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Paris, Presses de Sciences Po (Académique), 2022, 308 p.

À en croire la parole officielle, les experts et la presse, les armes nucléaires prolifèrent dans le monde et cet état de fait serait immuable. Ainsi, la politique française ne fait pas débat. Elle repose sur trois postulats : efficacité de la dissuasion nucléaire, absence de risque grâce à un contrôle adéquat, responsabilité morale et politique du chef de l'État, seul habilité à déclencher le feu nucléaire. À partir d’archives françaises, britanniques et américaines, d’entretiens dans de nombreux pays et d’une enquête inédite sur l’opinion européenne, l’auteur réévalue ces postulats. Requalifiant la prolifération comme une partie du problème, il cartographie les vulnérabilités, expose les limites du savoir existant, propose des outils pour ne pas céder à la confiance excessive dans les discours d’autorité, élucide les paris qui sous-tendent les différentes politiques possibles et documente le rôle qu’a joué la chance dans l’évitement d’explosions nucléaires non désirées. Parce qu’en démocratie, il est crucial que les choix nucléaires s’appuient sur la discussion publique d’alternatives cohérentes, cet ouvrage donne au citoyen, à l’élu, au militaire et à l’éducateur les moyens de se forger un avis sur un sujet aussi essentiel que réputé intouchable.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 320 p.

Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested. When Men Fell from the Sky is a comparative history of the treatment of these airmen by civilians in France, Germany and Britain. By studying the situation on the ground, Claire Andrieu shows how these encounters reshaped societies at a local level. She reveals how the fall of France in 1940 may have concealed an insurrection nipped in the bud, that the 'People's War' in Britain was not merely a myth, and that in Germany, the 'racial community of the people' had in fact become a social reality with Allied airmen increasingly subjected to lynching from 1943 onwards. By considering why the treatment of these airmen contrasted so strongly in these countries, Andrieu sheds new light on how civilians reacted when confronted with the war 'at home'.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 320 p.

How did the Taliban gain the trust of the Afghan population through decades of conflict? How did they put themselves in a position to regulate social relations? And with what consequences for Afghan society? The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan: Waging War by Law explores how the Taliban used the law as a resource in its conflict with militarily and technologically superior Western armies. While the international coalition set up an inadequate and corrupt legal system, the Taliban set up hundreds of courts in the countryside. By insisting on due process, impartiality of judges, and the enforcement of verdicts, this system of justice established itself as one of the few sources of predictability in the daily lives of Afghans. The armed movement used law to substantiate their claim to embody the state, disseminate their vision of society, and establish local legitimacy. Their courts attempted to balance the political agenda of the movement, the demands of Islamic law, the needs of the population, and the expectations of international legal actors whose implicit recognition they desired. In contemporary civil wars, where dispensing justice is at once a juridical activity, a political weapon, and a stake in the war, this book thus accounts for why the West lost the war and how the Taliban took over the country. Based on the author's extensive fieldwork in various provinces in Afghanistan and unique access to Taliban judges and court users, this socio-legal investigation offers new perspectives on a country that was at war for over four decades. Baczko proposes an innovative reflection on the place of law and courts in civil wars as well as a stark reminder of the dangers of foreign intervention. Timely and thought-provoking, this book is appeals to a multi-disciplinary audience including legal scholars, political scientists, sociologists, diplomats, policy-makers, and anyone interested in the Afghan conflict.

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.