SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Social Sciences Research Network
Bruce W. JentlesonDuke University - Terry Sanford Institute of Public PolicyChristopher A. WhytockUniversity of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
International Security, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 47-86, Winter 2005/06
Abstract:
The debate over credit for Libya's shift away from "rogue state" policies, most especially by settling the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie terrorism case and abandoning its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs, is lively politically and challenging analytically.It has important implications for theories of force and diplomacy, particularly coercive diplomacy, and policy debates including such cases as Iran and North Korea. U.S. coercive diplomacy against Libya can be divided into three phases:

L'organisation de la recherche et son soutien public font désormais l'objet d'un large débat. Celui-ci donne une place centrale aux compétences des hommes et des femmes qui concourent à la production de la science et conditionnent son évolution.

Rapport de l'Observatoire de l'emploi scientifique

Le ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche vient d'actualiser son précieux "Petit guide pour accéder aux métiers de la recherche".

La Guilde des Doctorants publie une synthèse des données disponibles sur l'évolution des recrutements d'enseignants- chercheurs sur la période 1998-2008.

Ibrahim G. Aoude
Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)

INTRODUCTION

THIS ESSAY WILL ARGUE THAT EGYPT has been developing along capitalist lines throughout its republican years. The Nasser regime, which overthrew the monarchy and declared Egypt a republic, was anti-colonial and gradually developed a state form of capitalism that was characteristically nationalist. Integrally linked with this development was the formation of new class fractions that eventually dominated the Egyptian social formation including the state apparatus. Further, this development of the political economy had no commitment to democratic mass mobilization. Consequently, the material gains that the masses of peasants and workers had gained during the Nasser regime proved to be ephemeral.

TAHAR BELKHODJA

TEMOIGNAGE

Introduction

Ce livre est un témoignage, inévitablement subjectif à certains égards, mais qui se veut objectif dans le récit des événements comme dans l’appréciation des hommes. Subjectif, car il est incomplet, s’attardant seulement sur les moments forts des trois premières décennies de la Tunisie indépendante : une époque de vie politique intense, avec ses heurs et ses malheurs, vécue auprès d’un chef d’Etat exceptionnel, Habib Bourguiba, qui a présidé à la renaissance d’une nation et à la consolidation d’un Etat.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

Between 1994 and 1999, the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation—now the USC Shoah Foundation Institute—interviewed nearly 52,000 survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah’s Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants.

Arno Tausch, with Christian Bischof, and Karl Mueller

FIRST STATISTICAL ESTIMATES OF THE REAL SITUATION OF
EUROPE’S MUSLIMS AND THE LISBON PROCESS.

Paper, presented at the International Seminar:
“Migrations et intégration en France et en Autriche, dans un contexte européen: nouveaux enjeux,nouveaux defies” organized by “Centre franco-autrichien pour le rapprochement en Europe” of the French and the Austrian Governments, “Institut français des relations internationals”,
“Institut fuer den Donauraum, Vienna” and
“Ambassade de France en Autriche - Institut Culturel” Vienna.

Nilüfer Göle

It is not distance from but proximity to modern life that triggers a return to religious identity among migrant Muslims in Europe, says Nilüfer Göle. What we are witnessing today is a shift from a Muslim to an Islamist identity. The religious self for individual Muslims is being shifted from the private to the public realm.

Burhan Ghalioun

La signification du retour au religieux en pays d'Islam

Deux grandes tendances dominent aujourd'hui le débat sur l'islamisme. La première voit dans l'islamisme la marque de la persistance dans les sociétés musulmanes, et donc dans l'islam, des conceptions théocentriques traditionnelles. L'islamisme n'est dans ce cas que la manifestation de l'évolution naturelle d'un islam réfractaire au sécularisme et à la modernité. La deuxième est celle qui comprend le retour à l'islam comme une récupération de l'identité ou, si l'on veut, de l'authenticité, entravée jusqu'à très récemment par l'aliénation politique et culturelle issue de plus d'un siècle de colonisation.

Timothy Snyder

If we concentrate on Auschwitz and the Gulag – generally taken to be adequate or even final symbols of the evil of mass slaughter – we fail to notice that over a period of twelve years, between 1933 and 1944, some 12 million victims of Nazi and Soviet mass killing policies perished in a particular region of Europe, one defined more or less by today's Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia.

Barbara Villiger Heilig
Peter Sellars' "Othello" which premiered last week at the Viennese Festwochen is a psychological study with political muscle. Barbara Villiger Heilig was impressed.

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

Compiled and Edited by
Charles E. Moore

Søren Kierkegaard has been accused of being one of the most frustrating authors to read. He has also been praised as one of the most rewarding. Frustrating, because his style is so dense, his thought so complex, and his words so harsh. Rewarding, because embedded within his writings and journals are metaphors and truths so deep and vivid that they can overwhelm you with an almost blinding clarity. Kierkegaard is not one to be read lightly, lest you get burned.
The purpose of this collection is twofold. The first is to make Kierkegaard accessible. Even for the brightest, Kierkegaard is tough going. Walter Lowrie, Kierkegaard’s most devoted biographer, writes: “Kierkegaard exacts of his reader a very great effort. He declines to make things easy for him by presenting a ‘conclusion,’ and he obliges him, therefore, to approach the goal by the same difficult path he himself has trod.”(...)

Eric Keslassy
« L’élection d’Obama oblige à jeter un regard lucide sur la place faite en France aux minorités visibles en politique »

Note De L'auteur AUX LECTEURS

Cela fait presque un an que la rédaction de cette note m’a été confiée par l’Institut Montaigne. Sa problématique a donc été définie bien avant que Barack Obama ne soit en position de remporter l’élection présidentielle américaine. Nombre d’entretiens et de réflexions auront donc été menés avant ce tournant historique.
Mais il faut bien le reconnaître, même en France, il y a un avant et un après 4 novembre 2008…