Michel Makinsky, Etude « Biden élu : ‘Contenir’ Téhéran et/ou négocier ? », Les clés du Moyen-Orient, 18 novembre 2020

Dans un article récemment publié dans Les Clés du Moyen-Orient, Michel Makinsky se penche sur le futur des relations entre les Etats-Unis et l'Iran sous la prochaine présidence américaine.

Retrouvez cet article à l'adresse suivante : https://www.lesclesdumoyenorient.com/Etude-Biden-elu-Contenir-Teheran-et-ou-negocier.html

Call for papers for IPS Belgium - Studying power through International Policial Sociology (IPS). Deadline: 1st December 2020

Aims
As a transdisciplinary approach to the study of International Relations, International Political Sociology (IPS) offers new lenses to understand global politics and transnational relations through a wide range of analytical perspectives and empirical research strategies. By questioning the fragmentation of traditional IR categories such as the domestic and the international, high and low politics, or rationality and constructivism, it casts a light on the power dynamics at play in these entangled spaces and on their outcomes. IPS brings insights from sociology, anthropology, geography, history, among others, in the analysis of international relations. One of its aims is to question and analyse the tensions and the connections between the concepts of “the International”, “the Political”, and “the Social”.
Based on the model of the “Doing IPS” network in London, “IPS Brazil”, and the “Doing IPS Transnational Hub”, IPS Belgium will provide a platform for scholars to present and debate their research. We aim to create a space for discussions and to foster collaborations for anyone sharing an interest in the conceptual, ontological and methodological implications of the IPS perspective. From PhD candidates to senior scholars, all humanities and social sciences researchers are welcomed to participate in the seminar and present their work.

Themes in IPS
IPS includes various themes and research interests. For the first seminar series of IPS Belgium, we particularly welcome papers about (but not limited to) the following themes:

• Migration and borders 
• Postcolonial and decolonial thought
• Security and surveillance
• Technologies of governance
• Identity (gender, race, sexuality, ...)
• Citizenship and sovereignty
• Social mobilizations
• Environmental challenges
• Expertise circulation and knowledge production
• Fieldwork methodologies
• ...

Programme

This first seminar series will run monthly from February to June 2021. During each two-hour seminar, two participants will present a piece of work-in-progress (around 8000-10,000 words of a thesis chapter, book chapter, journal manuscript,...) to the group and invite a senior academic as discussant. The discussion will be followed by questions and answers with the audience. All attendees are encouraged to participate regularly and actively. We hope that the context will allow us to welcome you in Brussels but to prevent any difficulties linked to travel restrictions, simultaneous online participation will be possible as well.

Application
Please send your abstract (300 words) with a short bio and a description of how your research relates with IPS (200 words) to ipsseminar.belgium@gmail.com before 1st December 2020. Participants will be notified by the end of December.
Do reach out if you want to join the mailing list to be informed of our future activities or if you have any questions.

Doctoral student organisers
Anne NGUYEN (ULB) - Benjamin PUYBAREAU (UNamur) - Cindy REGNIER (ULiège) - Élise ROUSSEAU (UNamur) - Chloé THOMAS (USL-B)
Senior academic organisers
Rocco BELLANOVA (USL-B/UvA) - Denis DUEZ (USL-B) - Christophe WASINSKI (ULB)


More information on www.doingips.org 

Nouvelle publication : Antonios Vlassis, Michèle Rioux, Destiny Tchéhouali (dir.), La culture à l'ère du numérique : plateformes, normes et politiques, Liège, Presses Universitaires de Liège, coll. "Maison des Sciences de l'homme", 2020, 252p.

Résumé :

Dans un contexte de convergence sectorielle entre culture, commerce et numérique (Internet et réseaux de télécommunications), l’ouvrage se fixe pour objet d’explorer les tensions entre globalisation numérique et industries culturelles. Plus spécifiquement, notre objectif est de mettre en lumière les pratiques des plateformes numériques dans le secteur culturel (audiovisuel, cinéma, musique, livre), d’analyser la cohérence des politiques culturelles dans une perspective comparative et de saisir pourquoi et comment les acteurs et leurs stratégies entendent embrasser des enjeux transversaux tels que la découvrabilité, la promotion et la protection des expressions culturelles diversifiées, le droit d’auteur et les conditions économiques et sociales des créateurs à l’ère du numérique, la coopération internationale dans le domaine culturel. À cet égard, nous visons à repenser les cadres de l’intervention publique dans le but de déboucher sur de nouvelles normes et trajectoires de gouvernance et sur de nouveaux modèles de politiques publiques en matière de culture et de numérique.

Préface par Bernard Rentier
Épilogue par Charles Vallerand

Auteurs : Asier Aranzubia, Jean-Robert Bisaillon, Jonathan Hendrickx, André Lange,
Giacomo Mazzone, Raphaëlle Mattart, Nicolas Neysen, Heritiana Ranaivoson, Michèle Rioux,
Destiny Tchéhouali, Olivier Thuillas, Antonios Vlassis, Guy-Philippe Wells, Louis Wiart.

Collection : Maison des Sciences de l'homme

The Journal of Cross-Regional Dialogues: publication of the first issue

ANNOUNCEMENT

The first issue of the Journal of Cross-Regional Dialogues has been published.

The issue's topic is Eurasian regionalism: global trends and local dynamics.

Here is the link to the website: https://popups.uliege.be/2593-9483/index.php?id=127

The issue is also being printed at the moment.

Call for papers for the Journal Stosunki Miedzynarodowe – International Relations

The Editorial Board of the Quarterly Stosunki Miedzynarodowe – International Relations invites interested authors to submit their work (in the form of a scholarly article, analytical paper or review essay) within the broad scope of studies in international relations for the 2020 and 2021 volumes.

We especially encourage submissions for issues dedicated to the memory of two distinguished academics and IR researchers – Professor Janusz Symonides and Professor Bogus?aw Mrozek, who passed away this year. Janusz Symonides was a law professor; his publications focus on human rights, the law of the sea, public international law, and modern political areas of thought. Boguslaw Mrozek was professor and Director of the Institute of International Relations; his publications mainly focus on politics and history of South and Southeast Asia as well as history of international relations as a scholarly discipline. Therefore a special attention will be given to submissions related to international law, international relations in non-European regions (including Asia and the Western Hemisphere), international security and European relations.

Detailed information on submissions and requirements can be found in Guidelines for Authors: http://www.irjournal.pl/Guidelines-for-Authors,2381.html 

All interested authors are kindly requested to send a short abstract (100-150 words; approx. 1000 characters) to irjournal@uw.edu.pl 

Dr. Aleksandra Jarczewska, ajarczewska@uw.edu.pl

More information: http://www.irjournal.pl/Call-for-Papers-2020,2441.html