McFalls, Laurence
Laurence McFalls (PhD Harvard) is Professor in Political Science and Director for the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES) at the Université de Montréal. His research interests include: Political and Social Theories; Max Weber; Military-Humanitarian Interventions; Political Culture; Epistomology and Methodology in the social sciences; and Western and Central-Eastern Europe. He is co-director of the Groupe de recherche sur les interventions militaires et humanitaires (GRIMH).
Research Interests: German Unification, Max Weber, and Military-humanitarian Interventions
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| Institution: | University of Montreal |
| Fields of Expertise: | Commemoration and Memorialization Communism and the Cold War Divide Cultural Memory and Policy Defence and Security Democracy and Political Participation |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | laurence.mcfalls@umontreal.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, French, German |
| Publications: | Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink et Laurence McFalls, Au-delà des «area studies»: perspectives comparatistes et interculturelles, co-éditeur, Lendemains 2/3 (2006), numéro spécial Mariella Pandolfi, Annie Lafontaine, Laurence McFalls et Marie Joëlle Zahar, Intellectuels et les médias: Dialogue est-ouest pour la démocratie dans les Balkans, co-éditeur Transitions, XLV, 1, Bruxelles, 2005 Laurence McFalls, "Diversity: A late 20th Century Genealogy", in Lehmkuhl, Ursula, Hans-Jügen Lüsebrink et Laurence McFalls (dir.): Spaces of Difference: Conflicts and Cohabitation, Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2016. Laurence McFalls, «France», in Jeffrey Kopstein et Mark Lichbach, Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order, 3rd. edition, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 87-134 Laurence McFalls, «Effets discursifs, politiques et pratiques de la révolte de 1907, ou Grandeur et misère du socialisme viticole dans l'Aude,» in L'Aude et la vigne: 100 ans de passion, Carcassonne: Conseil général de l'Aude, 2008, 270-280 Mariella Pandolfi, Annie Lafontaine, Marie-Joëlle Zahar, et Laurence McFalls, «Paradoxes et démocratie de l'information en Albanie contemporaine», Transition, vol. 44, no. 2 (2005), pp. 11-30 Laurence McFalls, "Illegitimate Unions? German and European Unifications Viewed in Comparative Perspective", in John Breuilly and Ronald Speirs, éds. Germany's Two Unifications, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005 Laurence McFalls, “Benevolent Dictatorship: The Formal Logic of Humanitarian Government” in Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi, eds., Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention, New York: Zone, 2010 Mariella Pandolfi et Laurence McFalls, “Global Bureaucracy: Irresponsible but not Indifferent” in Alessandro Dal Lago et Salvatore Pallida, eds., Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society: The Civilization of War, Abingdon (Royaume Uni): Routledge, 2010, 175-187 Laurence McFalls, « Doit-on intervenir? » in Département de science politique, La politique internationale en questions, Montréal : Presses de l’Université de Montréeal, 2009, 214-222 Laurence McFalls, « Les fondements rationnels et sociaux des passions politiques : vers une sociologie de la violence contemporaine avec Weber et Foucault », Anthropologie et Sociétés, 32 :3 (2008), 155-172 |
