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Conference "Contested Narratives of the Global"

Coordinated by Karoline Postel-Vinay

Democratic and Effective Oversight of National Security Services

Debate - 28 November 2016

Managing migrant labour in the Gulf

H. Thiollet

Labor Conflits in the World

Critique Internationale, 2015/4 (No 69)
Rethinking deterrence in the aftermath of the ukrainian crisis, ahead of the Warsaw NATO summit

Conference podcast

Europe and United States Must Prioritize Unity to Counter Russia’s Aggression

Co-authored by Marie Mendras

New issue of the ERIS journal

German Ordoliberalism, Part 1

French Foreign and Security Challenges

After the Paris Terrorist Attacks
C. Lequesne

Myanmar : the military in ambush?

“The military in Ambush?”
Interview with Renaud Egreteau, author of
Caretaking Democratization. The Military and Political Change in Myanmar

Myanmar has undergone major political changes that have recently brought to power the head of democratic opposition to the military dictatorship and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu Kyi. Renaud Egreteau has published a book in which he shows the extent to which the Burmese military—despite its opening to democratic governance—remains very close to power and seems ready to return at any time. The author is interviewed on the current situation, the challenges of Burma’s new governance, and the way research can be conducted in a state that has until recently been very closed, and offers us illuminating answers.

In your book, Caretaking Democratization. The Military and Political Change in Myanmar, you write that the change of regime that has been going on in Myanmar since the 2010 elections opens the door to something else, something unknown, that could either come close to a democratic system or actually remodel an authoritarian regime. Are there serious risks of a return to a military dictatorship?

This will depend on the new generations of military leaders. The Burmese armed forces consider themselves “guiding” a transition that has been underway, they claim, since the 1988 coup. It is the military that controls this process, and has thus far followed its own rules. The armed forces have now managed this tour de force to get what their leaders had planned from the early 1990s: the position of arbiter on the political scene, accompanied by broad guarantees of immunity. It is therefore not at all certain that the military hierarchy would want to turn back, to re-form a junta and re-take all power in hand.

Alain Dieckhoff, Nationalism and the Multination State (translated by Cynthia Schoch), London, Hurst and New York, Oxford University Press, September 2016. An interview with the author.

- Let’s start with a short historical reminder: when and how did the concept of nationalism emerge? You situate it at the heart of modernity. Can you tell us more?

- Nationalism is both an ideology and a political movement that aims to make the nation—a human community sharing common characteristics, be they cultural (language, religion, shared history) and/or political (belonging to the same territorialized political community)—the focus of collective expression. The term originated in the main European languages, first timidly at the end of the 18^th century, and then firmly took hold in the following century. This means that it is a modern phenomenon related to a major transformation: political sovereignty is vested in the people, no more in monarchs.

- How do you explain that nationalism has switched from a ‘positive’ connotation, synonymous with freedom and emancipation, to a ‘negative’ connotation, synonymous with exclusion and withdrawing into oneself?

- Because the idea of nation was at odds with the unequal society of the Ancien Regime, it was inseparable from the rise of democracy as government by the people. Nationalism originally had a truly revolutionary and emancipatory dimension.

Dossier du CERI

April 2016

Turkey after the 2015 elections : Toward further instability and isolation?

While the AK Party, in power in Turkey since 2012, stumbled in parliamentary elections by hosting only 40% of the vote in June 2015—not enough to allow it to form a government alone—the holding of new elections in November the same year has given a clear majority to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose power continues to rise in the country. Despite this victory however, Turkish society remains very polarized, and the team in power is much criticized. As for regional policy, the country is more isolated than ever...

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20 July 2016

Making sense of the local soldiers of the global jihad

With every terrorist attack it has become increasingly difficult to determine a “standard” profile of the perpetrators to understand where and how radicalisation takes place. The young men who carried out the 2004 Madrid and 2005 London attacks met in Internet cafés and neighbourhood mosques, in libraries and sport clubs. They watched videotapes of the wars in Chechnya or Bosnia, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Many came from the postcolonial immigration. They were first-generation, like those of Madrid, or second-generation, like London. The 9/11 attackers – most of them from Saudi Arabia – followed international networks to training camps in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.

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The ANR UTIC project at CERI and the Criminal Research Justice Centre of Queen Mary University of London are pleased to invite you to:

Keynote address by

Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights

The Commissioner's recent report on the oversight of intelligence agencies can be downloaded here

Co-organisers: Elspeth Guild (QMUL), Didier Bigo (SciencesPo-CERI) and Marie Laure Basilien-Gainche (Lyon III University)

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Colloque final du Joint African Studies Program (Columbia University, Université Paris 1, Sciences Po)
En partenariat avec le Festival Africolor
Avec le soutien du Partner University Fund, de l’Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC), et la collaboration de l’Université Paris Diderot

LUNDI 21 NOVEMBRE 2016

9h-9h30 Introduction : Politique de la rue-cratie

Richard Banégas (Sciences Po-CERI), Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University-IAS) et Thomas Fouquet (CNRS-IMAf)

9h30-11h15 Table ronde 1 : Le pouvoir de la rue : expériences ouest-africaines

avec :

Sam’s K le Jah (artiste et cofondateur du Balai citoyen, Burkina Faso), Serge Bayala (Balai citoyen & Cadre 2h pour nous/2h pour l’Afrique, Burkina Faso), Fou Malade (artiste, "Y en a marre", Sénégal)

Discutants : Habibou Fofana (Université de Ouagadougou), Etienne Smith (Chaire d’Etudes Africaines, EGE-Rabat), Johanna Siméant (Université Paris 1-CESSP)

Modérateur : Thomas Fouquet (CNRS-IMAf)

11h15-13h00 Table ronde 2 : Résistances autoritaires en Afrique centrale et des Grands Lacs

avec :

Valsero (artiste, Cameroun), Lexxus Légal (Artiste, RDC), Mahamat Zene Cherif (Camojet, Tchad), Soraya Aziz Souleymane (Lucha, RDC), Marc Ona Essingui ("Ça suffit comme ça", Gabon)

Discutants : Fred Eboko (IRD-CEPED), Camille Dugrand (Université des Antilles-IMAf), Sandrine Perrot (Sciences Po-CERI)

Modératrice : Marie Brossier (Université Laval)

14h00-15h30 La “Seconde indépendance” en question. Nouvelles pratiques et nouveaux langages ?

Mamadou Diouf (Columbia University-IAS)

15h30-17h00 Table ronde 3 : De la violence : insurrections civiques, engagement armé et répression politique

Florence Brisset-Foucault (Université Paris 1-IMAf), Vincent Bonnecase (CNRS-LAM), Marielle Debos (Université Paris Ouest)

Discutants : Floribert Anzuluni (Filimbi RDC), Trésor Nzila ("Tournons la page", Congo-B), Nadjo Kaïna (Iyna, Tchad)

18h00-20h00 « Y en a marre » : Débat à l’université Paris Diderot, 15 rue Hélène Brion, 75013 Paris, amphi Buffon

avec le groupe Keur Gui, Séverine Awenengo Dalberto, Thomas Fouquet, Pascal Dibie

MARDI 22 NOVEMBRE 2016

9h30-11h00 : De l’émancipation

Achille Mbembe (University of Witswatesrand, Johannesburg)

11h00-13h00 Table ronde 4 : Narrations de l’histoire et imaginations du futur démocratique

avec :

Kajeem (Côte d’Ivoire), Aliou Sané ("Y en a marre," Sénégal) Serge Bayala ("Balai citoyen", Burkina Faso)Greg Mann (Columbia), Armando Cutolo (Université de Sienne), Didier Nativel (Université Paris Diderot), Odile Goerg (Université Paris Diderot-CESSMA)

Modératrice : Séverine Awenengo Dalberto (CNRS-IMAf)

14h30-17h00 Projection-débat : « Une révolution africaine »

en présence des réalisateurs Boubacar Sangaré et Ismaël Compaoré ("Ciné droits libres", "Génération Film Collectif"), et de certains des « acteurs » : Sams’K le Jah, Serge Bayala

Discutants : Cheikh MC (artiste, Comores), Ewlad Leblad (artiste, Mauritanie)

19h30 : Concert : Lettre aux présidents

Canal 93, 63 av Jean-Jaurès, Bobigny

Présenté par Soro Solo (France Inter) et Vladimir Cagnolari (RFI)
Kajeem & Sam’s K le Jah (Feat. Billy Billy) Lexxus Legal & Valsero

Voir http://www.africolor.com/politique-de-la-rue-en-afrique-2

Billets : www.canal93.net/billeterie

Il reste 75 places gratuites pour les étudiants de Sciences Po : merci de vous inscrire auprès de pamela.torres@sciencespo.fr

Organisateurs et responsables scientifiques :
Richard Banégas (Sciences Po-CERI), Thomas Fouquet (CNRS-Institut des mondes africains (Imaf))

Comité scientifique :
Mamadou Diouf (Institute of African Studies, Columbia Universit); Séverine Awenengo dalberto (CNRS-Institut des mondes africains (Imaf)); Florence Brisset Foucault (Université Paris 1-Institut des mondes africains (Imaf)); Armando Cutolo (Université de Sienne); Vladimir Cagnolari (Sciences Po/France Inter-RFI); Abdramane Kamate (Institut français, Abidjan & N’Djamena)

Crédit photo : Séverine Awenengo Dalberto

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