Mélanie Torrent
Biographic Data
| ID | 3770304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mélanie Torrent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mélanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Torrent |
| SIGNATURE | TORRENT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris Cité |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2271-0452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interview with Vijay Krishnarayan
Vijay Krishnarayan was born in London and studied town and country planning at Oxford Polytechnic, where he became involved in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s. He joined the Commonwealth Foundation after a decade in the Caribbean (notably Belize, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago), first working as a Voluntary Service Overseas volunteer and then for the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (as…
British soft power in Asia
In March 2021, the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy of the United Kingdom government stated that one of its core foreign policy goals in the post-Brexit era was to become “a soft power superpower”. At a time when the successive Conservative governments of Theresa May and Boris Johnson were trying to give substance to the concept of “Global Britain”, used to refer to the UK’s revised international ambitions si…
Introduction. Diplomatic departures
International audience
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy
International audience
Do Not Disturb
International audience
Globalising Suez
L’Exception à l’épreuve des sources
Alors que plusieurs études ont montré le rôle des archives comme vecteur de pouvoir et l’influence des élites dans la formation et l’interprétation de l’histoire, les études subalternes, postcoloniales et décoloniales ont contribué à mettre au jour la marginalisation des populations colonisées dans l’histoire des empires et dans l’histoire nationale des anciennes métropoles. Récemment, l’ouverture de nouvelles archives et les nouvelles études sur…
Les circulations militantes entre Paris et Londres
Des années 1960 à la fin des années 1980, la France et le Royaume-Uni ont connu l’essor des mouvements antiracistes et anti-apartheid. L’écriture d’une histoire connectée permet de resituer les acteurs associatifs et les réseaux militants de ces combats politiques, idéologiques et culturels. De la lutte contre le régime de Pretoria au soutien de la Marche pour l’égalité et contre le racisme de 1983, de l’action de l’Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) …
A ‘New’ Commonwealth for Britain? Negotiating Ghana's Pan-African and Asian Connections at the End of Empire (1951–8)
This article examines to what extent Nkrumah's Pan-African ambitions and Asian connections altered the meaning of the ‘new’ Commonwealth for British policy-makers. It discusses India's influence on British political options in the Gold Coast during the negotiations for independence and Commonwealth membership and assesses the impact of Ghana's Pan-Africanism on two major facets of Commonwealth politics: Britain's ability to balance its relations …
Introduction
International audience
Africa in the World
The Ringtone and the Drum
Mark Weston Winchester, Zero Books, 2012, pp. 330, ISBN 9781780995861 (paperback) From the very beginning, the choice of ‘travel destinations’ made by Mark Weston, a researcher and policy adviser s
Many Reasons to Intervene
Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action Karl Blanchet and Boris Martin (Eds) London, 2011, pp. 139, ISBN 9781849041423 (paperback) ‘[H]umanity, impartiality
Diplomacy and Nation-Building in Africa
Cameroon stands as a remarkable example of nation-building in the aftermath of European domination. Split between the French and British empires after World War I, it experienced a unique drive for self-determination at the turn of the 1960s, culminating in both independence from European power and the re-unification of two of its divided territories. This book investigates the influence of foreign policy on nation-building in West Africa in the …
Common Grounds? Strategic Partnerships for Governance in the Commonwealth of Nations and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
At a time when the Commonwealth of Nations and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) are investigating their long-term relevance and identity in the face of current international challenges, relatively little attention has been paid to the small yet growing number of countries that are now joint members of the two organisations. This group has increased in recent years and 11 countries now have a link with both organisations. A…
Le Cameroun britannique dans les indépendances
Crowning the work of Wilberforce ? The Settlers Descendants’ Union and the challenges of Sierra Leone’s independence
L’héritage abolitionniste de la Sierra Leone, s’il fut un sujet de fierté à Westminster lors des débats sur les indépendances africaines au début des années 1960, entraîna également des divisions farouches en Sierra Leone même. Alors que les négociations prévoyaient une indépendance conjointe pour la colonie et le protectorat de Sierra Leone, un petit groupe de Krios, affirmant défendre les intérêts des descendants des premiers esclaves libérés, …
Britain’s Declining Empire
Diplomacy and Nation-Building in Africa
Cameroon stands as a remarkable example of nation-building in the aftermath of European domination. Split between the French and British empires after World War I, it experienced a unique drive for self-determination at the turn of the 1960s, culminating in both independence from European power and the re-unification of two of its divided territories. This book investigates the influence of foreign policy on nation-building in West Africa in the …
Do Not Disturb
International audience
A ‘New’ Commonwealth for Britain? Negotiating Ghana's Pan-African and Asian Connections at the End of Empire (1951–8)
This article examines to what extent Nkrumah's Pan-African ambitions and Asian connections altered the meaning of the ‘new’ Commonwealth for British policy-makers. It discusses India's influence on British political options in the Gold Coast during the negotiations for independence and Commonwealth membership and assesses the impact of Ghana's Pan-Africanism on two major facets of Commonwealth politics: Britain's ability to balance its relations …
Common Grounds? Strategic Partnerships for Governance in the Commonwealth of Nations and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
At a time when the Commonwealth of Nations and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) are investigating their long-term relevance and identity in the face of current international challenges, relatively little attention has been paid to the small yet growing number of countries that are now joint members of the two organisations. This group has increased in recent years and 11 countries now have a link with both organisations. A…
Britain’s Declining Empire
Crowning the work of Wilberforce ? The Settlers Descendants’ Union and the challenges of Sierra Leone’s independence
L’héritage abolitionniste de la Sierra Leone, s’il fut un sujet de fierté à Westminster lors des débats sur les indépendances africaines au début des années 1960, entraîna également des divisions farouches en Sierra Leone même. Alors que les négociations prévoyaient une indépendance conjointe pour la colonie et le protectorat de Sierra Leone, un petit groupe de Krios, affirmant défendre les intérêts des descendants des premiers esclaves libérés, …
Common Grounds? Strategic Partnerships for Governance in the Commonwealth of Nations and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
At a time when the Commonwealth of Nations and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) are investigating their long-term relevance and identity in the face of current international challenges, relatively little attention has been paid to the small yet growing number of countries that are now joint members of the two organisations. This group has increased in recent years and 11 countries now have a link with both organisations. A…
Le Cameroun britannique dans les indépendances
Many Reasons to Intervene
Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action Karl Blanchet and Boris Martin (Eds) London, 2011, pp. 139, ISBN 9781849041423 (paperback) ‘[H]umanity, impartiality
Diplomacy and Nation-Building in Africa
Cameroon stands as a remarkable example of nation-building in the aftermath of European domination. Split between the French and British empires after World War I, it experienced a unique drive for self-determination at the turn of the 1960s, culminating in both independence from European power and the re-unification of two of its divided territories. This book investigates the influence of foreign policy on nation-building in West Africa in the …
Africa in the World
The Ringtone and the Drum
Mark Weston Winchester, Zero Books, 2012, pp. 330, ISBN 9781780995861 (paperback) From the very beginning, the choice of ‘travel destinations’ made by Mark Weston, a researcher and policy adviser s
A ‘New’ Commonwealth for Britain? Negotiating Ghana's Pan-African and Asian Connections at the End of Empire (1951–8)
This article examines to what extent Nkrumah's Pan-African ambitions and Asian connections altered the meaning of the ‘new’ Commonwealth for British policy-makers. It discusses India's influence on British political options in the Gold Coast during the negotiations for independence and Commonwealth membership and assesses the impact of Ghana's Pan-Africanism on two major facets of Commonwealth politics: Britain's ability to balance its relations …
Introduction
International audience
Les circulations militantes entre Paris et Londres
Des années 1960 à la fin des années 1980, la France et le Royaume-Uni ont connu l’essor des mouvements antiracistes et anti-apartheid. L’écriture d’une histoire connectée permet de resituer les acteurs associatifs et les réseaux militants de ces combats politiques, idéologiques et culturels. De la lutte contre le régime de Pretoria au soutien de la Marche pour l’égalité et contre le racisme de 1983, de l’action de l’Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) …
Globalising Suez
L’Exception à l’épreuve des sources
Alors que plusieurs études ont montré le rôle des archives comme vecteur de pouvoir et l’influence des élites dans la formation et l’interprétation de l’histoire, les études subalternes, postcoloniales et décoloniales ont contribué à mettre au jour la marginalisation des populations colonisées dans l’histoire des empires et dans l’histoire nationale des anciennes métropoles. Récemment, l’ouverture de nouvelles archives et les nouvelles études sur…
Do Not Disturb
International audience
Introduction. Diplomatic departures
International audience
Failing to ‘do a de Gaulle’? The break in Anglo-Algerian relations (1965-1968) and the reassessment of British policy
International audience
Interview with Vijay Krishnarayan
Vijay Krishnarayan was born in London and studied town and country planning at Oxford Polytechnic, where he became involved in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1980s. He joined the Commonwealth Foundation after a decade in the Caribbean (notably Belize, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago), first working as a Voluntary Service Overseas volunteer and then for the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (as…
British soft power in Asia
In March 2021, the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy of the United Kingdom government stated that one of its core foreign policy goals in the post-Brexit era was to become “a soft power superpower”. At a time when the successive Conservative governments of Theresa May and Boris Johnson were trying to give substance to the concept of “Global Britain”, used to refer to the UK’s revised international ambitions si…
Political science (16 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Commonwealth (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works)