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Delphine Allès, Christophe Jaffrelot, Patrick Köllner (dir.)

Order and Agency in the Indo-Pacific

Palgrave Macmillan (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy), 2025, 270 p.

This book offers several European perspectives on Indo-Pacific dynamics by a set of internationally recognized experts who have collaborated in the Franco-German Observatory of the Indo-Pacific. The observatory was established in 2021 by the Centre for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, Paris and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg and has since come to include many scholars and institutions from both countries. The book speaks to and updates existing scholarly discussions on Indo-Pacific dynamics, investigating the nexus of order(ing) and agency in that strategic space. The authors take US-China strategic competition as a contextual given and explore the Indo-Pacific as an interregnum, in terms of institutional dynamics and in terms of geo-narratives. The book also offers several case studies of middle and small power agency in the Indo-Pacific, examining the cases of Australia and Japan, India, the Philippines and Vietnam, and of Pacific Island Countries. A final chapter explores the perspectives of Chinese scholars on the Indo-Pacific as a strategic space.

09/10/2025

Autour de la publication

Podcast
09 octobre 2025
Navigating the Indo-Pacific: Many actors, little order?
Séminaire de lancement de l'ouvrage

Les Entretiens du CERI
29 août 2025
Why is the Indo-Pacific attracting so much attention?
Interview with Christophe Jaffrelot, Delphine Allès, and Patrick Köllner, by Miriam Périer

Ariel Colonomos

Pricing Lives. The Political Art of Measurement

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 320 p.

This book discusses how human lives are equated with the material, and argues that pricing lives lies at the core of the political; in fact, as in Plato or Hobbes, and in the Weberian ethics of responsibility, measurement is considered to be one of its central features. Ariel Colonomos argues that this measure relies primarily on human lives and interests, and that the material equivalence to lives is twofold. The equivalence is a double equation, as we pay for lives and we pay with lives. This double equation constitutes the measurement upon which the political equilibrium of a society depends and is thus a key constitutive part of the political. The book adopts two approaches, both with an interdisciplinary perspective: one explanatory and the other normative. First, it explains the nexus between existential goods and material goods, drawing on a detailed analysis of several case studies from contemporary politics, both domestic and international. Second, it discusses normatively the material valuation of human lives and the human value of material goods. Value attribution and the question of the material equivalent to lives are of relevance not only for political theory and philosophy, but also for sociology, history, international relations, and legal studies.

03/10/2025

Autour de la publication

Webinaire
3 octobre 2025
International Ethics Section Book Award Panel - ISA
A webinar with the winner of the Ethics Book Award

Podcast
9 septembre 2025
Pricing Lives. The Political Art of Measurement
Un podcast avec Ariel Colonomos, par le New Books Network

Entretiens du CERI
16 octobre 2023
Pourquoi la vie humaine est politique
Entretien avec Ariel Colonomos, par Miriam Périer

28 août 2023
Why are (human) lives political?
Interview with Ariel Colonomos, by Miriam Périer

Louise Beaumais, Iris Lambert, Thomas Lindemann, Sami Makki, Frédéric Ramel, Eric Sangar

Quantifying International Conflicts: Data on War or Data for War

Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, 303p.

Based on the Datawar research program developed by three French academic institutions, this book seeks to explore the following research question: how do social practices of data collection and analysis in quantitative conflict studies influence researchers’ and practitioners’ representations of armed conflict? The editors and authors investigate both scientific practices in the field of quantitative conflict studies and the impact of these practices on practitioners’ vision of war, covering the full lifecycle of quantitative conflict data, from collection and analysis to their use and dissemination by military and diplomatic institutions, humanitarian organizations, and the media.

Astrid von Busekist

L’ère des impostures

Paris, Albin Michel, 2025, 272 p.

L’air du temps célèbre l’individu libre de ses choix et de son identité. Il est possible de changer de genre ou de religion, et même d’alterner les rôles selon les moments de la journée : lorsqu’il est question de classe ou d’apparence, sans doute. Mais peut-on se réclamer d’une autre race ? Rien n’interdit formellement de se dire Noir alors qu’on est Blanc (ou l’inverse), de jouer à l’autochtone ou même de s’inventer un passé de victime, rescapée de la Shoah ou d’un attentat meurtrier. Formellement, rien. Pourtant, en bousculant les frontières, notre époque si libre en reconstitue d’autres. Mieux, les races et les ethnies qui se dressent contre toute forme d’essentialisme disent que seuls ceux qui attestent de leur ascendance peuvent être des leurs. De l’identité, elles ne connaissent que l’origine. En ce sens, notre ère est bien celle des impostures. Celle de Coleman Silk, le héros de La tache de Philip Roth, qui se disait Blanc et Juif. Celle d’Hannah Arendt qui, parce que Juive, pensait pouvoir mieux comprendre la condition des Noirs. Celle des nombreux imposteurs qui, par amour ou par intérêt, ont joué à l’Indien. Celle des fausses victimes de la Shoah qui ont convaincu les lecteurs et les témoins les mieux informés de leur « belle » histoire. Les premiers cas éclairent l’aporie de l’air du temps, qui conjugue l’amour de la liberté et la fermeture sur soi. Les derniers rappellent que le culte de la liberté doit céder devant l’exigence de vérité.

01/09/2025

Autour de la publication

Les Entretiens du CERI
01 septembre 2025
Un nouvel âge des imposteurs ?
Entretien avec Astrid von Busekist, par Corinne Deloy

Ouvrage / Collection du CERI

François Bafoil

The Political Psychology of Populism. Trump, Putin, and the Roots of Humiliation

Palgrave Macmillan (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy), 2025, 140 p.

This book examines the underlying social pathology of Trump and Putin’s political orientations. The assault on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, and Russia’s war on Ukraine in February 2022 both reveal a disturbing drift towards new forms of populism. Drawing on the theoretical insights of Sigmund Freud and Norbert Elias regarding the impulses of the masses and the social trauma triggered by the quest for lost origins, Trump and Putin’s populist policies are revealed in a new light: shaped by love and hate, feeding on the frustrations and resentments of the masses, the two figures—and their followers—are driven to violence. For these leaders violence even fuels belief in a renewal of democracy—a democracy by the people and for the people, at the service of the masses. It is based on the idea that a single, pure truth is the source of appeasement and well-being that excludes outsiders. The book is a continuation of work previously published with Palgrave (The politics of destruction) and is the result of several years of interdisciplinary research and a dialogue between psychoanalysis and the social sciences.

30/08/2025

Autour de la publication

Article
30 août 2025
What Putin and Trump Can Teach Us About Humiliation
A Presentation of François Bafoil's work

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