Chercheur
Adam Baczko conducts research on the formation of legal institutions by armed movements and international operators in contexts of armed conflict, with a particular focus on Afghanistan and Syria. His thesis, conducted at EHESS and entitled Laws at War : justice, Domination and Violence in Afghanistan (2001-2018), examines the courts set up by the Taliban movement in the context of the Western intervention in Afghanistan since 2001.
With Gilles Dorronsoro and Arthur Quesnay, he is the author of Syrie. Anatomie d’une guerre civile (CNRS Éditions, 2016) and its revised translation Civil War in Syria. Mobilization and Competing Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2018). In the past, he has successively been Order, Conflict and Violence Fellow at Yale University, Visiting Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) and Trajectories of Change Fellow at the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius.
Since 2016, he has been a core researcher in the ERC programme ""Social Dynamics of Civil Wars"", directed by Gilles Dorronsoro at Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
With Gilles Dorronsoro and Arthur Quesnay, he is the author of Syrie. Anatomie d’une guerre civile (CNRS Éditions, 2016) and its revised translation Civil War in Syria. Mobilization and Competing Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2018). In the past, he has successively been Order, Conflict and Violence Fellow at Yale University, Visiting Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) and Trajectories of Change Fellow at the Zeit-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius.
Since 2016, he has been a core researcher in the ERC programme ""Social Dynamics of Civil Wars"", directed by Gilles Dorronsoro at Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
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Research Interests
Sociology of civil wars, Taliban Courts in Afghanistan, Armed conflict in Syria, Western military interventions
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Languages
French, English, Spanish, Polish

Main Publications
- Civil War in Syria. Mobilization and Competing Social Orders (Ouvrage)
- Gouvernance internationalisée en situation de guerre civile : l’accaparement foncier en Afghanistan (2001-2015) (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- Pour une approche sociologique des guerres civiles (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- Legal Rule and Tribal Politics: The US Army and the Taliban in Afghanistan (2001–13) (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- Syrie. Anatomie d’une guerre civile (Ouvrage)
Last Publications
- The Ethical, Epistemological, and Conceptual Need to Resume Fieldwork (Contribution à un site web)
- Entretien - Syrie. Anatomie d’une guerre civile (Contribution à un site web)
- La souveraineté fragmentée. Intervention internationale et guerre civile en Afghanistan après 2001 (Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture)
- Le succès des tribunaux talibans pendant la guerre d'Afghanistan (Travail audiovisuel)
- Violence, Mobilizations and Competing Social Orders. Questions to Adam Baczko about the Civil War in Syria (Contribution à un site web)
- Afghanistan : plongée dans quarante ans de guerre (Travail audiovisuel)
- Kaboul : une métropole en crise (Contribution à un site web)
- Syrie. Anatomie d’une guerre civile (Ouvrage)
- Afghanistan. L'introuvable paix (Articles de presse)
- Justice in Civil War Contexts. Interview with Adam Baczko (Contribution à un site web)
Online Publications (CERI website)