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Géopolitique du risque

De la possibilité du danger à l’incertitude de la menace

Sécurité, environnement, finance, santé, énergie, numérique… le risque et sa gestion ont intégré de nombreux pans de notre société, tant au niveau des disciplines que des acteurs. Cette culture du risque, qui s’est accrue avec l’intensification de la mondialisation et la démultiplication de ...

Géopolitique de l’IA

Les relations internationales à l’ère de la mise en données du monde

Si l’intelligence artificielle a bouleversé notre quotidien, elle a également profondément transformé les relations internationales en abolissant les frontières « classiques » au profit de l’espace cyber et en introduisant une nouvelle ressource clé, la donnée, et les usagers qui la produisent. Elle a également ...

L'Année stratégique 2023

Analyse des enjeux internationaux

L’année 2022 restera celle de la sortie de la pandémie qui a exacerbé un certain nombre de questions stratégiques majeures. De la rivalité sino-états-unienne à la lutte contre le changement climatique, des divisions européennes aux fragilités latinoaméricaines, des défis auxquels l’Afrique est confrontée ...

Les Romains après Rome

Sociétés, territoires et identités (Ve-XVe siècle)

Que recouvre le nom générique de " Romains " ? Certainement pas les seuls citoyens de l'Empire, jusqu'à sa chute en 476. Sur quinze siècles se dégage une nature très diverse, au fil des évolutions territoriales, politiques et idéologiques, culturelles et religieuses. A la " fabrication des ...

Néron

Le pouvoir et la scène

Mal aimé, Néron (37-68 a.C.) est un des empereurs qui symbolise le plus un pouvoir tyrannique et la folie sanguinaire. Dans ce portrait nuancé, l'auteur remonte aux origines de l'avènement de celui qui est proclamé empereur à 17 ans après la mort ...

Russian Politics Today

stanility and fragility

Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility provides an accessible and nuanced introduction to contemporary Russian politics at a time of increasing uncertainty. Using the theme of stability versus fragility as its overarching framework, this innovative textbook explores the forces that shape Russia's politics, economy ...

The Lives of Ancient Villages

Rural Society in Roman Anatolia

Our conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The people of the deep Mediterranean countryside seldom appear in the historical record from antiquity ...

Erdogan's War

A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's pugnacious president, is now the country's longest-serving leader. On his way to the top, he has fought many wars. This book tells the story of those battles against domestic enemies through the lens of the Syrian conflict, which has ...

Tainted Democracy

Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary

Hungary, once the poster-child of liberal democracy, is fast becoming an autocracy under Viktor Orbán. After winning an absolute majority in 2010, Orbán launched a series of 'reforms', fundamentally undermining the country's twenty-year, post-Cold War liberal consensus. For supporters and foes alike, the rise ...

Algeria

Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak

When mass protests erupted in Algeria in 2019, on a scale unseen anywhere in the region since the Arab Spring, the outside world was taken by surprise. Algeria had been largely unaffected by the turmoil that engulfed its neighbours in 2011, and it was widely ...

Hybrid Warriors

Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow's Struggle for Ukraine

The Russian government's deniable use of rogues, businessmen, enthusiasts, mercenaries and political technologists confounded policymakers as Moscow waged a covert invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Did Crimea and Donbas reveal the Kremlin's new 'hybrid war' playbook? Or was Moscow itself manipulated by the ...

Jihadi Politics

The Global Jihadi Civil War, 2014-2019

In February 2014, al-Qaida issued a statement that shocked the entire Jihadi movement. For the first time in its history, the group declared that a local affiliate, the Islamic State in Iraq, was no longer part of al-Qaida. The renegade Iraqi group, led by Abu ...

Triumph and Despair

In Search of Iran's Islamic Republic

'Triumph and Despair' tells the dramatic story of post-revolutionary Iran's first four decades, from its establishment in 1979 until today. The revolutionary coalition that overthrew the monarchy was at once democratic, populist and Islamic. The Islamists, and the Khomeinists in particular, were able to ...

The Ukrainian-Russian borderland

history versus geography

The eastern edge of Europe has long been in flux. The nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship is both complex and ambiguous. Prompted by the countries' historical and geographical entanglement, Volodymyr Kravchenko asks what the words Ukraine and Russia really mean. The Ukrainian-Russian Borderland abandons linear ...

Kin Majorities

identity and citizenship in Crimea and Moldova

In Moldova, the number of dual citizens has risen exponentially in the last decades. Before annexation, many saw Russia as granting citizenship to-or passportizing-large numbers in Crimea. Both are regions with kin majorities: local majorities claimed as co-ethnic by external states offering citizenship, among other ...

Texts from the middle

documents from the Mediterranean world, 650-1650

Texts from the Middle is a companion primary source reader to the textbook The Sea in the Middle. It can be used alone or in conjunction with the textbook, providing an original history of the Middle Ages that places the Mediterranean at the geographical center ...

Spiderweb capitalism

how global elites exploit frontier markets

A behind-the-scenes look at how the rich and powerful use offshore shell corporations to conceal their wealth and make themselves richer In 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their ...

Saints and soldiers

inside internet-age terrorism, from Syria to the Capitol siege

More than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. The hateful rhetoric and constant threats of violence immediately reminded her of the jihadist militants she spent her days monitoring, but law enforcement and policy makers barely paid attention ...

Dancing on bones

history and power in China, Russia and North Korea

History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles ...

The violence of colonial photography

The late nineteenth century saw a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the camera began to be widely available. Colonial authorities were quick to recognise the power of this new technology, which they ...