History and Geopolitics All books
Pierre Grosser
The History of the World is Made in Asia Another vision of the twentieth century
A "de-westernized" story: many episodes that are often overlooked are described here — the Russian civil war in the Far East, the Anglo-Japanese confrontation in Manchuria, the harshness of the Korean War…
Bruno Tertrais
The Revenge of History
Never has the past been so present. In our supposedly memoryless world, history is constantly being invoked...
Bertrand Badie
Hegemony Challenged New Forms of International Domination
An original look at recent developments in current affairs, whether it is “Trumpism,” the emergence of authoritarian leaders such as Putin, Erdogan, or Orban, and at an international scene that appears particularly chaotic.
Michel Meyer
The Secret History of the Fall of the Berlin Wall New Edition 2019
In Berlin, on the night of 9th to 10th November 1989, the world was radically changed when the ‘Wall of Shame’ came down without a struggle. A year later, German reunification was joyfully celebrated, the Cold War came to an end and the Soviet Union collapsed.
Yves Pouliquen
When the Académie Française almost Disappeared From the French Revolution to the Empire
The history of the Académie Française under the Revolution and the Empire
Philippe Moreau Desfarges
A History of Peace Ideas for the Future
An original thesis: peace is inescapable (in spite of all the resurgence of wars); it will be contractual and democratic (in spite of the reforming of empires).
Iannis Roder
Explaining the Shoah and Genocide to Our Children
This book desacralizes the Shoah and shows that though that genocide had specific characteristics, it can be compared to others.
Alexandre Stern
Monkeys in the Kitchen How Cooking Made Us Human
How the invention of culinary and agricultural practices, the discovery and exchange of products, through the millennia have contributed to civilizing the human being.