Pascal Vennesson
Biographic Data
| ID | 325523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pascal Vennesson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pascal |
| FAMILY NAME | Vennesson |
| SIGNATURE | VENNESSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Getting Inside the Mind of Leaders and Advisers: A Data Collection Strategy for Historical Case Studies in IR
In the last few decades, a new wave of behavioral research has become prominent in international relations (IR) and led to a welcome expansion of laboratory experiments as well as stimulating dialogues with neurosciences, biology, and genetics. Simultaneously, the study of leaders and their advisers has made a significant comeback. However, in the qualitative study of real-world foreign policy decisions, little progress has been made to provide I…
Grand Strategy and Military Power
This chapter examines military power through the lens of grand strategy. It begins by identifying the First World War as the main origin of the distinctive idea of grand strategy resulting in its core meaning and ambivalence. It then shows how grand strategy acts as a force multiplier, before exploring the ways in which military successes and failures affect grand-strategic effectiveness. Finally, it discusses the ways in which military power as …
Is Strategic Studies Rationalist, Materialist, and A-Critical? Reconnecting Security and Strategy
Between the 1940s and the 1960s, strategy was at the heart of security studies and closely intertwined with International Relations (IR). Over the past three decades, however, the study of strategy has been relegated to a secondary position in the international security subfield and marginalized in IR theorizing. One important source of this disconnect is the challenge mounted by critical security advocates, who sought to reorient the study of se…
The General’s Intuition: Overconfidence, Pattern Matching, and the Inchon Landing Decision
Can we trust the operational intuitions of generals? The proponents of the overconfidence model, one of the most influential perspectives in the psychology of judgment, commonly offer a skeptical answer. Generals’ operational intuitions are likely to be hampered by overconfidence and negatively affect military effectiveness. However, the successful operational outcome of General Douglas MacArthur’s decision to land at Inchon (June–September 1950)…
Is strategic studies narrow? Critical security and the misunderstood scope of strategy
Critical security advocates commonly portray strategic studies as crippled by its narrow focus on Cold War-era military issues, as state-centric and as Western-centric. I argue that this conception of the scope of strategy is flawed and I offer a comprehensive rebuttal by working out the logic of the theories advanced by Carl von Clausewitz and Thomas Schelling. The proponents of critical security overlook the striking expansion of strategy durin…
Transformations de l'engagement civique et nouvel art américain de la guerre
En prenant pour point de départ la relation entre les transformations de la place et du rôle du peuple et la conduite de la guerre conceptualisée par Clausewitz, cet article explore la relation entre la transformation de l’engagement civique et la capacité des États à convertir les ressources sociétales en puissance militaire. Inscrit dans la tradition de recherche réaliste néo-classique qui considère que des facteurs « internes » affectent la ré…
War under transnational surveillance: Framing ambiguity and the politics of shame
‘Naming and shaming’ those accused of abuse and misconduct is one of the most common strategies of transnational activists. Yet both qualitative and quantitative studies show that the policy and behavioural effects of naming and shaming are often contradictory. Named and shamed actors do respond at least partially by adjusting their policies and behaviour to some extent, but the actions challenged publicly as human rights violations may not cease…
Fighting and Helping? A Historical-Institutionalist Explanation of NGO-Military Relations
Published online: 01 Aug 2014
Soldiers drawn into politics? The influence of tactics in civil-military relations
The tactical level has become increasingly important in the conduct of contemporary complex military operations. Yet, the potential impact that this tactical level may have on domestic civil–military relations has been neglected. In this article, we focus on mechanisms by which low-level soldiers have acquired an increasing importance in tactical operations and we suggest that this may influence civil–military relations in the future. We argue th…
The Transnational Politics of Warfare Accountability: Human Rights Watch versus the Israel Defense Forces
Transnational human rights networks span the globe, and have become more numerous and influential since the 1970s. Yet we still know relatively little about the strategic interaction between transnational advocates and their targeted state actors. Focusing on such a strategic interaction, we argue that transnational advocacy is less a diffusion of authority away from state actors than a change in the ways in which the politics of accountability i…
The Future of Political Science
Political science has developed rapidly in the last half-century, but this has posed at least three serious problems. First, almost no attention has been given to political activity in private bodies: the scope of political analysis is narrowed as a result. Second, the connection between political science and ‘policy analysis’ is wholly unclear, which raises the danger that political science may want to cover too much or too little! Third, politi…
Is There a European Way of War: Role Conceptions, Organizational Frames, and the Utility of Force
Europe is the region of the world where the network of security institutions is the densest. Yet, these institutions did not erase differences about conceptions of force employment among European countries and between European countries and the United States. Why have concepts of military power and force employment remained distinct and varied in Europe, and yet, what facilitates their convergence at the European Union level into the ambiguous no…
Case studies and process tracing: Theories and practices
Introduction A significant part of what we know about the social and political world comes from case studies. Case studies famously contributed, for instance, to uncovering the tendency towards oligarchy in political parties, the inner working of the exercise of power in democracies, the dynamics of international crises, the logics of authority and control in organizations, the interplay between values and institutions in the Indian caste system,…
Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective
A revolutionary new textbook introducing masters and doctoral students to the major research approaches and methodologies in the social sciences. Written by an outstanding set of scholars, and derived from successful course teaching, this volume will empower students to choose their own approach to research, to justify this approach, and to situate it within the discipline. It addresses questions of ontology, epistemology and philosophy of social…
Idées, politiques de défense et stratégie: Enjeux et niveaux d'analyse
http://biblio.iue.it/record[equ]b1070884
Civil–military relations in France: Is there a gap
Since President Jacques Chirac's 1996 decision to professionalise the armed forces, many political and military leader expressed concerns about its potential consequences on civil–military relations. Will the shift to an all-volunteer force create a gap in civil–military relations? The goal of the article is to provide a preliminary assessment of civil–military relations in France before the full professionalisation of the armed forces. Using the…
Sciences sociales et défense: De l’« aide à la décision » aux contributions à l’action publique
La défense européenne: Un objet de science politique
Présentation
Sociologie militaire. Armée, guerre et paix
Les sciences sociales: Quels apports pour la défense
Unipolarité et intégration régionale: L'Afrique du Sud et la « renaissance africaine »
Bombarder pour convaincre ? Puissance aérienne, rationalité limitée et diplomatie coercitive au Kosovo
Bombarder pour convaincre ? Puissance arienne, rationalit limite et diplomatie coercitive au Kosovo
Unipolarité et intégration régionale: L'Afrique du Sud et la « renaissance africaine
Depuis 1945, les intégrations régionales constituent un aspect significatif des réalités internationales. Toutefois, la nature même des intégrations régionales, leurs objectifs, les méthodes utilisées pour les mettre en place et leurs résultats font l'objet de vigoureux désaccords. Notre essai se propose d'étudier la montée en puissance de la République d'Afrique du Sud, particulièrement depuis l'abolition du régime d'Apartheid en 1991, son impac…
La crise de l'identité américaine. Du melting-pot au multiculturalisme
Vennesson Pascal. Lacorne Denis, La crise de l'identite americaine. Du melting-pot au multiculturalisme.. In: Revue francaise de sociologie, 1999, 40-1. Fluidite et hierarchie. L'evolution de la stratification sociale en France. pp. 196-199
Soldiers drawn into politics? The influence of tactics in civil-military relations
The tactical level has become increasingly important in the conduct of contemporary complex military operations. Yet, the potential impact that this tactical level may have on domestic civil–military relations has been neglected. In this article, we focus on mechanisms by which low-level soldiers have acquired an increasing importance in tactical operations and we suggest that this may influence civil–military relations in the future. We argue th…
Civil–military relations in France: Is there a gap
Since President Jacques Chirac's 1996 decision to professionalise the armed forces, many political and military leader expressed concerns about its potential consequences on civil–military relations. Will the shift to an all-volunteer force create a gap in civil–military relations? The goal of the article is to provide a preliminary assessment of civil–military relations in France before the full professionalisation of the armed forces. Using the…
Is strategic studies narrow? Critical security and the misunderstood scope of strategy
Critical security advocates commonly portray strategic studies as crippled by its narrow focus on Cold War-era military issues, as state-centric and as Western-centric. I argue that this conception of the scope of strategy is flawed and I offer a comprehensive rebuttal by working out the logic of the theories advanced by Carl von Clausewitz and Thomas Schelling. The proponents of critical security overlook the striking expansion of strategy durin…
Fighting and Helping? A Historical-Institutionalist Explanation of NGO-Military Relations
Published online: 01 Aug 2014
War under transnational surveillance: Framing ambiguity and the politics of shame
‘Naming and shaming’ those accused of abuse and misconduct is one of the most common strategies of transnational activists. Yet both qualitative and quantitative studies show that the policy and behavioural effects of naming and shaming are often contradictory. Named and shamed actors do respond at least partially by adjusting their policies and behaviour to some extent, but the actions challenged publicly as human rights violations may not cease…
Is There a European Way of War: Role Conceptions, Organizational Frames, and the Utility of Force
Europe is the region of the world where the network of security institutions is the densest. Yet, these institutions did not erase differences about conceptions of force employment among European countries and between European countries and the United States. Why have concepts of military power and force employment remained distinct and varied in Europe, and yet, what facilitates their convergence at the European Union level into the ambiguous no…
The Future of Political Science
Political science has developed rapidly in the last half-century, but this has posed at least three serious problems. First, almost no attention has been given to political activity in private bodies: the scope of political analysis is narrowed as a result. Second, the connection between political science and ‘policy analysis’ is wholly unclear, which raises the danger that political science may want to cover too much or too little! Third, politi…
La défense européenne: Un objet de science politique
Is Strategic Studies Rationalist, Materialist, and A-Critical? Reconnecting Security and Strategy
Between the 1940s and the 1960s, strategy was at the heart of security studies and closely intertwined with International Relations (IR). Over the past three decades, however, the study of strategy has been relegated to a secondary position in the international security subfield and marginalized in IR theorizing. One important source of this disconnect is the challenge mounted by critical security advocates, who sought to reorient the study of se…
The Transnational Politics of Warfare Accountability: Human Rights Watch versus the Israel Defense Forces
Transnational human rights networks span the globe, and have become more numerous and influential since the 1970s. Yet we still know relatively little about the strategic interaction between transnational advocates and their targeted state actors. Focusing on such a strategic interaction, we argue that transnational advocacy is less a diffusion of authority away from state actors than a change in the ways in which the politics of accountability i…
Unipolarité et intégration régionale: L'Afrique du Sud et la « renaissance africaine
Depuis 1945, les intégrations régionales constituent un aspect significatif des réalités internationales. Toutefois, la nature même des intégrations régionales, leurs objectifs, les méthodes utilisées pour les mettre en place et leurs résultats font l'objet de vigoureux désaccords. Notre essai se propose d'étudier la montée en puissance de la République d'Afrique du Sud, particulièrement depuis l'abolition du régime d'Apartheid en 1991, son impac…
Renaissante ou obsolète ? La guerre aujourd'hui
Revival or obsolescence ? War today The study of war has seen significant developments in recent years. Three approaches claim that war tends to disappear. They focus on the multiplication of democracies, on the normative devaluation of armed conflicts and on the imbalance between the prohibitive costs of war and its uncertain gains. The author criticizes the obsolescence theses and suggests amendments meant at reaching a better understanding of …
Le triomphe du métier des armes: Dynamique professionnelle et société militaire en France
Peu de thèmes sont aussi récurrents que celui de la résistance au changement dans l'année. « L'armée, par nature, écrit le colonel de Gaulle en 1934. est réfractaire aux changements. (...) Vivant de stabilité, de conformisme, de tradition, l'armée redoute, d'instinct, ce qui tend à modifier sa structure »'. Le cheval et la cavalerie montée se perpétuent au détriment de la motorisation, les militaires doutent des effets de la mitrailleuse et refus…
Idées, institutions et relations internationales
Vennesson Pascal. Idées, institutions et relations internationales. In: Revue française de science politique, 45e année, n°5, 1995. pp. 857-866
La fabrication de l'armée de l'air en France: Innovation institutionnelle et compromis socio-technique
Vennesson Pascal. La fabrication de l'armée de l'air en France : innovation institutionnelle et compromis socio-technique. In: Genèses, 15, 1994. Innovations institutionnelles, sous la direction de Susanna Magri. pp. 69-83
Institution and airpower: The making of the French air force
(1995). Institution and airpower: The making of the French air force. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 18, Air Power Theory and Practice, pp. 36-67
Idées, institutions et relations internationales
Vennesson Pascal. Idées, institutions et relations internationales. In: Revue française de science politique, 45e année, n°5, 1995. pp. 857-866
Les démocraties industrielle contre la guerre: Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
La prolifération nucléaire en débat: Assurances et périls
Vennesson Pascal. La prolifération nucléaire en débat : assurances et périls. In: Revue française de science politique, 46e année, n°6, 1996. pp. 1000-1005
Le triomphe du métier des armes: Dynamique professionnelle et société militaire en France
Peu de thèmes sont aussi récurrents que celui de la résistance au changement dans l'année. « L'armée, par nature, écrit le colonel de Gaulle en 1934. est réfractaire aux changements. (...) Vivant de stabilité, de conformisme, de tradition, l'armée redoute, d'instinct, ce qui tend à modifier sa structure »'. Le cheval et la cavalerie montée se perpétuent au détriment de la motorisation, les militaires doutent des effets de la mitrailleuse et refus…
De l'esprit de défense au sentiment patriotique en France
Maintes fois prédite mais déroutante, déjà largement accomplie de facto et pourtant profonde, la fin de la conscription annoncée par Jacques Chirac le 22 Février 1996 constitue une importante transformation des relations armée-société en France. Qu'un pays développé à la fin du XXe siècle abandonne le modèle organisationnel d'année de masse n'est pas, en soit, un développement inattendu. En 1960, le sociologue américain Morris Janowiu annonçait e…
Renaissante ou obsolète: La guerre aujourd'hui
Renaissante ou obsolète ? La guerre aujourd'hui
Revival or obsolescence ? War today The study of war has seen significant developments in recent years. Three approaches claim that war tends to disappear. They focus on the multiplication of democracies, on the normative devaluation of armed conflicts and on the imbalance between the prohibitive costs of war and its uncertain gains. The author criticizes the obsolescence theses and suggests amendments meant at reaching a better understanding of …
La crise de l'identité américaine. Du melting-pot au multiculturalisme
Vennesson Pascal. Lacorne Denis, La crise de l'identite americaine. Du melting-pot au multiculturalisme.. In: Revue francaise de sociologie, 1999, 40-1. Fluidite et hierarchie. L'evolution de la stratification sociale en France. pp. 196-199
Les sciences sociales: Quels apports pour la défense
Unipolarité et intégration régionale: L'Afrique du Sud et la « renaissance africaine »
Bombarder pour convaincre ? Puissance aérienne, rationalité limitée et diplomatie coercitive au Kosovo
Bombarder pour convaincre ? Puissance arienne, rationalit limite et diplomatie coercitive au Kosovo
Unipolarité et intégration régionale: L'Afrique du Sud et la « renaissance africaine
Depuis 1945, les intégrations régionales constituent un aspect significatif des réalités internationales. Toutefois, la nature même des intégrations régionales, leurs objectifs, les méthodes utilisées pour les mettre en place et leurs résultats font l'objet de vigoureux désaccords. Notre essai se propose d'étudier la montée en puissance de la République d'Afrique du Sud, particulièrement depuis l'abolition du régime d'Apartheid en 1991, son impac…
Présentation
Sociologie militaire. Armée, guerre et paix
Sciences sociales et défense: De l’« aide à la décision » aux contributions à l’action publique
La défense européenne: Un objet de science politique
Civil–military relations in France: Is there a gap
Since President Jacques Chirac's 1996 decision to professionalise the armed forces, many political and military leader expressed concerns about its potential consequences on civil–military relations. Will the shift to an all-volunteer force create a gap in civil–military relations? The goal of the article is to provide a preliminary assessment of civil–military relations in France before the full professionalisation of the armed forces. Using the…
Idées, politiques de défense et stratégie: Enjeux et niveaux d'analyse
http://biblio.iue.it/record[equ]b1070884
Case studies and process tracing: Theories and practices
Introduction A significant part of what we know about the social and political world comes from case studies. Case studies famously contributed, for instance, to uncovering the tendency towards oligarchy in political parties, the inner working of the exercise of power in democracies, the dynamics of international crises, the logics of authority and control in organizations, the interplay between values and institutions in the Indian caste system,…
Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective
A revolutionary new textbook introducing masters and doctoral students to the major research approaches and methodologies in the social sciences. Written by an outstanding set of scholars, and derived from successful course teaching, this volume will empower students to choose their own approach to research, to justify this approach, and to situate it within the discipline. It addresses questions of ontology, epistemology and philosophy of social…
Is There a European Way of War: Role Conceptions, Organizational Frames, and the Utility of Force
Europe is the region of the world where the network of security institutions is the densest. Yet, these institutions did not erase differences about conceptions of force employment among European countries and between European countries and the United States. Why have concepts of military power and force employment remained distinct and varied in Europe, and yet, what facilitates their convergence at the European Union level into the ambiguous no…
The Future of Political Science
Political science has developed rapidly in the last half-century, but this has posed at least three serious problems. First, almost no attention has been given to political activity in private bodies: the scope of political analysis is narrowed as a result. Second, the connection between political science and ‘policy analysis’ is wholly unclear, which raises the danger that political science may want to cover too much or too little! Third, politi…
The Transnational Politics of Warfare Accountability: Human Rights Watch versus the Israel Defense Forces
Transnational human rights networks span the globe, and have become more numerous and influential since the 1970s. Yet we still know relatively little about the strategic interaction between transnational advocates and their targeted state actors. Focusing on such a strategic interaction, we argue that transnational advocacy is less a diffusion of authority away from state actors than a change in the ways in which the politics of accountability i…
Political science (28 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Humanities (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (8 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (7 works)