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• 31 jan 2019

  01 fév 2019

  Zurich

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  The Pillars of Rule

  The Writ of Dynasties and Nation-States in the Middle East and South Asia

  Max Weber famously argued that states lay claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence over certain circumscribed territories. However, historical and anthropological research has challenged his ideal-typical vision by showing how the idea of the unitary state is a fiction that can only be produced through the action of interrelated but partly autonomous agents. States, and the various institutions that constitute them, face the strategic task of identifying and domesticating the social networks that are necessary for them to secure control over particular territories and their populations. Local strongmen and notables can in turn use their own local influence in order to gain recognition from higher-level, more powerful, state institutions. In this international conference, scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore the ways in which dynastic power and/or the rule of the state is asserted, negotiated and contested across both the Middle East and South Asia.

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• 15 jui 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - Political studies

  The Arab world and parallel diplomacies

  Annual conference of the Cercle des chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient

  Ébranlé par les soulèvements populaires de 2011, le monde arabe a vécu une séquence appelée à le marquer, en tant que tel et dans son rapport au monde. Pourtant, après une (re)découverte des sociétés, de leurs dynamiques et des registres de mobilisations d’acteurs nonétatiques, nombre d’analyses sont rapidement retombées dans des logiques plus traditionnelles. En effet, objet central des relations internationales, le monde arabe a le plus souvent été abordé selon des prismes bien particuliers.

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• 23 mai 2014

  Paris

  Study days - Geography

  Post-Conflict Territories

  Europe, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa

  One of the aims of this meeting is to contribute, by a comparative approach, to the positioning of geography as a tool for a territorial reading of post-war periods and dynamics, according to regional and local contexts.

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