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Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy), 2023, 281 p.

This book explores the challenges that multilateralism faces today and questions the idea of a ‘crisis’ of multilateral cooperation and international organizations. It accounts for the pressures on and power shifts in multilateralism in recent years - such as the war in Syria, the Covid-19 pandemic, challenges for NATO, the erosion of multilateral norms, the transition from Trump to Biden, the rise of China, the post-Brexit European Union, and the mobilization of countries from the South. The authors illustrate the resilience of multilateralism and lessons learned from the WTO, UN Women, International Organizations’ Secretariats and global environmental governance. Written in part by members of the Research Group on Multilateral Action (GRAM), this volume argues that ‘crisis’ should not be considered a pathology but the ‘matrix’ of multilateralism, which is more resilient than commonly thought. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, global governance, and international organizations.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 320 p.

This book discusses how human lives are equated with the material, and argues that pricing lives lies at the core of the political; in fact, as in Plato or Hobbes, and in the Weberian ethics of responsibility, measurement is considered to be one of its central features. Ariel Colonomos argues that this measure relies primarily on human lives and interests, and that the material equivalence to lives is twofold. The equivalence is a double equation, as we pay for lives and we pay with lives. This double equation constitutes the measurement upon which the political equilibrium of a society depends and is thus a key constitutive part of the political. The book adopts two approaches, both with an interdisciplinary perspective: one explanatory and the other normative. First, it explains the nexus between existential goods and material goods, drawing on a detailed analysis of several case studies from contemporary politics, both domestic and international. Second, it discusses normatively the material valuation of human lives and the human value of material goods. Value attribution and the question of the material equivalent to lives are of relevance not only for political theory and philosophy, but also for sociology, history, international relations, and legal studies.

Paris, Presses de Sciences Po (L'Enjeu mondial), 2023, 180 p.

Présentation d'Alain Dieckhoff : "Cette nouvelle livraison de L’enjeu mondial, intitulée Un monde en crises et publiée aux Presses de Sciences Po le 15 septembre, est un peu particulière. Elle s’inscrit en effet dans le prolongement du colloque de novembre 2022 qui célébrait le 70e anniversaire du Centre d’études internationales et elle offre une réflexion approfondie sur les mutations du monde contemporain. Il y a régulièrement dans les affaires internationales des moments charnières où leur configuration se transformée en profondeur, que l’on songe ne serait-ce qu’aux deux guerres mondiales ou à la guerre froide. Il y a tout lieu de penser que nous vivons aujourd’hui un tournant majeur. Une nouvelle donne internationale se met en place avec l’inexorable montée en puissance de la Chine, la politique agressive de la Russie, l’affirmation d’un rôle de plus en plus actif de la part d’Etats du Sud (Inde, Turquie, Brésil, Arabie Saoudite…). Devant ces changements, l’Occident, qui a longtemps donné le la, apparaît singulièrement sur la défensive. Cette transformation de l’échiquier mondial s’accompagne de crises sévères dont la guerre en Ukraine est la manifestation la plus patente. Mais la scène mondiale est traversée par des dynamiques disruptives plus globales comme le creusement des inégalités sociales, le dérèglement climatique, le risque pandémique, la question énergétique, le développement des flux migratoires, etc. Ces défis majeurs, qui se cumulent, remettent frontalement en question les « trente glorieuses de la mondialisation » consécutives à la chute du mur de Berlin, l’internationalisme libéral qui les ont accompagnées et la perspective d’une « fin de l’histoire » démocratique, prospère et pacifique. L’objectif de ce nouvel opus de L’enjeu mondial, entièrement rédigé par des chercheurs liés au CERI, est de mettre en lumière les défis considérables auxquels le monde fait actuellement face tout en esquissant les contours de ce nouvel espace mondial, en voie de constitution, caractérisé par la fragmentation des échanges, la consolidation du nationalisme et de l’autoritarisme, le renforcement de la conflictualité. S’il ne propose pas de « solution clés en main », ce livre à voix multiples invite à imaginer des réponses collectives qui passerait, entre autres, par une renaissance du multilatéralisme ou par une redéfinition du « pacte migratoire ». Il est ainsi pleinement fidèle à l’ambition de Sciences Po : comprendre le monde pour le transformer."

Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy), 2023, 210 p.

The Republic of Turkey celebrates the centenary of its proclamation in 2023. Founded on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, one of the world’s greatest empires both in terms of its geographical extent and its longevity, Republican Turkey has gone through a century of profound and constant changes and transformations from politics to society, economy to religion, or culture to history. These changes have been produced by inner and foreign policies carried out and implemented by the country’s leaders – from Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the current Turkish President in 2023 - but also under the influence of the regional and international context. This collective work aims to take stock of the great achievements of the Turkish republican project. It attempts to draw a general presentation of the evolution of contemporary Turkey in six main areas which constitute six major issues for the country: the general political evolution of Turkey focusing on the issue of citizenship; the transformations in the Turkish economy through a political economy analysis; the evolution of the relationship between religion, state and society; Turkey’s nation-building and the Kurdish question, which still seeks a solution; the changes in Turkish foreign policy focusing on the relationship between Turkey and the West; the relationship between Turkey and Europe, caught between the model of civilization for the republican regime and the prospects of accession to the European Union. Several “focus points” also concentrate on specific subjects such as the Alevi issue, the Cyprus issue or the Turkish soft power with an accent on Africa.