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Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy), 2020, 236 p.
Traduit par Cynthia Schoch et Katharine Throssell

This book analyses the making of the international world of ‘natural’ disasters by its professionals. Through a long-term ethnographic study of this arena, the author unveils the various elements that are necessary for the construction of an international world: a collective narrative, a shared language, and standardized practices. The book analyses the two main framings that these professionals use to situate themselves with regards to a disaster: preparedness and resilience, arguing that the making of the world of ‘natural’ disasters reveals how heterogeneous, conflicting, and sometimes competing elements are put together.

Traduction de l'ouvrage Les coulisses du monde des catastrophes « naturelles » paru aux Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme (Le (bien) commun) en septembre 2018.

New York/Abingdon, Routledge (Contemporary Middle East Series), 2021, 244 p.

Focusing on authoritarian rule, unresolved economic challenges, and external dependency, the volume explains the salient political and economic features of contemporary Egypt against the backdrop of its history since the beginning of the 19th century. Presenting a comprehensive account of developments, it challenges common assumptions about secularists, Islamists, and revolutionaries, as well as 'modernization', 'economic reform', and political stability. Discussing domestic politics, economic change, and external relations since 1945, the author argues that Egypt continued to draw a degree of strength from sustained state-building activities, which its pre-colonial rulers could pursue in a favourable international environment and the partly related emergence of the country as a focal point of collective identity. More consolidated than many other states in the global south, Arab and non-Arab alike, independent Egypt, despite changing economic strategies, remained a (lower) middle-income country and despite repeated political contestation, most recently in the Arab Spring, continued to suffer from autocratic rule. Such continuity reflects not only the interplay between political forces at home, dominated by the military, and inconclusive economic policies but also the external constraints under which governments and other actors in the global south have to act. Based on numerous primary and secondary sources in various languages, including Arabic, and years of fieldwork, the book is a key resource for scholars of all levels, journalists, policymakers, and diplomats interested in comparative politics and the political economy of the Middle East and Egypt.

Paris, Presses de Sciences Po (Académique), 2020, 382 p.

Profondément originale dans sa conception comme dans son écriture, cette enquête historique est une réflexion exemplaire sur les silences du passé. Exception en Europe, un État allié du Reich a refusé de déporter sa communauté juive. Cette image de la Bulgarie pendant la seconde guerre mondiale a prévalu jusque récemment, quitte à omettre que, dans les territoires de la Yougoslavie et de la Grèce occupés par ce pays entre 1941 et 1944, la quasi-totalité des Juifs ont été raflés, convoyés vers la Pologne et exterminés. Au terme d'une vaste enquête documentaire et archivistique, Nadège Ragaru reconstitue l’origine de ce qui a longtemps été tenu pour un socle de faits vrais parce que largement crus. Elle explique pourquoi une seule facette d’un passé complexe et contradictoire a fait l’objet d’une transmission prioritaire ; comment les déportations, sans être oblitérées, sont devenues secondaires dans les discours publics, les musées, les livres d’histoire et les arts ; comment la mise en écriture des persécutions contre les Juifs en Bulgarie s’est retrouvée l’otage de la guerre froide puis des luttes politiques et mémorielles de l’après-communisme dans les Balkans et le reste du monde. Profondément originale dans sa conception comme dans son écriture, cette enquête historique est une réflexion exemplaire sur les silences du passé.

Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy), 2021, 249 p.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey. The Syrian crisis has had a major effect on the regional order in the Middle East. Syria has become a territory where the rivalry between Russia and Western powers is being played out, and with the West’s gradual withdrawal, the conflict will without a doubt have lasting effects locally and on the international order. This collection focuses on the effects of the Syrian crisis on the new governance of the Middle East region by three political regimes: Russia, Iran, and Turkey. Many articles and a number of books have been written on this conflict, which has lasted over ten years, but no publication has examined simultaneously and comparatively how these three states are participating in the shared management of the Syrian conflict.