Course Description

The conventional story on war- and peacemaking almost always speaks of great deeds by Great Men. It tells how genius generals win wars and how skillful diplomats strike peace deals; how heroic soldiers fight and how selfless peacemakers unite; and, crucially, how wars end where peace begins and vice versa. Inspired by Tolstoy’s narrative of war as an assemblage of serendipity and chance, this course will look at war/peace beyond the lens of rationality and of strategic interests. Following Latour’s reading of Tolstoy, it will introduce a less anthropocentric and – hopefully - more pluralistic perspective by allowing other actors to make peace/war, such as UN reports and US drones, reconciliation workshops and surveillance techniques, etc. Building on Foucault’s inversion of Clausewitz, it will explore war as a general grid through which modern society can be analyzed even – and especially - during so-called peacetime.

Division of groups

GROUP A
BERWIAN, Hannah 100053074
BESSLER, Julie 100053796
CLARO, Bruno C. 100052891
CLOSSON, Dea 100053802

GROUP B
DAOUD, Manar A. 100047458
FOURNIER, Lucas 100044360
FREGOLI, Clio R. 100053281
HIJAZI, Inès 100044920

GROUP C
KABAKER, Betsy 100053915
KILBORN, Georgina 100053033
KOCH, Matias 100052944
LALLEMANT, Olivier 100044420

GROUP D
LE, Vincent M. 100053299
POIROT, Collin 100053790
SAINT-VILLE-LEPLE, Danièle 100044766
GORMLEY, Sara 100054123

GROUP E
SOLON, Walter G. 100053242
TANKOVICH, Philip 100047891
VAN ELZAKKER, Isabelle Lisa M 100053232
ZENG, Lu 100049626

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