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Benoît Pouget, magazine article: "Medicalising dead bodies: the First Indochina War (1946-54)".
Benoît Pouget, "Medicalising dead bodies: the First Indochina War (1946-54)", Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 10, n°2, p.44-57. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.10.2.4 Abstract This article shows how the medicalisation of death in wartime can be seen as integral to a broader medicalisation of war that it both stems from and sustains. More specifically, it highlights the pivotal role...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, magazine article: "Special issue introduction: war casualties and the production of knowledge".
Taline Garibian, Benoît Pouget, "Special issue introduction: war casualties and the production of knowledge", Human Remains and Violence, Vol. 10, No. 2, December 2024, pp.1-4. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.10.2.1 Link to the online article
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, journal article: "On Medical Standardisation in Times of Scientific Uncertainty: The Management of Flu Epidemics by the French Military Medical Service After the World Pandemic (1920s-30s)".
Benoît Pouget, " On Medical Standardisation in Times of Scientific Uncertainty: The Management of Flu Epidemics by the French Military Medical Service After the World Pandemic (1920s-30s) ", Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, Vol. 10 n° 1-2, December 2024, pp. 383-401. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.1403. Abstract Using the example of anti-influenza struggle during the 1920s and 1930s, this article asks how the...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, Revue historique des armées: "Les exhumations, transferts et réinhumations de cadavres dans la France de la Libération" (Exhumations, transfers and reburials of corpses in Liberation France)
Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Taline Garibian, Benoît Pouget, "Les exhumations, transferts et réinhumations de cadavres dans la France de la Libération", Revue historique des armées, n°316, 1er trimestre 2025, pp.4-8. A quarterly scientific journal, the Revue historique des armées is the Ministry of Defence's journal of history, as well as the communication vehicle for the Service historique des...
Read MoreNicolas 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 MoreWalter Bruyère-Ostells - Speech to LCI Midi "Troops in Ukraine, is the French army prepared?
Walter Bruyère-Ostells talks to LCI Midi (Wednesday 15 January, between 12:50 and 13:10). Topic: Special Forces and their possible deployment in Ukraine.
Read MoreWalter Bruyère-Ostells - Speech on France Culture "Comores: a silent protest
Interview with Walter Bruyère-Ostells on France Culture's "Cultures Monde" programme. Summary: A year after a disputed election that returned Azali Assoumani to the presidency of the Comoros for the third time, the Comorians voted again this weekend to elect their deputies and local representatives. The ballot was boycotted by the opposition, reflecting 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...
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