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Bye bye 56 rue Jacob

The Centre for History is moving from January 3, 2022
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From January 3, 2022, the centre for history is moving to 1 place saint-thomas-d'aquin (paris 7e)

5e adresse

1984-1987 - Le Centre d'histoire (Centre d'histoire de l'Europe du Vingtième Siècle) qui vient d'être créé est hébergé au 3e cycle d'histoire, 56 rue des Saints-Pères, sous les toits ;

1987-1991 - Les Archives d'histoire contemporaine rejoignent le Centre au 3e étage du 187 Boulevard Saint-Germain, juste au dessus de l'actuelle Librairie de Sciences Po ;

1991-2004 - Le Centre s'agrandit et déménage au 44 rue du Four. Il partage les locaux avec les Presses de Sciences Po ;

 2004-2022 - Le Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po rejoint le 56 rue Jacob (avec le Ceri) et le 224 boulevard Saint-Germain.

Le 56 rue Jacob

Points de repère

L'immeuble du 56 rue Jacob date du XVIIe siècle (avant 1627).

Etudiant, Condorcet y habita dans les années 1760.

En 1779, la maison devient l'Hôtel d'York. Le 5 septembre 1783, au premier étage précisément, David Hartley, représentant le roi d'Angleterre, signe avec Benjamin Franklin, John Jay et John Adams, le traité de paix qui reconnaît l'Indépendance des États-Unis.

Firmin Didot, graveur de l'imprimerie impériale et imprimeur-libraire, mais aussi inventeur de la stéréotypie, acquiert l'immeuble en 1810.

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The Strategic and Military Consequences of the End of the Cold War

13-14 December
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"The Strategic and Military Consequences of the End of the Cold War"


13-14 December 2021

Paris

The Service Historique de la Défense, the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, and the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War, King’s College London, are organizing an international conference on the military and strategic impact of the end of the Cold War (late 1980s-early 1990s). It will take place at Sciences Po, Paris, 9 rue de la Chaise, room 933. Participants are expected to speak for 15 minutes in order to allow more room for discussion.

Students and scholars who want to join the conference are invited to register on the institutional websites of the three organizing institutions.

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Program

December 13 (Monday):

Welcome (8:30)

  • Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac (Service historique de la Défense)
  • Marc Lazar (Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po)
  • Joe Maiolo (King’s College London)

Introductory remarks: Paul Lenormand (SHD / Sciences Po, Paris)

Access to sources and intelligence records: studying the end of the Cold War (9:00-10:30)

Chair: Barbara Zanchetta (King’s College London)

  • Simon Graham (The University of Sydney): “Reading Transformations in International Order through Intelligence Sources: Declassification, Access and Ethics”
  • Raphaël Ramos (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, CRISES): “US Intelligence and the End of the Cold War: A Pyrrhic Victory?”
  • Anna Sofie Schøning (Royal Danish Defense College): “Letting the Sources Speak: Can Oral History Advance post-Cold War Military History?”

The collapsing Warsaw Pact and the new regional order in post-communist Europe (11:00-12:30)

Chair: Paul Lenormand (SHD / CHSP)

  • Simon Miles (Duke University): “The Last Days of the Warsaw Pact”
  • Amélie Zima (Université Panthéon-Assas, Centre Thucydide): “How to End Soviet Domination in Central Europe? Between Strategies of Cooperation and Logics of Differentiation”
  • Dionysios Chourchoulis (Hellenic Open University & Ionian University): “The shift of the Balkan military balance and the emergence of post-Cold War regional order, 1989-1991/2”

Lunch break

The Soviet world in trouble (14:00-15:30)

Chair: Sabine Dullin (Sciences Po, Paris)

  • Jeff Hawn (LSE): “Russia’s Reluctant Praetorians: Understanding the Role of the Russian Military in the 1993 Constitutional Crisis”
  • Sophie Momzikoff (Sorbonne-Université, UMR SIRICE): “A 'Fifth Column?' The Issue of Soviet Army Veterans in the Baltic States, 1991-1994”
  • Sophie Gueudet (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs): “Frozen conflict or ever-lasting status quo? The unfinished business of self-determination disputes in the post-Soviet area”

NATO, European Defense and the Transatlantic relationship in question (16:00-17:30)

Chair: Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po, Paris)

  • Davis Ellison (King’s College London): “Alliance Politics and the End of the Cold War: Revisiting NATO through Civil-Military Relations”
  • Guillaume de Rougé (Université Catholique de l’Ouest - Bretagne Sud / CIENS ENS-Ulm): “The Genesis of European Defence: French plans for a European Rapid Reaction Force, 1990-1993”
  • Arun Dawson (King’s College London): “A ‘Trojan Horse’?: American Statecraft and Transatlantic Collaboration on the Joint Strike Fighter, 1991-1995”

Keynote speech (17:45-18:45): “A New Bargain? NATO, Transatlantic Security and the End of the Cold War” by Jussi M. Hanhimäki (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), author of Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)

Diner

December 14 (Tuesday):

Space and nuclear issues after the end of the bipolar order (8:30-10:00)

Chair: TBC

  • Mariana Budjeryn (Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center): “Structure amid Change: The Global Nuclear Order and the Soviet Collapse”
  • Stephanie Freeman (Mississippi State University): “From “Star Wars” to “Star Peace”: The Strategic Defense Initiative in the Post-Cold War World”
  • Olga Dubrovina (University of Padua): “Russia-ESA-NASA in the 90s: Between Past Difficulties and Present Challenges”

Germany: merging two worlds, redeploying forces (10:30-12:00)

Chair: Emmanuel Droit (Sciences Po, Strasbourg)

  • Jéronimo Barbin (ZMSBw): “La réorganisation des politiques de défense en Allemagne réunifiée”
  • Susan Colbourn (Duke University): “Taking Apart the Nationale Volksarmee”
  • Christian Jentzsch (Universität Potsdam & ZMSBw): “From the Baltic to the Indian Ocean – The Federal German Navy´s move from “brown water” to “blue water” operations 1987-1996”

Lunch break

World of nukes: a challenge to the Cold War legacy? (13:30-15:00)

Chair: Joe Maiolo (King’s College London)

  • Robin Möser (University of Leipzig): “Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons and Accession to the NPT, 1988-1993”
  • Jong Ung Cheon (King’s College London): “The collapse of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of an obstacle, North Korea's nuclear weapons crossed the Rubicon River”
  • Benoît Pelopidas (Sciences Po Paris), Hebatalla Taha (Leiden University) and Tom Vaughan

(Aberystwyth University): “Nuclear pasts and futures at the end of the Cold War”

Global changes at the turn of the 1990s (15:30-17:00)

Chair: Walter Bruyère-Ostells (SHD / Sciences Po Aix, UMR 7064 Mesopolhis)

  • Souleymanou Amadou (Université de Douala): “Dynamique de la présence militaire chinoise au Cameroun : de la confrontation sous maquis à la mise en place d’un partenariat stratégique post Guerre froide (1958-2012) [Chinese Military Involvement in Cameroon: from Maquis to the post-Cold War strategic partnership (1958-2012)]”
  • Barbara Zanchetta (King’s College London): “Defending the Kingdom: America’s Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia and the Transition to the Post-Cold War Era”
  • Flavia Gasbarri (King’s College London): “A Second Chance: the Unipolar Moment and the Creation of a UN Permanent Military”

Conclusive remarks: Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po, Paris)

 

Scientific Committee:

  • Walter Bruyère-Ostells (SHD)
  • Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po, Paris)
  • Sabine Dullin (Sciences Po, Paris)
  • Flavia Gasbarri (KCL)
  • Paul Lenormand (SHD)
  • Joe Maiolo (KCL)
  • Céline Marangé (SHD)
  • Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po, Paris)
  • Barbara Zanchetta (KCL)

Program (PDF, 176 Ko)

Poster (jpg 734 Ko) 

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Concours CNRS soutien IDHE.S

réunion d’information le 22 novembre à 15h
Les membres de l'IDHE.S (UMR 85 33) seraient heureux de soutenir les candidats qui désirent rejoindre leur unité de recherche.
Dans le cadre de la campagne de recrutement du CNRS 2022, les candidats qui souhaitent le soutien du laboratoire doivent envoyer leur CV et leur projet (à défaut un résumé détaillé) pour le 29 novembre aux adresses suivantes : karel.yon@parisnanterre.fr et flepende@parisnanterre.fr
Le laboratoire organise une réunion d’information le 22 novembre à 15h , pour recevoir les candidat.e.s, leur présenter le laboratoire et le fonctionnement du concours.
Zoom - Campagne CNRS 2022 présentation de l’IDHES - Heure : 22 nov. 2021 03:00 PM Paris


Participer à la réunion Zoom
https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/96839192749?pwd=eWpVbUpMUE5wRDB6SGNEMTFONHdKUT09

ID de réunion : 968 3919 2749
Code secret : 1Sb2h1

Le laboratoire IDHES est pluridisciplinaire et peut donc soutenir des candidatures dans plusieurs sections : 33 (rattachement principal) mais aussi 32, 33, 36, 37 et 40 et également en CID. Les projets interdisciplinaires sont évidemment les bienvenus. Les axes de recherche et le projet scientifique sont détaillés ici : https://www.idhes.cnrs.fr/category/recherche/projet-scientifique-2019-2023/
 
Les candidatures seront examinées en Conseil de laboratoire et feront l'objet d'un soutien personnalisé le cas échéant.
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Call for Papers | War and Sovereignty

Deadline : 2022/01/31

War and sovereignty.

Revisiting a canonical debate through interdisciplinarity

June 7-9 2022
Sorbonne – Oury et Richelieu amphitheatres
University Panthéon-Sorbonne
Paris
This call for papers is part of an endeavour to decompartmentalise war studies in the Sorbonne War Studies programme run by the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (https://cessp.cnrs.fr/Programme-Sorbonne-War-Studies-SWS-ERC). It proposes to revisit the link between war and sovereignty, using an interdisciplinary approach, through the transformation of the State and of security governance practices.
War making, as an expression of the forces at work in all human societies, is one of various means of political action. The postulate that this collective activity must necessarily undergo an epistemological normalisation raises two notable difficulties. While war may be a common enough phenomenon in the sense that it recurs throughout history, it is nevertheless difficult to capture its full meaning in a comprehensive definition that accounts for its many forms and distinctive dynamics. It is, moreover, counterproductive to observe war outside the political, economic and social context in which it erupts, since this context actually contributes to its outbreak and spread, on every scale of time and space. The challenge is therefore to comprehend war without presupposing that there is anything exceptional about it in the context of social relations, and to analyse it with a method that is devoid of any pejorative, ameliorative or performative connotations.
There are various standard definitions of war: an act of violence designed to force the adversary to do as we wish (Clausevitz 2014), limited in time and space, and subject to variable legal rules (Bouthoul 1957) that allow two or more groups to conduct this armed conflict (Wright 1942). In these definitions, marked by the centrality of organised violence, the State is often implicitly or explicitly seen as the sole or principal stakeholder or, in any case, as the one most deserving of observation (Aron 1962). The empirical reality, however, does not fit neatly within the standard definitions. How can we make sense of the typological descriptions of war ("civil", "inter-State", "limited", "total", "revolutionary", "nuclear", "asymmetrical" or "hybrid", for example) and the functional descriptions of war ("urban", "cyber", "space war", "war of religion" or even "economic war", "psychological war") employed by war makers, and the plethora of adjectives that war theoreticians now associate with risk and "safety" (human, environmental, economic, health, etc.) rather than with threat and war.
An interdisciplinary exploration of the link between war and sovereignty prompts us to investigate not only how the exercise of sovereignty has changed but also the organisation of human societies. Even though war is traditionally seen as a way of establishing States and a way in which States relate to each other, many authors have long pointed out that it also involves non-governmental stakeholders,
who may be infra-state, supra-state or even trans-state (Flint 2005; Leander 2005; Gros 2006; Strachan and Shiepers 2011; Kaldor 2012). This trend reflects a deeper change, marked by a toppling of our markers concerning Westphalian territoriality and Weber's understanding of State legitimacy, and a redeployment of States' role in the dynamics of societies (Agnew 1994; Castells 1996, Sassen 1995; Strange 1996; Hibou 1999).
The States have given each other unprecedented guarantees of survival since the end of the Second World War and throughout the decolonisation process. In this sense, they have strongly consolidated the sovereignty norm and its corollaries in general (Badalassi 1994; Biersteker and Weber 1996; Dardot and Laval 2020), and in relation to war in particular (Glanville 2013; Patrick 2019). In law, the principle of sovereignty underpins the modern definition of the State and refers back to the power of command, above which there is no other power. This principle applies in the domestic political field and in the external field. In the first case, a State is sovereign insofar as it exercises a legitimate, inalienable and impersonal domination over a given territory (Weber 2003). Within its territory, it makes and unmakes laws, executes them, renders justice, resorts to force and so on. In the external field, the sovereign State is, in theory, recognised by the other States on the diplomatic and military level and in the international legal order.
However this is just one of many definitions of sovereignty. Sovereignty as defined by Bodin (1576) and Hobbes (1651) does not coincide exactly with the sovereignty in Rousseau's Social Contract (1762) or with Sieyès' sovereignty (1789). State sovereignty is not necessarily the same as sovereignty of the people or sovereignty of the nation, even if the concept of nation state was developed precisely to make these two sovereignties coexist. It is essential therefore to examine the issue in a socio-historic light to clarify the legal concept of State (Elias 1994; Chevallier 2003; Tilly 1992) and, it follows, to reveal its attributes, including that of to "want" and to "make" war.
The sovereign nation state model remains largely predominant as a framework and setting of social practices, but the States' sovereignty is renegotiated under the effect of long-term trends that change the ways in which wars are planned, prepared, begun and conducted: the neoliberal and neo-managerial trend, the globalisation and interdependency of economies, financial globalisation, the multiplicity of non-state stakeholders whose deployment runs counter to the interlinking of the states and the rise of reticular organisations, regionalism at different levels, the reinforcement of certain international institutions, etc... War, too, plays a part in redefining the boundaries of sovereignty and in the ways in which it is exercised, in the internal and external fields of public relations. For this reason, it is necessary to pay particular attention to, among other things, the relationships between States' sovereignty and the way they envisage or wage war in uncertain spaces, few or none of which have been territorialised, such as the high seas, outer space and cyberspace. Interdisciplinary papers on these aspects will be most welcome.
This colloquium has set out to analyse the effects of these trends on the war/sovereignty dialectic. Papers that borrow from or discuss concepts, methods and theories from other disciplines, or those supported by two or more specialists from different disciplines, are strongly encouraged. Papers should be between 5,000 and 6,000 signs long. They are to be preceded by a 100-word abstract and followed by a list of five bibliographical references. They should be sent to Yann Richard (Yann.Richard@univ-paris1.fr) by 31 January 2022. The scientific committee will announce its decision by 1 March 2022.
Scientific Committee
Alya AGLAN, Yves BUCHET DE NEUILLY, Olivier FEIERTAG, Olivier FRUTEAU DE LACLOS, Louis GAUTIER, Annie Lou COT, Caroline MORICOT, Olivier RENAUDIE, Yann RICHARD, Stéphane RODRIGUES
Bibliography
- Agnew, J., 1994, “The territorial trap. The Geographical Assumptions of International Relations Theory”, Review of International Political Economy, vol. 1, n° 1, 1994, pp. 53-80
- Aron, R., 1962, Paix et guerre entre les nations, Paris, Calmann-Lévy
- Badalassi, N., 2014, En finir avec la guerre froide, Rennes, PUR
- Biersteker, T., Weber C. (eds), 1996, State Sovereignty as Social Construct, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
- Bodin, J., 1576, Les Six livres de la République, 1986, Paris, Fayard
- Bouthoul, G., 1957, La guerre, Paris, PUF - Castells, M ., 1996, The Rise of the Network Society. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. I. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Oxford, UK, Blackwell
- Chevallier, J., 2003, L’Etat de droit, Paris, Montchrestien - Clausewitz, C. von , 2014, De la guerre, Paris, Astrée
- Dardot, P., Laval, C., 2020, Dominer. Enquête sur la souveraineté de l’État en Occident, Paris, La Découverte
- Elias, N., 1994, La dynamique de l’occident, Paris, Calmann-Lévy
- Flint, C., 2005, Geography of War and Peace, Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Glanville, L., 2013, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History, Chicago, Chicago University Press
- Gros, F., 2006, Etats de violence. Essai sur la fin de la guerre, Paris, Gallimard
- Hibou, B., 1999, La privatisation des États, Paris, Karthala
- Hobbes, T, 1651, Le Léviathan, 2000, Paris, Folio.
- Kaldor, M., 2012, New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era, Cambridge, Polity Press
- Leander, A., 2005, “The Power to Construct International Security : On the Significance of Private Military Companies”, Millennium, vol. 33, n° 3, pp. 803-825.
- Patrick, S., 2019, The Sovereignty Wars. Reconciling America with the World, Washington, Brooking Institution Press
- Rousseau, J.J, 1762, Du contrat social, 2011, Paris, Flammarion,
- Sassen, S., 1995, Losing Control: Sovereignty in an Age of Globalisation, New York, Columbia University Press
- Sieyès, E., 1789, Qu’est-ce que le Tiers Etat ? 2009, Paris, Broché
- Strachan, H., Shiepers, S. (eds), 2011, The Changing Character of War, Oxford, Oxford University Press
- Strange, S., 1996, The Retreat of the State : the Diffusion of Power in the World Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Tilly, C., 1992, Contrainte et capital dans la formation de l’Etat en Europe 990-1990, Paris, Aubier
- Weber, M., 2003, Economie et société, Paris, Pocket
- Wright, Q., 1942, A Study of War, 2 vol., Chicago, University of Chicago Press
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Three professors invited to CHSP in November

Ota KONRAD / Simon LEVIS SULLAM / Thomas ZEILER
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Three professors invited to CHSP in November

Ota KONRAD

Ota Konrad (photo on the left) is an associate professor of modern history and director of the Modern history Ph.D. program at Charles University in Prague. Currently, he is a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute of East and Southeast European History at the Munich University (from February 2021 to February 2022). He was the head of the Department of German and Austrian Studies at Charles University from 2012 until 2019 and a visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessor) at the University in Regensburg in the spring term of 2018. He has worked on topics dealing with the history of the humanities, history of foreign policy, WWI history in central Europe, cultural history of violence, and contemporary Austrian history. In his current research project, he focuses on domestic violence and its contexts in post-1945 West Germany and Czechoslovakia as a tool for analyzing the complex postwar societal and political reconstruction.

Contact: ota.konrad@fsv.cuni.cz / Correspondant: Guillaume Piketty

Simon LEVIS SULLAM

Simon Levis Sullam (middle photo) is Associate Professor of Modern History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. He was trained and has spent research and teaching periods in Italy, the United States, France and the United Kingdom. He was a Research Associate at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies of Columbia University NYC, an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at UC Berkeley, a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole, a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His many publications include: Giuseppe Mazzini and the Origins of Fascism (Palgrave 2015); The Italian Executioners. The Genocide of the Jews of Italy (Princeton University Press 2018); Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism. A Global History (co-edited with A. Green, Palgrave 2020).

Contact: levissullam@gmail.com / Correspondants: Mario Del Pero et Marc Lazar

Thomas ZEILER

Thomas Zeiler - Fulbright Specialist (photo on the right) is a Professor of History and Director of the Program in International Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. He specializes in American history, focused on diplomacy and economics, globalization, baseball and sports, and World War II. His current research and forthcoming book is Capitalist Peace: A History of American Free Trade Internationalism, to be published by Oxford University Press. Tom has served as the editor of the journal of record of his field, Diplomatic History, served as President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), and as a member of the Department of State’s Historical Advisory Committee, and has lectured widely abroad, including holding Fulbright fellowships in Argentina, Japan, and France.

Contact: Thomas.Zeiler@colorado.edu / Correspondant: Mario Del Pero
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