An Active Publications Policy

CERI has an active publishing policy which has gone from strength to strength over the last couple of decades. We publish the works of our own researchers and other French or international scholars and experts. One of the distinctive features of CERI is that we publish both in English and in French. This is a policy that will undoubtedly continue to develop in coming years.

A total of 31 works were published in the 90s, through two series: Espace international, published by Editions Complexe, and L’idée du monde, by Le Seuil. These publications include a variety of subjects from migrations in Europe to the state of democracy in Latin America and from Islamic fundamentalism to the revival of nationalism across the world. A full list of titles is available upon request.

The two series currently published in English under the auspices of the CERI are rather different in content from one another. The Comparative Politics and International Affairs series, published by Hurst, focuses on sociological and anthropological issues. This series is published simultaneously in Britain and in the US (by Columbia University Press, Chicago University Press or Lynne Reiner) in both hardback and paperback. The International Relations and Political Economy series, which is distributed in both Britain and the US, is published by Palgrave.

CERI also publishes three series in French. The oldest of these, Recherches Internationales, published by Karthala, was created in 1998 by Jean-François Leguil-Bayart who continues to be editor today. It focuses on the interface between international or trans-national relations and internal processes in political societies as symbolized by the series’ logo, the Möbius strip. The CERI-Autrement series was created in 2002 by Christophe Jaffrelot and Henry Dougier as a vehicle to publish essays on major contemporary international issues. In these works a variety of topical questions are given an in-depth examination by our researchers. The series includes a sub-category dealing with the power centres of the world, which was inaugurated in 2003 with a book by Pierre Hassner and Justin Vaisse entitled Washington et le monde . The CERI-Fayard series, initiated in 2005 by Christophe Jaffrelot and Olivier Bétourné, is made up of collective works focusing on a particular country or region. These edited volumes propose substantive analyses of a key country or world region covering a full range of political, cultural, social and economic topics.

CERI’s two in-house publications, Les Etudes du CERI and Questions de recherche, complement each other in terms of content. The former, created in 1995 and edited by Judith Burko, is a series of expert reports aimed at professionals working at an international level in either public administrations or private companies. The latter, which takes a more academic approach, focuses on work in progress by CERI researchers and other scholars. It is edited by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Béatrice Pouligny. Both series are available electronically on CERI’s web site.

Critique internationale, a quarterly journal edited by CERI and which reflects our main centres of interest, has been published since 1998 by the Presses de Sciences Po. The journal is listed on the University of Columbia’s on-line International Affairs database (CIAO) and was also selected in 2005 for two well-known French portals, Persée and Cairn. Past issues are available on the CERI website. The Presses de Sciences Po also publishes a significant number of books by CERI authors, particularly in the Mondes series edited by Alain Dieckhoff and Karoline Postel-Vinay.

Finally, CERI is a partner of the quarterly publication, Alternatives Internationales to which it regularly contributes. Once a year in December, it produces a special issue of the journal which decodes international issues-at-stake and perspectives for the coming year.