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  • On 14-15 December 2012 there will take place a conference “Thirty Years of History of International Relations” in Paris, organized by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne with the patronage of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The complete programme is available in the reserved area of the web-site ("download papers").
    - On Dec. 14th: at the new Diplomatic Archives of La Courneuve (you should show an I.D. piece at the entrance).
    - On Dec. 15th:  at Room no. 1, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
    The conference, organized on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of our Commission, will take stock of the last three decades of investigations in the history of international relations with a special focus on the complexities of the present world. Moreover, the conference will address new research perspectives concerning both new methods and subjects of interest along four main axes:
    - Imperial history and global history;
    - History of peace, international organizations and regional integration;
    - History of conflicts and Cold War history;
    - New approaches and subjects.
    The conference will finally deal with a presentation and debate on the book edited by Robert Frank Pour l'histoire des relations internationales, PUF, 2012.
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    Colloque "30 ans d'histoire des relations internationales"
    Lieu et date :
    - 14 décembre aux archives diplomatiques de La Courneuve ( entrée sur site sur présentation de papiers d'identité en cours de validité)
    - 15 décembre au centre Panthéon, salle n°1, Paris
    Créée à la suite du Congrès international des sciences historiques de Bucarest, tenu en 1980, et rattachée elle-même au Comité international du même nom (CISH), la Commission d'histoire des relations internationales (CHRI) vient d'avoir trente ans.
    Organisé à cette occasion par l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne avec le concours du ministère des Affaires étrangères, le colloque propose de dresser le bilan de trois décennies de recherches historiques, de s'interroger sur la fécondité de l'histoire des relations internationales pour penser la complexité du monde actuel, et de suggérer quelques perspectives quant aux méthodes et objets d'une discipline qui s'est profondément renouvelée au contact des autres sciences sociales.
    Les deux journées s'organisent autour de quatre axes :
    - Histoire impériale, histoire globale
    - Histoire de la paix, des organisations internationales et des intégrations régionales
    - Histoire des conflits, histoire de la Guerre froide
    - Nouvelles approches, nouveaux objets.
    Le colloque se conclut par un débat autour du livre Pour l'histoire des relations internationales, dirigé par Robert Frank, PUF, 2012.

  • A CHIR International Conference on “Management of International Crisis since 1919 up Today” has been held in Bucharest, Romania, on 19-23 September 2012. The president of the Board Conference was ambassador Dumitru Preda and the President of the Scientific Committee was prof. Dr. Mihai Retegan, Bucharest University. The programme of the Conference is available in the reserved area of the website (dowload papers section). The papers presented at the conference will be published in a volume, in 2013.

  • On 13th and 14th April 2012, a conference was held in Moscow on “Water Issues in the History of International Relations” under the auspices of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and the Commission of History of International Relations. The first session of the conference, devoted to the theme “Water Resources as Factor of International Conflicts”, was opened by greetings of prof. Torjunov (Rector, MGIMO University) and prof. Tertrais (president, CHIR) and the conference was then introduced by Dr. Orlov’s report on the “problem of sweet water: global context of the Russian policy”. After the report of prof. Belozerov on “water resources as an instrument and object of the struggle in foreign policy”, different regional issues were dealt with; Central Asia by prof. Kurtov and dr. Borishpolets, the Middle East by dr. Panova, the Indian subcontinent by dr. Elli and dr. Paolini, Russia-China trans-border relations by prof. Bolgov. Other regional issues were addressed in the afternoon section devoted to “International cooperation in the area of use of water ways”: prof. Tertrais and dr. Rogozhina spoke about the Mekong river region, prof. Muntian addressed the issue of the Danube and dr. Alezandrov the problems of the Artic region. The second day of the conference, devoted to “Regional Problems of Water Resources and Waterways”, was opened by prof. Savaskov with a paper on “International water passage; contemporary international legal problems”. Dr. Zhiltsov then spoke on “international cooperation in overcoming the issue of water resources use (historical aspect)”. The problems of Latin America were addressed by prof. Martynov, those of water transport in Europe by prof. Gorbanev and the issue of the Black Sea Straights Status by prof. Druzhilovsky. The conference was closed by Alexander G. Stoppe, Head of the CIS Department, Security Council of Russia. The conclusions were drawn by prof. Narinskiy who underlined the richness and the variety of the contributions and the important results in understanding the present times that looking back at history can bring.
    We warmly thank prof. Narinskiy for the organisation of the conference.

  • It was published the volume Filipinas, un paìs entre dos imperios, edited by M.Dolores Elizalde and Josep M. Delgado (Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain, 2012).
  • The Commission of History of International Relations is proud to announce that its treasurer, prof. Dumitru Preda, has been recently cleared by the Romanian Senate for the post of Ambassador to Cuba.
  • It was published the volume The End of Cold War and the Regional Integration in Europe and Asia, edited by Robert Frank, Kumiko Haba and Hiroshi Momose (Ayoama Gakuin University, Nakanishi Printing Co., Kyoto 2010, 451 pages).

  • It was published the volume Political and cultural transfers between France, Germany and Central Europe (1840-1945): the case of Slovakia, edited by Bohumila Ferencuhova and Jean-Louis Georget (Vera, Bratslava 2010, 452 pages, ISBN 978-80-224-1120-2). Information in the reserved area, under "publications".

  • In the reserved area you can find the abstracts and the papers presented during the Scientific Assembly of the Commission in Amsterdam, August 2010.
  • It was published the volume Peace, War and Gender from the Antiquity to the Present. Cross-cultural perspectives, edited by Jost Dülffer and Robert Frank (Klartext Verlag, 282 pages, € 28,00, ISBN 978-3-8375-0214-5). This volume is based on the contributions presented at Sidney Congress and presents fresh insight into war, military violence, peace, resolution of conflicts and so on. The contributions to this book approach these big issues with selected case studies. They range from ideas about peace in Greek antiquity to gender and violence in medieval Ireland, from the Christian conception of just war to a discussion of irregular warfare in twentieth century Europe as well as area bombing in World War II. Specific European perspectives are supplemented by a fresh look at examples from Latin America, India and Africa. All contributions are based on original research and offer conceptually a broad range of innovative reflections. Gender is used as a particularly important analytical category. With its scope and range of coverage, the volume offers a useful introduction into the practices of war, peace and violence in a cross-cultural perspective.

     

  • It was published the volume Images des peuples et historie des relations internationales du XVI siècle à nos jours, edited by Maria Matilde Benzoni, Robert Frank and Silvia Maria Pizzetti (Unicopli edizioni - publication de La Sorbonne 549 pages, € 30,00, ISBN 978-88-400-1202-5). En acceptant l'invitation de la Commission d'histoire des relations internationales, les auteurs de ce recueil d'études ont réfléchi sur le poids des images dans l'histoire des rapports entre les peuples et les Etats, du XVI siècle à nos jours et à l'échelle planétaire. Le livre esquisse une histoire encore largement à écrire, des dèbuts de la mondialisation moderne à la globalisation contemporaine, de la formation du système européen des Etats à l'après 1989... Il permet d'étudier le rôle des imaginaires et des images des peuples dans l'histoire des relations internationales de l'Europe à l'Asie, de l'Amérique à l'Afrique, tout en analysant sur la longue durée les innombrables transformations de ce corpus de représentations ainsi que son usage par tous les acteurs. Contrairement à ce qui est communément admis, l'influence des images sur les relations internationales ne date pas d'aujourd'hui, ni même du XX siécle, mais s'inscrit dans un passé lointain que cet ouvrage met en perspective.

     

  • It was published the volume Concepts, Histories and Theories of International Relations for the 21th Century. Regional and National Approaches, edited by José Flavio Sombra Saraiva (Onstituto Brasileiro de Relaçoes Internacionais, Brasilia 2009, ISBN 978-85-7924-024-9). Concept, theory and history walk side by side in the broad field of International Relations. This does not mean that they necessarily work in cooperative way towards building the epistemological identity of International Relations. However, it is true that these three approaches have equally contributed to the development of this fresh academic science originated in Europe and the United States of America in the 20th century.