This volume provides researchers and students with a discussion of a broad range of methods and their practical application to the study of non-state actors in international security. All researchers ...face the same challenge, not only must they identify a suitable method for analysing their research question, they must also apply it. This volume prepares students and scholars for the key challenges they confront when using social-science methods in their own research. To bridge the gap between knowing methods and actually employing them, the book not only introduces a broad range of interpretive and explanatory methods, it also discusses their practical application. Contributors reflect on how they have used methods, or combinations of methods, such as narrative analysis, interviews, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), case studies, experiments or participant observation in their own research on non-state actors in international security. Moreover, experts on the relevant methods discuss these applications as well as the merits and limitations of the various methods in use. Research on non-state actors in international security provides ample challenges and opportunities to probe different methodological approaches. It is thus particularly instructive for students and scholars seeking insights on how to best use particular methods for their research projects in International Relations (IR), security studies and neighbouring disciplines. It also offers an innovative laboratory for developing new research techniques and engaging in unconventional combinations of methods. This book will be of much interest to students of non-state security actors such as private military and security companies, research methods, security studies and International Relations in general.
De la discorde à l’entente Serra, Enrico
Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques,
11/2023
Book
Open access
Camille Barrère fut ambassadeur de France à Rome pendant un quart de siècle (de 1897 à 1924) : c’était un temps où les ambassadeurs n’étaient pas de simples exécutants des instructions du Quai ...d’Orsay, mais de vrais conseillers des Ministres, bien plus éphémères dans leurs fonctions. Son rôle dans les relations internationales ne fut pas mince puisqu’il contribua à éviter que l’Italie entre en guerre aux côtés de l’Allemagne et de l’Autriche-Hongrie et à faire qu’elle rejoigne la Triple Entente. Sur son action, l’auteur Enrico Serra qui partageait avec Barrère sa passion du journalisme, écrivit en 1950 un livre d’histoire diplomatique à la fois savant et élégant. Utilisant toutes les sources alors disponibles ainsi que plusieurs archives privées, l’auteur arrive à des conclusions qui ont été confirmées par les recherches les plus récentes. Il nous offre une œuvre pleine de perspicacité et de sympathie pour l’hôte du Palais Farnèse, tout en ne cachant pas les foucades de ce Républicain à la fois épris de la grandeur de la France et attaché au rapprochement des sœurs latines. Par amitié pour Serra (avec lequel il avait fondé et animé le Comité franco-italien d’études historiques), et par admiration pour Barrère, ce diplomate exceptionnel qui avait tenu tête à Clemenceau, Jean-Baptiste Duroselle avait entrepris la traduction de ce livre. Plus d’un demi-siècle plus tard, voici donc cette étude enfin disponible en français.
While the recent IR “narrative turn” has greatly improved our understanding of how narratives influence state policy choices, we need to deepen our understanding of how narratives explain policy ...change. If state “autobiographies” provide such powerful explanations of why states do what they do, how can they change their policies and practices? To understand the relationship between policy change and state narrative continuity, I build on existing scholarship on narrative analysis and ontological security to examine ways in which state autobiographical narratives are used by political actors to confront state insecurities. My principal argument is that at times of great crises and threats to multiple state securities (physical, social, and ontological), narratives are selectively activated to provide a cognitive bridge between policy change that resolves the physical security challenge, while also preserving state ontological security through offering autobiographical continuity, a sense of routine, familiarity, and calm. I illustrate the argument with an analysis of Serbia’s changing foreign policy behavior regarding the disputed status of Kosovo.
Dr. Hu Shih (1891–1962) was one of China’s top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China’s ambassador to the United States during World War II. As early as 1941, Hu Shih warned of ...the fundamental ideological conflict between dictatorial totalitarianism and democratic systems, a view that later became the foundation of the Cold War narrative. In the 1950s, after Mao’s authoritarian regime was established, Hu Shih started to analyze the development and nature of Communism, delivering a series of lectures and addresses to reveal what he called Stalin’s “grand strategy” for facilitating the International Communist Movement. For decades—and today to a certain extent—Hu Shih’s political writings were considered sensitive and even dangerous. As a strident critic of the Chinese Communist Party’s oligarchical practices, he was targeted by the CCP in a concerted national campaign to smear his reputation, cast aspersions on his writings, and generally destroy any possible influence he might have in China. This volume brings together a collection of Hu Shih’s most important, mostly unpublished, English-language speeches, interviews, and commentaries on international politics, China-U.S. relations, and the International Communist Movement. Taken together, these works provide an insider’s perspective on Sino-American relations and the development of the International Communist Movement over the course of the 20th century.
The Global Governance Forum and the Global Challenges Foundation collaborate in this collection in their concern that the UN Charter and the contemporary infrastructure for international cooperation ...are no longer fit for purpose and lack the instruments, resources and legitimacy to address the catastrophic risks threatening our future.
Twenty-eight contributors offer thoughtful proposals for reforming existing international institutions and creating new ones to build a more peaceful, prosperous and just world, covering themes such as the management of weapons of mass destruction, collective security arrangements, justice and equity in economics, human rights, migration and refugees, climate mitigation, and food security, all bearing on the health of both people and planet.
The vital project of this century is building institutions that will underpin global governance in coming decades, requiring imagination, persistence, empathy, and confidence that we will find a path to enhanced mechanisms of binding international law and the resources to make that happen. The volume is essential reading for scholars and researchers on international politics and public policy and indispensable for diplomats and government agencies.
La passion pour la Roumanie est une dimension méconnue de la personnalité d’Alphonse Dupront (1905-1990), historien des sensibilités collectives et anthropologue du sacré, dont la thèse, Le Mythe de ...croisade (1956), a fait date dans l’historiographie française. Cette passion est née alors qu’il était à la tête de l’Institut français de Bucarest, entre 1932 et 1940, et l’a accompagné pendant la prodigieuse carrière scientifique qu’il a poursuivie en France, à l’université de Montpellier, puis à la Sorbonne. Éparpillés dans des publications peu accessibles ou totalement inédits, les textes réunis pour la première fois dans ce volume sont un témoignage révélateur de son regard clairvoyant sur l’histoire et les réalités roumaines, dans la continuité d’un Michelet ou d’un Quinet. Ce volume, introduit par une conséquente étude sur le volet roumain de la biographie intellectuelle de Dupront, contient aussi sa correspondance avec Cioran, Ionesco et Eliade, qu’il a soutenus lors de leur difficile installation en France.
Este trabajo aborda la transformación productiva y la nueva actualidad de las políticas industriales en América Latina, haciendo referencia a un nuevo desarrollismo. Se reflexiona sobre la ...transformación productiva de la región, cuyo estancamiento de productividad se basa en una desindustrialización prematura y la ausencia de cambio estructural, lo que contrasta con las experiencias exitosas del Sudeste Asiático. Frente al renacimiento de las políticas industriales, se señala que las nuevas políticas de transformación productiva deben considerar cuatro tipos de coordenadas fundamentales: cambio climático y reducción de emisiones, digitalización manufacturera o industria 4.0, nuevas autonomías y acortamiento de cadenas, e inclusión social. Se postula que, con base en las lecciones aprendidas y analizando los obstáculos desde una perspectiva estructuralista, se podrá avanzar en torno a un nuevo consenso sobre una propuesta para la transformación productiva con una perspectiva de integración regional.
El Diálogo Político Interregional para la Seguridad y Defensa entre la Unión Europea y América del Sur tiene una modalidad renovada, tras el quiebre por la cuestión venezolana entre ambos grupos de ...interlocutores y los cambios políticos internos del bloque sudamericano. El actual diálogo, gestionado desde un lado por el Servicio Exterior de la Unión Europea, como órgano diplomático, y los interlocutores de diversos países establece una prospectiva sobre los desafíos mundiales desde Europa que no coincide con las preocupaciones sudamericanas, aunque haya consenso respecto de valores como la democracia, hay una fuerte diferencia respecto del significado de su realización concreta. Ello evidencia las dificultades de un diálogo interregional que sobre consensos valóricos genéricos ha ido ampliando su agenda de temas y que impacta en la valoración de las amenazas, debilidades y oportunidades en cada contraparte.
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