Archives - Publications and Beyond

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This page presents the various supplemental material published in relation to recent academic works by CERI scholars in chronological order over the past quarter.

The supplemental material provided here—written interviews, podcasts, articles, online resources—offers a new focus on research and access to it through other formats than the work itself. All of this material is freely accessible online.

Beyond this page,
the full list of academic publications is available.

Christian Lequesne (ed.)

Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World. Actors of State Diplomacy

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.

10/05/2022

Autour de la publication

Entretiens du CERI
20 April 2022
Understanding Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World
Interview with Christian Lequesne, by Miriam Périer

Podcast
10 May 2022
Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World. Actors of State Diplomacy

Journal / Les Dossiers du CERI

Anne de Tinguy (ed.)

Ukraine : la guerre de Poutine

Les Dossiers du CERI, April 2022.

The "special military operation" launched in Ukraine on 24 February by Vladimir Putin is in fact a high-intensity war that marks a tipping point. One month after the beginning of the offensive, the result expected by the Kremlin does not seem to have been achieved. The human and material toll is extremely high. Why has Russia engaged so violently in an operation that seems likely to produce only casualties? Is this war the symptom of a neo-imperialism that continues to permeate Moscow's view of Ukraine thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet empire? Is it the result of a conflict between two development models, the authoritarian and conservative one carried by Russia and the democratic and liberal one carried by the West? This Dossier du CERI focuses on the stakes and consequences of this conflict.

22/04/2022

Autour de la publication

Resources
War in Ukraine
Selection of online resources and books on the war in Ukraine

Catherine Lejeune, Delphine Pagès-El Karoui, Camille Schmoll, Hélène Thiollet (eds)

Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World

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.

05/04/2022

Autour de la publication

Video
05 April 2022
Migrants and the city. A comparative perspective
Camille Schmoll (EHESS), Aurélie Varrel (CEIAS/CNRS) and Hélène Thiollet (CNRS/CERI), EHESS Spring Talks

Christophe Jaffrelot

Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, 656 p.

Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large. Modi managed to seduce a substantial number of citizens by promising them development and polarizing the electorate along ethno-religious lines. Both facets of this national-populism found expression in a highly personalized political style as Modi related directly to the voters through all kinds of channels of communication in order to saturate the public space.

Translation of L'Inde de Modi : national-populisme et démocratie ethnique,  Fayard (Paris), March 2019.

25/03/2022

Autour de la publication

Video
25 March 2022
Ethnic Nationalism's Stronghold on India
Focus by Sciences Po, with Christophe Jaffrelot

09 November 2021
Modi's India Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy with Christophe Jaffrelot

Online event by the Illiberalism Studies Program, GW's Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)

16 October 2021
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy — A Book Adda

A debate with Christophe Jaffrelot, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Podcast
06 October 2021
Narendra Modi and India's New Political System
Interview with Christophe Jaffrelot, by Mila Vaishnav, Grand Tamasha

News media
15 December 2021
Hindu Nationalism, a Movement, not a Mandate
A review by Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Public Books

11 December 2021
'Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy' review: The Collapse of Democracy
Book review by Ananya Vajpeyi, The Hindu

16 November 2021
Best books of 2021: Politics
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

25 August 2021
To Kill a Democracy and Modi’s India — a dream in peril
Book review, by James Crabtree, Financial Times

Edited book / Collection du CERI

Alain Dieckhoff, Christophe Jaffrelot, Elise Massicard (eds)

Contemporary Populists in Power

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.

02/03/2022

Autour de la publication

Entretien du CERI
02 March 2022
Who are the Contemporary Populists in Power?
Interview with Alain Dieckhoff, Christophe Jaffrelot and Elise Massicard, by Miriam Périer

Journal / Les Etudes du CERI

Corentin Cohen

Les confraternités nigérianes à la conquête du monde ?

Les Etudes du CERI, No. 258, December 2021.

Si les confraternités nigérianes occupent une place croissante dans les médias au nom de la menace criminelle qu’elles représentent, elles n’ont fait l’objet d’aucun travail de recherche de terrain au Nigeria ni en Europe. Cette médiatisation alimente une confusion croissante entre les catégorisations juridico-policières qui sont utilisées pour les définir et les pratiques et discours panafricains, de solidarité ou d’émancipation, qu’elles mettent en avant. L’approche socio-historique développée dans cette étude permet de mettre en perspective l’expansion globale des confraternités depuis les années 2000, et de proposer un autre regard sur le rôle de ces sociétés secrètes et leur inscription dans des économies politiques et des territoires différents. En Europe, les confraternités sont d’abord des institutions sociales encadrant la jeunesse et les diasporas. Elles assurent la reproduction du pouvoir des élites tradition-nelles et politiques à l’étranger par la captation des rentes liées aux migrations (remittances), et jouent donc un rôle clé dans la production d’une forme de mondialisation de la société nigériane par le bas, participant à l’implantation des institutions morales et sociales du sud du pays en Europe. Derrière un discours d’empowerment et de solidarité, les confraternités sont ainsi un réseau transnational qui per-pétue un ordre conservateur, une hiérarchie sociale et des inégalités qu’elles contribuent à naturaliser.

21/02/2022

Autour de la publication

Entretiens du CERI
21 February 2022
Nigerian Confraternities out to Conquer the World? Interview with Corentin Cohen

Entretien avec Corentin Cohen, par Corinne Deloy

05 January 2022
Les confraternités nigérianes à la conquête du monde ?
Entretien avec Corentin Cohen, par Corinne Deloy

Translation
21 February 2022
Nigerian Confraternities to Conquer the World?
Etude du CERI n°258bis, December 2021, by Corentin Cohen

Journal / Les Etudes du CERI

Anne de Tinguy (ed.)

Regards sur l'Eurasie - L'année politique 2021

Les Études du CERI, n°261-262, February 2022.

Regards sur l’Eurasie. L’année politique est une publication annuelle du Centre de recherches internationales de Sciences Po (CERI) dirigée par Anne de Tinguy. Elle propose des clefs de compréhension des événements et des phénomènes qui marquent de leur empreinte les évolutions d’une région, l’espace postsoviétique, en profonde mutation depuis l’effondrement de l’Union soviétique en 1991. Forte d’une approche transversale qui ne prétend nullement à l’exhaustivité, elle vise à identifier les grands facteurs explicatifs, les dynamiques régionales et les enjeux sous-jacents.

17/02/2022

Autour de la publication

Podcast
17 February 2022
L'Eurasie 30 ans après: Un anniversaire sous tension
Débat à l'occasion de la parution de Regards sur l'Eurasie. L'année politique 2021

Entretiens du CERI
07 February 2022
L'Eurasie 30 ans après l'effondrement de l'URSS
Entretien avec Anne de Tinguy, par Corinne Deloy

06 February 2022
Les nouvelles routes de la soie chinoises en Asie centrale. Un projet mutuellement bénéfique?
Entretien avec Sébastien Peyrouse, par Corinne Deloy

Analyses du CERI
14 February 2022
Kazakhstan: une nouvelle victoire pour Vladimir Poutine?
Un article de Bayram Balci

03 February 2022
Popular Protests in Kazakhstan: A New Victory for Poutin's Political Agenda?
An article by Bayram Balci

Book / Collection du CERI

Sandrine Revet

Disasterland. An Ethnography of the International Disaster Community

Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy), 2020, 236 p.
Translated by Cynthia Schoch and Katharine Throssell

This book analyses the making of the international world of ‘natural’ disasters by its professionals. Through a long-term ethnographic study of this arena, the author unveils the various elements that are necessary for the construction of an international world: a collective narrative, a shared language, and standardized practices. The book analyses the two main framings that these professionals use to situate themselves with regards to a disaster: preparedness and resilience, arguing that the making of the world of ‘natural’ disasters reveals how heterogeneous, conflicting, and sometimes competing elements are put together.

Translation of Les coulisses du monde des catastrophes « naturelles », published by Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme (Le (bien) commun) in Septembre 2018.

30/01/2022

Autour de la publication

Podcast
30 January 2022
Catastrophes “naturelles” ?
Entretien avec Sandrine Revet, par Louise Baumann et Loïc Le Dé, L'Envers des Catastrophes

Entretiens du CERI
30 April 2020
Behind the Scenes of 'Natural Disasters'
Interview with Sandrine Revet, by Miriam Périer

20 November 2018
Les coulisses du monde des catastrophes « naturelles »
Entretien avec Sandrine Revet, par Miriam Périer

Videos
27 February 2019
The researcher's word
Entretien avec Sandrine Revet, Alternatives Humanitaires

26 November 2018
Les coulisses du monde des catastrophes « naturelles » - Sandrine Revet
Entretien avec Sandrine Revet, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme

Journal / Les Etudes du CERI

Olivier Dabène (ed.)

Amérique latine - L’année politique 2021

Les Etudes du CERI, n°259-260, janvier 2022.

Amérique latine - L’Année politique 2021 est une publication de l’Observatoire politique de l’Amérique latine et des Caraïbes (Opalc) du CERI-Sciences Po. Elle prolonge la démarche du site www.sciencespo.fr/opalc en offrant des clés de compréhension d’un continent en proie à des transformations profondes.

28/01/2022

Autour de la publication

Eberhard Kienle

Egypt. A Fragile Power

New York/Abingdon, Routledge (Contemporary Middle East Series), 2021, 244 p.

Focusing on authoritarian rule, unresolved economic challenges, and external dependency, the volume explains the salient political and economic features of contemporary Egypt against the backdrop of its history since the beginning of the 19th century. Presenting a comprehensive account of developments, it challenges common assumptions about secularists, Islamists, and revolutionaries, as well as 'modernization', 'economic reform', and political stability. Discussing domestic politics, economic change, and external relations since 1945, the author argues that Egypt continued to draw a degree of strength from sustained state-building activities, which its pre-colonial rulers could pursue in a favourable international environment and the partly related emergence of the country as a focal point of collective identity. More consolidated than many other states in the global south, Arab and non-Arab alike, independent Egypt, despite changing economic strategies, remained a (lower) middle-income country and despite repeated political contestation, most recently in the Arab Spring, continued to suffer from autocratic rule. Such continuity reflects not only the interplay between political forces at home, dominated by the military, and inconclusive economic policies but also the external constraints under which governments and other actors in the global south have to act. Based on numerous primary and secondary sources in various languages, including Arabic, and years of fieldwork, the book is a key resource for scholars of all levels, journalists, policymakers, and diplomats interested in comparative politics and the political economy of the Middle East and Egypt.

20/01/2022

Autour de la publication

Entretiens du CERI
20 January 2022
Is Egypt a Fragile State? 
Interview with Eberhard Kienle, by Miriam Périer

L’Egypte est-elle un Etat fragile ?
Entretien avec Eberhard Kienle, par Miriam Périer

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