Article by Alix Philippon: "From religious soft power to neo-patrimonialism: Sufi politics in Pakistan and beyond".

Alix Philippon, "From religious soft power to neo-patrimonialism: Sufi politics in Pakistan and beyond". Bulletin de l'Observatoire international du religieux, no. 52 [online], December 2024. Extract: "In the context of the war on terror, the geopolitical dimension of religious soft power has come to the fore in the form of issues linked to Sufism, the...

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Book 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...

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Book chapter, Christophe Traïni: "Convenir, mesurer, juger. Carbon accounting and the sociology of quantification".

TRAÏNI, Christophe. "Agreeing, measuring, judging. Carbon accounting and the sociology of quantification". In Expertises et argumentaires juridiques. Contribution à l'étude des procès climatiques, edited by Christel Cournil. Aix-en-Provence: DICE Éditions, 2024, p.89-107. Extract: "At a time when the news is constantly being fuelled by meteorological reports of climate disruption, the legal chronicle of the...

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Article by Christophe Traïni: "The mobilisation of emotions and the judicialisation of protest. Climate emergency and the fight against government inaction".

TRAÏNI Christophe (2024), "Mobilisation des émotions et judiciarisation de la contestation. Urgence climatique et lutte contre l'inaction gouvernementale", Análise Social, 59(253). doi: 10.31447/202315. Abstract : This article examines how the mobilisation of emotions can be fully integrated into the repertoire of collective protest actions. To do so, the analysis must pay attention to the way in which...

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Book 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...

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Book 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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Call for papers: third issue of the doctoral journal Mutations en Méditerranée, "Vulnérabilités et agentivités en Méditerranée".

Deadline for receipt of proposals: Monday 20 January 2025 at 5pm Mutations en Méditerranée (MeM) is a multidisciplinary scientific journal that focuses on the transformations taking place in the Mediterranean area. Managed by doctoral students (ED 67, 354, 355) and supported by MESOPOLHIS, it offers a publication space to young researchers through a thematic issue...

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Benoît 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...

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Book coordinated by Sébastien Oliveau and Yoann Doignon: "Global Settlement Dynamics: How People Inhabit the World".

Yoann Doignon and Sébastien Oliveau. Global Settlement Dynamics. ISTE, Wiley, 20 December 2024. Print ISBN: 9781789451825 | Online ISBN: 9781394340590 | DOI: 10.1002/9781394340590 With a chapter by Quentin Godoye, Élise Lévêque and Dieynaba Ndour: "Population Projections on a Global Scale". Summary: There are currently over eight billion people on Earth: how...

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Sophie Daviaud's entry in the "Political Dictionary of Latin America".

Daviaud, Sophie. "Human Rights. Dictionnaire politique de l'Amérique latine, edited by Marie-Hélène Sa Vilas Boas et al, Éditions de l'IHEAL, 2024, p. 194-201, https://doi.org/10.4000/12tkg. Dictionary summary: What does Latin America have to say to the social sciences? This dictionary summarises the notions and concepts that are commonly used to account for politics in Latin America and the...

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