roland.marchal
Chargé de recherche, CNRS
Phone: +33 (0) 1 58 71 70 41 - marchal@ceri-sciences-po.org
Holds degrees in mathematics and social sciences from the University of Strasbourg, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the University of Paris VI. His research focuses on the economies and conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa.
- New actors in Africa (Chinese, Indians, Brazilians, Koreans…)
- Armed conflicts in Central Africa and the countries of the Horn of Africa
- Power politics in Africa
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Research AreasActors and processes of foreign policy-making - Conflicts, violence and pacification - Constructions of identity, nationalism and transnationalism - Criminality, police and justice - State formation - Imaginaries and practice of religion - New configurations of the international order - Political orders, modes of domination and collective action - International organizations and NGOs - Sociology and politics of identity
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Disciplines
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KeywordsUnited Arab Emirates, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Central African Republic, Somalia, Sudan, Chad, YemenTransnational actors, Colonization/Decolonization, Trade, Wars / Conflicts, Crime, Democratization, Diasporas, International humanitarian law, Human rights, State, Borders, Governance, Regional integration, Justice, Fight against crime and corruption, Markets / Finance, Memory and politics of the past, Collective mobilizations, Globalization, Multilateralism, Nationalism, Norms, NGOs / Civil society, Political order, International organizations, Peace / Peacekeeping, Poverty, Emerging States, Foreign policy, Defense policy, Security policy, Privatizations, Power, Conflict resolution, Regulation, Religions, Networks, International security, Sovereignty, Territory, Terrorism, Urbanization, Politics / Political Systems, Violence
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Teaching
- Sciences Po:
“Africa and violence” (undergraduate program)
- University of Paris I:
“Africa in globalization” (Master’s level) -
Languages
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« Soudan: une histoire d'Etats », Politique Africaine, 122, 2011, pp. 59-83
« Somali Piracy: The Local Context of an International Obsession », Humanity, 2 (1), 2011, pp. 31-40
« The Roots of the Darfur Conflict and the Chadian Civil War », Public Culture, 20 (3), 2008, 429-436
« Warlordism and terrorism in Somalia », International Affairs, vol. 83, n° 6, November 2007, pp. 1091-1107
Guerres et sociétés : Etat et violence après la guerre froide, avec Hassner, Pierre (dir.), Paris, Karthala, 2003 (coll. Recherches internationales)
online on the CERI website
- Somalie : un nouveau front antiterroriste ?
- Le Soudan d’un conflit à l’autre
- Doubaï : le développement d’une cité-entrepôt dans le Golfe
- Eléments d’une sociologie du Front national islamique soudanais
- Aux marges du monde, en Afrique centrale...
- The Rise of a Jihadi Movement in a Country at War. Harakat al-Shabaab al Mujaheddin in Somalia
- Mogadiscio dans la guerre civile : rêves d'Etat
