Nicolas Guilhot
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 353570 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicolas Guilhot |
| PRENOMES | Nicolas |
| SOBRENOME | Guilhot |
| ASSINATURA | GUILHOT N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2266-4134 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 260 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Lire entre les lignes. Les coulisses organisationnelles et économiques du monde du livre
Plus vieille industrie culturelle, le secteur du livre n’est plus autant à la mode que les autres industries qui se sont profondément transformées depuis vingt ans du fait de la dématérialisation des contenus et des supports. Les termes de disruption ou de tempête ont été évoqués pour signifier l’ampleur de ces changements Souvent englobé au sein des recherches sur les industries culturelles et créatives, le livre s’estompe et se dilue. Le secteu…
Ralentir, disent-ils
Cet article a pour but de montrer comment le livre est devenu peu à peu, entre 1950 et 2000, un objet d’histoire totale. Même si le « beau » livre a longtemps été au centre des préoccupations des bibliophiles et l’œuvre des écrivains au cœur des études littéraires, l’imprimé le plus ordinaire et le plus vulgaire a fini par rejoindre ses aînés pour aider à comprendre sa diffusion et sa consommation par de larges couches de la population. Ainsi le …
Je suis libraire , de Raymond Picquot (1955), ou l’affirmation du groupe professionnel des libraires dans une France en transformation
Cet article a pour but de montrer comment le livre est devenu peu à peu, entre 1950 et 2000, un objet d’histoire totale. Même si le « beau » livre a longtemps été au centre des préoccupations des bibliophiles et l’œuvre des écrivains au cœur des études littéraires, l’imprimé le plus ordinaire et le plus vulgaire a fini par rejoindre ses aînés pour aider à comprendre sa diffusion et sa consommation par de larges couches de la population. Ainsi le …
A Primitive Kind of Superstition
Popularized by Richard Hofstadter, the notion of "paranoid style" is the most influential attempt at applying the category of paranoia to the study of politics. Yet, the success of this elegant formula conceals a complex history and a set of unarticulated assumptions about the connections between symbolic phenomena, psychopathological states, and politics. The article proceeds to recover these assumptions and suggests that the notion of "paranoid…
Conspiracies and the Liberal Imagination
extracted from the beginning of the article (pp. 627)
Automatic Leviathan
This article questions the current vogue of Carl Schmitt among political theorists who read him as an antidote to the depoliticizing force of economics and technology in the age of neoliberalism and its algorithmic rationalities. It takes Schmitt’s sparse reflections about cybernetics and game theory as paradigmatic of the theoretical and political problems raised by any theory positing the autonomy of the political. It suggests that this ultimat…
The French Connection
Cet article offre quelques pistes d'analyse pour comprendre l'essor d'une discipline des « relations internationales » en France. Plutôt que d'y voir le résultat de spécificités nationales ou un produit importé des États-Unis, il tente de resituer le développement de cette discipline dans le cadre de circulations transatlantiques. Il montre les similitudes à la fois intellectuelles et idéologiques entre les trajectoires française et américaine de…
Le secteur du handicap, un marché en construction ? Stratégies concurrentielles et stabilisation du champ (1944-2010)
En s'appuyant sur l'exploitation d'une base de données statistiques, sur deux études de cas longitudinales (43 entretiens semi-directifs et archives de deux grosses associations gestionnaires dans les départements du Rhône et de l'Isère) et sur 50 entretiens semi-directifs complémentaires au sein de l'ancienne région Rhône-Alpes, cet article étudie l'impact des pouvoirs publics sur la concurrence entre associations gestionnaires au sein du secteu…
The Kuhning of reason
Beyond the initial infatuation with his work, Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions has had a lasting impact on the field of International Relations. The article analyses the reception of Kuhn in IR and suggests that it contributed to overcoming the ‘second debate’ by making science and realism fully compatible. More importantly, Kuhn offered a vision of science in which scientific communities operated on the basis of realist principles. Thi…
The Weimar Century
Although he concludes The Weimar Century by saying that the influence of German emigre intellectuals started to wane in the 1960s, Udi Greenberg has written an important book about the present. The
The First Modern Realist
In the disciplines of political science and international relations, Machiavelli is unanimously considered to be “the first modern realist.” This essay argues that the idea of a realist tradition going from the Renaissance to postwar realism founders when one considers the disrepute of Machiavelli among early international relations theorists. It suggests that the transformation of Machiavelli into a realist thinker took place subsequently, when …
How Realism Waltzed Off
Neorealism is one of the most influential theories of international relations, and its first theorist, Kenneth Waltz, a giant of the discipline. But why did Waltz move from a rather traditional form of classical realist political theory in the 1950s to neorealism in the 1970s? A possible answer is that Waltz's Theory of International Politics was his attempt to reconceive classical realism in a liberal form. Classical realism paid a great deal of…
Portrait of the realist as a historian
In recent years, a revisionist history of international relations theory has generated a complex and nuanced picture of classical realism. In doing so, it has also contributed, more often than not, to a normative rehabilitation of realism. Disciplinary historians, however, have been remarkably silent about the causes of their collective bias. This article explores the paradox of a disciplinary history that has often mobilized ‘anti-whig’ argument…
James Scott. « La domination, du point de vue de ceux qui la déjouent
Imperial Realism
The paper reviews the record of realism in IR theory in relation to the process of decolonisation. It argues that despite being traditionally set against imperial adventures and opposed to the kind of idealism in which they are usually coated, realism was remarkably silent about decolonisation, at a time when most commentators thought that the emergence of newly independent countries was a more portentous event than even the cold war. It explains…
Entre crises et réformes, la lente émergence de la gestion à l'hôpital de Beaujeu du XVI e au XX e siècle
L’objet de cet article est de montrer, en cernant l’impact de crises diverses sur l’évolution organisationnelle d’un hôpital de proximité depuis le XVI e siècle, la très lente montée en puissance de la gestion moderne. Il analyse en particulier la dialectique qui s’organise entre les réformes administratives et les crises économiques, sociales ou scientifiques, l’hôpital de Beaujeu n’adoptant parfois que tardivement les nouvelles formes d’organis…
The Anthropologist as Witness
The Anthropologist as Witness: Humanitarianism between Ethnography and Critique Nicolas Guilhot (bio) Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present Didier Fassin Translated by Rachel Gomme Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xvi + 324 pp. Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism between Ethics and Politics Erica Bornstein and Peter Redfield, eds. Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2011. xi + 320 pp. In the concluding session of his 1976 lecture …
Cyborg pantocrator
International relations theory took shape in the 1950s in reaction to the behavioral social science movement, emphasizing the limits of rationality in a context of high uncertainty, weak rules, and the possibility of lethal conflict. Yet the same discipline rapidly developed "rational choice" models applied to foreign policy decision making or nuclear strategy. This paper argues that this transformation took place almost seamlessly around the con…
American Katechon
Entries
Vers une histoire transnationale des sciences sociales
Les comptes rendus historiques du développement des sciences sociales ont trop souvent considéré les institutions locales ou nationales comme le cadre d'analyse pertinent, au lieu de prendre en compte leur insertion dans divers types de relations transnationales. L'évolution des structures de mobilité et d'échanges transnationaux met à mal les distinctions nettes entre le local, le national et l'international, et représente une composante essenti…
Entre juridisme et constructivisme
Between Legalism and Constructivism: Human Rights in American Foreign Policy The sociology of international norms has often focused on human rights in order to illustrate the 'power of ideas' to inform policies: as the story goes, the successful institutionalization of human rights principles under the Carter administration forced the Reagan administration to adjust its policies to principles it could not uproot or use for purely legitimating pur…
Limiting Sovereignty or Producing Governmentality? Two Human Rights Regimes in U.S. Political Discourse
Toward a transnational history of the social sciences
Historical accounts of the social sciences have too often accepted local or national institu-tions as a self-evident framework of analysis, instead of considering them as being embed-ded in transnational relations of various kinds. Evolving patterns of transnational mobility and exchange cut through the neat distinction between the local, the national, and the inter-national, and thus represent an essential component in the dynamics of the social…
The Realist Gambit
The study of international relations (IR) took an important disciplinary turn in the 1950s, when a number of scholars sought to develop a distinct theory of international politics. This turn, however, should not be understood as a tendency toward specialization, but rather as a separatist movement, meant to insulate the study of international politics from the behavioral revolution that was transforming the practice of political science in postwa…
Toward a transnational history of the social sciences
Historical accounts of the social sciences have too often accepted local or national institu-tions as a self-evident framework of analysis, instead of considering them as being embed-ded in transnational relations of various kinds. Evolving patterns of transnational mobility and exchange cut through the neat distinction between the local, the national, and the inter-national, and thus represent an essential component in the dynamics of the social…
Imperial Realism
The paper reviews the record of realism in IR theory in relation to the process of decolonisation. It argues that despite being traditionally set against imperial adventures and opposed to the kind of idealism in which they are usually coated, realism was remarkably silent about decolonisation, at a time when most commentators thought that the emergence of newly independent countries was a more portentous event than even the cold war. It explains…
American Katechon
The Democracy Makers
The Anthropologist as Witness
The Anthropologist as Witness: Humanitarianism between Ethnography and Critique Nicolas Guilhot (bio) Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present Didier Fassin Translated by Rachel Gomme Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xvi + 324 pp. Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism between Ethics and Politics Erica Bornstein and Peter Redfield, eds. Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2011. xi + 320 pp. In the concluding session of his 1976 lecture …
The Realist Gambit
The study of international relations (IR) took an important disciplinary turn in the 1950s, when a number of scholars sought to develop a distinct theory of international politics. This turn, however, should not be understood as a tendency toward specialization, but rather as a separatist movement, meant to insulate the study of international politics from the behavioral revolution that was transforming the practice of political science in postwa…
Reforming the World
Philanthropic practices allow the dominant classes to generate knowledge about society and regulatory prescriptions, in particular by promoting the development of the social sciences. The 19th century industrialists had often invested their resources in the definition and treatment of relevant social issues, in order to institutionalize the new form of capitalism they represented. In the late 20th century, the new transnationalized social strata …
Vers une histoire transnationale des sciences sociales
Les comptes rendus historiques du développement des sciences sociales ont trop souvent considéré les institutions locales ou nationales comme le cadre d'analyse pertinent, au lieu de prendre en compte leur insertion dans divers types de relations transnationales. L'évolution des structures de mobilité et d'échanges transnationaux met à mal les distinctions nettes entre le local, le national et l'international, et représente une composante essenti…
Cyborg pantocrator
International relations theory took shape in the 1950s in reaction to the behavioral social science movement, emphasizing the limits of rationality in a context of high uncertainty, weak rules, and the possibility of lethal conflict. Yet the same discipline rapidly developed "rational choice" models applied to foreign policy decision making or nuclear strategy. This paper argues that this transformation took place almost seamlessly around the con…
Les professionnels de la démocratie
La lutte pour la démocratie et les droits de l'homme - qui forme de plus en plus la toile de fond de la politique étrangère américaine - est le terrain sur lequel s'est progressivement constitué un nouveau champ de pratiques internationales, situé à l'articulation de l'expertise et de l'activisme. Pour comprendre la dynamique de ce champ où l'impérialisme symbolique se distingue mal des luttes pour l'émancipation, on se propose de montrer qu'il s…
How Realism Waltzed Off
Neorealism is one of the most influential theories of international relations, and its first theorist, Kenneth Waltz, a giant of the discipline. But why did Waltz move from a rather traditional form of classical realist political theory in the 1950s to neorealism in the 1970s? A possible answer is that Waltz's Theory of International Politics was his attempt to reconceive classical realism in a liberal form. Classical realism paid a great deal of…
Une vocation philanthropique
La philanthropie est une pratique qui permet aux classes detentrices de capitaux de promouvoir, notamment a travers le soutien aux sciences sociales, des formes de connaissance et de regulation de la societe. Aux Etats-Unis, a la fin du xixe siecle, ce sont les milieux issus de l’industrialisation, les fameux « barons voleurs », qui ont investi leurs ressources dans la definition et le traitement de la « question sociale » et contribue ainsi a l’…
De la transition à la consolidation. Une lecture rétrospective des democratization studies
From transition to consolidation. a retrospective discussion of democratization studies. The paper argues that the concepts of transition and consolidation, which have oriented the body of scholarly work know as democratization studies, do not form a unified and coherent theoretical framework. In particular, the concept of consolidation can be traced to a variety of modernization theories that emphasized the maintenance of social consensus and th…
The Kuhning of reason
Beyond the initial infatuation with his work, Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions has had a lasting impact on the field of International Relations. The article analyses the reception of Kuhn in IR and suggests that it contributed to overcoming the ‘second debate’ by making science and realism fully compatible. More importantly, Kuhn offered a vision of science in which scientific communities operated on the basis of realist principles. Thi…
Portrait of the realist as a historian
In recent years, a revisionist history of international relations theory has generated a complex and nuanced picture of classical realism. In doing so, it has also contributed, more often than not, to a normative rehabilitation of realism. Disciplinary historians, however, have been remarkably silent about the causes of their collective bias. This article explores the paradox of a disciplinary history that has often mobilized ‘anti-whig’ argument…
A Network of Influential Friendships
Automatic Leviathan
This article questions the current vogue of Carl Schmitt among political theorists who read him as an antidote to the depoliticizing force of economics and technology in the age of neoliberalism and its algorithmic rationalities. It takes Schmitt’s sparse reflections about cybernetics and game theory as paradigmatic of the theoretical and political problems raised by any theory positing the autonomy of the political. It suggests that this ultimat…
The Transition to the Human World of Democracy
Whether to a 'liberal' or a 'people's' democracy, the evolution of modern political systems has been consistently theorized as a 'transition'. Elaborated within Marxism as the 'transition to communism' and later recycled by modernization theory and comparative politics, this concept has been tightly connected to the development of macro-societal analysis. This paper argues that any attempt at writing its history should be sensitive to the deep-se…
The French Connection
Cet article offre quelques pistes d'analyse pour comprendre l'essor d'une discipline des « relations internationales » en France. Plutôt que d'y voir le résultat de spécificités nationales ou un produit importé des États-Unis, il tente de resituer le développement de cette discipline dans le cadre de circulations transatlantiques. Il montre les similitudes à la fois intellectuelles et idéologiques entre les trajectoires française et américaine de…
The First Modern Realist
In the disciplines of political science and international relations, Machiavelli is unanimously considered to be “the first modern realist.” This essay argues that the idea of a realist tradition going from the Renaissance to postwar realism founders when one considers the disrepute of Machiavelli among early international relations theorists. It suggests that the transformation of Machiavelli into a realist thinker took place subsequently, when …
Limiting Sovereignty or Producing Governmentality? Two Human Rights Regimes in U.S. Political Discourse
Conspiracies and the Liberal Imagination
extracted from the beginning of the article (pp. 627)
Le secteur du handicap, un marché en construction ? Stratégies concurrentielles et stabilisation du champ (1944-2010)
En s'appuyant sur l'exploitation d'une base de données statistiques, sur deux études de cas longitudinales (43 entretiens semi-directifs et archives de deux grosses associations gestionnaires dans les départements du Rhône et de l'Isère) et sur 50 entretiens semi-directifs complémentaires au sein de l'ancienne région Rhône-Alpes, cet article étudie l'impact des pouvoirs publics sur la concurrence entre associations gestionnaires au sein du secteu…
Entre juridisme et constructivisme
Between Legalism and Constructivism: Human Rights in American Foreign Policy The sociology of international norms has often focused on human rights in order to illustrate the 'power of ideas' to inform policies: as the story goes, the successful institutionalization of human rights principles under the Carter administration forced the Reagan administration to adjust its policies to principles it could not uproot or use for purely legitimating pur…
Capital financier & nouvelle philanthropie
De la transition à la consolidation
De la transition à la consolidation. Une lecture rétrospective des democratization studies
From transition to consolidation. a retrospective discussion of democratization studies. The paper argues that the concepts of transition and consolidation, which have oriented the body of scholarly work know as democratization studies, do not form a unified and coherent theoretical framework. In particular, the concept of consolidation can be traced to a variety of modernization theories that emphasized the maintenance of social consensus and th…
La promotion internationale de la démocratie
Les professionnels de la démocratie
La lutte pour la démocratie et les droits de l'homme - qui forme de plus en plus la toile de fond de la politique étrangère américaine - est le terrain sur lequel s'est progressivement constitué un nouveau champ de pratiques internationales, situé à l'articulation de l'expertise et de l'activisme. Pour comprendre la dynamique de ce champ où l'impérialisme symbolique se distingue mal des luttes pour l'émancipation, on se propose de montrer qu'il s…
The Transition to the Human World of Democracy
Whether to a 'liberal' or a 'people's' democracy, the evolution of modern political systems has been consistently theorized as a 'transition'. Elaborated within Marxism as the 'transition to communism' and later recycled by modernization theory and comparative politics, this concept has been tightly connected to the development of macro-societal analysis. This paper argues that any attempt at writing its history should be sensitive to the deep-se…
Une vocation philanthropique
La philanthropie est une pratique qui permet aux classes detentrices de capitaux de promouvoir, notamment a travers le soutien aux sciences sociales, des formes de connaissance et de regulation de la societe. Aux Etats-Unis, a la fin du xixe siecle, ce sont les milieux issus de l’industrialisation, les fameux « barons voleurs », qui ont investi leurs ressources dans la definition et le traitement de la « question sociale » et contribue ainsi a l’…
The Democracy Makers
Has the international movement for democracy and human rights gone from being a weapon against power to part of the arsenal of power itself? Nicolas Guilhot explores this question in his penetrating look at how the U.S. government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, think tanks, and various international organizations have appropriated the movement for democracy and human rights to export neoliberal policies throughout the world. His wor…
Capital financier & nouvelle philanthropie
A Network of Influential Friendships
The Democracy Makers
Reforming the World
Philanthropic practices allow the dominant classes to generate knowledge about society and regulatory prescriptions, in particular by promoting the development of the social sciences. The 19th century industrialists had often invested their resources in the definition and treatment of relevant social issues, in order to institutionalize the new form of capitalism they represented. In the late 20th century, the new transnationalized social strata …
Entre juridisme et constructivisme
Between Legalism and Constructivism: Human Rights in American Foreign Policy The sociology of international norms has often focused on human rights in order to illustrate the 'power of ideas' to inform policies: as the story goes, the successful institutionalization of human rights principles under the Carter administration forced the Reagan administration to adjust its policies to principles it could not uproot or use for purely legitimating pur…
Limiting Sovereignty or Producing Governmentality? Two Human Rights Regimes in U.S. Political Discourse
Toward a transnational history of the social sciences
Historical accounts of the social sciences have too often accepted local or national institu-tions as a self-evident framework of analysis, instead of considering them as being embed-ded in transnational relations of various kinds. Evolving patterns of transnational mobility and exchange cut through the neat distinction between the local, the national, and the inter-national, and thus represent an essential component in the dynamics of the social…
The Realist Gambit
The study of international relations (IR) took an important disciplinary turn in the 1950s, when a number of scholars sought to develop a distinct theory of international politics. This turn, however, should not be understood as a tendency toward specialization, but rather as a separatist movement, meant to insulate the study of international politics from the behavioral revolution that was transforming the practice of political science in postwa…
Entries
Vers une histoire transnationale des sciences sociales
Les comptes rendus historiques du développement des sciences sociales ont trop souvent considéré les institutions locales ou nationales comme le cadre d'analyse pertinent, au lieu de prendre en compte leur insertion dans divers types de relations transnationales. L'évolution des structures de mobilité et d'échanges transnationaux met à mal les distinctions nettes entre le local, le national et l'international, et représente une composante essenti…
American Katechon
Cyborg pantocrator
International relations theory took shape in the 1950s in reaction to the behavioral social science movement, emphasizing the limits of rationality in a context of high uncertainty, weak rules, and the possibility of lethal conflict. Yet the same discipline rapidly developed "rational choice" models applied to foreign policy decision making or nuclear strategy. This paper argues that this transformation took place almost seamlessly around the con…
Entre crises et réformes, la lente émergence de la gestion à l'hôpital de Beaujeu du XVI e au XX e siècle
L’objet de cet article est de montrer, en cernant l’impact de crises diverses sur l’évolution organisationnelle d’un hôpital de proximité depuis le XVI e siècle, la très lente montée en puissance de la gestion moderne. Il analyse en particulier la dialectique qui s’organise entre les réformes administratives et les crises économiques, sociales ou scientifiques, l’hôpital de Beaujeu n’adoptant parfois que tardivement les nouvelles formes d’organis…
The Anthropologist as Witness
The Anthropologist as Witness: Humanitarianism between Ethnography and Critique Nicolas Guilhot (bio) Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present Didier Fassin Translated by Rachel Gomme Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xvi + 324 pp. Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism between Ethics and Politics Erica Bornstein and Peter Redfield, eds. Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2011. xi + 320 pp. In the concluding session of his 1976 lecture …
Imperial Realism
The paper reviews the record of realism in IR theory in relation to the process of decolonisation. It argues that despite being traditionally set against imperial adventures and opposed to the kind of idealism in which they are usually coated, realism was remarkably silent about decolonisation, at a time when most commentators thought that the emergence of newly independent countries was a more portentous event than even the cold war. It explains…
James Scott. « La domination, du point de vue de ceux qui la déjouent
The Weimar Century
Although he concludes The Weimar Century by saying that the influence of German emigre intellectuals started to wane in the 1960s, Udi Greenberg has written an important book about the present. The
The First Modern Realist
In the disciplines of political science and international relations, Machiavelli is unanimously considered to be “the first modern realist.” This essay argues that the idea of a realist tradition going from the Renaissance to postwar realism founders when one considers the disrepute of Machiavelli among early international relations theorists. It suggests that the transformation of Machiavelli into a realist thinker took place subsequently, when …
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