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Walter 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...
Read MoreBenoît Pouget, editor of a journal issue: "War casualties and the production of knowledge".
Benoît Pouget (ed.). "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 More"Claire Miot honoured in CNRS Journal for "liberated Marseilles
The expertise of Claire Miot, lecturer in contemporary history at Sciences Po Aix and Mesopolhis researcher, is highlighted in an article by Marina Julienne published on 21 August 2024 in the CNRS online journal. "As a photojournalist and Resistance fighter, Julia Pirotte documented the first day of the Marseilles uprising on 21 August,...
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
With the participation of 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...
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