Sorbonne, Identities, International Relations and Civilisations of Europe

A research laboratory specialising in the history of contemporary international relations and foreign worlds, bringing together Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Sorbonne University and the CNRS.

About SIRICE

Research

Rethinking the Wars in Former Yugoslavia: an Incubator for the Transformation of Europe and the International System in the Post-Cold War Era? (1989-1995)

Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism : Interdisciplinary Approaches

Popular Participation in Authoritarian Governance in the USSR

Occupation and (in)justice in Postwar East Asia

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Gender Relationships between Occupiers and Occupied during the Allied Occupation of Germany after 1945

Research at UMR SIRICE

Research topics :

1. International Relations, Spaces and Globalisations
2. Practices and political cultures
3. Europe as a Material Civilization in Transition: Flows, Consumption, Crises, and Resilience
4. The Times, Traces, and Territories of War during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
5. Gender and Europe (Nineteenth–Twenty-First Century)

Crosswise subjects :
Science and Technology Diplomacy in France and Europe: Enriching Theory and Strategy with History
Food and Food Practices in Europe from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: Technology and Tastes

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Latest publications

Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969

Published on the 20 March 2026

Neoliberal Cities: Politics, Policy, and the Remaking of Urban America, codirigé avec Thomas J. Sugrue, New York University Press, 2020.

Published on the 20 March 2026

Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City

Published on the 20 March 2026

Uncle Sam’s Little Soldiers: Patriotism, Mobilization, and the Americanization of Children, 1914–1918

Published on the 5 March 2026

‘Tele-Crisis’: Co-production of Crisis and Information and Communication Technologies

Published on the 1 December 2025

“Beyond Voluntary: The 1998 Automotive CO2 Agreement and the Limits of Corporate Influence on Environmental Regulation”, Business History Review, vol. 99, n°1, 2025, p. 67-95. .

Published on the 15 October 2025