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• 12 nov 2014

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Global diplomacy and natural resources

  Stakes, practices and influences of non-state actors (18th-21st centuries)

  Since the end of the Cold war, the activity of non-State actors has attracted considerable attention as part of an increasingly globalised governance and diplomacy. As Richard Langhorne has remarked, the 1961 Congress of Vienna ‘marked both the culmination and the beginning of the end of classical diplomacy’, in which ‘the State ha[d] been, since the seventeenth century, the principal and sometimes the only, effective actor’. As Langhorne and Hamilton have convincingly argued in The Practice of Diplomacy, today’s diplomacy is characterised by a ‘blurring [of] the distinctions between what is diplomatic activity and what is not, and who, therefore are diplomats and who are not’.Quite revealing of this change on the international diplomatic stage is the proliferation and the increased importance of multifarious non-State actors (NSA). The waning of classical State diplomacy has thus been paralleled by the advent of transnational organisations, which, whether public or private, now play a key role in the conduct of diplomacy.

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• 15 nov 2014

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Bourse d'études du Comité d'histoire de l'électricité et de l'énergie 2014-2015

  Depuis 2001, le Comité d’histoire de l’électricité a pour mission de conduire et de susciter des recherches scientifiques, d'étudier et de valoriser le patrimoine matériel et immatériel, de partager et de communiquer les savoirs sur l'histoire de l’électricité. En 2013, le Comité a élargi son champ d'intervention pour devenir le Comité d'histoire de l'électricité et de l'énergie. Il poursuit ses actions de soutien dans le domaine de l’histoire et du patrimoine de l’électricité et de l'énergie et contribue à sa diffusion auprès de tous les publics.

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