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Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2022.

En faisant de la bienveillance une composante des relations internationales, ce livre propose un regard plus sensible sur notre temps et offre une boîte à outils pour l’action politique à venir. Car la bienveillance ne rime pas qu’avec mièvrerie et bons sentiments. Et elle ne se cantonne ni dans la neutralité ni dans l’hégémonie cultivée par certains États. Disposition morale, elle se retrouve dans plusieurs conduites diplomatiques, des commémorations aux négociations. En tant que pratique, elle promeut la non-nuisance, la tempérance ou encore l’attention à l’égard des vulnérables. En témoigne la modération dans l’usage de la force en droit international, la protection des biens publics mondiaux, ou l’hospitalité d’individus ordinaires envers les migrants. Mais elle est surtout au cœur d’un projet politique global ancien, le solidarisme de Bourgeois, prix Nobel de la paix en 1920. Car une solidarité naturelle, de fait, nous lie tous les uns aux autres, nations comme individus. Reconnaître les effets de ces interdépendances est crucial pour l’humanité tout entière. Explorer et décrire de manière lucide ces formes de bienveillance est une nécessité. Un geste qui ouvre des voies pour réinterpréter le passé, mais aussi pour agir au sein de notre monde, eu égard aux menaces et aux risques qui nous affectent, des pandémies aux changements climatiques.

Brill (Diplomatic Studies, Vol. 18), 2022.

Ministries of foreign affairs are prominent institutions at the heart of state diplomacy. Although they have lost their monopoly on the making of national foreign policies, they still are the operators of key practices associated with diplomacy: communication, representation and negotiation. Often studied in a monographic way, ministries of foreign affairs are undergoing an adaptation of their practices that require a global approach. This book fills a gap in the literature by approaching ministries of foreign affairs in a comparative and comprehensive way. The best international specialists in the field provide methodological and theoretical insights into how best to study institutions that remain crucial for the world diplomacy.

Springer (IMISCOE Research Series), 2021.

This open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the various relations between cosmopolitanism and urbanity in the contemporary world. Drawing on a variety of cities in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, it overcomes the Eurocentric bias that has marked debate on cosmopolitanism from its inception. The contributions highlight the crucial role of migrants as actors of urban change and targets of urban policies, thus reconciling empirical and normative approaches to cosmopolitanism. By addressing issues such as cosmopolitanism and urban geographies of power, locations and temporalities of subaltern cosmopolites, political meanings and effects of cosmopolitan practices and discourses in urban contexts, it revisits contemporary debates on superdiversity, urban stratification and local incorporation, and assess the role of migration and mobility in globalization and social change.

New York, Palgrave Macmillan (Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy), 2022.

Populism is on the rise, and so are academic studies on populism. The study of populism has long focused on the way its spokespersons have behaved as an oppositional force, in Western countries in particular. While discourses and practices of populists exercising a protest function still merit attention, this volume trains the focus on populists in government. The real novelty of the past decade is that many populists are now (or have been) in power, in Europe as well as in other parts of the world, and this book intends to play a pioneering role from a geographical and analytical standpoint. Besides Europe and Latin America, where populism is well established, populists are today—or have been recently—in office in the Middle East (Turkey, Israel), Asia (India, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), and the United States. In most of the cases, their rule has resulted in forms of authoritarianism, giving birth to a new kind of regime that combines elections—which populists need to nurture their legitimacy—and attacks against institutions in charge of checks and balances, including the judiciary. While most of the populist rulers have consolidated their power, democratic resilience has prevailed in some rare cases.