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• 17 oct 2013

  18 oct 2013

  Montreal

  Conference, symposium - Geography

  Borders, Walls and Security

  Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question still remains “Do good fences still make good neighbours”? Since the Great Wall of China, construction of which began under the Qin dynasty, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian’s Wall, the Roman “Limes” or the Danevirk fence, the “wall” has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In recent years the wall has been given renewed vigour all around the world, whether in North America, in Europe (with the Greek border fence), in Asia (for instance in India) or in Middle East. But the success of these new walls in the development of friendly and orderly relations between nations (or indeed, within nations) remains unclear. What role does the wall play in the development of security and insecurity? Do walls contribute to a sense of insecurity as much as they assuage fears and create a sense of security for those ‘behind the line’? Exactly what kind of security is associated with border walls?

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• 16 sep 2013

  Guyancourt

  Call for papers - Economy

  Agriculture and geopolitics

  Rivalry, power and copperation

  La Société française d'économie rurale organise le colloque pluridisciplinaire « Agriculture et géopolitique : rivalités, puissance, coopération » qui se déroulera les 12 et 13 février 2014 à l'université Saint-Quentin Versailles. La question qui sous-tend ce colloque est la suivante : en quoi l’agriculture est-elle (re)devenue un objet géopolitique ? Pour apporter des éléments de réponse, il s'agira notamment de porter un double regard, scientifique et institutionnel, sur la logique conflictuelle à l’œuvre sur les marchés mondiaux agricoles et sur les ressources foncières et hydriques, les aspects régionaux de la conflictualité agricole et alimentaire et de la précarité des approvisionnements, le rôle qu’entend jouer l’Union Européenne et singulièrement la France dans cette économie agricole mondiale en pleine mutation.

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