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• In the reserved area you can find the abstracts of the papers which will be 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.