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Book by Frédéric Monier: "Un pouvoir malhonnête. Public corruption in France, 18th-20th centuries".
Frédéric Monier, Un pouvoir malhonnête. La corruption publique en France, 18e-20e siècles, Champ Vallon, 12 September 2025, 256p. ISBN 979-10-267-1370-8 Shortlisted for the "Van Ruymbeke Prize" launched this year (2025) by Transparency International France: https://transparency-france.org/2025/09/12/lancement-du-prix-van-ruymbeke/ Presentation: This book offers a history of corruption, as the French have perceived it and...
Read MoreYoann Morvan, co-editor of the book "Le genre en questions au Moyen-Orient. An approach through urban spaces".
Thierry BOISSIERE, Gaëlle GILLOT, Yoann MORVAN (dir.), Le genre en questions au Moyen-Orient. Une approche par les espaces urbains, Éditions Le Cavalier Bleu, 28 August 2025, 256p. Presentation: Far from the fixed and naturalised representations of a Middle East perceived as immobile and conservative, this book explores the contemporary dynamics of gender relations and identifications in the Middle East....
Read MoreBook in tribute to Pierre Vergès: "From large numbers to singularities: methodological experiments in sociology".
Pierre Vergès, Des grands nombres aux singularités : Expérimentations méthodologiques en sociologie, published by Hermann, 25 June 2025, 358p. Pierre Vergès, a graduate of the Arts et Métiers engineering school and holder of a doctorate in economics, was director of research at the CNRS. He successively directed the Centre de recherche en écologie sociale (CRES) at the EHESS in Marseille, then the Laboratoire...
Read MoreSaïd Belguidoum and Constance De Gourcy (eds.): "La Méditerranée traversée. Narrative, sensitive figures of mobility".
Saïd Belguidoum, Constance De Gourcy (dir.), La Méditerranée traversée. Récit, figures sensibles de la mobilité, Presses Universitaires de Provence, May 2025, 274p. With the participation of : Maria Elena Buslacchi, Eleni Demetriou, Andrea Gallinal Arias, Léna Haziza, Sylvie Mazzella, Melissa Moralli, Léa Nivoix, Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Marie-Pierre Ulloa Back cover: This book is a...
Read MoreBook by Jonathan Hassine: "Soldiers and the State in Lebanon at war".
Jonathan Hassine, Les soldats et l'État dans le Liban en guerre, Presses Universitaires de France, April 2025, 496p. Back cover Contrary to popular belief, the Lebanese army and military were not powerless spectators of the war that tore Lebanon apart from 1975 to 1990. Thanks to sources written in Arabic, English and French, this...
Read MoreBook by Natalia Ribas-Mateos: "A Message to You. A Cartography of Mobilities - Sexual Border Violence, Solidarities and Global Cities".
Natalia Ribas-Mateos, A Message to You. A Cartography of Mobilities - Sexual Border Violence, Solidarities and Global Cities, ibidem Press, March 2025, 280p. ISBN: 9783838219387 Summary: New analytical frameworks help us to shed light on global transformations regarding community responses and complex ways to think about gendered solidarities. Bringing together different ethnographic fieldworks, Ribas-Mateos...
Read MoreCo-edited by Laura Oso, Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Melissa Moralli: "Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration. New Mobilities and Artivism".
Laura Oso, Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Melissa Moralli (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Migration. New Mobilities and Artivism, Edward Elgar Publishing, 21 January 2025, 614p. ISBN: 978 1 03530 037 2 With the participation of Constance de Gourcy ("Mediterranean crossing", p.347 and "Missing in migration" with Sofia Stimmatini, p.392) and Sofia Laiz Moreira ("Social capital", p....
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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