualties and the production of knowledge".
Benoît Pouget (dir.). « War casualties and the production of knowledge », Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal, University Press Manchester, 2025 [Online publication date: 20 Dec 2024]. Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a biannual, peer-reviewed publication which draws together the different strands of academic research on the dead body and the production…
Read MoreHugo Gonzalez, Preface by Benoit Pouget "CHINA IN THE EUROMEDITERRANEAN PORTS. Pékin, nouvelle Rome dans sa Mare Nostrum?", Collection: Inter-National, L'Harmattan, 2022.
Nicolas Badalassi - Appearance on France 3 Corse in the Democratia programme on NATO in the Mediterranean
Avec la participation de Nicolas Badalassi.
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Claire MIOT - The first French army
From Provence to Germany 1944-1945. Ed Perrin
The definitive study of the army that liberated the south of France. On 15 August 1944, the First French Army landed in Provence. With some 300,000 soldiers in its ranks, it liberated the major cities of southern France during the summer. It was then sent to Germany, the Alps and...
Read MoreNicolas Badalassi - "Democratia - The atom and the French: a political and controversial history".
France 3 Corse, 19 October 2021Broadcast presented by Anna Francesca LecciaOnline The major issues at stake in the Mediterranean deciphered through the prism of history by a documentary, then illuminated by the analyses of specialists interviewed by Anna Francesca Leccia.Participation by Nicolas BadalassiCoproduction: Mareterraniu
Read MoreWalter Bruyère-Ostells, Stephen Rookes - "Mercenaries in the Congo and Biafra 1960-1970: Africa's weapon of choice?"
revue Small Wars and Insurgencies, août 2021.lien Abstract« Often maligned by academics and international organisations alike, mercenaries are perceived as being a contributory factor to the worsening of conflict and as a threat to democracy. This chapter demonstrates that this reputation is not wholly deserved, and that in certain cases mercenaries have made a valuable contribution to…
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