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Paris, Editions Verdier (Collection jaune), 2020, 144 p.

Imaginez une histoire, une belle histoire, avec des héros et des traîtres, des îles lointaines où gîtent le doute et le danger. Imaginez une épopée, une épopée terrible, avec deux océans où s’abîment les nefs et les rêves, et entre les deux un détroit peuplé de gloire et de géants. Imaginez un conte, un conte cruel, avec des Indiens, quelques sultans et une sorcière brandissant un couteau ensanglanté. Un conte, oui, mais un conte de faits : une histoire où tout est vrai. De l’histoire, donc. Cette histoire – celle de l’expédition de Fernand de Magellan et de Juan Sebastián Elcano –, on nous l’a toujours racontée tambour battant et sabre au clair, comme celle de l’entrée triomphale de l’Europe, et de l’Europe seule, dans la modernité. Et si l’on changeait de ton ? Et si l’on poussait à son extrême limite, jusqu’à le faire craquer, le genre du récit d’aventures ? Et si l’on se tenait sur la plage de Cebu et dans les mangroves de Bornéo, et non plus sur le gaillard d’arrière de la Victoria ? Et si l’on faisait peser plus lourd, dans la balance du récit, ces mondes que les Espagnols n’ont fait qu’effleurer ? Et si l’on accordait à l’ensemble des êtres et des choses en présence une égale dignité narrative ? Et si les Indiens avaient un nom et endossaient, le temps d’un esclandre, le premier rôle ? Et si l’Asie – une fois n’est pas coutume – tenait aussi la plume ? Que resterait-il, alors, du conte dont nous nous sommes si longtemps bercés ? La vérité, peut-être, tout simplement.

Les Etudes du CERI, n°252-253, janvier 2021.

Amérique latine - L’Année politique is a publication by CERI-Sciences Po’s Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean (OPALC). The study extends the work presented on the Observatory’s website by offering tools for understanding a continent that is in the grip of deep transformations.

London, Routledge, 2020, 240 p.

This edited volume provides both a broad overview of cooperation patterns in the UNFCCC climate change negotiations and an in-depth analysis of specific coalitions and their relations. Over the course of three parts, this book maps out and takes stock of patterns of cooperation in the climate change negotiations since their inception in 1995. In Part I, the authors focus on the evolution of coalitions over time, examining why these emerged and how they function. Part II drills deeper into a set of coalitions, particularly "new" political groups that have emerged in the last rounds of negotiations around the Copenhagen Accord and the Paris Agreement. Finally, Part III explores common themes and open questions in coalition research, and provides a comprehensive overview of coalitions in the climate change negotiations. By taking a broad approach to the study of coalitions in the climate change negotiations, this volume is an essential reference source for researchers, students, and negotiators with an interest in the dynamics of climate negotiations.

In Cosmopolitanism in Hard Times, Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Mesure (Eds), Leiden & Boston, Brill Publishers, 2021.

‘I speak ... as a fellow citizen of the world’ (Obama, 2008). These were the words used by Barack Obama in Berlin in July 2008 during his first presidential campaign. If he explicitly echoed another very well-known assertion, that of President Kennedy ‘Ich bin ein Berliner,’ Obama seems here a cosmopolitan candidate. This interpretation relies not only on his own life, which is, to a certain extent, cosmopolitan; his father was Kenyan and he spent part of his childhood in Indonesia. He also elaborates his speeches by referring to this cosmopolitan tradition of thought (Hammack, 2010). In fact, his election generated hope not only in the United States but also in the rest of the world. This first black man who accessed to the highest political responsibility of the country embodies a cosmopolitan president. Peoples felt that his presidency would be as beneficial to Americans as to the nationals of other countries. The Nobel Peace Prize he received shortly after his enthronement strengthened such feeling. Indeed, Barack Obama would be a Kantian in the Oval Office (Selzer, 2010)...