Author: Frédéric Thébault (dir.). Frédéric Dessberg Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rennes ISBN: 2753549281 Category : History Languages : fr Pages : 257
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Cet ouvrage est le fruit d'une journée d'étude organisée aux Écoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan le 15 décembre 2005, autour de la notion de frontière, vue dans ses aspects les plus variés. Séparation stricte ou voie de passage, la frontière reste le point de contact entre deux États, mais elle peut prendre l'aspect plus large et moins clairement défini d'un espace conçu comme base de rayonnement ou comme glacis protecteur. Les questions abordées s'inscrivent donc au cœur des relations diplomatiques et militaires européennes. Des pistes de réflexions sont ouvertes sur les rapports entre frontières et opérations militaires, en temps de guerre comme en temps de paix, par l'étude de la défense des frontières, de leur utilisation dans le cadre d'une guerre offensive, ainsi que des mesures prises pour les équiper (fortifications, glacis, routes et voies ferrées, etc.). Césure symbolique de l'espace, la frontière a besoin d'être matérialisée d'autant plus nettement que le pouvoir politique entend la rendre imperméable aux échanges économiques, aux influences intellectuelles ou à la circulation des personnes. Le pouvoir politique peut également chercher à l'estomper ou la faire disparaître pour satisfaire des motivations expansionnistes. Un autre axe d'étude retenu est celui des zones contestées et/ou occupées qui attirent la convoitise des puissances et bouleversent des équilibres territoriaux souvent précaires. Chaque État a, pour des raisons stratégiques (frontières « naturelles », accès à la mer), économiques, idéologiques ou culturelles, la volonté de redéfinir ou tout au moins de préciser le tracé de ses frontières. Plus largement, la notion d'aire d'influence intervient en ce qu'elle diffère profondément de l'aire étatique, théoriquement délimitée par une frontière au sein de laquelle l'État jouit d'un monopole juridique et administratif. La stratégie culturelle est ici étudiée comme l'ensemble des décisions par lesquelles un État fédère ses divers modes de rayonnement afin de créer, de maintenir ou d'étendre une zone d'influence.
Author: Frédéric Thebault Publisher: PU Rennes ISBN: 9782753503595 Category : Europe Languages : fr Pages : 0
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Etude des rapports entre frontières et opérations militaires, s'interrogeant d'une part sur la manière dont est envisagée, dès le temps de paix, la défense des frontières ou leur utilisation dans le cadre d'une guerre offensive et, d'autre part, sur les mesures qui sont prises pour les équiper (fortifications, glacis, routes et voies ferrées, etc.).
Author: Frédéric Bozo Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1789202272 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 307
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In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the victors were unable to agree on Germany’s fate, and the separation of the country—the result of the nascent Cold War—emerged as a de facto, if provisional, settlement. Yet East and West Germany would exist apart for half a century, making the "German question" a central foreign policy issue—and given the war-torn history between the two countries, this was felt no more keenly than in France. Drawing on the most recent historiography and previously untapped archival sources, this volume shows how France’s approach to the German question was, for the duration of the Cold War, both more constructive and consequential than has been previously acknowledged.
Author: Chih-yu Shih Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9811212368 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 476
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Colonial legacies in knowledge production affect the way the world is represented and understood today. However, the subject is rarely attended. The book, Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self, is about the colonial construction of intellectual perspectives of the colonized population in terms of the latter's approach to China and Chineseness in the modern world. Relying on the available oral histories of senior China scholars primarily in Asia, authors from various postcolonial and colonial sites present these multiple routs of self-constitution and reconstitution through the use of China and Chineseness as category. The revealed manipulation of this third category, romantically as well as antagonistically, is easier than straightforward self-reflection for us all to accept that, coming to identities and relations, none, even subaltern, is politically innocent or capable of epistemological monopoly. Through comparative studies, it shows a way of self-understanding that does not always require discursive construction of border or cultural consumption of any specific 'other'.With US-China rivalry possibly lasting for decades, this book offers extremely rich and contrasting practices from the subaltern worlds for anyone in a quest for humanist alternatives. This interdisciplinary and transnational project contributes to post-colonial studies, cultural studies, international relations, China and Chinese studies, and the comparative histories of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.
Author: Koen Bostoen Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108474187 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 335
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A unique and forward-thinking book that sheds new light on the origins, dynamics, and cosmopolitan culture of the Kongo Kingdom from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
Author: Horst Carl Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft ISBN: Category : History Languages : fr Pages : 610
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Der von sozialen, politischen und religiösen Umbrüchen geprägte Zeitraum des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts stellt eine Schlüsselperiode für eine historische Sicherheitsforschung dar. Er ist geprägt von Diskursen der Bedrohung und Versuchen, Antworten auf die akuten Herausforderungen öffentlicher Ordnung und Sicherheit zu finden. Zweifellos akzentuierten die Konflikte um Religion und Konfession die Unsicherheiten in besonderer Weise, wofür der vergleichende Blick auf Frankreich und das Heilige Römische Reich deutscher Nation zahlreiche Belege erbringt. Auf diese Konfliktlagen beschränkt sich das Thema Sicherheit für die Zeitgenossen jedoch nicht. Die Spannbreite der im vorliegenden Sammelband behandelten "Sicherheitsprobleme" dokumentiert vielmehr, wie sehr sich in diesen beiden Jahrhunderten Bezüge, in denen Sicherheit thematisiert wurde, ausdifferenziert haben. In einem Zeitraum manifester Friedlosigkeit wuchs der Kategorie "Sicherheit" eine immer größere Bedeutung zu, die sie schließlich zu einem Leitbegriff der politischen Kultur in der Frühen Neuzeit machte.
Author: Edward Luttwak Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421419459 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
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A newly updated edition of this classic, hugely influential account of how the Romans defended their vast empire. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the Rhine to the Black Sea. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off everything from overnight robbery raids to full-scale invasion attempts by entire nations on the move. How were troops able to defend the Empire’s vast territories from constant attacks? And how did they do so at such moderate cost that their treasury could pay for an immensity of highways, aqueducts, amphitheaters, city baths, and magnificent temples? In The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, seasoned defense analyst Edward N. Luttwak reveals how the Romans were able to combine military strength, diplomacy, and fortifications to effectively respond to changing threats. Rome’s secret was not ceaseless fighting, but comprehensive strategies that unified force, diplomacy, and an immense infrastructure of roads, forts, walls, and barriers. Initially relying on client states to buffer attacks, Rome moved to a permanent frontier defense around 117 CE. Finally, as barbarians began to penetrate the empire, Rome filed large armies in a strategy of “defense-in-depth,” allowing invaders to pierce Rome’s borders. This updated edition has been extensively revised to incorporate recent scholarship and archeological findings. A new preface explores Roman imperial statecraft. This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy.
Author: Samantha Besson Publisher: Collège de France ISBN: 2722605821 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 26
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States are no longer alone on the international scene. Other institutions intervene alongside States, and even sometimes in their place, such as international organizations, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, regions or global cities. Still, one would look in vain for clear indications in international law, including for the basic principles of an “international law of institutions” that could address the three fundamental questions of social and political organization that are representation, regulation and responsibility. What institutions may act in whose name internationally? What are the conditions for their actions to bind us legally and have the legitimacy to do so? And what institutions should be held responsible, by whom and how, in case of violation of international law? The time has come to reconstruct the international institutional order.
Author: Louis Bodmer Publisher: Graduate Institute Publications ISBN: 2940600384 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 137
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This research analyzes mechanisms fostering states’ compliance to international treaties. It argues that a treaty accountability network surrounds states when they commit to an international covenant and that actors belonging to the network have leverage on states to hold them accountable. This study is particularly interested in the role NGOs and IOs play as actors within this network. It identifies two main ways for holding states accountable: direct and indirect. Indirect accountability is conceptualized as mechanisms where aid recipients are empowered by organizations and will henceforth hold their states accountable. This research provides a small-N case-study on the UNCRC, maps the treaty accountability network surrounding it, identifies accountability mechanisms developed by one IO (UNICEF) and one NGO (Terre des Hommes Suisse) and examines pathways used by one state (Switzerland). We extend our heartfelt thanks to the Vahabzadeh Foundation for financially supporting the publication of best works by young researchers of the Graduate Institute, giving a priority to those who have been awarded academic prizes for their master’s dissertations.
Author: Frédéric Thébault (dir.). Frédéric Dessberg
Author: Frédéric Thebault
Author: Frédéric Bozo
Author: Chih-yu Shih
Author: Koen Bostoen
Author: Horst Carl
Author: Hartmut Elsenhans
Author: Edward Luttwak
Author: Samantha Besson
Author: Louis Bodmer