Stella Ghervas
University of California, Los Angeles, History, Faculty Member
- Harvard University, History, Department Memberadd
- History, European History, Black Sea history, Russian Studies, East European studies, East European History, and 132 moreMethodolgy of Global History, Symbolic Boundaries, Eastern European history, Commemoration and Memory, International and European Studies, Transnational History, International Relations, Crimean War, Concert of Europe, Odessa, Black Sea, European intellectual history, Urban History, History of Ideas, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, European identity, Balkan History, History of Moldova, History of Civilization, History and Memory, Greece and its Balkan neighbors in Modern History, Global History, Europeanization of the Balkans, European Union, European Studies, European Politics, Comparative study of the Ottoman, habsburg, and Romanov Empires, Russian Intellectual History, Russia (History), Political Science, Political History, Orthodox Christianity, Modern Europe, Lieux de memoire, Intellectual History, Eastern European Studies, Cultural Migrations, Cultural History, Conceptual History, Russian Orthodoxy, Christian Orthodoxy and Nationalism, Central European history, Border Studies, Black Sea Studies, Balkan Studies, 20th century (History), 19th-20th Century Europe, 19th century France, 19th Century Ottoman History, 19th Century Central Europe, 19th Century (History), European Integration History, Diplomatic History, South East European Studies, Romanian History, Space and Place, Philhellenism, Manipulative Use of History, Europe, Russia, Peace, Peace and Conflict Studies, Eastern Question, Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace, Jurgen Habermas, Napoleonic Europe, War and Peace, Peace Studies, French Revolution and Napoleon, Congress of Vienna, Mental Maps, International Studies, Balkans, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, Re-imagining Democracy 18th-19th Centuries, Black Sea region, Russian History, Central and Eastern Europe, History of International Relations, Collective Memory, Mediterranean Studies, Joseph de Maistre, Alexandre Stourdza (Sturdza), Commercial Routes, Ottoman History, Ukrainian History, Russian Empire, Maritime History, Trade Routes, Mediterranean, Ports, Port cities, Islands, Insularity, Seafarers, European integration, Tradition, Enlightenment, European/EU Politics, Path to Perpetual Peace, Empire, Peace Movements, Balance of Power, Longue durée, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Empires, Balance of Power Theory, The European Balance of Power, History of Political Thought, Treaty of Utrecht 1713, History of Diplomacy, Cultural Diplomacy, the Eastern Question, Diplomacy, The Powers and the Eastern Question, European /History, Peace History, Peacebuilding, The League of Nations, League of Nations, Rule of Law, Alexander Sturdza, Roxandra Sturdza, History of European Expansion, Perpetual Peace, Enlightenment Political Thought, Immanuel Kant, European Enlightenment, History of European Integration, Intelectual History, Maritime and Oceanic History, History of Black Sea Regiuon, and Geostrategy In the Black Seaedit
- Stella Ghervas is Professor and Eugen Weber Endowment Chair in Modern European History at the University of Californi... moreStella Ghervas is Professor and Eugen Weber Endowment Chair in Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) and an Associate at Harvard History Department.
Among her publications are "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance" (Honoré Champion, 2008), "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" (Harvard University Press, 2021), "Lieux d'Europe: Mythes et limites" (co-ed., 2008), and "A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment" (co-ed., 2020).
She is now working on a new monographic project "Calming the Waters? A New History of the Black Sea, 1774-1920s".
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A paz na Europa tem sido historicamente efémera. Desde o século XVIII, a discussão intelectual e política em busca de uma paz duradoura incluía uma ideia de unificação. Através de filósofos como Rousseau e Kant, e de estadistas como o... more
A paz na Europa tem sido historicamente efémera. Desde o século XVIII, a discussão intelectual e política em busca de uma paz duradoura incluía uma ideia de unificação. Através de filósofos como Rousseau e Kant, e de estadistas como o Czar Alexandre I, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman e Mikhail Gorbachev, a investigadora Stella Ghervas apresenta‑nos cinco conflitos‑chave nessa busca por sistemas de paz na Europa: a Guerra da Sucessão Espanhola, as guerras napoleónicas, as duas guerras mundiais e a Guerra Fria. Cada momento gerou um renovado «espírito» de paz entre as forças vivas, procurando construir mecanismos e instituições capazes de prevenir guerras futuras.
Research Interests: History, European History, Military History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 15 moreDiplomatic History, European Studies, International Relations, Political Theory, Political Science, Enlightenment, Political History, Diplomacy, European Union, Peace Studies, European Enlightenment, War and Peace, Modern European History, Political Thought, and Diplomacy and international relations
A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace.
Research Interests: History, European History, Military History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, and 15 moreEuropean Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Science, Enlightenment, Modern Europe, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Diplomacy, European Union, History of Political Thought, Peace Studies, Enlightenment Political Thought, European Enlightenment, Peace, and Diplomacy and international relations
Stella Ghervas and David Armitage (eds), A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment, 1648-1815 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). The Age of Enlightenment was the seedbed of modern conceptions of peace. At the same time,... more
Stella Ghervas and David Armitage (eds), A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment, 1648-1815 (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).
The Age of Enlightenment was the seedbed of modern conceptions of peace. At the same time, it was a period of near-constant warfare in Europe and the wider world.This volume explains that seeming paradox by examining the ‘Classical period’ between the treaties ofWestphalia (1648) and the Congress of Vienna (1815) from the perspective of cultural and intellectual history. Thinkers of the period saw Europe as a ‘great republic,’ encompassing incipient universal monarchies and self-assertive small states which projected their power overseas through aggressive and expansive empires. Debates over the law of nations, the balance of power, and ‘perpetual peace’ spurred conceptual and institutional innovations within the canon of peace. These contests were germinal for modern conceptions of peace, pacifism, and pacification. Using texts and archives, practices and representations, a distinguished group of authors reconstruct these multiple inventions of peace in an era of bold innovation and energetic confrontation.
The Age of Enlightenment was the seedbed of modern conceptions of peace. At the same time, it was a period of near-constant warfare in Europe and the wider world.This volume explains that seeming paradox by examining the ‘Classical period’ between the treaties ofWestphalia (1648) and the Congress of Vienna (1815) from the perspective of cultural and intellectual history. Thinkers of the period saw Europe as a ‘great republic,’ encompassing incipient universal monarchies and self-assertive small states which projected their power overseas through aggressive and expansive empires. Debates over the law of nations, the balance of power, and ‘perpetual peace’ spurred conceptual and institutional innovations within the canon of peace. These contests were germinal for modern conceptions of peace, pacifism, and pacification. Using texts and archives, practices and representations, a distinguished group of authors reconstruct these multiple inventions of peace in an era of bold innovation and energetic confrontation.
Research Interests: History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, International Relations, History of Ideas, and 15 morePeace and Conflict Studies, Political Theory, International Studies, War Studies, Political Science, Eighteenth Century History, Enlightenment, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Peace Movements, History of Political Thought, Peace Studies, Enlightenment Political Thought, War and Peace, Peace, and Security and Peace Studies
- Guizot Prize of the French Academy, 2009 - Xenopol Prize of the Romanian Academy, 2010 - Prize and Merit Diploma of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 2009 - Selected for the Great Prize for History Chateaubriand / Grand Prix... more
- Guizot Prize of the French Academy, 2009
- Xenopol Prize of the Romanian Academy, 2010
- Prize and Merit Diploma of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 2009
- Selected for the Great Prize for History Chateaubriand / Grand Prix d'Histoire Chateaubriand (France)
1815. Après vingt années d'expansion révolutionnaire et napoléonienne, l'heure est à la réaction. La Russie, qui a été menacée dans son existence même, émerge comme pilier du nouvel ordre politique européen. Pour assurer celui-ci, et sceller la paix enfin retrouvée, le tsar Alexandre Ier propose une Sainte-Alliance des souverains et des peuples chrétiens. Il charge son conseiller Alexandre Stourdza (1791-1854) de mettre en forme cette surprenante proclamation politico-mystique bientôt ratifiée par tous les pays du continent. Après le fracas des armes, le destin de l'Europe se joue désormais dans les chancelleries, dans la presse et dans l'opinion. Face à l'héritage des Lumières, les partisans d'un retour à la tradition sont pourtant divisés: mystiques et théocrates d'un côté, conservateurs plus laïcs de l'autre, catholiques ou orthodoxes, Russes ou Français. Chaque parti, chaque puissance du moment, a en fait sa propre vision du nouvel ordre qui doit régir l'Europe. Défendue par Stourdza de congrès en congrès, la Sainte-Alliance sera bientôt mise en échec par les libéraux allemands, et débordée par le système répressif de Metternich.
Abandonné par son souverain, Alexandre Stourdza quitte le service diplomatique en 1822 pour s'établir à Odessa. Il mettra désormais sa plume au service d'une orthodoxie rénovée, qui soit capable de fédérer les différentes populations chrétiennes de Russie et de l'Empire ottoman. Loin de se réduire à un combat d'arrière-garde, ce grand projet de «modernisation défensive» des sociétés orthodoxes incluait l'émancipation nationale des Grecs et des Roumains, ainsi que l'abolition du servage en Russie.
Formée d'abord à Saint-Pétersbourg, Stella Ghervas est docteur en histoire de l'Université de Bucarest et docteur ès lettres de l'Université de Genève. Ses travaux portent notamment sur les mouvements culturels et politiques de l'Europe de l'Est (Russie, Balkans) au XIXe siècle et sur les échanges intellectuels avec l'Occident. Elle est actuellement chargée de recherche à l'Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales de Genève.
Table des matières
Le parcours d'un intellectuel diplomate
- Les racines familiales
- L'entrée dans les services diplomatiques
- Dans les cercles littéraires de Saint-Pétersbourg
- Une première mission dans les Balkans
- Au service de la Sainte-Alliance
- L'appel des causes grecque et roumaine
- Un intellectuel enfin indépendant
Un humaniste «oriental» face aux Lumières
- Les Lumières vues de l'Est
- La formation intellectuelle d'Alexandre Stourdza
- Un anti-Montesquieu: "L'Essai sur les lois fondamentales de la société"
- Stourdza face à Rousseau
Sur la scène européenne
- Au service de la Sainte-Alliance
- Les "Considérations sur la doctrine et l'esprit de l'Église orthodoxe"
- Le "Mémoire sur l'état actuel de l'Allemagne"
- De la Sainte-Alliance à la question d'Orient
L'attrait du mysticisme
- Les racines mystiques de la Sainte-Alliance
- Roxandre Stourdza au coeur d'un réseau d'influence
- Alexandre Stourdza face à l'héritage intellectuel des mystiques
Stourdza théocrate: pour et contre Joseph de Maistre
- Stourdza et Maistre face à la Révolution
- Controverses autour de l'Église orthodoxe
- Des positions divergentes à propos de la Russie
Un philhellénisme d'inspiration conservatrice
- Stourdza, Capodistrias et la renaissance de la Grèce
- Stourdza face à l'Hétairie politique
- Les sympathies philhellènes en Russie et en Europe
- Stourdza, avocat conservateur de l'insurrection
- L'indépendance grecque comme partie de la question d'Orient
Le philosophe de l'orthodoxie
- Le «monde orthodoxe»: caractéristiques d'un espace imaginaire
- Stourdza, missionnaire du «Réveil» orthodoxe
- Stourdza penseur religieux
- Le philosophe de la Tradition
Idéaux et petites ambitions: Stourdza homme de lettres
- Un précurseur des slavophiles?
- Stourdza et les lumières d'Odessa
- A la recherche d'interlocuteurs occidentaux
- Ultimes impressions de voyage
- Xenopol Prize of the Romanian Academy, 2010
- Prize and Merit Diploma of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 2009
- Selected for the Great Prize for History Chateaubriand / Grand Prix d'Histoire Chateaubriand (France)
1815. Après vingt années d'expansion révolutionnaire et napoléonienne, l'heure est à la réaction. La Russie, qui a été menacée dans son existence même, émerge comme pilier du nouvel ordre politique européen. Pour assurer celui-ci, et sceller la paix enfin retrouvée, le tsar Alexandre Ier propose une Sainte-Alliance des souverains et des peuples chrétiens. Il charge son conseiller Alexandre Stourdza (1791-1854) de mettre en forme cette surprenante proclamation politico-mystique bientôt ratifiée par tous les pays du continent. Après le fracas des armes, le destin de l'Europe se joue désormais dans les chancelleries, dans la presse et dans l'opinion. Face à l'héritage des Lumières, les partisans d'un retour à la tradition sont pourtant divisés: mystiques et théocrates d'un côté, conservateurs plus laïcs de l'autre, catholiques ou orthodoxes, Russes ou Français. Chaque parti, chaque puissance du moment, a en fait sa propre vision du nouvel ordre qui doit régir l'Europe. Défendue par Stourdza de congrès en congrès, la Sainte-Alliance sera bientôt mise en échec par les libéraux allemands, et débordée par le système répressif de Metternich.
Abandonné par son souverain, Alexandre Stourdza quitte le service diplomatique en 1822 pour s'établir à Odessa. Il mettra désormais sa plume au service d'une orthodoxie rénovée, qui soit capable de fédérer les différentes populations chrétiennes de Russie et de l'Empire ottoman. Loin de se réduire à un combat d'arrière-garde, ce grand projet de «modernisation défensive» des sociétés orthodoxes incluait l'émancipation nationale des Grecs et des Roumains, ainsi que l'abolition du servage en Russie.
Formée d'abord à Saint-Pétersbourg, Stella Ghervas est docteur en histoire de l'Université de Bucarest et docteur ès lettres de l'Université de Genève. Ses travaux portent notamment sur les mouvements culturels et politiques de l'Europe de l'Est (Russie, Balkans) au XIXe siècle et sur les échanges intellectuels avec l'Occident. Elle est actuellement chargée de recherche à l'Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales de Genève.
Table des matières
Le parcours d'un intellectuel diplomate
- Les racines familiales
- L'entrée dans les services diplomatiques
- Dans les cercles littéraires de Saint-Pétersbourg
- Une première mission dans les Balkans
- Au service de la Sainte-Alliance
- L'appel des causes grecque et roumaine
- Un intellectuel enfin indépendant
Un humaniste «oriental» face aux Lumières
- Les Lumières vues de l'Est
- La formation intellectuelle d'Alexandre Stourdza
- Un anti-Montesquieu: "L'Essai sur les lois fondamentales de la société"
- Stourdza face à Rousseau
Sur la scène européenne
- Au service de la Sainte-Alliance
- Les "Considérations sur la doctrine et l'esprit de l'Église orthodoxe"
- Le "Mémoire sur l'état actuel de l'Allemagne"
- De la Sainte-Alliance à la question d'Orient
L'attrait du mysticisme
- Les racines mystiques de la Sainte-Alliance
- Roxandre Stourdza au coeur d'un réseau d'influence
- Alexandre Stourdza face à l'héritage intellectuel des mystiques
Stourdza théocrate: pour et contre Joseph de Maistre
- Stourdza et Maistre face à la Révolution
- Controverses autour de l'Église orthodoxe
- Des positions divergentes à propos de la Russie
Un philhellénisme d'inspiration conservatrice
- Stourdza, Capodistrias et la renaissance de la Grèce
- Stourdza face à l'Hétairie politique
- Les sympathies philhellènes en Russie et en Europe
- Stourdza, avocat conservateur de l'insurrection
- L'indépendance grecque comme partie de la question d'Orient
Le philosophe de l'orthodoxie
- Le «monde orthodoxe»: caractéristiques d'un espace imaginaire
- Stourdza, missionnaire du «Réveil» orthodoxe
- Stourdza penseur religieux
- Le philosophe de la Tradition
Idéaux et petites ambitions: Stourdza homme de lettres
- Un précurseur des slavophiles?
- Stourdza et les lumières d'Odessa
- A la recherche d'interlocuteurs occidentaux
- Ultimes impressions de voyage
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, and 59 moreEuropean Studies, Russian Studies, Greek History, History of Ideas, Eastern Europe, Romanian History, Religion and Politics, Balkan History, Christian Mysticism, Enlightenment, Orthodox Theology, Eastern European history, History Of Political Thought (Political Science), Modernization, Russian Orthodox Church, Political History, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, 19th century France, Ottoman Empire, Napoleonic Wars, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, Modern Greece, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, Europeanization of the Balkans, 19th Century (History), Imperial Russia, Russian Intellectual History, Comparative study of the Ottoman, habsburg, and Romanov Empires, Modern Movement and Local Traditions, European intellectual history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Black Sea region, History and International Relations, Orthodox Christianity, Montesquieu, Balkans, Tradition, Joseph de Maistre, Russian Empire, Philhellenism, History of Political Ideas, Slavophiles, Lumières françaises, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Restauration, Odessa, Concert of Europe, Odessa, Black Sea, 19th century Russian History, History of the Holy Alliance, Eastern Question, Alexandre Stourdza, Capodistrias, Alexandre Stourdza (Sturdza), Holy Alliance, and Congress of Vienna
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, Eastern European Studies, and 72 moreInternational Relations, History of Ideas, Ottoman History, Romanticism, Romanian History, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Christian Mysticism, Imperial History, International History, Enlightenment, Christian Orthodoxy and Nationalism, Eastern European history, Mysticism, Political History, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Diplomacy, Modernity, Ottoman Empire, Napoleonic Wars, History of Political Thought, Balkan Politics, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, Religion and Modernity, Counter-Revolution in France, Russian Intellectual History, Comparative study of the Ottoman, habsburg, and Romanov Empires, French Revolution and Napoleon, Enlightenment Political Thought, European Enlightenment, Cultural Diplomacy, Orthodox Christianity, Napoleonic Europe, Metternich Era, German Enlightenment, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Romania, Balkans, Tradition, Joseph de Maistre, Tsarist Empire, Russian Intellectual History, Philhellenism, History of Political Ideas, Eighteenth Century Radical Enlightenment, Intelectual History, Neohellenic Enlightenment, the Enlightenment, French Enlightenment, Western Balkans, Greek Orthodoxy, Napoleon, Concert of Europe, Eastern Orthodoxy, Odessa, Black Sea, 19th century Russian History, Enlightment, Napoleonic History, European Counter-Revolution, Russian Imperial History, Diplomacy and international relations, The Napoleonic Wars, Eastern Question, Congress of Vienna, Romantic Hellenism & philhellenism, German philhellenism, The Powers and the Eastern Question, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, History of Mysticism, Habsburg Empire, and Russian and South East European History
"Mesto je u prvom redu prostorni pojam. Pored toga je i reper koji može da posluži kao prva referenca u izgradnji identiteta. Otkako je Pjer Nora upotrebio sintagmu "mesto sećanja" kako bi istražio... more
"Mesto je u prvom redu prostorni pojam. Pored toga je i reper koji može da posluži kao prva referenca u izgradnji identiteta. Otkako je Pjer Nora upotrebio sintagmu "mesto sećanja" kako bi istražio temelje francuskog identiteta (Nora 1997), pojam mesto više ne označava samo geografske lokalitete: primenjuje se i na memorijske podloge i na kulturne reference sa identitetskom namenom. Politički simboli, komemoracije, spomenici i institucije, isto kao i kulturne prakse ili pak neki pedagoški sadržaji, sad su sve to "mesta" u istom smislu, mada drugačije vrste, kao planinski vrhovi, rtovi ili poluostrva. Tako redefinisana u odnosu na svoju potencijalno identitetsku namenu, (spomen) mesta se ne daju lako popisati, niti svrstati u unapred utvrđene rubrike. Tri kategorije - Polovi - Teritorije - Nasleđa - koje smo definisali kao spojeve ovog dela, ne mogu težiti da obuhvate sva moguća značenja mesta Evrope, kao što, uostalom, ni triptih Republika - Nacija - Francuska(e) nije mogao da obuhvati sva mesta sećanja istražena u kolektivnom delu što ga je uredio Pjer Nora. Tako različiti tekstovi u našem delu često izlaze iz okvira rubrika koje nastoje da ih razvrstaju prema prirodnim srodnostima. Njih treba shvatiti i kao orijentire, međusobno povezane brojnim mostićima. Mogući putevi koji vode od jedne do druge takođe su, dakle, brojni.
Stela Gervas (Stella Ghervas) radi kao istraživač u Univerzitetskom institutu za visoke međunarodne studije u Ženevi i u Institutu za studije o Jugoistočnoj Evropi u Bukureštu. Fransoa Rose (Fraçois Rosset) je profesor na Odseku za francuski jezik na Univerzitetu u Lozani."
Stela Gervas (Stella Ghervas) radi kao istraživač u Univerzitetskom institutu za visoke međunarodne studije u Ženevi i u Institutu za studije o Jugoistočnoj Evropi u Bukureštu. Fransoa Rose (Fraçois Rosset) je profesor na Odseku za francuski jezik na Univerzitetu u Lozani."
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, European Studies, and 14 moreHistory of Ideas, European integration, Border Studies, Space and Place, Urban History, History and Memory, Political Science, Political History, European Union, History of Political Thought, Lieux de memoire, Borderlands Studies, European literature, and Borders and Frontiers
Alors qu'elle s'interroge, se regarde et se raconte depuis des siècles, l’Europe demeure perplexe au miroir de ses inépuisables productions. Elle est à l’étroit dans les paragraphes étriqués des documents juridiques, elle tend à se... more
Alors qu'elle s'interroge, se regarde et se raconte depuis des siècles, l’Europe demeure perplexe au miroir de ses inépuisables productions. Elle est à l’étroit dans les paragraphes étriqués des documents juridiques, elle tend à se soustraire aux appropriations idéologiques de toutes obédiences, dépasse toujours les images d’elle-même qu’elle crée sans relâche, échappe à sa propre histoire comme à ses historiens, à ses géographes et à tous ceux qui s’efforcent de la définir. Mais elle offre à l’expérience et à l’imagination des hommes la richesse infiniment diversifiée de son patrimoine. S’il est encore et toujours difficile de dire l’Europe, du moins peut-on la percevoir et la toucher, surtout en ces lieux singuliers mais innombrables où se livre au regard et à l’esprit un surcroît de sens. Frontières, carrefours, passages, nœuds urbains, vastes plaines, lieux de commémoration ou de mémoire : ce sont quelques-uns d’entre eux qui ont inspiré les auteurs de cet ouvrage. Dire l’Europe, sous leurs plumes croisées, c’est la redire sans cesse dans la multiplicité de ses manifestations particulières.
Research Interests: Religion, History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, and 47 moreGeography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Historical Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Urban Geography, European Studies, Philosophy, Art History, History of Ideas, European integration, History of Religion, Border Studies, Space and Place, Maritime History, Urban History, History of Science, History and Memory, Political Science, Politics, Central European history, Eastern European history, Symbolic Boundaries, Political History, Cultural Identity, European Politics, European Union, Mediterranean, Social and Collective Memory, History of Political Thought, Lieux de memoire, Collective Memory, History of Art, Russian History, European Union (International Studies), Cities (Sociology), Borderlands Studies, Cultural Exchange, Cultural Diplomacy, Seafarers, Port cities, Islands, Insularity, 19th century Russian History, Politcal Science, Ports, and Trade Routes
Quarante années se sont écoulées depuis la fondation de l'Institut européen de Genève. À l’heure où la construction européenne devient une réalité tangible, les successeurs de Denis de Rougemont et Jacques Freymond ont voulu évoquer leurs... more
Quarante années se sont écoulées depuis la fondation de l'Institut européen de Genève. À l’heure où la construction européenne devient une réalité tangible, les successeurs de Denis de Rougemont et Jacques Freymond ont voulu évoquer leurs souvenirs et les travaux des centaines d’étudiants qui ont contribué à «penser l’Europe». Leur témoignage reflète une partie des avatars, tant intellectuels qu'humains, du projet d'intégration du Vieux Continent. Il offre également l'occasion de s'interroger sur le devenir de l'Europe des régions, et sur la place qu'occupe la Suisse dans une configuration politique renouvelée.
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, and 16 moreHistory of Ideas, Eastern Europe, European integration, Political Science, Eastern European history, Swiss History, Political History, European Politics, European Union, History of Political Thought, European Integration History, European culture, History of Switzerland, Denis de Rougemont, Geneva, and Genève
"Prix d'Histoire de la Fondation culturelle Magazin Istoric (Romania, 2000) Intellectuel polyglotte et cosmopolite, Alexandre Stourdza a associé son nom à la rédaction du projet de la Sainte-Alliance, qui scella le destin européen de... more
"Prix d'Histoire de la Fondation culturelle Magazin Istoric (Romania, 2000)
Intellectuel polyglotte et cosmopolite, Alexandre Stourdza a associé son nom à la rédaction du projet de la Sainte-Alliance, qui scella le destin européen de la Russie. Il fut aussi l'un des principaux agents d'Alexandre Ier en Occident, avant d'être relégué à Odessa pour ses sympathies philhellènes. Devenu l'observateur lucide des divisions inter-européennes, il élabora, avec l'aide du Genevois Charles Eynard, une stratégie d'échanges intellectuels vers un Occident aussi redoutable que fascinant. Comme Joseph de Maistre, mais dans un espace différent, Stourdza chercha dans une réactualisation de la tradition - celle de l'orthodoxie - la réponse aux défis politiques et culturels de son temps. Ses déchirements intérieurs reflètent ceux de beaucoup de ses contemporains, tiraillés entre leur désir de modernité et une quête romantique des origines. Une situation qui préfigure les interrogations des Russes d'aujourd'hui face à une Europe incertaine."
Intellectuel polyglotte et cosmopolite, Alexandre Stourdza a associé son nom à la rédaction du projet de la Sainte-Alliance, qui scella le destin européen de la Russie. Il fut aussi l'un des principaux agents d'Alexandre Ier en Occident, avant d'être relégué à Odessa pour ses sympathies philhellènes. Devenu l'observateur lucide des divisions inter-européennes, il élabora, avec l'aide du Genevois Charles Eynard, une stratégie d'échanges intellectuels vers un Occident aussi redoutable que fascinant. Comme Joseph de Maistre, mais dans un espace différent, Stourdza chercha dans une réactualisation de la tradition - celle de l'orthodoxie - la réponse aux défis politiques et culturels de son temps. Ses déchirements intérieurs reflètent ceux de beaucoup de ses contemporains, tiraillés entre leur désir de modernité et une quête romantique des origines. Une situation qui préfigure les interrogations des Russes d'aujourd'hui face à une Europe incertaine."
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, and 16 moreHistory of Ideas, Eastern Europe, Balkan History, Eastern European history, Political History, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, 19th century France, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, 19th Century (History), Russian Intellectual History, European intellectual history, and Alexandre Stourdza (Sturdza)
Stella Ghervas and David Armitage, “Introduction: From Westphalia to Enlightened Peace, 1648–1815”, in Ghervas and Armitage (eds), A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, paperback ed.... more
Stella Ghervas and David Armitage, “Introduction: From Westphalia to Enlightened Peace, 1648–1815”, in Ghervas and Armitage (eds), A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, paperback ed. 2023), pp. 1-18.
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, European Studies, and 15 moreInternational Relations, Art History, History of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, Genre studies, International Law, Security Studies, Enlightenment, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Pacifism, History of Political Thought, Intellectual and cultural history, Peace Studies, Peace, and Security and Peace Studies
Stella Ghervas, "Pax in Bello: If You Want to Win the War, Prepare for Peace" Abstract: "Achieving lasting peace after war is a complex, deliberate process that should be meticulously planned and executed. It requires planning a strategy... more
Stella Ghervas, "Pax in Bello: If You Want to Win the War, Prepare for Peace"
Abstract: "Achieving lasting peace after war is a complex, deliberate process that should be meticulously planned and executed. It requires planning a strategy that is as demanding as war itself. The battle for a new international order will start at the negotiating table."
Stella Ghervas, Professor of History and the Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract: "Achieving lasting peace after war is a complex, deliberate process that should be meticulously planned and executed. It requires planning a strategy that is as demanding as war itself. The battle for a new international order will start at the negotiating table."
Stella Ghervas, Professor of History and the Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: History, European History, European Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, and 15 morePolicy Analysis and Decision Making, Political Science, Politics, European Union, Peace Studies, European Union Politics, Reconciliation, War and Peace, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, Peace, Ukraine, Russian-Ukrainian Relations, Peace & Reconciliation, and Peace Building
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, and 15 moreInternational Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, Political Science, Diplomacy, European Union, History of Political Thought, 18th & 19th Centuries, Peace Studies, 20th Century, 21st Century Studies, War and Peace, Central and Eastern Europe, Security and Peace Studies, and Diplomacy and international relations
Stella Ghervas, "Definitions of Peace" (1815-1920), in A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Empire, ed. Ingrid Sharp (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), 23-41.
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, History of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, and 15 moreInternational Law, Arbitration, Deterrence, Colonialism, Peace Movements, History of Political Thought, 18th & 19th Centuries, European Legal History, 19th Century (History), Conceptual History, French Revolution and Napoleon, Empire, Peace, The League of Nations, and Colonialism and Imperialism
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, International Relations, French History, and 15 morePeace and Conflict Studies, Enlightenment, European Politics, Napoleonic Wars, History of Political Thought, Russian History, 19th Century (History), French Revolution and Napoleon, Napoleonic Europe, Peacebuilding, International Relations and European Studies, Security and Peace Studies, Balance of Power, Congress of Vienna, and the Eastern Question
Stella Ghervas, "Ein Palimpsest für den Frieden: Die Heilige Allianz und das Ende des französischen Empire" [A Palimpsest for Peace: The Holy Alliance and the End of the French Empire], in Die Heilige Allianz. Entstehung - Wirkung -... more
Stella Ghervas, "Ein Palimpsest für den Frieden: Die Heilige Allianz und das Ende des französischen Empire" [A Palimpsest for Peace: The Holy Alliance and the End of the French Empire], in Die Heilige Allianz. Entstehung - Wirkung - Rezeption, ed. Anselm Schubert and Wolfram Pyta (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2018), pp. 61-78.
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, International Relations, and 15 morePhilosophy, International History, Enlightenment, Political History, Diplomacy, Napoleonic Wars, History of Political Thought, Russian History, 19th Century (History), French Empire, Religious History, Empire, Napoleonic Europe, Peace, and Russian Empire
Stella Ghervas (2018). "The Black Sea", in Oceanic Histories, ed. David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 234-266. Abstract of the volume: "Oceanic Histories is the... more
Stella Ghervas (2018). "The Black Sea", in Oceanic Histories, ed. David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 234-266.
Abstract of the volume:
"Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and the world's seas from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the histories and the historiographies of the various oceanic regions with special attention to the histories of circulation and particularity, the links between human and non-human history and the connections and comparisons between parts of the World Ocean. Showcasing oceanic history as a field with a long past and a vibrant future, these authoritative surveys, original arguments and guides to research make this volume an indispensable resource for students and scholars alike."
Abstract of the volume:
"Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and the world's seas from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the histories and the historiographies of the various oceanic regions with special attention to the histories of circulation and particularity, the links between human and non-human history and the connections and comparisons between parts of the World Ocean. Showcasing oceanic history as a field with a long past and a vibrant future, these authoritative surveys, original arguments and guides to research make this volume an indispensable resource for students and scholars alike."
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, European History, Geography, Archaeology, and 15 moreMaritime Archaeology, Humanities, Ottoman History, Geopolitics, Maritime History, Historiography, Environmental History, Global History, Russian History, Black Sea region, Black Sea Studies, Maritime and Oceanic History, Black Sea Region Archaeology, Port cities, and Black Sea ancient history and archaeology
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Diplomatic History, Russian Studies, and 44 moreRussian Literature, International Relations, Greek History, Travel Writing, Women's Studies, Women's History, Christian Mysticism, International History, Diplomatic Studies, Political History, Women, Diplomacy, International Politics, Modern Greek History, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, Social History, European culture, Intellectual and cultural history, 19th Century German History, 19th Century (History), Social and Cultural History, Travel Literature, Russian Intellectual History, 19th-century German philosophy, European intellectual history, 18th Century, Cultural Diplomacy, Women and Culture, Russian culture, Russia, Tsarist Empire, Russian Intellectual History, Philhellenism, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Politics and International relations, Greek war of independence, Modern European Intellectual History, Diplomacy and international relations, Capodistrias, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, Russian cultural history, Russian Tsar, and Tsar Alexander I
Stella Ghervas, “L’espace mer Noire: conquêtes et dominations, de l’Antiquité à nos jours” [The Black Sea Region: Conquests and Dominations, from Antiquity to the Present], Questions internationales, 72 (2015): 14–25.
Research Interests: History, European History, Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, European Studies, and 50 moreRussian Studies, International Relations, Ottoman History, Geopolitics, Maritime History, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Environmental History, Security, Security Studies, Nationalism, Russian Politics, Eastern European history, Caucasus, Turkish History, European Politics, Rivers, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Black Sea region, Black Sea Studies, Maritime and Oceanic History, Constantinople, Balkans, Geopolitcs and Geostrategy, Black Sea Region Archaeology, Crimean War, Black Sea, South Caucasus, Europe, Black Sea ancient history and archaeology, Balcan studies, Ancient Greek Colonies of the Northern Black Sea Shore, The Balkans, Crimea, Enviromental History, Bosphorus, Energy Policy, Energy Security, Central Asia, Russia, Caucasus, Caspian Sea Region, Caspian Sea, Danube River, Danube region, Crimean Khanate history, History of Southeastern Europe, Balcan History, Balcan Politics, History of Black Sea Regiuon, Geostrategy In the Black Sea, Azov Sea, and Oceanic History
Stella Ghervas (2017). "Balance of Power vs. Perpetual Peace: Paradigms of European Order from Utrecht to Vienna, 1713-1815", The International History Review, 39, 3 (2017): 404-425. Abstract: "Over the course of the eighteenth century,... more
Stella Ghervas (2017). "Balance of Power vs. Perpetual Peace: Paradigms of European Order from Utrecht to Vienna, 1713-1815", The International History Review, 39, 3 (2017): 404-425.
Abstract:
"Over the course of the eighteenth century, two major models of European international order emerged as alternatives to universal monarchy: one was based on the balance of power; the other centred on the idea of perpetual peace. This article traces each back to its origins in debates around the moment of the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. In particular, it examines the evolution of the doctrine of balance of power in early eighteenth-century English political thought and then as a legal principle incorporated into the Treaty of Utrecht, before proceeding to the counter-proposal in the form of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre's "Plan of Perpetual Peace" and the objections it raised. It then shows how Saint-Pierre's paradigm of a league of European states found (albeit in altered form) its way into the Treaty of the Holy Alliance (1815) proposed by Tsar Alexander I after the defeat of Napoleon. It concludes by highlighting the fundamental soundness of the idea of European league, as well as the flaws inherent in the early model of Saint-Pierre."
To link to this article: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07075332.2016.1214613
Abstract:
"Over the course of the eighteenth century, two major models of European international order emerged as alternatives to universal monarchy: one was based on the balance of power; the other centred on the idea of perpetual peace. This article traces each back to its origins in debates around the moment of the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. In particular, it examines the evolution of the doctrine of balance of power in early eighteenth-century English political thought and then as a legal principle incorporated into the Treaty of Utrecht, before proceeding to the counter-proposal in the form of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre's "Plan of Perpetual Peace" and the objections it raised. It then shows how Saint-Pierre's paradigm of a league of European states found (albeit in altered form) its way into the Treaty of the Holy Alliance (1815) proposed by Tsar Alexander I after the defeat of Napoleon. It concludes by highlighting the fundamental soundness of the idea of European league, as well as the flaws inherent in the early model of Saint-Pierre."
To link to this article: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07075332.2016.1214613
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, and 127 moreRussian Studies, International Relations, Political Philosophy, History of Ideas, International Relations Theory, French History, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Theory, International Studies, British History, Nineteenth Century Studies, Legal History, War Studies, Political Science, French Revolution, International History, Eighteenth Century History, Legal Theory, Security Studies, Eastern European history, Diplomatic Studies, History Of Political Thought (Political Science), Modern British History, Political History, European Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, European Politics, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, European Union, Peace Movements, European and International Law, Napoleonic Wars, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, Peacekeeping, Conflict Resolution, History of International Law, 18th & 19th Centuries, Emmanuel Kant, Rousseau, Russian History, Immanuel Kant, European Legal History, 19th Century (History), Peace & Conflict Studies, Russian Intellectual History, French Revolution and Napoleon, 19th-century German philosophy, Peace Studies, Kant's Political Philosophy, French history and politics, History of International Law (or Law of Nations), International Relations and Human Rights, 18th Century France, 18th Century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Modern Political Philosophy, Empire, Jean Jaques Rousseau, History of War, British Intellectual History, Napoleonic Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Peace and Conflict Resolution, History of Law, War of the Spanish Succession, Peace Processes, Louis XIV, Tsarist Empire, Russian Intellectual History, Europe, History of Political Ideas, History and Theory of International Law, J g a pocock, Theory of International Relations, Political Power, William Penn, Napoleon, International Relations and European Studies, ınternational System/order, International Treaties, Concert of Europe, Harvard University, Security and Peace Studies, Vienna Conference, European Legal Systems, Politics and International relations, European political history in 19th and 20th Centuries, Napoleonic History, Napoleonic Era, Diplomacy and international relations, The Napoleonic Wars, Democratic Peace Theory, Balance of Power, Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace, International Order, Early modern English intellectual & religious history, Idea of Europe, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, Peace & Reconciliation, Giuseppe Mazzini, Balance of Power Theory, European legal order, Relations Internationales, Peace and Conflicts Studies, Modern French History, History of Philosophy, History of the Nineteen Century., French Intellectual History, Utrecht, Paix, Russian political thought, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, History and Political Science, Treaty of Utrecht 1713, De La Guerre Et De La Paix, Intenational Law, J. J. Rousseau, Abbé De Saint-Pierre, Treaty of Vienna 1815, The Peace of Utrecht, Autores: SAINT-PIERRE, Balance-Of-Power Theory, Late 17th Century English Political History, Post-Napoleonic Europe, and Congress System
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, Russian Studies, International Relations, and 40 morePeace and Conflict Studies, Balkan History, Ukrainian Studies, Eastern European history, Diplomatic Studies, United Nations, Russian Foreign Policy, Political History, Ukrainian Politics, Diplomacy, Napoleonic Wars, Peacekeeping, Russian History, Peace & Conflict Studies, Ukraine (History), French Revolution and Napoleon, Peace Studies, Peace History, European intellectual history, Cultural Diplomacy, Modern European History, Napoleonic Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Ukraine, Ukrainian History, Russian-Ukrainian Relations, Crimean War, Crimea, Napoleon, Napoleonic History, Napoleonic Era, International Law and Diplomacy, Diplomacy and international relations, Congress of Vienna, Napoleonic Military History, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, United Nations Conference Diplomacy, Post-Napoleonic Europe, and Stella Ghervas
Stella Ghervas (2015). “The Long Shadow of the Congress of Vienna: From International Peace to Domestic Disorders”, Journal of Modern European History, 15, 4 (2015): 458-464. To link to this article:... more
Stella Ghervas (2015). “The Long Shadow of the Congress of Vienna: From International Peace to Domestic Disorders”, Journal of Modern European History, 15, 4 (2015): 458-464.
To link to this article: https://elibrary.chbeck.de/10.17104/1611-8944-2015-4-458/the-long-shadow-of-the-congressof-vienna-from-international-peaceto-domestic-disorders-jahrgang-13-2015-heft-4
To link to this article: https://elibrary.chbeck.de/10.17104/1611-8944-2015-4-458/the-long-shadow-of-the-congressof-vienna-from-international-peaceto-domestic-disorders-jahrgang-13-2015-heft-4
Research Interests: History, European History, Military History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, and 88 moreEastern European Studies, European Studies, Russian Studies, International Relations, Greek History, French History, Ottoman History, Peace and Conflict Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, Political Theory, Romanian History, British History, Nineteenth Century Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, War Studies, International History, Russian Nationalism, Russian Politics, Eastern European history, Diplomatic Studies, Foreign Policy, Russian Foreign Policy, Political History, European Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, European Politics, Napoleonic Wars, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, Balkan Politics, Peacekeeping, 18th & 19th Centuries, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, 19th Century (History), Peace & Conflict Studies, Russian Intellectual History, History of International Thought, Southeastern Europe, French Revolution and Napoleon, Peace Studies, Nineteenth Century, 18th Century France, 18th Century, Cultural Diplomacy, History and International Relations, Napoleonic Europe, International Affairs, Metternich Era, International Dispute Settlement, Central and Eastern Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Balkans, Austrian History, WORLD ORDER, Military Orders, Crimean War, Tsarist Empire, Russian Intellectual History, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Prussian History, Napoleon, 1848 Revolution in Germany, Concert of Europe, Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes, The European Revolutions of 1848, Security and Peace Studies, European political history in 19th and 20th Centuries, Internal Affairs, 19th century Russian History, Napoleonic History, Diplomacy and international relations, Balance of Power, Eastern Question, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, European legal order, The Powers and the Eastern Question, the Eastern Question, Napoleonic Military History, Prussian Military and Political History, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, Ottoman and Prussian History, Congress System, and Metternich
Stella Ghervas, “Philhellenisme et ambitions russes dans le cadre de la Question d’Orient”, in Φιλελληνισμός. Το ενδιαφέρον για την Ελλάδα και τους Έλληνες από την Επανάσταση ως σήμερα [Philhellenism: Sympathy for Greece and the... more
Stella Ghervas, “Philhellenisme et ambitions russes dans le cadre de la Question d’Orient”, in Φιλελληνισμός. Το ενδιαφέρον για την Ελλάδα και τους Έλληνες από την Επανάσταση ως σήμερα [Philhellenism: Sympathy for Greece and the Greeks, from the Revolution to Our Days], ed. Anna Mandilara, Georgios Nikolaou, Lambros Filitouris and Nikolais Anastassopoulos (Athens: Herodotus, 2015), pp. 729-754.
Research Interests: History, Diplomatic History, Eastern European Studies, Russian Studies, Russian Literature, and 59 moreInternational Relations, Greek Literature, Greek History, Public Opinion, Ottoman History, Eastern Europe, Nineteenth Century Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, International History, Nationalism, Russian Politics, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Orthodox Theology, Christian Orthodoxy and Nationalism, Eastern European history, Russian Orthodox Church, Political History, Ottoman Studies, Transnational History, National Identity, Ottoman Empire, Public Opinion (Political Science), History of International Relations, Balkan Politics, Modern Greek History, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, Early Modern History/Central European History/ Transilvania, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, 19th Century (History), Russian Intellectual History, Southeastern Europe, Greece and its Balkan neighbors in Modern History, Nations and nationalism, Orthodox Christianity, Modern European History, Greek Nationalism, Greece, Balkans, Crimean War, Philhellenism, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Russian diplomacy, Greek war of independence, Eastern Orthodoxy, 19th century Russian History, Balkan Wars 1912-1913, Eastern Orthodox Theology, Eastern Question, Romantic Hellenism & philhellenism, History of Southeastern Europe, Relations Internationales, The development of Greek national ideology, History of Medieval and Modern Greek language, The Powers and the Eastern Question, the Eastern Question, and Decembrist Movement
Stella Ghervas (2014). "Antidotes to Empire: From the Congress System to the European Union", in EUtROPEs. The Paradox of European Empire, ed. John W. Boyer and Berthold Molden, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014 (Parisian... more
Stella Ghervas (2014). "Antidotes to Empire: From the Congress System to the European Union", in EUtROPEs. The Paradox of European Empire, ed. John W. Boyer and Berthold Molden, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014 (Parisian Notebooks, 7), pp. 49-81.
Abstract
"Is the European Union a “non-imperial empire”? This is what the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, once stated in 2011. This oxymoron is doubly paradoxical because the term empire has long had a negative connotation for both supporters and opponents of European integration. It is therefore appropriate to return to historic precedents for the argument against a continental empire in Europe, and to examine past alternatives. This paper will look at the experiment of the Congress System (1815–1825) born out of the Congress of Vienna, when diplomatic delegations from all over Europe congregated after the cataclysm of the Napoleonic Wars. In particular, the treaty of the Holy Alliance, a collective covenant for peace, was signed in September 1815 by three great powers (Russia, Austria, and Prussia) that had in common their aversion to the empire of Napoleon. Yet the imperial element could not be removed from the picture, since Russia and Austria were themselves empires. Hence the discourse of the Holy Alliance inevitably led to fatal contradictions. Out of the paradoxes of that case study, we will highlight the fact that the European Union is less liable to become an empire than a directorate of great powers, with its attendant risks."
Abstract
"Is the European Union a “non-imperial empire”? This is what the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, once stated in 2011. This oxymoron is doubly paradoxical because the term empire has long had a negative connotation for both supporters and opponents of European integration. It is therefore appropriate to return to historic precedents for the argument against a continental empire in Europe, and to examine past alternatives. This paper will look at the experiment of the Congress System (1815–1825) born out of the Congress of Vienna, when diplomatic delegations from all over Europe congregated after the cataclysm of the Napoleonic Wars. In particular, the treaty of the Holy Alliance, a collective covenant for peace, was signed in September 1815 by three great powers (Russia, Austria, and Prussia) that had in common their aversion to the empire of Napoleon. Yet the imperial element could not be removed from the picture, since Russia and Austria were themselves empires. Hence the discourse of the Holy Alliance inevitably led to fatal contradictions. Out of the paradoxes of that case study, we will highlight the fact that the European Union is less liable to become an empire than a directorate of great powers, with its attendant risks."
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, and 40 moreInternational Relations, Greek History, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Political Science, Imperial History, International History, Russian Politics, Russian Foreign Policy, European Union, Ottoman Empire, Empires, History of International Relations, British Empire, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, 19th Century (History), Imperial Russia, Russian Intellectual History, Southeastern Europe, Empire, Orthodox Christianity, Russia, Peace, Balkans, Imperialism, Russian Empire, Concert of Europe, Russian Imperial History, Balance of Power, Eastern Question, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, History of Southeastern Europe, The Powers and the Eastern Question, the Eastern Question, and The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich
Стелла Гервас [Stella Ghervas], “Три урока мира: от Венского конгресса до кризиса в Украине” [Three Lessons of Peace: From the Congress of Vienna to the Ukraine Crisis], Хроника ООН, том LI, номер 3, декабрь 2014 г.
Research Interests: History, European History, Military History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, and 21 moreHistory of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Science, Political History, Diplomacy, Napoleonic Wars, Peacekeeping, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), Ukraine (History), French Revolution and Napoleon, Peace Studies, War and Peace, Russia, Peace, Peacebuilding, Ukraine, Russian / Soviet military and diplomatic history, Napoleonic History, and Congress of Vienna
Stella Ghervas, “Das Erbe des Wiener Kongresses und der Wert von Friedensstiften” [The Legacy of the Congress of Vienna and the Virtue of Peacemakers], Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ), Vol. 65, No. 22-24 (2015): 15-20. Abstract... more
Stella Ghervas, “Das Erbe des Wiener Kongresses und der Wert von Friedensstiften” [The Legacy of the Congress of Vienna and the Virtue of Peacemakers], Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ), Vol. 65, No. 22-24 (2015): 15-20.
Abstract (in German):
„Eine Betrachtung des Wiener Kongresses und des „Kongresssystems“ von 1815 bis 1823 entlang ihrer (Miss-)Erfolge bei der Bewahrung des Friedens zeigt fünf
„Lektionen“ auf, die heute noch angewandt werden könnten – vor allem mit Blick auf eine tragfähige Beziehung zwischen der Europäischen Union und Russland“.
See also on-line version: https://www.bpb.de/apuz/206927/das-erbe-des-wienerkongresses
Abstract (in English):
“This article examines the legacy of the Congress of Vienna and the ‘Congress System’ (1815-23) through their successes and failures in keeping peace. It outlines five “lessons” or principles that might still be applicable, especially in establishing a viable relationship between the European Union and Russia.”
Abstract (in German):
„Eine Betrachtung des Wiener Kongresses und des „Kongresssystems“ von 1815 bis 1823 entlang ihrer (Miss-)Erfolge bei der Bewahrung des Friedens zeigt fünf
„Lektionen“ auf, die heute noch angewandt werden könnten – vor allem mit Blick auf eine tragfähige Beziehung zwischen der Europäischen Union und Russland“.
See also on-line version: https://www.bpb.de/apuz/206927/das-erbe-des-wienerkongresses
Abstract (in English):
“This article examines the legacy of the Congress of Vienna and the ‘Congress System’ (1815-23) through their successes and failures in keeping peace. It outlines five “lessons” or principles that might still be applicable, especially in establishing a viable relationship between the European Union and Russia.”
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, International Relations, Kant, and 37 moreFrench History, War Studies, Political Science, Governance, Enlightenment, Eastern European history, Political History, Diplomacy, Napoleonic Wars, Peacekeeping, 18th & 19th Centuries, Emmanuel Kant, Rousseau, Russian History, Immanuel Kant, 19th Century (History), French Revolution and Napoleon, Peace Studies, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Jaques Rousseau, War and Peace, Napoleonic Europe, Russia, Peace, Peacebuilding, Ukraine, Woodrow Wilson, Austrian History, Friedrich Gentz, Winston Churchill, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Napoleonic History, Balance of Power, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, and Abbé De Saint-Pierre
Stella Ghervas, "La Sainte-Alliance: un pacte pacifique européen comme antydote à l'Empire", in Europe de papier. Projets européens au XIXe siècle, ed. Sylvie Aprile et al. (Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2015), pp.... more
Stella Ghervas, "La Sainte-Alliance: un pacte pacifique européen comme antydote à l'Empire", in Europe de papier. Projets européens au XIXe siècle, ed. Sylvie Aprile et al. (Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2015), pp. 47-64.
Abstract:
"One of the key treaties of the “Congress System”, born out of the Congress of Vienna, was the Holy Alliance, signed in Paris on 26 September 1815, and ratified by most European states. This short document, with its mystical accents, deserves more careful attention than it has been given in the past. One of its major innovations was that it promoted the ideal of a “family” that included all states of the continent, including Russia. This article analyses the intellectual sources perceptible in that covenant – among them, a tradition of perpetual peace going back to authors of the eighteenth century, such as Abbé de Saint-Pierre. It also examines the reasons for the Holy Alliance’s lack of success, as well as two of its main side effects: the eviction of the Pope from his position as the tutelary figure of European politics, and the ideological ambiguity that would later contribute to the emergence of the Eastern Question."
Abstract:
"One of the key treaties of the “Congress System”, born out of the Congress of Vienna, was the Holy Alliance, signed in Paris on 26 September 1815, and ratified by most European states. This short document, with its mystical accents, deserves more careful attention than it has been given in the past. One of its major innovations was that it promoted the ideal of a “family” that included all states of the continent, including Russia. This article analyses the intellectual sources perceptible in that covenant – among them, a tradition of perpetual peace going back to authors of the eighteenth century, such as Abbé de Saint-Pierre. It also examines the reasons for the Holy Alliance’s lack of success, as well as two of its main side effects: the eviction of the Pope from his position as the tutelary figure of European politics, and the ideological ambiguity that would later contribute to the emergence of the Eastern Question."
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, and 66 moreEastern European Studies, Western Europe, French History, Eastern Europe, German History, Balkan History, French Revolution, Imperial History, Enlightenment, Orthodox Theology, German Idealism, Eastern European history, Mysticism, Political History, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Napoleonic Wars, History of Political Thought, Peacekeeping, Greek Religion, Russian History, 19th Century (History), 18th- and 19th-century philosophy, Russian Intellectual History, French Revolution and Napoleon, Peace Studies, French Empire, Religious History, Peace History, 18th and 19th Century, Empire, Modern European History, Napoleonic Europe, Metternich Era, Russia, Peace, Peacebuilding, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Russian Empire, Crimean War, Restauration, Napoleon, Illuminism, Concert of Europe, Napoleonic History, Napoleonic Era, Russian Imperial History, The Napoleonic Wars, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Eastern Question, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, Modernity, Geopolitics, the Eastern Question, The Powers and the Eastern Question, the Eastern Question, Napoleonic Military History, Illuminismo, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, The Russian Empire, German Mysticism, History of the Russian Empire, Tsar Alexander I, Post-Napoleonic Europe, Metternich, Napoleonic Empire, The Congress of Vienna, and Cent-Jours
Stella Ghervas, “Three Lessons of Peace: From the Congress of Vienna to the Ukraine Crisis”, UN Chronicle, Vol. LI, No. 3 (2014), pp. 9-11.
Article in English, French, and Russian.
Article in English, French, and Russian.
Research Interests: History, European History, International Relations, French History, Polish History, and 30 morePolitical Science, French Revolution, Politics, Eastern European history, United Nations, Napoleonic Wars, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), Ukraine (History), French Revolution and Napoleon, Politics of Ukraine, Napoleonic Europe, Metternich Era, Russia, Peace, Ukraine, Austrian History, Ukrainian History, Crimean War, Prussian History, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Napoleon, Concert of Europe, Napoleonic History, Congress of Vienna, History of Ukraine, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, Biography of Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh, and Ukrainian crisis
Ghervas, Stella. 2014. “La paix par le droit, ciment de la civilisation en Europe? La perspective du siècle des Lumières,” in Penser l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle: Commerce, Civilisation, Empire, ed. Antoine Lilti and Céline Spector (Oxford:... more
Ghervas, Stella. 2014. “La paix par le droit, ciment de la civilisation en Europe? La perspective du siècle des Lumières,” in Penser l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle: Commerce, Civilisation, Empire, ed. Antoine Lilti and Céline Spector (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation), pp. 47-69.
Abstract / Résumé
Tout au long du dix-huitième siècle, des modèles théoriques novateurs (‘projets de paix perpétuelle’) ont été développés, afin de proposer une paix durable entre les Etats de l’Europe, qui soit une alternative à la fois à l’équilibre des puissances (générateur de guerres perpétuelles) et à un empire paneuropéen (‘monarchie universelle’). Cet article analyse trois conceptions parmi les plus significatives: celles de l’Abbé de Saint-Pierre, de Rousseau et de Kant. En particulier, comment ont-ils articulé la mise en œuvre d’un ordre politique pacifique avec le concept d’Europe et de ‘civilisation européenne’? Leurs points de vue divergent à ce sujet, mais la valeur de la paix transcende à chaque fois l’idée même de civilisation.
Ces écrits prospectifs se confrontent au système politique qui a suivi la chute de Napoléon en 1815, et particulièrement au traité de la Sainte-Alliance, qui s’inspira paradoxalement du plan de l’Abbé de Saint-Pierre.
Abstract / Résumé
Tout au long du dix-huitième siècle, des modèles théoriques novateurs (‘projets de paix perpétuelle’) ont été développés, afin de proposer une paix durable entre les Etats de l’Europe, qui soit une alternative à la fois à l’équilibre des puissances (générateur de guerres perpétuelles) et à un empire paneuropéen (‘monarchie universelle’). Cet article analyse trois conceptions parmi les plus significatives: celles de l’Abbé de Saint-Pierre, de Rousseau et de Kant. En particulier, comment ont-ils articulé la mise en œuvre d’un ordre politique pacifique avec le concept d’Europe et de ‘civilisation européenne’? Leurs points de vue divergent à ce sujet, mais la valeur de la paix transcende à chaque fois l’idée même de civilisation.
Ces écrits prospectifs se confrontent au système politique qui a suivi la chute de Napoléon en 1815, et particulièrement au traité de la Sainte-Alliance, qui s’inspira paradoxalement du plan de l’Abbé de Saint-Pierre.
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, European Studies, and 43 moreInternational Relations, Philosophy, History of Ideas, French History, Peace and Conflict Studies, European Law, International Law, French Revolution, Enlightenment, History Of Political Thought (Political Science), Intellectual History of Enlightenment, European Union, Napoleonic Wars, History of Political Thought, Peacekeeping, 18th & 19th Centuries, Rule of Law, Immanuel Kant, 19th Century (History), European Enlightenment, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Napoleonic Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Peace of Westphalia, War of the Spanish Succession, Political Thought, European Political Order, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Concert of Europe, Path to Perpetual Peace, Longue durée, Napoleonic History, Balance of Power, Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, European Civilisation, Utrecht, Treaty of Utrecht 1713, The Peace of Utrecht, and Autores: SAINT-PIERRE
Stella Ghervas & Mark Jarrett, "Wie Frieden geschaffen wird" [How Peace was established], Die Zeit 38, September 11, 2014, p. 20. http://www.zeit.de/2014/38/wiener-kongress-europa-frieden Der Wiener Kongress vor 200 Jahren gilt als... more
Stella Ghervas & Mark Jarrett, "Wie Frieden geschaffen wird" [How Peace was established], Die Zeit 38, September 11, 2014, p. 20.
http://www.zeit.de/2014/38/wiener-kongress-europa-frieden
Der Wiener Kongress vor 200 Jahren gilt als Triumph der Reaktion gegen die Revolution. Aber er war auch ein großer Moment der Diplomatie, der Europa stabilisierte.
http://www.zeit.de/2014/38/wiener-kongress-europa-frieden
Der Wiener Kongress vor 200 Jahren gilt als Triumph der Reaktion gegen die Revolution. Aber er war auch ein großer Moment der Diplomatie, der Europa stabilisierte.
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, International Relations, and 28 moreIntellectual Property, Polish History, Political Science, Political History, Diplomacy, European Politics, Napoleonic Wars, Peacekeeping, Russian History, French Revolution and Napoleon, Poland, Cultural Diplomacy, Napoleonic Europe, Russia, Peace, Peacebuilding, Austrian History, Prussian History, history of Poland, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Napoleon, Concert of Europe, Napoleonic History, Diplomacy and international relations, Balance of Power, Congress of Vienna, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, and Peace Treaty
Stella Ghervas, "The Congress of Vienna: A Peace for the Strong" In the first of two articles marking the bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna, Stella Ghervas examines the Great Powers’ attempt to create a new European order following... more
Stella Ghervas, "The Congress of Vienna: A Peace for the Strong"
In the first of two articles marking the bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna, Stella Ghervas examines the Great Powers’ attempt to create a new European order following the defeat of Napoleon.
Link: http://www.historytoday.com/stella-ghervas/congress-vienna-peace-strong
In the first of two articles marking the bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna, Stella Ghervas examines the Great Powers’ attempt to create a new European order following the defeat of Napoleon.
Link: http://www.historytoday.com/stella-ghervas/congress-vienna-peace-strong
Research Interests: History, European History, Military History, Modern History, Diplomatic History, and 73 moreEastern European Studies, European Studies, Russian Studies, International Relations, Ottoman History, Peace and Conflict Studies, German History, International Studies, British History, International Security, Public Diplomacy, War Studies, Security, International History, Russian Politics, Diplomatic Studies, Modern British History, Eighteenth-Century British History and Culture, Political History, European Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, European Politics, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Ottoman Empire, Napoleonic Wars, History of International Relations, Peacekeeping, History of International Law, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), Peace & Conflict Studies, History of International Thought, French Revolution and Napoleon, Peace Studies, Napoleonic Europe, Metternich Era, Peace, Peacebuilding, Austrian History, Crimean War, European Political Order, Europe, Prussian History, Vienna, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Napoleon, Italian History, International Treaties, The European Balance of Power, Security and Peace Studies, Napoleonic History, Napoleonic Era, Diplomacy and international relations, The Napoleonic Wars, Balance of Power, International Order, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Great Powers, Eastern Question, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, Russian campaign 1812, Hybrid Political Orders, The Powers and the Eastern Question, the Eastern Question, Napoleonic Military History, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, history of the WWII, Biography of Robert Stewart Viscount Castlereagh, The Peace of Utrecht, The Peace of Vienna, and Tsar Alexander I
Stella Ghervas, "‘L'Europe élargie’ d'après 1989: comment se réorienter dans la pensée?" (Enlarged Europe’ after 1989: What Does it Mean to Reorient Our Thinking?), Questions Internationales, 68 (2014): 94-101. Abstract "Les... more
Stella Ghervas, "‘L'Europe élargie’ d'après 1989: comment se réorienter dans la pensée?" (Enlarged Europe’ after 1989: What Does it Mean to Reorient Our Thinking?), Questions Internationales, 68 (2014): 94-101.
Abstract
"Les frontières de l’Union européenne se sont déjà déplacées deux fois vers l’Est et le Sud-Est depuis le début du XXIe siècle. Cette expansion soudaine et pacifique, en 2004 et en 2007, est venue rebattre les cartes de l’imaginaire européen, invité à repenser l’idée d’Europe politique et de ce qui en fait le ciment. Or ces élargissements successifs ont simultanément mis au jour la difficulté de définir des valeurs consensuelles pour la «conscience européenne». N’est-ce pas en définitive le rêve d’union pacifique du continent qui permet à l’Union européenne de se tenir ensemble et qui la distingue d’autres ensembles ?""
Link to the article: http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/numerique/0900016006808-l-ete-14-d-un-monde-a-l-autre-1914-2014#book_sommaire
Abstract
"Les frontières de l’Union européenne se sont déjà déplacées deux fois vers l’Est et le Sud-Est depuis le début du XXIe siècle. Cette expansion soudaine et pacifique, en 2004 et en 2007, est venue rebattre les cartes de l’imaginaire européen, invité à repenser l’idée d’Europe politique et de ce qui en fait le ciment. Or ces élargissements successifs ont simultanément mis au jour la difficulté de définir des valeurs consensuelles pour la «conscience européenne». N’est-ce pas en définitive le rêve d’union pacifique du continent qui permet à l’Union européenne de se tenir ensemble et qui la distingue d’autres ensembles ?""
Link to the article: http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/numerique/0900016006808-l-ete-14-d-un-monde-a-l-autre-1914-2014#book_sommaire
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, Geography, Human Geography, and 66 moreCultural Geography, Historical Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Eastern Europe, European integration, Soviet History, International Studies, Border Studies, Geopolitics, Political Science, International History, Politics, Post-Soviet Regimes, Nationalism, Central Europe, Central European history, Eastern European history, Political History, European Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, European Politics, European Union, Post-Soviet Studies, Second World War, Peacekeeping, World War II, European Union (International Studies), European/EU Politics, Soviet Union (History), European Enlargement, Enlargement and Integration in the EU, Political Geography, Central European Studies, Social Imaginaries, Peace Studies, European Union Politics, Soviet, post-Soviet, Russian politics, European Geography, Central and Eastern Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Central and East European Studies, South-Eastern Europe, World War II history, Borders and Frontiers, German Unification 1989-1990, EU Enlargement, Europe, Democracy in the European Union, European Union, European Foreign Policy, European Neighbourhood Policy, Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, Union for the Mediterranean, Eastern Partnership, Foreign Policy Analysis, Principal-Agent, European union enlargement, 1989, Borders and Borderlands, European borders, Diplomacy and international relations, Enlargement, Is there any democracy deficit post Lisbon treaty in European Union?, History of 19th and 20th Century East Central Europe, The European Community, Post comunism Country, International Relations Post 1989, and Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Diplomatic History, Eastern European Studies, and 69 moreEuropean Studies, International Relations, History of Ideas, French History, Peace and Conflict Studies, Power (social), Contemporary History, Historiography, War Studies, Cold War, Just War, Central European history, Eastern European history, Diplomacy, European Politics, European Union, Commemoration (Memory Studies), Napoleonic Wars, Commemoration and Memory, Second World War, Peacekeeping, 18th & 19th Centuries, First World War, Russian History, 20th century (History), European/EU Politics, 19th Century (History), Peace & Conflict Studies, History of Historiography, French Revolution and Napoleon, Peace Studies, 20th Century, Peace Education, History of History, Cultural Diplomacy, Soft Power, Temporality (Time Studies), History of Diplomacy, Napoleonic Europe, War, Central and Eastern Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Temporality, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Power, Austrian History, Soft Power and International Relations, Europe, Rules of War, Vienna, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, State Power, Soft Power, Hard Power, Napoleon, Security and Peace Studies, Longue durée, 19th century Russian History, Napoleonic History, Napoleonic Era, United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, Diplomacy and international relations, Democratic Peace Theory, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Public Celebration, Congress of Vienna, Peace & Reconciliation, Peace and Conflicts Studies, Temporality and rupture, and Memory and Commemorations
Stella Ghervas (2011). "L'Europe comme idée, comme projet, comme construction" / "Europe as an Idea, a Plan, a Construction", Questions Internationales, 51 (2011): 12-22. Abstract "The idea of Europe has taken on many faces over the... more
Stella Ghervas (2011). "L'Europe comme idée, comme projet, comme construction" / "Europe as an Idea, a Plan, a Construction", Questions Internationales, 51 (2011): 12-22.
Abstract
"The idea of Europe has taken on many faces over the centuries, sometimes consecutively and sometimes simultaneously. Beginning in ancient Greece as a myth and a geographical entity and later developing into an ideal of civilisation, it is sometimes a concept opposed to the Other, notably the peoples of Asia or later the Americas.
Awareness of Europe was strengthened in intellectual circles in the Renaissance, and then during the Enlightenment, when the philosophers were trying to present their political plan for Europe. Practical attempts to build something on a continental scale soon followed, but were all doomed to fail. Even if European construction after the Second World War certainly did not end debates over the definition of Europe, it nonetheless showed how an idea, even when distant and complex, can in the long-term turn into a plan and then reality."
Abstract
"The idea of Europe has taken on many faces over the centuries, sometimes consecutively and sometimes simultaneously. Beginning in ancient Greece as a myth and a geographical entity and later developing into an ideal of civilisation, it is sometimes a concept opposed to the Other, notably the peoples of Asia or later the Americas.
Awareness of Europe was strengthened in intellectual circles in the Renaissance, and then during the Enlightenment, when the philosophers were trying to present their political plan for Europe. Practical attempts to build something on a continental scale soon followed, but were all doomed to fail. Even if European construction after the Second World War certainly did not end debates over the definition of Europe, it nonetheless showed how an idea, even when distant and complex, can in the long-term turn into a plan and then reality."
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Geography, and 63 moreHuman Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, International Relations, History of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, Critical Geopolitics, Cultural Heritage, Geopolitics, Identity (Culture), Enlightenment, Eastern European history, Modern Europe, History Of Political Thought (Political Science), Early Modern Europe, Symbolic Boundaries, European Foreign Policy, Cultural Identity, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, European Politics, European Union, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, Medieval Europe, Peacekeeping, European Integration History, History of Identity, European identity, European Union (International Studies), History And Geopolitics In The Balkans, European culture, Europeanization, European Enlargement, Enlargement and Integration in the EU, Political Geography, Peace Studies, Frontier History, European Union Politics, 17th century Europe, Frontier Studies, European Construction History, Modern European History, Histoire des idées et de la pensée, Central and Eastern Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, European Union integration, Europe, History of Political Ideas, Histoire, Symbols, European union enlargement, History of European civilizations, Diplomacy and international relations, History of Political Institutions, Idea of Europe, Relations Internationales, Histoire des relations internationales, Idea of EU, and History of Political Thought (Ancient and Modern)
"Réactualisée par le récent débat sur l'adhésion de la Turquie à l'Union européenne et par la crise ukrainienne, la question des confins de l'Europe apparaît de manière contrastée dans le cas d'une ville comme Odessa. Dès son origine,... more
"Réactualisée par le récent débat sur l'adhésion de la Turquie à l'Union européenne et par la crise ukrainienne, la question des confins de l'Europe apparaît de manière contrastée dans le cas d'une ville comme Odessa. Dès son origine, elle a été conçue comme une ville libre et ouverte tout en servant de capitale à la Nouvelle Russie. Construite à l'européenne par des architectes français, elle a vu d'emblée s'installer différentes communautés nationales, et Pouchkine a pu dire à juste titre qu'on y «respire l'Europe».
Néanmoins, Odessa reste d'un point de vue géographique «doublement périphérique» par rapport à la Russie et à l'Europe. Tout au long du XIXe siècle, on y «exile» les intellectuels exclus des capitales de l'Empire des tsars. La ville prospère, mais de Paris, Londres ou Berlin, elle paraît en marge de l'Europe urbaine et culturelle. En 1847, Balzac ne vit lui-même «de la frontière européenne à Odessa qu'un même champ de la Beauce». Le triomphe de la révolution bolchevique introduira une véritable coupure dans l'histoire de la ville et de ses relations avec l'Europe.
Par un jeu de miroirs, le cas d'une ville-carrefour comme Odessa, lieu emblématique d'une Europe multiculturelle et multinationale, dit quelque chose du sens multiple de l'Europe, témoigne de ses déchirements et de ses conflits intérieurs. Elle permet aussi de mieux cerner les contenus de la civilisation européenne et de préciser les contours du Vieux Continent."
Néanmoins, Odessa reste d'un point de vue géographique «doublement périphérique» par rapport à la Russie et à l'Europe. Tout au long du XIXe siècle, on y «exile» les intellectuels exclus des capitales de l'Empire des tsars. La ville prospère, mais de Paris, Londres ou Berlin, elle paraît en marge de l'Europe urbaine et culturelle. En 1847, Balzac ne vit lui-même «de la frontière européenne à Odessa qu'un même champ de la Beauce». Le triomphe de la révolution bolchevique introduira une véritable coupure dans l'histoire de la ville et de ses relations avec l'Europe.
Par un jeu de miroirs, le cas d'une ville-carrefour comme Odessa, lieu emblématique d'une Europe multiculturelle et multinationale, dit quelque chose du sens multiple de l'Europe, témoigne de ses déchirements et de ses conflits intérieurs. Elle permet aussi de mieux cerner les contenus de la civilisation européenne et de préciser les contours du Vieux Continent."
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Cultural History, Geography, and 67 moreCultural Geography, Historical Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Urban Geography, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, Russian Studies, Multiculturalism, Art History, Eastern Europe, Architecture, Place and Identity, Border Studies, Geopolitics, Urban History, History and Memory, Urban Planning, Identity politics, Ukrainian Studies, Nationalism, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Eastern European history, Urban Studies, Symbolic Boundaries, Political History, Caucasus, European Union, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Border Crossing, Collective Memory, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, European identity, 19th Century (History), Ukraine (History), Russian Intellectual History, Multiculturalism (Sociology), Economic History of Ottoman Empire, Borderlands Studies, Black Sea region, Frontier Studies, Black Sea Studies, Modern European History, Russia, Ukraine, Borders, History of Commerce, Cities, Ukrainian History, Borders and Frontiers, History of the Ottoman Empire, Black Sea, Europe, Odessa, Frontier, Odessa, Black Sea, Borders and Borderlands, History of Travel and Tourism, European identities, Black Sea history, Ethnicity and National Identity, Black Sea Geopolitics, Geostrategy In the Black Sea, and European Cities
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Sociology of Religion, History of Ideas, and 18 moreGeopolitics, Balkan History, Christian Orthodoxy and Nationalism, Russian Orthodox Church, Political History, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, Europeanization of the Balkans, 19th Century (History), Russian Intellectual History, Catholic-Orthodox dialogue, Orthodox Christianity, Religious Studies, History of Communism, History of Political Ideas, Orthodox Church History, Alexandre Stourdza (Sturdza), and Russian and South East European History
Research Interests: History, European History, European Studies, International Relations, Political Philosophy, and 31 moreKant, Multiculturalism, International Relations Theory, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Theory, Violence, International Studies, International Law, Human Rights, International organizations, Conflict, Security, Political Science, Nationalism, United Nations, Diplomacy, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, Peace & Conflict Studies, Peace Studies, Ethnicity, European intellectual history, Minority Rights, Jean Jaques Rousseau, War and Peace, Peace, Peacebuilding, The League of Nations, Peace and Conflict, Freedom, and Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace
"S’il est un point sur lequel les chercheurs sont généralement d’accord, c’est que le philhellénisme, qui prit dans les années 1820 la forme d’un vaste courant de sympathie à la cause de libération grecque, fut l’une des premières... more
"S’il est un point sur lequel les chercheurs sont généralement d’accord, c’est que le philhellénisme, qui prit dans les années 1820 la forme d’un vaste courant de sympathie à la cause de libération grecque, fut l’une des premières manifestations de l’opinion publique à une échelle véritablement européenne. Ce n’est que tout récemment que des questions ont surgi quant à l’ampleur réelle du phénomène et quant à son impact effectif sur le cours des événements politico-militaires. L’existence, longtemps méconnue en Occident, d’un philhellénisme oriental à la fois russe et balkanique, vient compliquer l’image d’un mouvement beaucoup plus complexe et moins unilatéral qu’on ne l’a longtemps cru, où se mêlent aspects culturels et politiques, préoccupations humanitaires et visées économiques.
L’insurrection grecque de 1821 suscita naturellement l’enthousiasme des milieux libéraux européens, encore opprimés par la politique réactionnaire de la Sainte-Alliance. Ce lien entre le philhellénisme et le libéralisme fut accrédité presque unanimement par l’historiographie européenne, et cela jusqu’à nos jours. A l’encontre de cet avis largement répandu, notre contribution vise à montrer qu’il a existé également un philhellénisme conservateur qui s’est manifesté dans des cercles légitimistes occidentaux, russes ou balkaniques de l’époque. Des penseurs comme Alexandre Stourdza, bras droit du comte Capodistrias, ont tenté de concilier leurs sympathies philhellènes avec des positions favorables à la Sainte-Alliance.
Basée sur de multiples documents inédits tirés des archives russes et ukrainiennes, cette analyse interprète le philhellénisme dans le contexte de l’Europe de la Restauration. Elle s’attache également à en faire ressortir les composantes politiques, diplomatiques et religieuses.
Bibliographie sélective :
- Stella GHERVAS, "Alexandre Stourdza (1791-1854). Un intellectuel orthodoxe face à l’Occident", Genève, Ed. Suzanne Hurter, 1999.
- Stella GHERVAS, «Alexandru Sturza ou la quête de l’espace orthodoxe», "Bulletin de l’Association internationale d’études du sud-est européen", n° 31, 2001, pp. 53-60.
- Stella GHERVAS, «Alexandre Stourdza sur la scène européenne: autopsie d'un échec», "Revue Roumaine d'Histoire", t. XXXIX, n° 1-4, 2000, pp. 107-148.
L’insurrection grecque de 1821 suscita naturellement l’enthousiasme des milieux libéraux européens, encore opprimés par la politique réactionnaire de la Sainte-Alliance. Ce lien entre le philhellénisme et le libéralisme fut accrédité presque unanimement par l’historiographie européenne, et cela jusqu’à nos jours. A l’encontre de cet avis largement répandu, notre contribution vise à montrer qu’il a existé également un philhellénisme conservateur qui s’est manifesté dans des cercles légitimistes occidentaux, russes ou balkaniques de l’époque. Des penseurs comme Alexandre Stourdza, bras droit du comte Capodistrias, ont tenté de concilier leurs sympathies philhellènes avec des positions favorables à la Sainte-Alliance.
Basée sur de multiples documents inédits tirés des archives russes et ukrainiennes, cette analyse interprète le philhellénisme dans le contexte de l’Europe de la Restauration. Elle s’attache également à en faire ressortir les composantes politiques, diplomatiques et religieuses.
Bibliographie sélective :
- Stella GHERVAS, "Alexandre Stourdza (1791-1854). Un intellectuel orthodoxe face à l’Occident", Genève, Ed. Suzanne Hurter, 1999.
- Stella GHERVAS, «Alexandru Sturza ou la quête de l’espace orthodoxe», "Bulletin de l’Association internationale d’études du sud-est européen", n° 31, 2001, pp. 53-60.
- Stella GHERVAS, «Alexandre Stourdza sur la scène européenne: autopsie d'un échec», "Revue Roumaine d'Histoire", t. XXXIX, n° 1-4, 2000, pp. 107-148.
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Eastern European Studies, and 47 moreGreek Literature, Greek History, History of Ideas, Romanticism, Geopolitics, South East European Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Russian Nationalism, Conservatism, Christian Orthodoxy and Nationalism, Eastern European history, History Of Political Thought (Political Science), Eastern Christianity, Political History, Diplomacy, Humanitarian Intervention, Nationalism And State Building, History of Political Thought, Modern Greece, 18th & 19th Centuries, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, 19th Century (History), 20th Century, European intellectual history, 18th and 19th Century, France, 19th and 20th c. Greece, Black Sea region, Orthodox Christianity, 19th-20th Century Europe, USA, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, 19th Century, Balkans, Romantism, Macedonian Question, Philhellenism, Macedonia, 19th century Russian History, Great Britain, Great Powers, Eastern Question, and The Powers and the Eastern Question
Research Interests: History, European History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, Russian Studies, and 29 moreEuropean integration, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Political Science, Democratization, Energy, East European studies, Eastern European history, Russian Foreign Policy, Caucasus, Women, European Politics, European Union, Turkey, European/EU Politics, Europeanization, European Enlargement, Enlargement and Integration in the EU, Central European Studies, Soviet, post-Soviet, Russian politics, Soft Power, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Transition, EU Enlargement, Configurational Qualitative Method, EU enlargment, Politics of South Eastern Europe, and External Dimension of EU Governance
Stella Ghervas, "Le réseau épistolaire d’Alexandre et Roxandre Stourdza : une médiation triangulaire entre Occident, Russie et Sud-Est européen" [The Correspondence Network of Alexander and Roxandra Sturdza: a Triangular... more
Stella Ghervas,
"Le réseau épistolaire d’Alexandre et Roxandre Stourdza : une médiation triangulaire entre Occident, Russie et Sud-Est européen"
[The Correspondence Network of Alexander and Roxandra Sturdza: a Triangular Intermediation between Russia, Western and South-Eastern Europe], "Revue des études sud-est européennes", vol. LI, no. 1-4, 2013, pp. 291-320.
Abstract:
This paper examines the reconfiguration of social relations across Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century, through the correspondence of Alexander and Roxandra Sturdza, which is kept for the most part at the Manuscript Section of the Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House) in Saint Petersburg and at the Regional Archives of Odessa. Spanning half a century (1805-1854) and involving over 200 correspondents, these letters reveal a triangular network of exchanges that embraced Russia, Western and South-Eastern Europe. From the diplomatic subjects of the Congress of Vienna to the pleas for help when the Greeks revolted against the Sultan (1821-1823), to the later exchanges of Alexander Sturdza with Western and Russian scholars on religious matters, this correspondence is a testament of a “continent without borders”, which was to largely disappear in the political upheaval of the Crimean War.
Keywords: Epistolary network, European margins, Russia, South-Eastern Europe, circulation, 19th Century.
"Le réseau épistolaire d’Alexandre et Roxandre Stourdza : une médiation triangulaire entre Occident, Russie et Sud-Est européen"
[The Correspondence Network of Alexander and Roxandra Sturdza: a Triangular Intermediation between Russia, Western and South-Eastern Europe], "Revue des études sud-est européennes", vol. LI, no. 1-4, 2013, pp. 291-320.
Abstract:
This paper examines the reconfiguration of social relations across Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century, through the correspondence of Alexander and Roxandra Sturdza, which is kept for the most part at the Manuscript Section of the Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House) in Saint Petersburg and at the Regional Archives of Odessa. Spanning half a century (1805-1854) and involving over 200 correspondents, these letters reveal a triangular network of exchanges that embraced Russia, Western and South-Eastern Europe. From the diplomatic subjects of the Congress of Vienna to the pleas for help when the Greeks revolted against the Sultan (1821-1823), to the later exchanges of Alexander Sturdza with Western and Russian scholars on religious matters, this correspondence is a testament of a “continent without borders”, which was to largely disappear in the political upheaval of the Crimean War.
Keywords: Epistolary network, European margins, Russia, South-Eastern Europe, circulation, 19th Century.
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, and 44 moreGreek History, History of Ideas, Social Networks, Romanian History, Social Networking, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Political History, Epistolary literature, Modern Greek History, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, Intellectual and cultural history, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, 19th Century (History), Russian Intellectual History, Southeastern Europe, Correspondence Analysis, Russia, St Petersburg, Balkans, Borders, Anthropology of European borders, Crimean War, Tsarist Empire, Russian Intellectual History, Europe, Epistolary research, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Transferts culturels, Correspondence, Odessa, Black Sea, 19th century Russian History, Correspondence Networks, Russian Imperial History, Epistolary Theory, Congress of Vienna, Circulation, Epistolary Studies, Intermediation, Epistolaries, Epistolary, Alexander Sturdza, Roxandra Sturdza, and Post-Napoleonic Europe
"La démocratie est un projet idéal qui a joué un rôle clef dans les évolutions des deux derniers siècles, en se matérialisant de façon imparfaite dans une variété de constructions politiques. L'Union européenne ne fait pas exception, en... more
"La démocratie est un projet idéal qui a joué un rôle clef dans les évolutions des deux derniers siècles, en se matérialisant de façon imparfaite dans une variété de constructions politiques. L'Union européenne ne fait pas exception, en présentant un discours dont la démocratie est certes une valeur essentielle, mais qui est néanmoins différent de celui des États-nations à cause de l'emphase qu'il met sur des valeurs dites "européennes" (diversité, tolérance, liberté de mouvement des personnes et des biens, etc.).
Or ce discours ne dit pas tout sur les idéaux philosophiques qui ont mené à la construction européenne, ni sur les compromis quotidiens voire les contradictions de la politique communautaire. Dans une perspective historique, cette contribution illustrera l'évolution de ces trois "niveaux" des valeurs, du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Leur opposition dialectique, toujours en mouvement, fournit un éclairage sur la "crise identitaire" que vit l'Europe élargie d'aujourd'hui."
Or ce discours ne dit pas tout sur les idéaux philosophiques qui ont mené à la construction européenne, ni sur les compromis quotidiens voire les contradictions de la politique communautaire. Dans une perspective historique, cette contribution illustrera l'évolution de ces trois "niveaux" des valeurs, du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Leur opposition dialectique, toujours en mouvement, fournit un éclairage sur la "crise identitaire" que vit l'Europe élargie d'aujourd'hui."
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, History, European History, Eastern European Studies, and 24 moreEuropean Studies, European integration, Social Sciences, Social sciences and values, Human Values, Values, Political Science, European Politics, European Union, Media and Democracy, Social and Collective Memory, Collective Memory, European identity, European/EU Politics, Social Imaginaries, Anthropology of Education, European Union Politics, History of the Imaginary, Values, ideologies, worldviews, Imaginary, Higher Education, Democracy and Citizenship, Education and Political Participation, Education and Development, Esp. Post Conflict Environments, and Education and Values
"Continent riche en histoire et en culture, l’Europe se conçoit pourtant moins comme héritage que comme projet politique et social. En se dotant de symboles étatiques comme le drapeau, la monnaie ou l’hymne, l’Union européenne a bien... more
"Continent riche en histoire et en culture, l’Europe se conçoit pourtant moins comme héritage que comme projet politique et social. En se dotant de symboles étatiques comme le drapeau, la monnaie ou l’hymne, l’Union européenne a bien marqué sa volonté de concrétiser ce projet. Mais en exprimer l’essence d’une manière claire et reconnaissable, de manière à susciter l’adhésion des citoyens potentiels, est une tout autre tâche, que ces symboles abstraits ne suffisent pas à exécuter. Seul l’euro, avec sa symbolique de l’ouverture (carte sans frontières, ponts, fenêtres), est capable d’exprimer une faible partie des valeurs dont se réclame la nouvelle fédération européenne. Pour le reste, on pourrait se demander en quoi consiste le vécu commun des Européens d’aujourd’hui, si ce n’est précisément en l’utilisation d’une monnaie commune, ou l’organisation de manifestations sportives comme les coupes européennes de football.
Historiquement, c’est bien la volonté de dépasser les identités nationales classiques, et les conflits qu’elles ont engendrés notamment au xxe siècle, qui fut à l’origine de la construction européenne."
Historiquement, c’est bien la volonté de dépasser les identités nationales classiques, et les conflits qu’elles ont engendrés notamment au xxe siècle, qui fut à l’origine de la construction européenne."
Research Interests: History, European History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, European integration, and 20 moreSouth East European Studies, History and Memory, Eastern European and Russian Jewish History, Central European history, Eastern European history, Victimology, Symbolic Boundaries, European Union, Social and Collective Memory, Commemoration and Memory, Second World War, Lieux de memoire, Collective Memory, First World War, European identity, European intellectual history, 19th-20th Century Europe, Modern European History, Central and Eastern Europe, and European Symbols
"Can the Values embedded in the Constitutional Treaty support a Common European Imaginary? Abstract Among the texts laying the political foundation of Europe, the Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe is no doubt a... more
"Can the Values embedded in the Constitutional Treaty support a Common European Imaginary?
Abstract
Among the texts laying the political foundation of Europe, the Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe is no doubt a remarkable exposé of the values, concepts and references forming its ideological cornerstone. Its recent rejection by the French and the Dutch, however, raises an essential question: will the values that the text promotes as its foundation, really suffice to create this communal identity so much sought after? To answer that question, we have applied to the draft Constitution a semantical, historical and even anthropological method of analysis, with a view to revealing the values, conceptions, hopes and expectations of its authors, and thus comprehending the imagination, or imaginaire, of the European political elite. The scope and limits of this imaginaire, in other words its actual capability to coalesce the consciences and willingness of the citizens of the Union, are the subject of this paper.
Résumé
Parmi les textes fondateurs de l’Europe politique, le projet de Constitution de l’Union européenne présente assurément un bel exposé des valeurs, notions et références qui en constituent le socle idéologique. Or son rejet populaire, en France et aux Pays-Bas, pose une question essentielle : ces valeurs que le projet prône comme fondatrices, sont-elles vraiment suffisantes à fonder cette identité communautaire tant recherchée? Pour répondre, nous avons appliqué à ce texte une méthode d’analyse sémantique et historique, voire anthropologique, dont le but a été de révéler les valeurs, les conceptions, les espoirs et les attentes de ses rédacteurs et à travers eux de reconstituer l'imaginaire de l’élite politique européenne. La portée de cet imaginaire, et ses limites, autrement dit sa capacité effective à rassembler les consciences et les volontés des citoyens des Etats de l'Union, constituent la véritable toile de fond de cette analyse."
Abstract
Among the texts laying the political foundation of Europe, the Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe is no doubt a remarkable exposé of the values, concepts and references forming its ideological cornerstone. Its recent rejection by the French and the Dutch, however, raises an essential question: will the values that the text promotes as its foundation, really suffice to create this communal identity so much sought after? To answer that question, we have applied to the draft Constitution a semantical, historical and even anthropological method of analysis, with a view to revealing the values, conceptions, hopes and expectations of its authors, and thus comprehending the imagination, or imaginaire, of the European political elite. The scope and limits of this imaginaire, in other words its actual capability to coalesce the consciences and willingness of the citizens of the Union, are the subject of this paper.
Résumé
Parmi les textes fondateurs de l’Europe politique, le projet de Constitution de l’Union européenne présente assurément un bel exposé des valeurs, notions et références qui en constituent le socle idéologique. Or son rejet populaire, en France et aux Pays-Bas, pose une question essentielle : ces valeurs que le projet prône comme fondatrices, sont-elles vraiment suffisantes à fonder cette identité communautaire tant recherchée? Pour répondre, nous avons appliqué à ce texte une méthode d’analyse sémantique et historique, voire anthropologique, dont le but a été de révéler les valeurs, les conceptions, les espoirs et les attentes de ses rédacteurs et à travers eux de reconstituer l'imaginaire de l’élite politique européenne. La portée de cet imaginaire, et ses limites, autrement dit sa capacité effective à rassembler les consciences et les volontés des citoyens des Etats de l'Union, constituent la véritable toile de fond de cette analyse."
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Eastern European Studies, and 15 moreEuropean Studies, History of Ideas, European integration, Values, History and Memory, Political Science, European Constitutionalism, European Politics, European Union, European Constitutional Law, European identity, European/EU Politics, Social Imaginaries, Social imaginary, and European constitutional law, constitutional justice, EU law
Le lieu est d’abord une notion spatiale. C’est aussi un repère qui peut servir de référence première à une construction identitaire. Depuis que Pierre Nora a utilisé le syntagme « lieu de mémoire » pour inventorier les fondements de... more
Le lieu est d’abord une notion spatiale. C’est aussi un repère qui peut servir de référence première à une construction identitaire. Depuis que Pierre Nora a utilisé le syntagme « lieu de mémoire » pour inventorier les fondements de l’identité française (Nora 1997),
le lieu ne désigne plus seulement des localités géographiques : il s’applique également aux supports mémoriels et aux référents culturels à vocation identitaire. Les symboles politiques, les commémorations, les monuments et les institutions, de même que des pratiques culturelles ou encore certains contenus pédagogiques, sont ainsi devenus des « lieux » au même titre, quoique dans un autre genre, que les pics, les caps ou les
péninsules.
le lieu ne désigne plus seulement des localités géographiques : il s’applique également aux supports mémoriels et aux référents culturels à vocation identitaire. Les symboles politiques, les commémorations, les monuments et les institutions, de même que des pratiques culturelles ou encore certains contenus pédagogiques, sont ainsi devenus des « lieux » au même titre, quoique dans un autre genre, que les pics, les caps ou les
péninsules.
Research Interests: History, European History, Geography, European Studies, European integration, and 13 morePlace and Identity, Heritage Studies, Space and Place, Cultural Identity, European Union, Lieux de memoire, European identity, Politics of mythmaking, European culture, Frontier Studies, Cultural Exchange, Cultural Diplomacy, and Borders and Frontiers
"Autant qu’une réalité géographique ou économique, l’Europe est une idée, un projet politique, qui cherche à se légitimer à travers un ensemble de mythes et de références culturelles. Les rédacteurs du projet de Constitution européenne,... more
"Autant qu’une réalité géographique ou économique, l’Europe est une idée, un projet politique, qui cherche à se légitimer à travers un ensemble de mythes et de références culturelles. Les rédacteurs du projet de Constitution européenne, qui se sont refusés à lui assigner un territoire précis ou à la définir par rapport à un héritage culturel ou religieux particulier, l’ont imaginée comme un projet de société résultant des tentatives successives de la civilisation européenne d’écrire les codes de la vie en société."
Research Interests: History, European History, Geography, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, and 24 moreEuropean integration, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, Social sciences and values, Values, Eastern European history, Cultures and heritage tourism, Cultural Identity, European Politics, European Union, Lieux de memoire, Collective Memory, European Integration History, European identity, Europeanization, World Cultural Heritage, European Union Politics, Cultural Exchange, Cultural Diplomacy, Cultural Patrimony, European cultural policies, Memory, Southeast Europe, and Places of memory (les lieux de mémoire)
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, International Relations, and 31 morePhilosophy, Political Philosophy, Kant, History of Ideas, International Relations Theory, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Theory, International Studies, Political Science, United Nations, European Union, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, Peace & Conflict Studies, Conceptual History, History of International Legal Thought, Peace Studies, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Peace, The League of Nations, History of Political Ideas, League of Nations, Intelectual History, Concert of Europe, United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, Congress of Vienna, History of the European Union, Theory and history of international relations, History United Nations, and The Congress of Vienna
"Si l’euro est appelé à devenir un symbole de l’identité européenne, alors cette identité sera quelque peu abstraite. En éliminant, comme susceptibles de choquer, tous les symboles religieux ou politiques aussi bien que tous les... more
"Si l’euro est appelé à devenir un symbole de l’identité européenne, alors cette identité sera quelque peu abstraite. En éliminant, comme susceptibles de choquer, tous les symboles religieux ou politiques aussi bien que tous les personnages de l’histoire, des arts, des sciences ou des littératures nationales, les concepteurs de la nouvelle monnaie ont obéi à l’impératif pragmatique de concrétiser un instrument économique qui soit avant tout fonctionnel, au détriment d’éventuelles préoccupations culturelles ou sociales."
Research Interests: History, European History, Geography, Human Geography, European Studies, and 15 moreEuropean integration, Border Studies, South East European Studies, Political Science, East European studies, European Union, Collective Memory, Territory (Political Theory), Frontier Studies, Territoriality, Borders and Frontiers, Political Studies, Territory, Frontier, and Teritorial Identity
"Marché commun à l’origine, réalité politique et administrative aujourd’hui, l’Union européenne se cherche encore une identité, peut-être même une âme. Or, une identité ne se décrète pas : elle se vit, s’exprime parfois par des... more
"Marché commun à l’origine, réalité politique et administrative aujourd’hui, l’Union européenne se cherche encore une identité, peut-être même une âme. Or, une identité ne se décrète pas : elle se vit, s’exprime parfois par des manifestations collectives ou à travers des symboles. Tout le monde en convient cependant : la faiblesse des symboles politiques de l’Europe est manifeste."
Research Interests: History, European History, Geography, Human Geography, Eastern European Studies, and 13 moreEuropean Studies, European integration, Transnationalism, Border Studies, Political Science, Migration, Modern Europe, European Politics, European Union, Collective Memory, European identity, European/EU Politics, and Cultural and Social Anthropology
"La démocratie est un projet idéal qui a joué un rôle clef dans les évolutions des deux derniers siècles, en se matérialisant de façon imparfaite dans une variété de constructions politiques. L'Union européenne ne fait pas exception, en... more
"La démocratie est un projet idéal qui a joué un rôle clef dans les évolutions des deux derniers siècles, en se matérialisant de façon imparfaite dans une variété de constructions politiques. L'Union européenne ne fait pas exception, en présentant un discours dont la démocratie est certes une valeur essentielle, mais qui est néanmoins différent de celui des États-nations à cause de l'emphase qu'il met sur des valeurs dites "européennes" (diversité, tolérance, liberté de mouvement des personnes et des biens, etc.).
Or ce discours ne dit pas tout sur les idéaux philosophiques qui ont mené à la construction européenne, ni sur les compromis quotidiens voire les contradictions de la politique communautaire. Dans une perspective historique, cette contribution illustrera l'évolution de ces trois "niveaux" des valeurs, du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Leur opposition dialectique, toujours en mouvement, fournit un éclairage sur la "crise identitaire" que vit l'Europe élargie d'aujourd'hui."
Or ce discours ne dit pas tout sur les idéaux philosophiques qui ont mené à la construction européenne, ni sur les compromis quotidiens voire les contradictions de la politique communautaire. Dans une perspective historique, cette contribution illustrera l'évolution de ces trois "niveaux" des valeurs, du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Leur opposition dialectique, toujours en mouvement, fournit un éclairage sur la "crise identitaire" que vit l'Europe élargie d'aujourd'hui."
Research Interests: History, European History, Sociology, European Studies, Russian Studies, and 14 moreEuropean integration, European Law, Social sciences and values, Values, Political Science, East European studies, Eastern European history, European Politics, European Union, Media and Democracy, European identity, Democracy, Ukraine (History), and Politics of Ukraine
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, Russian Literature, Greek History, and 24 moreHistory of Ideas, Romanticism, Geopolitics, South East European Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Christian Orthodoxy and Nationalism, Political History, History of Political Thought, 18th & 19th Centuries, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, Greek history (History), History of Central and Southeastern Europe, 19th Century (History), Southeastern Europe, 18th and 19th Century, 19th Century Ottoman History, 19th-20th Century Europe, South-Eastern Europe, Philhellenism, Eastern Question, and Romantic Hellenism & philhellenism
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Research Interests: European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Diplomatic History, Gender Studies, and 24 moreTravel Writing, Women's Studies, Women's History, German History, Women's travel narratives, Women's Literature, Political History, Women, Napoleonic Wars, Russian History, 19th Century (History), Travel Literature, Napoleonic Europe, Travel History, Russian Empire, Tsarist Empire, Russian Intellectual History, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, 19th century Russian History, Napoleonic History, Narratives of Travel and Tourism, Travel Narratives, Capodistrias, Alexandre Stourdza (Sturdza), and Congress of Vienna
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Economic History, Diplomatic History, and 29 moreSwiss History, Political History, Migration Studies, Russian History, Social History, 19th Century (History), Black Sea region, History of Switzerland, Black Sea Studies, Napoleonic Europe, Russia, Crimean War, Black Sea, Crimea, Geneva, Odessa, Odessa, Black Sea, Napoleonic History, Literary Geography, Geneva, travel and tourism, Economic history of Geneva, Saint-Petersburg, Pictet, History of Geneva, Russian Tsar, Tsarist Russia, Tsar Alexander I, Swiss colonial history, Balkanic history, and Stella Ghervas
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Research Interests: Eastern European Studies, Eastern Europe, Romanian History, Nationalism, Russian Politics, and 11 moreEastern European history, Romanian Studies, European Union, National Identity, Russian History, Politics of Moldova, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, History of Moldova, Moldova, Nation-State, and Post-Communist Studies
Research Interests: History, European History, Greek History, Women's Studies, Women's History, and 14 moreSwiss History, Women, Feminist history, 19th Century (History), 18th and 19th Century, Early 19th Century (History), History of Switzerland, Philhellenism, Geneva, Switzerland, Capodistrias, Congress of Vienna, History of Geneva, and Madame De Staël
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Stella Ghervas (2002). "La réception de “L'Esprit des lois” en Russie: histoire de quelques ambiguïtés" [The Reception of "The Spirit of Laws" in Russia: A History of Ambiguities], in "Le Temps de Montesquieu", ed. Michel Porret and... more
Stella Ghervas (2002). "La réception de “L'Esprit des lois” en Russie: histoire de quelques ambiguïtés" [The Reception of "The Spirit of Laws" in Russia: A History of Ambiguities], in "Le Temps de Montesquieu", ed. Michel Porret and Catherine Volpilhac-Auger (Geneva: Droz, 2002), pp. 391-404.
Résumé:
"Cette contribution se propose d'analyser, au travers d'un écrit partiellement inédit d'un érudit russe d'origine moldave, les conditions de réception de "L'Esprit des lois" dans l'Europe de tradition orthodoxe, et particulièrement en Russie, à la fin du XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècles.
Admiratrice de l'oeuvre et de son auteur, Catherine II essaya de la mettre en valeur et d'utiliser les idées de Montesquieu dans sa tentative de fonder la législation russe sur la philosophie des Lumières. Plus de la moitié des articles du "Nakaz" (Instruction), nouveau code des lois de l'Empire, portent ainsi, de l'aveu même de la souveraine, la marque de "L'Esprit des lois".
Pourtant, si l'oeuvre de Montesquieu a été appréciée comme valeur de référence dans le monde orthodoxe, sa mise en pratique s'est heurtée à d'importantes difficultés qui l'ont empêché d'avoir un impact fonctionnel. Dans les milieux intellectuels s'est longtemps posée la question de l'adaptation de "L'Esprit des lois" au monde oriental. Un des documents les plus éclairants sur les difficultés de cette adaptation aux valeurs du monde orthodoxe est l'"Essai sur les lois fondamentales de la société et les institutions humaines" écrit dans les années 1811-1812 par Alexandre Stourdza, jeune diplomate au service du tsar Alexandre Ier. Cet écrit démontre les difficultés d'un intellectuel imprégné de tradition et de culture chrétienne orthodoxe à accepter la philosophie juridique et sociale de Montesquieu; d'où ses tentatives pour la réinterpréter en fonction d'une tradition culturelle différente.
La réception de "L'Esprit des lois" dans le monde orthodoxe permet de saisir les différences culturelles et sociales existant entre l'Est et l'Ouest de l'Europe, et de poser la question de l'existence d'une société civile en Russie ou dans l'espace orthodoxe. Elle permet indirectement de démontrer l'importance de l'oeuvre de Montesquieu dans la constitution de la modernité occidentale. Derrière cette problématique, c'est toute la question de l'appartenance de la Russie et des autres pays d'Europe orientale à la modernité intellectuelle européenne qui se trouve ainsi posée."
Résumé:
"Cette contribution se propose d'analyser, au travers d'un écrit partiellement inédit d'un érudit russe d'origine moldave, les conditions de réception de "L'Esprit des lois" dans l'Europe de tradition orthodoxe, et particulièrement en Russie, à la fin du XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècles.
Admiratrice de l'oeuvre et de son auteur, Catherine II essaya de la mettre en valeur et d'utiliser les idées de Montesquieu dans sa tentative de fonder la législation russe sur la philosophie des Lumières. Plus de la moitié des articles du "Nakaz" (Instruction), nouveau code des lois de l'Empire, portent ainsi, de l'aveu même de la souveraine, la marque de "L'Esprit des lois".
Pourtant, si l'oeuvre de Montesquieu a été appréciée comme valeur de référence dans le monde orthodoxe, sa mise en pratique s'est heurtée à d'importantes difficultés qui l'ont empêché d'avoir un impact fonctionnel. Dans les milieux intellectuels s'est longtemps posée la question de l'adaptation de "L'Esprit des lois" au monde oriental. Un des documents les plus éclairants sur les difficultés de cette adaptation aux valeurs du monde orthodoxe est l'"Essai sur les lois fondamentales de la société et les institutions humaines" écrit dans les années 1811-1812 par Alexandre Stourdza, jeune diplomate au service du tsar Alexandre Ier. Cet écrit démontre les difficultés d'un intellectuel imprégné de tradition et de culture chrétienne orthodoxe à accepter la philosophie juridique et sociale de Montesquieu; d'où ses tentatives pour la réinterpréter en fonction d'une tradition culturelle différente.
La réception de "L'Esprit des lois" dans le monde orthodoxe permet de saisir les différences culturelles et sociales existant entre l'Est et l'Ouest de l'Europe, et de poser la question de l'existence d'une société civile en Russie ou dans l'espace orthodoxe. Elle permet indirectement de démontrer l'importance de l'oeuvre de Montesquieu dans la constitution de la modernité occidentale. Derrière cette problématique, c'est toute la question de l'appartenance de la Russie et des autres pays d'Europe orientale à la modernité intellectuelle européenne qui se trouve ainsi posée."
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Russian Studies, and 65 moreLaw, Comparative Law, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Reception Studies, History of Ideas, European Law, Political Theory, International Law, Legal History, Political Science, Enlightenment, History Of Political Thought (Political Science), Philosophy Of Law, Modernization, Reception, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, 18th Century Philosophy, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, Russian Philosophy, History of International Law, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, French Political Philosophy, European Legal History, Intellectual and cultural history, Europeanization, 18th Century Enlightenment, Russian Intellectual History, History of International Thought, 17th- and 18th-century Philosophy, Reception History, Enlightenment Political Thought, 18th Century France, 18th Century Russia, Catherine the Great, European Enlightenment, Europeanisation, Montesquieu, International Political Theory, German Enlightenment, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Balkans, History of Political Ideas, Theory of Law, Neohellenic Enlightenment, History and Theory of International Law, the Enlightenment, French Enlightenment, Russian Enlightenment, 19th century Russian History, Enlightment, The Petersburg Crucible: Alchemy and the Russian Nobility in Catherine the Great's Russia, 18th/19th French Political Thought, Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu, Greek Enlightenment, Enlightened Absolutism, Modern Balkans History, European Ideas to Russia, The Age of Enlightenment, European political cultures, European Political Thougtt, Nakaz of Catherine the Great, and Franco-Russian Relations
Perry Anderson, "Peace without Empire" LRB, 2 December 2021 "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" by Stella Ghervas. Gradual changes have already started to act as counterforces to the follies of unbridled... more
Perry Anderson, "Peace without Empire"
LRB, 2 December 2021
"Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union"
by Stella Ghervas.
Gradual changes have already started to act as counterforces to the follies of unbridled speculation, fears of uncontrolled immigration and contagions of civil war. For Stella Ghervas, balance of power principles, and the needs of military defence, retain their validity against any would-be empire. But the gains of the lasting peace Europe has achieved should not be compromised by them.
Link: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/perry-anderson/peace-without-empire
LRB, 2 December 2021
"Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union"
by Stella Ghervas.
Gradual changes have already started to act as counterforces to the follies of unbridled speculation, fears of uncontrolled immigration and contagions of civil war. For Stella Ghervas, balance of power principles, and the needs of military defence, retain their validity against any would-be empire. But the gains of the lasting peace Europe has achieved should not be compromised by them.
Link: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/perry-anderson/peace-without-empire
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Eastern European Studies, International Relations, and 15 moreHistory of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Theory, Geopolitics, Cold War, European Union, European Legal History, European Union Politics, Empire, Central and Eastern Europe, Peace, Perry Anderson, Diplomacy and international relations, History of the European Union, and Stella Ghervas
Anthony Pagden, "Swords into Summit Meetings" Literary Review, November 2021 "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" By Stella Ghervas (Harvard University Press, 513pp, £31.95) Link:... more
Anthony Pagden, "Swords into Summit Meetings"
Literary Review, November 2021
"Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union"
By Stella Ghervas
(Harvard University Press, 513pp, £31.95)
Link: https://literaryreview.co.uk/swords-into-summit-meetings
Literary Review, November 2021
"Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union"
By Stella Ghervas
(Harvard University Press, 513pp, £31.95)
Link: https://literaryreview.co.uk/swords-into-summit-meetings
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, International Relations, and 15 moreHistory of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Theory, Identity (Culture), Intellectual History of Enlightenment, European Union, 18th & 19th Centuries, 20th century (History), History of International Thought, War and Peace, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, League of Nations, European, Diplomacy and international relations, and European Cultural Studies
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Intellectual History, History of Ideas, and 12 moreHistory of Political Thought, 20th century (History), 19th Century (History), Conceptual History, Cold War history, 19th-20th Century Europe, Peace, Utopia, History of Political Ideas, Treaty of Versailles, Congress of Vienna, and History Of Peace
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Russian Studies, and 23 moreRussian Literature, Enlightenment, Eastern European history, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Nobility, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), 18th- and 19th-century philosophy, Russia (History), Imperial Russia, Russian Intellectual History, Cultural History of Russia, 18th and 19th Century, 18th Century Russia, Russian culture, Modern European History, Russia, Aristocracy, Intelectual History, Russian Aristocracy, Russian nobility, and Histoire Des Mentalités
Research Interests: History, Russian Studies, South East European Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, and 11 moreRevolutions, History of Political and Institutional Reform, 18th & 19th Centuries, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Social movements and revolution, Europeanization of the Balkans, 19th Century (History), Russia (History), Russia, and Land reform
Prof. Stella Ghervas, "How European Wars End -- and What This Might Tell Us About the Conditions for Peace in Ukraine", Lecture at the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, May 15, 2024, at 4pm.
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, and 15 moreInternational Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, East European studies, Ukrainian Politics, European Union, Napoleonic Wars, History of International Relations, Russian History, Peace Studies, Central and Eastern Europe, Ukrainian History, Russian-Ukrainian Relations, Security and Peace Studies, Diplomacy and international relations, and History of Ukraine
Stella Ghervas, “Europe, Empire, Peace: A Reappraisal”. Lecture at Vanderbilt University, February 29, 2024. Abstract: "This lecture shows how periodic struggles against the creation of a continental empire in Europe from the eighteenth... more
Stella Ghervas, “Europe, Empire, Peace: A Reappraisal”.
Lecture at Vanderbilt University, February 29, 2024.
Abstract: "This lecture shows how periodic struggles against the creation of a continental empire in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards gave rise to lofty conceptions of a new political order, based on international cooperation instead of conflict. It asks what brought about peace settlements and permitted them to endure, and how Europeans could eschew empire at home even as they built empires abroad. It concludes by pondering on the current challenges to peace in Europe presented by the vision of a resurgent Russian empire."
Lecture at Vanderbilt University, February 29, 2024.
Abstract: "This lecture shows how periodic struggles against the creation of a continental empire in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards gave rise to lofty conceptions of a new political order, based on international cooperation instead of conflict. It asks what brought about peace settlements and permitted them to endure, and how Europeans could eschew empire at home even as they built empires abroad. It concludes by pondering on the current challenges to peace in Europe presented by the vision of a resurgent Russian empire."
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, and 15 moreInternational Relations, History of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, War Studies, Diplomacy, History of Political Thought, 19th Century (History), Peace Studies, 20th Century, 18th Century, Empire, Peace, Diplomacy and international relations, History of the European Union, and Colonialism and Imperialism
In her new book, "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" (Harvard University Press, 2021), Professor Stella Ghervas discusses the continuum of war and peace in human interactions. She will explain the “engineering... more
In her new book, "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" (Harvard University Press, 2021), Professor Stella Ghervas discusses the continuum of war and peace in human interactions. She will explain the “engineering of peace” conducted after five periods of bloody imperial overreach in Europe. How did political leaders, diplomats and philosophers attempt to channel chaotic events according to their will? What was the role of popular aspirations? Where did promoters of peace succeed? Where did they fail?
After 75 years of peace in Europe, except in the Western Balkans in the 1990s, war has started again with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Can the gains of peace be restored? Political Europe is at the crossroads, and this history might help us to understand where it will go next.
STELLA GHERVAS is Professor of Russian History at Newcastle University (UK) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is the author or editor of six books in French and in English. Her book "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance" (Paris, 2008), won the Guizot Prize from the Académie française.
Register link:
https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElde6orD8pGNd_Ou-ZxgOZ4MnzsefmwdBY
After 75 years of peace in Europe, except in the Western Balkans in the 1990s, war has started again with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Can the gains of peace be restored? Political Europe is at the crossroads, and this history might help us to understand where it will go next.
STELLA GHERVAS is Professor of Russian History at Newcastle University (UK) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is the author or editor of six books in French and in English. Her book "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance" (Paris, 2008), won the Guizot Prize from the Académie française.
Register link:
https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElde6orD8pGNd_Ou-ZxgOZ4MnzsefmwdBY
Research Interests: History, European History, Military History, Intellectual History, Eastern European Studies, and 15 moreEuropean Studies, International Relations, History of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, War Studies, Political Science, International History, Political History, Diplomacy, History of Political Thought, Russian History, Peace Studies, Peace, Ukraine, and Europe
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, Eastern European Studies, and 15 moreEuropean Studies, International Relations, History of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Law, Legal History, Political Science, International History, Political History, Diplomacy, European Union, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, European Legal History, and Peace Studies
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, and 15 moreEuropean Studies, International Relations, Eastern Europe, Contemporary History, Political Science, International History, Political History, Diplomacy, European Union, History of International Relations, Peace Studies, 18th Century, 19th-20th Century Europe, Peace, and Diplomacy and international relations
Stella Ghervas (2017). "The 'Orthodox Commonwealth': A Russo-Hellenic Utopia for the Balkans, 1815-1856", ASEEES, Chicago, November 2017. Abstract "For the Christian elites of the Balkans, the hope for emancipation in the early 19th... more
Stella Ghervas (2017). "The 'Orthodox Commonwealth': A Russo-Hellenic Utopia for the Balkans, 1815-1856", ASEEES, Chicago, November 2017.
Abstract
"For the Christian elites of the Balkans, the hope for emancipation in the early 19th Century posed the question of which foreign power should replace the Sublime Porte. This paper will describe a prevailing political utopia, that I called "Orthodox Commonwealth" (an autonomy of the Hellenized lands, under the benevolent hegemony of the Russian Empire). It echoed the "Greek Dream" of Tsarina Catherine, that Orthodox Russia would resuscitate the Byzantine Empire and become the sole protector of Christian populations in the Balkans and the Levant.
This conception of an Orthodox commonwealth will be examined through three different and often contrasting viewpoints: official (Alexander I and his successor Nicolas I), intellectual/diplomatic (epitomized by John Capodistrias, Ionian-born Greek, then chief of the Russian diplomacy) and insurrectional (through the Greek organization Philiki Eteria operating from Odessa in Russian territory).
However, this Russo-Hellenic utopia met with a starkly different reality, ushering in the age of "balkanization". This paper will argue that the causes of this failure - and incidentally the independence of Greece - lay in the specific geopolitical situation of the region created by the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) and the development of the Eastern Question."
Abstract
"For the Christian elites of the Balkans, the hope for emancipation in the early 19th Century posed the question of which foreign power should replace the Sublime Porte. This paper will describe a prevailing political utopia, that I called "Orthodox Commonwealth" (an autonomy of the Hellenized lands, under the benevolent hegemony of the Russian Empire). It echoed the "Greek Dream" of Tsarina Catherine, that Orthodox Russia would resuscitate the Byzantine Empire and become the sole protector of Christian populations in the Balkans and the Levant.
This conception of an Orthodox commonwealth will be examined through three different and often contrasting viewpoints: official (Alexander I and his successor Nicolas I), intellectual/diplomatic (epitomized by John Capodistrias, Ionian-born Greek, then chief of the Russian diplomacy) and insurrectional (through the Greek organization Philiki Eteria operating from Odessa in Russian territory).
However, this Russo-Hellenic utopia met with a starkly different reality, ushering in the age of "balkanization". This paper will argue that the causes of this failure - and incidentally the independence of Greece - lay in the specific geopolitical situation of the region created by the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) and the development of the Eastern Question."
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, Russian Studies, and 44 moreGreek History, History of Ideas, Ottoman History, Romanian History, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Russian Orthodox Church, Political History, Balkan Politics, Modern Greece, Modern Greek History, 18th & 19th Centuries, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, Catherine the Great, Greek Diaspora, Bulgarian history, Orthodox Christianity, Modern European History, Russia, Orthodox Church in the Ottoman period, Balkans, Modern Greek Studies, Crimean War, Greek Warfare, History of Political Ideas, Levant, history of Russia (17th-18th centuries); history of European diplomatic relations (17th-18th centuries), Odessa, Eastern Orthodoxy, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Eastern Question, Congress of Vienna, Representations of the Crimean War, The Powers and the Eastern Question, the Eastern Question, Russian Tsar, History of 19th and 20th Century East Central Europe, Balcan History, History of Black Sea Regiuon, and Social History of the Greek-Orthodox Communities In the Ottoman Empire'
Stella Ghervas (2018). "'European Values': Decoding the Palimpsest of EU Treaties", 25th International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Chicago, March 2018. Abstract "In the wake of the economic and political... more
Stella Ghervas (2018). "'European Values': Decoding the Palimpsest of EU Treaties", 25th International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Chicago, March 2018.
Abstract
"In the wake of the economic and political crisis that gripped the EU in recent years, advocates of "ever greater union" have increasingly relied on ethical justifications for the European integration. The founding treaties have called not only for a common market but a "community of values" , notably "peace, reconciliation, democracy, and human rights". Among them, peace has been a mainstay—and a successful one—for several decades. Despite this, the European leadership has regularly shown extraordinary self-doubt in times of crisis. Why this paradox? This paper argues that such questioning is intrinsic to the European system of political values, none of which are unique per se, but which form a distinctive combination. Taking an approach over the longue durée, the paper will examine the following questions: Why in the face of all odds and dramatic failures, have political leaders periodically attempted new projects for the peaceful unification of the Old Continent? Conversely, why are those values flagging today? It will also argue that the ideal of peace, if adequately rekindled, has the potential for drawing the political leaders and citizens of the member states back to a pan-European polity. It will end by exploring the political opportunities, but also the real risks, inherent in the fulfillment of European values, at a time of fragmentation and pressure, both internal and external."
Abstract
"In the wake of the economic and political crisis that gripped the EU in recent years, advocates of "ever greater union" have increasingly relied on ethical justifications for the European integration. The founding treaties have called not only for a common market but a "community of values" , notably "peace, reconciliation, democracy, and human rights". Among them, peace has been a mainstay—and a successful one—for several decades. Despite this, the European leadership has regularly shown extraordinary self-doubt in times of crisis. Why this paradox? This paper argues that such questioning is intrinsic to the European system of political values, none of which are unique per se, but which form a distinctive combination. Taking an approach over the longue durée, the paper will examine the following questions: Why in the face of all odds and dramatic failures, have political leaders periodically attempted new projects for the peaceful unification of the Old Continent? Conversely, why are those values flagging today? It will also argue that the ideal of peace, if adequately rekindled, has the potential for drawing the political leaders and citizens of the member states back to a pan-European polity. It will end by exploring the political opportunities, but also the real risks, inherent in the fulfillment of European values, at a time of fragmentation and pressure, both internal and external."
Research Interests: History, European History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, International Relations, and 40 morePolitical Philosophy, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, European Law, Political Theory, Human Values, Values, International Security, Political Science, Politics, Eastern European history, European Union citizenship (Political Science), European Foreign Policy, European Politics, European Union, European and International Law, European Constitutional Law, Peacekeeping, European Union Law, European Convention of Human Rights, European culture, Peace Studies, Science and values, European Union Politics, European Construction History, Central and Eastern Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Europe, European philosophy, Eurozone, Conflict of Values, Cultural Values, European Values Study, European Cultural Studies, European Community, History of the European Union, Eu Treaties, EU Treaty of Lisboa, and Treaty of Rome
Introduction The lecture will be on Stella Ghervas’ forthcoming book upon the role of Peace in the elaboration of political Europe, as well as on the process of “legalization” and “institutionalization” of the international order. Ghervas... more
Introduction
The lecture will be on Stella Ghervas’ forthcoming book upon the role of Peace in the elaboration of political Europe, as well as on the process of “legalization” and “institutionalization” of the international order. Ghervas will trace European values back to their historical origins, showing how the ideas of peacemaking expressed by political philosophers crystallized as early as the eighteenth century into a concept of European unification. The lecture will cover five key moments that
redefined the political order of Europe: the Peace of Utrecht (1713), the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815), the creation of the League of Nations (1919), the birth of the European communities in the 1950’s, and finally the foundation of the European Union at the treaty of Maastricht, after the fall of Soviet Union.
Biographical note
Stella Ghervas is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an Associate of the Department of History at Harvard University. She is currently also Mihaychuk Fellow 2016-2017 at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Among her many publications are “Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte- Alliance” (2008), which was awarded the Guizot Prize of the Académie Française, and “Lieux d’Europe: Mythes et limites”, ed. (2008). Her new book “Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union” is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. She is now working on a new monographic project “Calming the Waters? A New History of the Black Sea, 1774-1920s”, and co-editing a volume on the cultural history of peace in the Enlightenment.
Link: http://www.vub.ac.be/CORE/
The lecture will be on Stella Ghervas’ forthcoming book upon the role of Peace in the elaboration of political Europe, as well as on the process of “legalization” and “institutionalization” of the international order. Ghervas will trace European values back to their historical origins, showing how the ideas of peacemaking expressed by political philosophers crystallized as early as the eighteenth century into a concept of European unification. The lecture will cover five key moments that
redefined the political order of Europe: the Peace of Utrecht (1713), the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815), the creation of the League of Nations (1919), the birth of the European communities in the 1950’s, and finally the foundation of the European Union at the treaty of Maastricht, after the fall of Soviet Union.
Biographical note
Stella Ghervas is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an Associate of the Department of History at Harvard University. She is currently also Mihaychuk Fellow 2016-2017 at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Among her many publications are “Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte- Alliance” (2008), which was awarded the Guizot Prize of the Académie Française, and “Lieux d’Europe: Mythes et limites”, ed. (2008). Her new book “Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union” is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. She is now working on a new monographic project “Calming the Waters? A New History of the Black Sea, 1774-1920s”, and co-editing a volume on the cultural history of peace in the Enlightenment.
Link: http://www.vub.ac.be/CORE/
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, Eastern European Studies, and 41 moreEuropean Studies, Criminal Law, International Relations, Philosophy, History of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, European Law, Legal History, War Studies, Political Science, Eastern European history, Philosophy Of Law, Political History, European Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, European Politics, European Union, European and International Law, History of Political Thought, Peacekeeping, European Union Law, Russian History, Immanuel Kant, European Legal History, Peace & Conflict Studies, History of International Legal Thought, Peace Studies, European Union Politics, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Comparative Legal History, Peace, Peacebuilding, Law of Treaties, Europe, International Treaties, Security and Peace Studies, Democratic Peace Theory, Balance of Power, Balance of Power Theory, and Theories of Peace and Conflict Studies
Stella Ghervas, Schuman Lecture 2017: "Europe's Pursuit of Peace: Past, Present and Future", Maastricht, 9 May 2017 Abstract: Since the Roman Empire, no political entity has ever survived in Europe on such a large scale and for as long... more
Stella Ghervas, Schuman Lecture 2017: "Europe's Pursuit of Peace: Past, Present and Future", Maastricht, 9 May 2017
Abstract:
Since the Roman Empire, no political entity has ever survived in Europe on such a large scale and for as long as the European Union. Yet it seems today that the EU is teetering on the brink of self-destruction. Now is therefore the time to urgently reconsider a founding principle that has sustained the European construction to date and which might make or break it in the future: Peace.
In fact, it is possible to trace a genealogy of concerted attempts at pacification of the European continent even before the Congress of Vienna (1815); attempts that continued undeterred with the League of Nations after the devastations of World War I, and were pursued after World War II and the Cold War.
Spanning three centuries, this year’s Schuman lecture will examine a number of deep-rooted reasons why, in the face of all odds and failures, political leaders in Europe have been trying to achieve a peaceful unification of the continent, and why this pursuit is a never-ending process.
Bio:
Stella Ghervas is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an Associate of the Department of History at Harvard University. She is currently also the Mihaychuk Fellow 2016-2017 at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Among her many publications are "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance" (2008), which was awarded the Guizot Prize of the Académie Française, and "Lieux d’Europe: Mythes et limites", ed. (2008). Her new book "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. She is now working on a transnational history of the Black Sea Region from the Russian expansion in the eighteenth century to the present day and co-editing a volume on the cultural history of peace in the Enlightenment.
Link: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/europe%E2%80%99s-pursuit-peace-past-present-and-future
Abstract:
Since the Roman Empire, no political entity has ever survived in Europe on such a large scale and for as long as the European Union. Yet it seems today that the EU is teetering on the brink of self-destruction. Now is therefore the time to urgently reconsider a founding principle that has sustained the European construction to date and which might make or break it in the future: Peace.
In fact, it is possible to trace a genealogy of concerted attempts at pacification of the European continent even before the Congress of Vienna (1815); attempts that continued undeterred with the League of Nations after the devastations of World War I, and were pursued after World War II and the Cold War.
Spanning three centuries, this year’s Schuman lecture will examine a number of deep-rooted reasons why, in the face of all odds and failures, political leaders in Europe have been trying to achieve a peaceful unification of the continent, and why this pursuit is a never-ending process.
Bio:
Stella Ghervas is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an Associate of the Department of History at Harvard University. She is currently also the Mihaychuk Fellow 2016-2017 at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Among her many publications are "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance" (2008), which was awarded the Guizot Prize of the Académie Française, and "Lieux d’Europe: Mythes et limites", ed. (2008). Her new book "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. She is now working on a transnational history of the Black Sea Region from the Russian expansion in the eighteenth century to the present day and co-editing a volume on the cultural history of peace in the Enlightenment.
Link: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/europe%E2%80%99s-pursuit-peace-past-present-and-future
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Diplomatic History, and 68 moreEastern European Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, International Law, Cold War and Culture, Legal History, War Studies, Political Science, Cold War, Legal Theory, Politics, Enlightenment, Eastern European history, Diplomatic Studies, Political History, European Union Citizenship, European Foreign Policy, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Diplomacy, European Politics, European Union, Peace Movements, History of Political Thought, Second World War, History of International Relations, Peacekeeping, Conflict Resolution, European Integration History, First World War, Immanuel Kant, World War II, European Union (International Studies), Peace & Conflict Studies, Legal Philosophy, Peace Studies, European Union Politics, Cultural Diplomacy, Jean Jaques Rousseau, European Union external relations, Central and Eastern Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Peace and Conflict Resolution, European Union integration, Law of Treaties, European Court of Human Rights, Europe, Political Sciences, Rules of War, NATO-Russian Relations, Democracy in the European Union, Maastricht, Maastricht treaty, International Treaties, Security and Peace Studies, Diplomacy and international relations, Democratic Peace Theory, History of European Integration, European Projects, Peace & Reconciliation, Relations Internationales, Peace and Conflicts Studies, Future of the European Union, NATO and EU Aspirations. Political Systems, European Integration Policies, and Maastricht University European Law School
Stella Ghervas, "Calming the Waters? Toward a New History of the Black Sea", Harvard University, April 24, 2017, 4:15-6:00 pm Abstract Writing a consistent narrative of the Black Sea is no easy task. Located north of the Mediterranean... more
Stella Ghervas, "Calming the Waters? Toward a New History of the Black Sea", Harvard University, April 24, 2017, 4:15-6:00 pm
Abstract
Writing a consistent narrative of the Black Sea is no easy task. Located north of the Mediterranean Sea and communicating with its elder sister through a single waterway, it has attracted very diverse populations from Europe and Asia on its shores. As a confluence point between the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, it raises the difficult issue of what “Europe” really is, and how it blends into Asia.
This paper confronts these problems by covering the long human history of the Black Sea through the perspective of circulations of people, goods and ideas, especially its moments of “openness” and “closedness”. It considers in particular the maritime, fluvial and terrestrial routes, Greek and Roman colonization, and the successive migrations of nomads across the plains of the northern shores; then for modern history, the rise of the Ottoman and Russian Empires culminating in the famous Eastern Question; and finally the conflicts and issues surrounding the former Soviet republics, the geopolitics of mineral oils, and the environmental issues that have emerged in the last decades.
In an area of the world where national historiographies are still prevalent and imply geopolitical stakes, this radical long-range perspective on the history of the Black Sea carries a strong potential for increasing the political reconciliation through greater knowledge of the region’s history.
Bio
Stella Ghervas is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an Associate of the Department of History at Harvard University. She is currently also the Mihaychuk Fellow 2016-2017 at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Among her many publications are "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance" (2008), which was awarded the Guizot Prize of the Académie Française, and "Lieux d’Europe: Mythes et limites", ed. (2008). Her new book "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. She is now working on a new monographic project, "Calming the Waters? A New History of the Black Sea, 1774-1920s", and co-editing a volume on the cultural history of peace in the Enlightenment.
Link: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/events/calendar/g-3-73lt6npbt8vsn012g0fjmjmpdk_201704242015.html
Abstract
Writing a consistent narrative of the Black Sea is no easy task. Located north of the Mediterranean Sea and communicating with its elder sister through a single waterway, it has attracted very diverse populations from Europe and Asia on its shores. As a confluence point between the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, it raises the difficult issue of what “Europe” really is, and how it blends into Asia.
This paper confronts these problems by covering the long human history of the Black Sea through the perspective of circulations of people, goods and ideas, especially its moments of “openness” and “closedness”. It considers in particular the maritime, fluvial and terrestrial routes, Greek and Roman colonization, and the successive migrations of nomads across the plains of the northern shores; then for modern history, the rise of the Ottoman and Russian Empires culminating in the famous Eastern Question; and finally the conflicts and issues surrounding the former Soviet republics, the geopolitics of mineral oils, and the environmental issues that have emerged in the last decades.
In an area of the world where national historiographies are still prevalent and imply geopolitical stakes, this radical long-range perspective on the history of the Black Sea carries a strong potential for increasing the political reconciliation through greater knowledge of the region’s history.
Bio
Stella Ghervas is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an Associate of the Department of History at Harvard University. She is currently also the Mihaychuk Fellow 2016-2017 at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Among her many publications are "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance" (2008), which was awarded the Guizot Prize of the Académie Française, and "Lieux d’Europe: Mythes et limites", ed. (2008). Her new book "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union" is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. She is now working on a new monographic project, "Calming the Waters? A New History of the Black Sea, 1774-1920s", and co-editing a volume on the cultural history of peace in the Enlightenment.
Link: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/events/calendar/g-3-73lt6npbt8vsn012g0fjmjmpdk_201704242015.html
Research Interests: History, Russian Studies, Oceanography, Ottoman History, Geopolitics, and 36 moreMaritime History, Historiography, Politics, Ukrainian Studies, Eastern European history, Ottoman Empire, Rivers, Russian History, History of the Mediterranean, Ukraine (History), Crimean Tatar, Politics of Ukraine, Black Sea region, Ports and Harbours, Black Sea Studies, Maritime and Oceanic History, Russia, Ukraine, Ukrainian History, Black Sea Region Archaeology, Russian Empire, Russian-Ukrainian Relations, Crimean War, Black Sea, Black Sea ancient history and archaeology, Ancient Greek Colonies of the Northern Black Sea Shore, Crimea, Odessa, Black Sea, Ports, Crimean Khanate, Water Pipelines, Black Sea Geopolitics, History of Black Sea Regiuon, Geostrategy In the Black Sea, Regional Seas, and Ports & Maritime Security
Dr. Stella Ghervas is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Associate of the Department of History at Harvard University. Among her many publications are "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza... more
Dr. Stella Ghervas is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Associate of the Department of History at Harvard University. Among her many publications are "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance", which was awarded the Guizot Prize of the Académie Française in 2009, and "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union", which is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. Dr. Ghervas will give the keynote lecture for the UAB Graduate History Conference on Friday, April 8, at 6:00 PM, in Heritage Hall Room 102.
Abstract
Today, the European Union seems to totter on the brink of self-destruction. Yet much distance has been covered since the birth of the early European Communities in the 1950s, to the enlargements of 2004 and 2007. Indeed, no political entity like the European Union has ever survived on such a large scale in Europe and for so long, since the Roman Empire of Antiquity. In fact, the idea is not new: it is possible to trace a genealogy of attempts at pacification of the European continent even before the Congress of Vienna (1815), attempts that continued undeterred with the League of Nations after the devastation of WWI, and again after World War II and the Cold War. Spanning three centuries, this lecture will examine why, in the face of all odds and failures, political leaders in Europe keep trying to achieve a peaceful unification of the continent.
Abstract
Today, the European Union seems to totter on the brink of self-destruction. Yet much distance has been covered since the birth of the early European Communities in the 1950s, to the enlargements of 2004 and 2007. Indeed, no political entity like the European Union has ever survived on such a large scale in Europe and for so long, since the Roman Empire of Antiquity. In fact, the idea is not new: it is possible to trace a genealogy of attempts at pacification of the European continent even before the Congress of Vienna (1815), attempts that continued undeterred with the League of Nations after the devastation of WWI, and again after World War II and the Cold War. Spanning three centuries, this lecture will examine why, in the face of all odds and failures, political leaders in Europe keep trying to achieve a peaceful unification of the continent.
Research Interests: History, European History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and 16 moreEuropean integration, Political Science, European Foreign Policy, European Politics, European Union, Peace Movements, Peacekeeping, Peace Studies, European Union Politics, Peace, Peacebuilding, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Europe, Security and Peace Studies, United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, and Peace and Conflicts Studies
"Du silence des canons à la paix des diplomates: deux visions de l’ordre politique européen en 1815" par Stella GHERVAS (Center for European Studies, Harvard University) Présentation de communication: "Pendant longtemps, on a estimé... more
"Du silence des canons à la paix des diplomates:
deux visions de l’ordre politique européen en 1815"
par Stella GHERVAS
(Center for European Studies, Harvard University)
Présentation de communication:
"Pendant longtemps, on a estimé que le système européen de paix et de sécurité établi dans le cadre du Congrès de Vienne avait essentiellement une réussite du modèle politique de « l’équilibre des puissances ». Il est indéniable que les délégations qui participèrent à la rédaction des traités de paix de 1814-1815 cherchèrent à établir une paix durable, après les longues et sanglantes années des guerres napoléoniennes".
deux visions de l’ordre politique européen en 1815"
par Stella GHERVAS
(Center for European Studies, Harvard University)
Présentation de communication:
"Pendant longtemps, on a estimé que le système européen de paix et de sécurité établi dans le cadre du Congrès de Vienne avait essentiellement une réussite du modèle politique de « l’équilibre des puissances ». Il est indéniable que les délégations qui participèrent à la rédaction des traités de paix de 1814-1815 cherchèrent à établir une paix durable, après les longues et sanglantes années des guerres napoléoniennes".
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, International Relations, British History, and 21 moreRussian Foreign Policy, Political History, Diplomacy, Napoleonic Wars, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), Peace Studies, Napoleonic Europe, Russia, Peace, Peacebuilding, Austrian History, Europe, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Concert of Europe, Napoleonic History, Napoleonic Era, Balance of Power, Congress of Vienna, and The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich
Stella Ghervas, "Enlightenment and Tradition in Post-Napoleonic Europe: The Worlds of Alexander Sturdza", Paper delivered to the Workshop "The Enlightenment and Its Legacies: European Political Thought, 1760-1840" (Program),... more
Stella Ghervas, "Enlightenment and Tradition in Post-Napoleonic Europe: The Worlds of Alexander Sturdza", Paper delivered to the Workshop "The Enlightenment and Its Legacies: European Political Thought, 1760-1840" (Program), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 29-30 April 2015. Link: http://www.wiko-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/workshops/workshops-20142015/workshop-bourke/home/
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Philosophy, and 23 morePolitical Philosophy, History of Ideas, Political Theory, Enlightenment, Scottish Enlightenment, Political History, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Modernity, History of Political Thought, 18th & 19th Centuries, Intellectual and cultural history, 19th Century (History), Russian Intellectual History, Enlightenment Political Thought, European Enlightenment, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Tradition, History of European political thought; French and British political thought of XIX century, History of Political Ideas, the Enlightenment, French Enlightenment, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, and Political Ideas
Stella Ghervas, "The Vienna Peace Settlements: From a Balance of Power to a Balance of Negotiation". What were the innovations of the Congress of Vienna? It has been traditional to affirm that the European peace and security system... more
Stella Ghervas, "The Vienna Peace Settlements: From a Balance of Power to a Balance of Negotiation".
What were the innovations of the Congress of Vienna? It has been traditional to affirm that the European peace and security system established in the course of the Congress of Vienna had been an achievement of the political model of the balance of power. Historical reality was however more complex than that. Despite conflicting agendas, the statesmen and diplomats who drafted the settlements of 1814-15 genuinely sought to establish a lasting peace, after the long and bloody wars against Napoleon. In doing so, they effectively banned war among themselves for nearly four decades, until the outbreak of the Crimean War (1853).
What were the innovations of the Congress of Vienna? It has been traditional to affirm that the European peace and security system established in the course of the Congress of Vienna had been an achievement of the political model of the balance of power. Historical reality was however more complex than that. Despite conflicting agendas, the statesmen and diplomats who drafted the settlements of 1814-15 genuinely sought to establish a lasting peace, after the long and bloody wars against Napoleon. In doing so, they effectively banned war among themselves for nearly four decades, until the outbreak of the Crimean War (1853).
Research Interests: History, European History, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Security, Security, and 23 moreSecurity Studies, Napoleonic Wars, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), French Revolution and Napoleon, Peace Studies, Napoleonic Europe, Peace, Crimean War, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Concert of Europe, Security and Peace Studies, Longue durée, Napoleonic History, Balance of Power, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, The Peace of Utrecht, The Peace of Vienna, Treaty of Holy Alliance, and Congress System
Paper: “The Balkans after the Congress of Vienna: From the ‘Orthodox Commonwealth’ to the Crimean War” Stella GHERVAS (Center for European Studies, Harvard University) Abstract While the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) prepared a master... more
Paper: “The Balkans after the Congress of Vienna:
From the ‘Orthodox Commonwealth’ to the Crimean War”
Stella GHERVAS
(Center for European Studies, Harvard University)
Abstract
While the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) prepared a master plan for a directorial system of peace in Europe, it left a gaping hole concerning the status of the failing Ottoman Empire, particularly in the Balkans. For the Christian elites of those lands, the hope for emancipation soon posed the question of which power should replace the hegemony of the Sublime Porte.
This paper will describe a prevailing political utopia, that I called “Orthodox Commonwealth” (an autonomy of the Hellenized lands, under the benevolent hegemony of the Russian Empire). It echoed the “Greek Dream” of Tsarina Catherine, that Orthodox Russia would resuscitate the Byzantine Empire and become the sole protector of Christian populations in the Balkans and the Levant.
From the ‘Orthodox Commonwealth’ to the Crimean War”
Stella GHERVAS
(Center for European Studies, Harvard University)
Abstract
While the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) prepared a master plan for a directorial system of peace in Europe, it left a gaping hole concerning the status of the failing Ottoman Empire, particularly in the Balkans. For the Christian elites of those lands, the hope for emancipation soon posed the question of which power should replace the hegemony of the Sublime Porte.
This paper will describe a prevailing political utopia, that I called “Orthodox Commonwealth” (an autonomy of the Hellenized lands, under the benevolent hegemony of the Russian Empire). It echoed the “Greek Dream” of Tsarina Catherine, that Orthodox Russia would resuscitate the Byzantine Empire and become the sole protector of Christian populations in the Balkans and the Levant.
Research Interests: History, European History, Eastern European Studies, Ottoman History, Balkan History, and 27 moreRussian Orthodox Church, Ottoman Empire, 18th & 19th Centuries, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, 19th Century (History), Comparative study of the Ottoman, habsburg, and Romanov Empires, Southeastern Europe, Orthodox Christianity, Russia, Balkans, South-Eastern Europe, Russian Empire, Crimean War, Tsarist Empire, Russian Intellectual History, Balkanism, Odessa, Black Sea, Balkanization, Eastern Question, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, The Powers and the Eastern Question, the Eastern Question, Tsar Alexander I, and Treaty of Holy Alliance
Book Launch of "Reinventarea tradiţiei: Alexandru Sturdza şi Europa Sfintei Alianţe", by Stella Ghervas
Libraria din Centru, Chisinau (Moldova), 19 November 2014, 6:15 p.m.
Libraria din Centru, Chisinau (Moldova), 19 November 2014, 6:15 p.m.
Research Interests: Religion, History, European History, Diplomatic History, International Relations, and 25 moreBalkan History, Orthodox Theology, Eastern European history, Political History, Diplomacy, Modernity, History of Political Thought, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, 19th Century (History), Southeastern Europe, Moldova, Romania, Balkans, Tradition, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Eastern Orthodoxy, 19th century Russian History, History of the Holy Alliance, Alexandre Stourdza (Sturdza), Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, History of Southeastern Europe, and Book launch
International Conference "Vienna 1815. The Making of a European Security Culture"
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Amsterdam / The Hague, 5-7 November 2014
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Amsterdam / The Hague, 5-7 November 2014
Research Interests:
Odessa, berceau de la Grèce moderne : Aux origines secrètes de la Philiki Eteria Stella GHERVAS (CES, Harvard University) Résumé C’est à Odessa, ville neuve au bord de la mer Noire, que fut fondée en septembre 1814 la célèbre... more
Odessa, berceau de la Grèce moderne : Aux origines secrètes de la Philiki Eteria
Stella GHERVAS
(CES, Harvard University)
Résumé
C’est à Odessa, ville neuve au bord de la mer Noire, que fut fondée en septembre 1814 la célèbre Société des Amis (Philiki Eteria), qui fut à l’origine du mouvement grec de libération qui mena à la Guerre d’indépendance et à la constitution de l’Etat grec moderne. Et pourtant, si l’on excepte quelques tentatives récentes de la part d’historiens grecs (notamment Papoulidis, Prousis) et russes (Arsh) de resituer le mouvement de la Philiki Eteria, sa genèse recèle encore bien des points d’ombre. Cette communication, basée sur de multiples documents inédits tirés des archives russes et ukrainiennes (notamment sur la correspondance politique de Ioannis Capodistrias et Alexandre Stourdza), jette un nouveau regard sur les origines de la Philiki Heteria, ses conceptions initiales, ses financements, ainsi que ses relations contrastées avec les autorités russes.
Elle s’interroge en particulier sur le cadre d’Odessa comme berceau de cette société secrète. Pourquoi est-ce dans cette ville portuaire, si loin des frontières de la Grèce continentale, qu'a pu se développer cette société secrète, et pourquoi son action a-t-elle eu des retombées si importantes ? Qu’y faisaient ses membres et comment s’étaient-ils connus ? Par reflet, nous examinerons les traces que cette organisation a laissées dans la mémoire et le patrimoine culturel de la ville d’Odessa.
Plus généralement, l’action de la Philiki Eteria à Odessa s’inscrit dans la vaste question d’Orient, un enjeu de la géopolitique russe auquel le sort de la Grèce fut intimement lié. C’est l’occasion d’examiner dans quelle mesure ce mouvement fut une cause passionnelle chez les haut fonctionnaires et les diplomates russes, ou au contraire l’instrument d’un Etat décidé à imposer son hégémonie sur les Détroits et en Méditerranée orientale, au détriment de l’Empire ottoman et des autres puissances européennes.
Bibliographie sélective :
- Stella GHERVAS, Réinventer la tradition. Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2008, 625 p.
- Stella GHERVAS, « Odessa et les confins de l’Europe: un éclairage historique », in Lieux d’Europe : Mythes et limites, Stella Ghervas et François Rosset (éds.), Paris, Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2008, pp. 107-124.
- Stella GHERVAS, « Philhellénisme et ambitions russes dans le contexte de la question d’Orient », in Φιλελληνισμός. Το ενδιαφέρον για την Ελλάδα και τους Έλληνες από την Επανάσταση ως σήμερα, Anna Mandilara, Georgios Nikolaou, Lambros Filitouris et Nikolais Anastassopoulos (éds.), Athènes, Hérodote, 2014, à paraître.
- Stella GHERVAS, « Le philhellénisme d’inspiration conservatrice en Europe et en Russie », in Peuples, Etats et nations dans le Sud-Est de l’Europe, Bucarest, éd. Anima, 2004, pp. 98-110.
- Stella GHERVAS, « Le philhellénisme russe : union d’amour ou d’intérêt ? », in Regards sur le philhellénisme, Cléopâtre Montandon (éd.), Geneva, Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations, 2008, pp. 33-41.
Stella GHERVAS
(CES, Harvard University)
Résumé
C’est à Odessa, ville neuve au bord de la mer Noire, que fut fondée en septembre 1814 la célèbre Société des Amis (Philiki Eteria), qui fut à l’origine du mouvement grec de libération qui mena à la Guerre d’indépendance et à la constitution de l’Etat grec moderne. Et pourtant, si l’on excepte quelques tentatives récentes de la part d’historiens grecs (notamment Papoulidis, Prousis) et russes (Arsh) de resituer le mouvement de la Philiki Eteria, sa genèse recèle encore bien des points d’ombre. Cette communication, basée sur de multiples documents inédits tirés des archives russes et ukrainiennes (notamment sur la correspondance politique de Ioannis Capodistrias et Alexandre Stourdza), jette un nouveau regard sur les origines de la Philiki Heteria, ses conceptions initiales, ses financements, ainsi que ses relations contrastées avec les autorités russes.
Elle s’interroge en particulier sur le cadre d’Odessa comme berceau de cette société secrète. Pourquoi est-ce dans cette ville portuaire, si loin des frontières de la Grèce continentale, qu'a pu se développer cette société secrète, et pourquoi son action a-t-elle eu des retombées si importantes ? Qu’y faisaient ses membres et comment s’étaient-ils connus ? Par reflet, nous examinerons les traces que cette organisation a laissées dans la mémoire et le patrimoine culturel de la ville d’Odessa.
Plus généralement, l’action de la Philiki Eteria à Odessa s’inscrit dans la vaste question d’Orient, un enjeu de la géopolitique russe auquel le sort de la Grèce fut intimement lié. C’est l’occasion d’examiner dans quelle mesure ce mouvement fut une cause passionnelle chez les haut fonctionnaires et les diplomates russes, ou au contraire l’instrument d’un Etat décidé à imposer son hégémonie sur les Détroits et en Méditerranée orientale, au détriment de l’Empire ottoman et des autres puissances européennes.
Bibliographie sélective :
- Stella GHERVAS, Réinventer la tradition. Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2008, 625 p.
- Stella GHERVAS, « Odessa et les confins de l’Europe: un éclairage historique », in Lieux d’Europe : Mythes et limites, Stella Ghervas et François Rosset (éds.), Paris, Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2008, pp. 107-124.
- Stella GHERVAS, « Philhellénisme et ambitions russes dans le contexte de la question d’Orient », in Φιλελληνισμός. Το ενδιαφέρον για την Ελλάδα και τους Έλληνες από την Επανάσταση ως σήμερα, Anna Mandilara, Georgios Nikolaou, Lambros Filitouris et Nikolais Anastassopoulos (éds.), Athènes, Hérodote, 2014, à paraître.
- Stella GHERVAS, « Le philhellénisme d’inspiration conservatrice en Europe et en Russie », in Peuples, Etats et nations dans le Sud-Est de l’Europe, Bucarest, éd. Anima, 2004, pp. 98-110.
- Stella GHERVAS, « Le philhellénisme russe : union d’amour ou d’intérêt ? », in Regards sur le philhellénisme, Cléopâtre Montandon (éd.), Geneva, Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations, 2008, pp. 33-41.
Research Interests: History, European History, South East European Studies, Balkan History, Modern Greece, and 34 moreModern Greek History, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), Communication Networks, Russian Intellectual History, Greek Diaspora, Black Sea region, Greece, Balkans, History of Secret Societies, Russian Empire, Modern Greek Studies, Black Sea, Philhellenism, Secret Societies, Social Networks, History of the Balkans, Odessa, Odessa, Black Sea, Modern Greece and Minorities, 19th century Russian History, Russian Imperial History, Eastern Question, Capodistrias, Secret Societies, Alexandre Stourdza (Sturdza), Congress of Vienna, The Powers and the Eastern Question, the Eastern Question, History of modern Greece, Alexandros Ypsilantis, Secret Society, Balcan History, and History of Odessa
Stella Ghervas (Harvard), ‘The Ghost of Empire? Reinterpreting the European Union’ Abstract "The definite resurgence of interest in empires as political entities is in our Zeitgeist; indeed, a wide range of authors (such as... more
Stella Ghervas (Harvard), ‘The Ghost of Empire? Reinterpreting the European Union’
Abstract
"The definite resurgence of interest in empires as political entities is in our Zeitgeist; indeed, a wide range of authors (such as Zielonka, Zaki, Beck, Grande, Engels) have recently compared the European Union to an empire. There is however another, darker, aspect to the notion of empire: as a “historical ghost”, it feeds nationalist and Eurosceptic attitudes; as a foil to liberties and the rule of law, it also contributes to shaping the policies of the EU itself. More generally, the idea of a continental empire has long been considered antithetic to the European order. So how can we resolve the striking paradox of this twenty-first century resurrection of empire in a peaceful context?
By taking a historical perspective, this paper will define three key markers that apply to all continental empires in modern Europe (the “universal” mission of ruling, the providential figurehead, and the legitimate use of military force). From there, we will proceed to illustrate how a number of recent comparisons of the EU with an empire have led to a number of contradictions. By contrast, we will argue that a way forward for interpreting the nature of the Pax Europeana might instead lie with another trend of political thought tracing back to the “plans of perpetual peace” of the early eighteenth century, from Abbé de Saint-Pierre to Immanuel Kant.
Abstract
"The definite resurgence of interest in empires as political entities is in our Zeitgeist; indeed, a wide range of authors (such as Zielonka, Zaki, Beck, Grande, Engels) have recently compared the European Union to an empire. There is however another, darker, aspect to the notion of empire: as a “historical ghost”, it feeds nationalist and Eurosceptic attitudes; as a foil to liberties and the rule of law, it also contributes to shaping the policies of the EU itself. More generally, the idea of a continental empire has long been considered antithetic to the European order. So how can we resolve the striking paradox of this twenty-first century resurrection of empire in a peaceful context?
By taking a historical perspective, this paper will define three key markers that apply to all continental empires in modern Europe (the “universal” mission of ruling, the providential figurehead, and the legitimate use of military force). From there, we will proceed to illustrate how a number of recent comparisons of the EU with an empire have led to a number of contradictions. By contrast, we will argue that a way forward for interpreting the nature of the Pax Europeana might instead lie with another trend of political thought tracing back to the “plans of perpetual peace” of the early eighteenth century, from Abbé de Saint-Pierre to Immanuel Kant.
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, International Relations, and 35 morePolitical Philosophy, International Relations Theory, European integration, Political Theory, Political Science, Imperial History, Governance, International History, Politics, Nationalism, United Nations, Political History, Diplomacy, European Politics, European Union, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, History of International Relations, Global History, History of Imperialism, 19th Century (History), 20th Century, Internationalism, European Union Politics, France, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, 19th and 20th Century United States, Empire, Italy, Peace, Peacebuilding, Imperialism, Nation-State, Colonialism and Imperialism, and Nationalism and Decolonization
Cultures of Diplomacy Workshop 16 July, 2014 Western Tower Room, Quadrangle University of Sydney, Australia The Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) has come to symbolize a new modern era in diplomacy, including the ideals of... more
Cultures of Diplomacy Workshop
16 July, 2014
Western Tower Room, Quadrangle
University of Sydney, Australia
The Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) has come to symbolize a new modern era in diplomacy, including the ideals of humanitarianism, peace, and methods of conferencing and state relations that came to mark the formation of international politics. In celebration of its bicentenary, this workshop brings together scholars exploring the nature of diplomacy across the last two centuries and in distinct parts of the world, taking as their perspective questions of state sovereignty, gender, race, and the enduring challenges of war and peace at the Congress and since.
16 July, 2014
Western Tower Room, Quadrangle
University of Sydney, Australia
The Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) has come to symbolize a new modern era in diplomacy, including the ideals of humanitarianism, peace, and methods of conferencing and state relations that came to mark the formation of international politics. In celebration of its bicentenary, this workshop brings together scholars exploring the nature of diplomacy across the last two centuries and in distinct parts of the world, taking as their perspective questions of state sovereignty, gender, race, and the enduring challenges of war and peace at the Congress and since.
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, International Relations, and 30 moreWomen's Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Women's History, German History, International Studies, War Studies, Genocide Studies, International History, Politics, Diplomatic Studies, Habsburg Studies, Diplomacy, 19th century France, International Politics, Napoleonic Wars, History of International Relations, 18th & 19th Centuries, 20th century (History), 19th Century (History), 20th Century, Cultural Diplomacy, History of Diplomacy, Napoleonic Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Europe, Diplomacia, Diplomacy and international relations, Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th century, and Congress of Vienna
International Conference: "The Power of Peace: New Perspectives on the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)"
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, European Studies, Political Philosophy, and 38 morePower Systems, Political Theory, British History, Power (social), Geopolitics, Political Science, Language and Power, Power System, Modern Europe, Napoleonic Wars, Peacekeeping, 18th & 19th Centuries, Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, 19th Century (History), Peace & Conflict Studies, French Revolution and Napoleon, Peace Studies, Liberal Peacebuilding, Modern European History, Napoleonic Europe, Metternich Era, Peace, Peacebuilding, Power, Austrian History, Russian Empire, Europe, Historians and Political Power, Power System analysis, Political Power, Path to Perpetual Peace, Security and Peace Studies, Napoleonic History, Democratic Peace Theory, Balance of Power, Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, and The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Intellectual History, European Studies, and 39 moreKant, History of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, European Law, Political Theory, International Law, Legal History, Power System, Enlightenment, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, 18th Century Philosophy, 18th & 19th Centuries, Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, 19th Century (History), Peace Studies, Enlightenment Political Thought, 18th and 19th Century, 18th Century France, European Enlightenment, 18th Century, Jean Jaques Rousseau, 18th Century Britain, Peace, History of Law, Political Studies, Europe, Vienna, Path to Perpetual Peace, Peacemaking, Balance of Power, Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace, Congress of Vienna, Literature Reviews on Kant's Perpetual Peace, Utrecht, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, Treaty of Utrecht 1713, Peace Treaty, and The Peace of Utrecht
21st International Conference of Europeanists, CES, Washington D.C., March 14-16, 2014. Presenter: Stella Ghervas (CES, Harvard University). Paper: "Is Empire Resurrected or Defeated? Reinterpreting the EU". Abstract: "The... more
21st International Conference of Europeanists, CES, Washington D.C., March 14-16, 2014.
Presenter: Stella Ghervas (CES, Harvard University).
Paper: "Is Empire Resurrected or Defeated? Reinterpreting the EU".
Abstract:
"The definite resurgence of interest in empires as political entities is in our Zeitgeist; indeed, a wide range of authors (such as Zielonka, Zaki, Beck, Grande, Engels) have recently compared the European Union to an empire. There is however another, darker, aspect to the
notion of empire: as a “historical ghost”, it feeds nationalist and Eurosceptic attitudes; as a foil to liberties and the rule of law, it also contributes to shaping the policies of the EU itself. More generally, the idea of a continental empire has long been considered antithetic to the European order. So how can we resolve the striking paradox of this twenty-first century resurrection of empire in a peaceful context?
By taking a historical perspective, this paper will define three key markers that apply to all continental empires in modern Europe (the “universal” mission of ruling, the providential figurehead, and the legitimate use of military force). From there, we will proceed to illustrate how a number of recent comparisons of the EU with an empire have led to a number of contradictions. By contrast, we will argue that a way forward for interpreting the nature of the Pax Europeana might instead lie with another trend of political thought tracing back to the “plans of perpetual peace” of the early eighteenth century, from Abbé de Saint-Pierre to Immanuel Kant."
Presenter: Stella Ghervas (CES, Harvard University).
Paper: "Is Empire Resurrected or Defeated? Reinterpreting the EU".
Abstract:
"The definite resurgence of interest in empires as political entities is in our Zeitgeist; indeed, a wide range of authors (such as Zielonka, Zaki, Beck, Grande, Engels) have recently compared the European Union to an empire. There is however another, darker, aspect to the
notion of empire: as a “historical ghost”, it feeds nationalist and Eurosceptic attitudes; as a foil to liberties and the rule of law, it also contributes to shaping the policies of the EU itself. More generally, the idea of a continental empire has long been considered antithetic to the European order. So how can we resolve the striking paradox of this twenty-first century resurrection of empire in a peaceful context?
By taking a historical perspective, this paper will define three key markers that apply to all continental empires in modern Europe (the “universal” mission of ruling, the providential figurehead, and the legitimate use of military force). From there, we will proceed to illustrate how a number of recent comparisons of the EU with an empire have led to a number of contradictions. By contrast, we will argue that a way forward for interpreting the nature of the Pax Europeana might instead lie with another trend of political thought tracing back to the “plans of perpetual peace” of the early eighteenth century, from Abbé de Saint-Pierre to Immanuel Kant."
Research Interests: History, European History, European Studies, Political Philosophy, European integration, and 23 morePolitical Theory, Imperial History, European Union, Peace Movements, Empires, European Integration History, Immanuel Kant, European Union (International Studies), Peace Studies, European Union Politics, Empire, War and Peace, Peace Research, Holy Roman Empire, Peace, Political Studies, Europe, History of European civilizations, Peacemaking, History of European Integration, Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace, Abbé De Saint-Pierre, and European Empire
Research Interests: History, European History, European Studies, French History, British History, and 16 moreEuropean Union, Empires, British Empire, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), France, Empire, England, Napoleonic Europe, Russia, Peace, Europe, Napoleonic History, Congress of Vienna, and The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich
Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe
Research Interests: European History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, 19th century France, European Politics, and 22 morePeace Movements, Napoleonic Wars, Peacekeeping, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), Comparative study of the Ottoman, habsburg, and Romanov Empires, Empire, Napoleonic Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, 19th Century, Russian Empire, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Concert of Europe, Path to Perpetual Peace, Napoleonic History, Peacemaking, History of the Holy Alliance, Congress of Vienna, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, and Habsburg Empire
Research Interests: History, European History, Law, International Relations, Philosophy, and 22 morePolitical Philosophy, Kant, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Theory, International Law, Peacekeeping, Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Peace & Conflict Studies, Peace Studies, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Peace, Peacebuilding, Theory of Law, Political Conflict and Peacemaking Processes., United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, Peacemaking, Balance of Power, Peace of Utrecht, Utrecht, Treaty of Utrecht 1713, and Perpetual Peace
"Presenter: Stella Ghervas (MSHA, Bordeaux, France). Paper: “Philhellenism and Russian Ambitions in the Context of the Eastern Question”. Despite recent efforts to reinterpret a movement as complex as Philhellenism, its eastern... more
"Presenter: Stella Ghervas (MSHA, Bordeaux, France).
Paper: “Philhellenism and Russian Ambitions in the Context of the Eastern Question”.
Despite recent efforts to reinterpret a movement as complex as Philhellenism, its eastern branch still remains little known or understood. Based on multiple, unpublished documents
consulted in Russian and Ukrainian archives, this paper takes a new look at the political, diplomatic and religious components of Russian Philhellenism from 1815 to the Crimean War.
This eastern movement entertains a more intimate relationship with the Greeks than its western counterpart, since it brings together humanitarian concerns and a religious affinity that sometimes extends to their cultural language. It falls, however, squarely within the context of the Eastern Question, a Russian geopolitical issue to which the independence of Greece is tightly connected. So, to what degree was Russian Philhellenism a merely generous feeling for brothers in religion, rather than a tool in the hands of a state seeking to dominate the Straits and the eastern Mediterranean, to the detriment of the Ottoman Empire?"
Paper: “Philhellenism and Russian Ambitions in the Context of the Eastern Question”.
Despite recent efforts to reinterpret a movement as complex as Philhellenism, its eastern branch still remains little known or understood. Based on multiple, unpublished documents
consulted in Russian and Ukrainian archives, this paper takes a new look at the political, diplomatic and religious components of Russian Philhellenism from 1815 to the Crimean War.
This eastern movement entertains a more intimate relationship with the Greeks than its western counterpart, since it brings together humanitarian concerns and a religious affinity that sometimes extends to their cultural language. It falls, however, squarely within the context of the Eastern Question, a Russian geopolitical issue to which the independence of Greece is tightly connected. So, to what degree was Russian Philhellenism a merely generous feeling for brothers in religion, rather than a tool in the hands of a state seeking to dominate the Straits and the eastern Mediterranean, to the detriment of the Ottoman Empire?"
Research Interests: History, European History, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Russian Studies, Greek History, and 52 moreOttoman History, Geopolitics, South East European Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Russian Politics, Eastern European history, British Imperial & Commonwelath History - 19th & 20th century, Mediterranean Studies, Modern Greek literature, Political History, Diplomacy, Ottoman Empire, Empires, History of Political Thought, Modern Greek History, 18th & 19th Centuries, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Mediterranean Studies (Area Studies), History of the Mediterranean, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, 19th Century (History), Comparative study of the Ottoman, habsburg, and Romanov Empires, Southeastern Europe, 20th Century, 18th and 19th Century, France, Black Sea region, 19th-20th Century Europe, Modern European History, USA, Russia, 19th Century, Balkans, South-Eastern Europe, East-Central European History, Macedonian Question, Russian Empire, Modern Greek Studies, Crimean War, Philhellenism, Macedonia, Histoire, 19th century Russian History, Great Britain, Great Powers, Comparative Empires, Eastern Question, Romantic Hellenism & philhellenism, History of Southeastern Europe, and The Powers and the Eastern Question
"Stella Ghervas, "Looking up to Brussels? National Imaginaries and their Relation to Political Europe". 20th International Conference of Europeanists “Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability”, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013,... more
"Stella Ghervas, "Looking up to Brussels? National Imaginaries and their Relation to Political Europe".
20th International Conference of Europeanists “Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability”, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013,
The paper defines and examines the outline of “Political Europe” by describing the historical context in which it was born at the end of WWII and the process by which its center came to be a narrow band of land stretching from Belgium to Alsace. It then suggests how the European countries may be classified in four categories according to their relation to such a center. This classification helps understand their conflicting motivations to join or stay apart from the various steps of the European construction process, particularly their political reactions to continental challenges such as the recent crisis of sovereign debt."
20th International Conference of Europeanists “Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability”, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013,
The paper defines and examines the outline of “Political Europe” by describing the historical context in which it was born at the end of WWII and the process by which its center came to be a narrow band of land stretching from Belgium to Alsace. It then suggests how the European countries may be classified in four categories according to their relation to such a center. This classification helps understand their conflicting motivations to join or stay apart from the various steps of the European construction process, particularly their political reactions to continental challenges such as the recent crisis of sovereign debt."
Research Interests: History, European History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, Comparative Politics, and 21 moreEuropean integration, Cultural Heritage, History and Memory, Political Science, Colonialism, European Politics, European Union, Collective Memory, Europeanization, European Union Politics, Empire, European cultural policies, Memory, Imperialism, European memory, Southeast Europe, Nation-State, Centre-Periphery Relations, Imaginary, Social imaginary, and Center and Periphery
Research Interests: European History, Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, and 36 moreInternational Relations, Kant, Multiculturalism, Development Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, Intelligence Studies, International Law, Human Rights, International organizations, Conflict, Security, Imperial History, Nationalism, Colonialism, Diplomacy, European Politics, European Union, Electoral Systems, European/EU Politics, Peace & Conflict Studies, Peace Studies, Ethnicity, European Union Politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Empire, Minority Rights, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Peace, Good Governance, Imperialism, Environmental Sciences, Freedom, Peacemaking, Peace and Conflicts Studies, and Land Planning
Research Interests: European History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, European integration, Eastern European history, and 13 moreEuropean Politics, European Union, Regionalism, European Union (International Studies), European/EU Politics, Enlargement and Integration in the EU, History of Nationalism, European Union Politics, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, East European History, European regionalism, Nation-State, and European Union, European Foreign Policy, European Neighbourhood Policy, Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, Union for the Mediterranean, Eastern Partnership, Foreign Policy Analysis, Principal-Agent
Research Interests: European History, Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, and 43 moreInternational Relations, Kant, Multiculturalism, Development Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, Intelligence Studies, International Law, Human Rights, International organizations, Conflict, Security, Imperial History, Nationalism, Colonialism, Diplomacy, Mediation, European Politics, European Union, Empires, Electoral Systems, Political Theology, Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Peace & Conflict Studies, Peace Studies, Ethnicity, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Empire, Minority Rights, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Conflict Analysis, Peace, Good Governance, Imperialism, Environmental Sciences, Freedom, Religious Conflict, Peacemaking, Peace and Conflicts Studies, Land Planning, Peace Education and Curriculum Development, Nonviolent Action Strategies, and Ethics In War Collateral Damage and Just War Theory
"Stella Ghervas, "L'Europe n'est-elle qu'une idée?" "Europe : quelle Union voulons-nous ? Richard Tholoniat, président de l'association Carrefours de la Pensée Aujourd'hui l'idée d'Union européenne se heurte à la défiance des... more
"Stella Ghervas, "L'Europe n'est-elle qu'une idée?"
"Europe : quelle Union voulons-nous ?
Richard Tholoniat, président de l'association Carrefours de la Pensée
Aujourd'hui l'idée d'Union européenne se heurte à la défiance des peuples qui la composent. Depuis 2008, la crise économique exaspère des problèmes politiques, institutionnels et culturels. Le désengagement des citoyens va de pair avec la montée des mouvements populistes et nationalistes et avec la méfiance envers le personnel politique et les institutions européennes.
Les dissonances entre le régional, le national et le supranational s'aggravent : la solidarité entre Etats européens est mise à l'épreuve. Plusieurs régions revendiquent leur indépendance : l'intégration rapide au sein de la zone euro donne la perspective d'une Europe à plusieurs vitesses encore mal comprise et mal acceptée. L'Union européenne peut sembler marginalisée au niveau mondial.
Point de rupture ou nouveau départ ? Le prix Nobel 2012, attribué à l'UE, vient rappeler que plusieurs décennies de paix ont permis de sortir 27 Etats de la stagnation ou de la pauvreté. La PAC pâtit de sa trop grande réussite ; les fonds européens de cohésion, ceux dévolus à la recherche, les programmes Erasmus permettent la réalisation de projets contribuant au bien commun ou à l'épanouissement personnel.
Qualité de vie, protection du citoyen, du travailleur et du consommateur, acquis démocratiques font l'envie de peuples moins bien lotis.
Dans la nouvelle donne mondiale, les Européens peuvent-ils se contenter de coexister ? À la veille des élections européennes de 2014, quel projet politique, fondé sur quelle légitimité, peut recréer un dynamisme entraînant d'autres enthousiastes que les minorités d'europhiles convaincus ?. """
"Europe : quelle Union voulons-nous ?
Richard Tholoniat, président de l'association Carrefours de la Pensée
Aujourd'hui l'idée d'Union européenne se heurte à la défiance des peuples qui la composent. Depuis 2008, la crise économique exaspère des problèmes politiques, institutionnels et culturels. Le désengagement des citoyens va de pair avec la montée des mouvements populistes et nationalistes et avec la méfiance envers le personnel politique et les institutions européennes.
Les dissonances entre le régional, le national et le supranational s'aggravent : la solidarité entre Etats européens est mise à l'épreuve. Plusieurs régions revendiquent leur indépendance : l'intégration rapide au sein de la zone euro donne la perspective d'une Europe à plusieurs vitesses encore mal comprise et mal acceptée. L'Union européenne peut sembler marginalisée au niveau mondial.
Point de rupture ou nouveau départ ? Le prix Nobel 2012, attribué à l'UE, vient rappeler que plusieurs décennies de paix ont permis de sortir 27 Etats de la stagnation ou de la pauvreté. La PAC pâtit de sa trop grande réussite ; les fonds européens de cohésion, ceux dévolus à la recherche, les programmes Erasmus permettent la réalisation de projets contribuant au bien commun ou à l'épanouissement personnel.
Qualité de vie, protection du citoyen, du travailleur et du consommateur, acquis démocratiques font l'envie de peuples moins bien lotis.
Dans la nouvelle donne mondiale, les Européens peuvent-ils se contenter de coexister ? À la veille des élections européennes de 2014, quel projet politique, fondé sur quelle légitimité, peut recréer un dynamisme entraînant d'autres enthousiastes que les minorités d'europhiles convaincus ?. """
Research Interests: History, European History, Geography, European Studies, International Relations, and 10 moreHistory of Ideas, European integration, Political Science, Identity (Culture), Politics, European Politics, European Union, European identity, European Union (International Studies), and European Union Politics
Où commence « l’Europe » et où finit-elle, et selon quels critères la délimiter ? Nous aborderons cette question en partant de la notion de géographie(s) mentale(s) et de son rapport à la géographie réelle. Comment des lieux d’Europe... more
Où commence « l’Europe » et où finit-elle, et selon quels critères la délimiter ? Nous aborderons cette question en partant de la notion de géographie(s) mentale(s) et de son rapport à la géographie réelle. Comment des lieux d’Europe (frontières, carrefours, passages, noeuds urbains, lieux symboliques, etc.), les distances et les surfaces s’altèrent-ils dans les imaginaires? Comment reflètent-ils la réalité géographique, politique et sociale de l’Europe? Dans cette séance, nous examinerons s’il est possible d’exploiter la multiplicité des géographies mentales pour avancer notre compréhension de l’Europe réelle et de son processus d'unification politique.
Research Interests: History, European History, Geography, Human Geography, Historical Geography, and 13 moreEastern European Studies, European Studies, European integration, Border Studies, Political Science, Eastern European history, European Politics, European Union, European Union (International Studies), Borderlands Studies, Frontier Studies, Central and Eastern Europe, and Borders and Frontiers
Faire la part de la réalité et de l’idée dans l’Europe n’est pas facile, à moins d’admettre que c’est l’idée qui a progressivement façonné les imaginaires et la réalité. « Europe » est un terme aux sens multiples (géographiques,... more
Faire la part de la réalité et de l’idée dans l’Europe n’est pas facile, à moins d’admettre que c’est l’idée qui a progressivement façonné les imaginaires et la réalité. « Europe » est un terme aux sens multiples (géographiques, culturels, politiques), dont l’usage a également évolué au cours du temps. Selon quelles modalités l’idée d’Europe s’est-elle ensuite transformée en projet politique, puis en « construction » ? Ce sera l’occasion de parcourir des moments clés, de l’époque des Lumières à nos jours, où des concepts essentiels ont pris forme.
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[In French] Stella Ghervas (MSHA, Bordeaux, chercheur associé IRICE, Paris I) "La Sainte-Alliance, une ‘construction européenne‘ comme antidote à l’Empire ?" "Les années 1814-1815, qui marquent la fin de l’aventure napoléonienne... more
[In French]
Stella Ghervas (MSHA, Bordeaux, chercheur associé IRICE, Paris I)
"La Sainte-Alliance, une ‘construction européenne‘ comme antidote à l’Empire ?"
"Les années 1814-1815, qui marquent la fin de l’aventure napoléonienne voient aussi la naissance du « concert européen » : cette expérience s’est voulue comme un rejet collectif de la notion d’empire (à la fois celui de type universel chrétien et celui de Napoléon) en jetant les bases d’un système politique et diplomatique européen qui reste largement en vigueur de nos jours. De ce fait, l’Europe du Congrès de Vienne porte en germe les mécanismes de concertation politique de l’Europe contemporaine. Nous nous attacherons en particulier à la signification de la signature, par la quasi-totalité des Etats d’Europe, du traité de la Sainte-Alliance, où apparaît pour la première fois la notion d’une même « famille » englobant tous les pays du continent – y compris la Russie. Par un jeu de miroirs, cette expérience permet de mieux cerner les contours de l’Empire et de sa postérité européenne."
Stella Ghervas (MSHA, Bordeaux, chercheur associé IRICE, Paris I)
"La Sainte-Alliance, une ‘construction européenne‘ comme antidote à l’Empire ?"
"Les années 1814-1815, qui marquent la fin de l’aventure napoléonienne voient aussi la naissance du « concert européen » : cette expérience s’est voulue comme un rejet collectif de la notion d’empire (à la fois celui de type universel chrétien et celui de Napoléon) en jetant les bases d’un système politique et diplomatique européen qui reste largement en vigueur de nos jours. De ce fait, l’Europe du Congrès de Vienne porte en germe les mécanismes de concertation politique de l’Europe contemporaine. Nous nous attacherons en particulier à la signification de la signature, par la quasi-totalité des Etats d’Europe, du traité de la Sainte-Alliance, où apparaît pour la première fois la notion d’une même « famille » englobant tous les pays du continent – y compris la Russie. Par un jeu de miroirs, cette expérience permet de mieux cerner les contours de l’Empire et de sa postérité européenne."
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, History of Ideas, French History, and 11 morePolitical History, Napoleonic Wars, History of Political Thought, 18th & 19th Centuries, 19th Century (History), French Revolution and Napoleon, Napoleonic Europe, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Napoleon, Napoleonic History, and History of Empires
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Research Interests: History, European History, Romanian History, Geopolitics, Balkan Studies, and 19 morePolitics, Eastern European history, Romanian Studies, Modernity, 18th & 19th Centuries, 20th century (History), Russian Orthodoxy, 19th Century (History), Religion and Modernity, Imperial Russia, 20th Century, Russia, Tradition, Russian Empire, Europe, Romanian History, Istoria Romaniei, Eastern Orthodoxy, Romanian philosophy, and History of 19th and 20th Century East Central Europe
"This round table, organized on the occasion of the Serbian edition of „Lieux d'Europe - Mythes et limites“ (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 2008), edited by Stella Ghervas and Francois Rosset, published in Belgrade in Biblioteka... more
"This round table, organized on the occasion of the Serbian edition of „Lieux d'Europe - Mythes et limites“ (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 2008), edited by Stella Ghervas and Francois Rosset, published in Belgrade in Biblioteka XX vek, in Olja Petronić and Snežana Spasojević translation, will be dedicated to the discussion about the mythical and the real Europe, its places of memories, its construction, which comes from the will to overcome the continent's past.
Participants:
- Stella Ghervas, historian, researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris
- Bertrand Levy, lecturer and researcher in the field of human geography at the Department of Geography and at the European University Institute in Geneva
- Nenad Makuljević, art history professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade
- Pavle Sekeruš, a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad
- Srđan Radović, a researcher at the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Gordana Đerić, a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade
- Ivan Čolović, anthropologist, publisher and editor of Biblioteka XX vek
Simultaneous translation.
Organized by the French Cultural Centre in Belgrade, in cooperation with CZKD, Biblioteka XX vek, and in partnership with French Cultural Centre in Skopje.
With the support of Culturesfrance (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of France) - programme of the Fund d’Alamber.
CZKD, Pavillon Veljković Birčaninova 21, Belgrade, Serbia"
Participants:
- Stella Ghervas, historian, researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris
- Bertrand Levy, lecturer and researcher in the field of human geography at the Department of Geography and at the European University Institute in Geneva
- Nenad Makuljević, art history professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade
- Pavle Sekeruš, a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad
- Srđan Radović, a researcher at the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Gordana Đerić, a researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade
- Ivan Čolović, anthropologist, publisher and editor of Biblioteka XX vek
Simultaneous translation.
Organized by the French Cultural Centre in Belgrade, in cooperation with CZKD, Biblioteka XX vek, and in partnership with French Cultural Centre in Skopje.
With the support of Culturesfrance (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of France) - programme of the Fund d’Alamber.
CZKD, Pavillon Veljković Birčaninova 21, Belgrade, Serbia"
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A l’occasion de la parution en serbe (Collection du XXème siècle, trad. Olja Petronić et Snežana Spasojević) de l’ouvrage « Lieux d’Europe – Mythes et limites », édité sous la direction de Stella Ghervas et François Rosset, (Maison des... more
A l’occasion de la parution en serbe (Collection du XXème siècle, trad. Olja Petronić et Snežana Spasojević) de l’ouvrage « Lieux d’Europe – Mythes et limites », édité sous la direction de Stella Ghervas et François Rosset, (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 2008), les experts invités s’interrogeront sur l’Europe mythique et réelle, ses lieux de mémoire, sa construction qui procède d’une volonté de dépasser l’histoire du continent.
Avec :
Stella Ghervas (Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris)
Bertrand Lévy (Institut Européen de l’Université de Genève)
Nenad Makuljević (Faculté de Philosophie de Belgrade)
Pavle Sekeruš (Faculté de Philosophie de Novi Sad)
Srdjan Radović (Institut d’Ethnographie de Belgrade)
Gordana Djerić (Institut de Philosophie et de Théorie sociale de Belgrade)
Ivan Čolović (Editions Collection du XX ème siècle)
En coopération avec le CZKD et les Editions Collection du XX ème siècle, en partenariat avec le Centre français de coopération de Skopje.
Avec le soutien de Culturesfrance - programme Fonds d’Alembert.
CZKD, Pavillon Veljković Birčaninova 21, Centre culturel français de Belgrade, Serbie
Avec :
Stella Ghervas (Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris)
Bertrand Lévy (Institut Européen de l’Université de Genève)
Nenad Makuljević (Faculté de Philosophie de Belgrade)
Pavle Sekeruš (Faculté de Philosophie de Novi Sad)
Srdjan Radović (Institut d’Ethnographie de Belgrade)
Gordana Djerić (Institut de Philosophie et de Théorie sociale de Belgrade)
Ivan Čolović (Editions Collection du XX ème siècle)
En coopération avec le CZKD et les Editions Collection du XX ème siècle, en partenariat avec le Centre français de coopération de Skopje.
Avec le soutien de Culturesfrance - programme Fonds d’Alembert.
CZKD, Pavillon Veljković Birčaninova 21, Centre culturel français de Belgrade, Serbie
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Marché commun à l’origine, réalité politique et administrative aujourd’hui, l’Union Européenne se cherche encore une identité. Ce débat organisé autour du livre « Lieux d’Europe : mythes et limites » de Stella GHERVAS a pour ambition... more
Marché commun à l’origine, réalité politique et administrative aujourd’hui, l’Union Européenne se cherche encore une identité. Ce débat organisé autour du livre « Lieux d’Europe : mythes et limites » de Stella GHERVAS a pour ambition d’apporter une réflexion et un interrogation lucide sur les topographies réelles et mentales de l’Europe, les lieux de science de l’Europe moderne, la place urbaine, les frontières, les confins, le centre et la périphérie, les espaces ruraux, l’architecture contemporaine ou vernaculaire et beaucoup d’autres questions.
Avec la participation de: Mme Stella GHERVAS, spécialiste de l’histoire culturelle et politique de l’Europe et chercheur à l’Institut d’études avancées de Paris; M. Betrand Lévy, maître d’enseignement et de recherches en géographie humaine au sein de l’Institut européen de l’Université de Genève; Mme Mileva GJUROVSKA, professeur à l’Institut de sociologie au sein de la Faculté de philosophie de Skopje, Présidente du Mouvement macédonien pour l’Europe et Directrice du Centre d’études du développement international et des mouvements économiques et sociaux de Skopje (CEDIMES - Skopje) ; Mme Ana DIMISKOVSKA, professeur à l’Institut de philosophie de Skopje ; M. Goce ADZI-MITREVSKI, professeur à la Faculté d’architecture de Skopje et M. Suad MISSINI, expert et Directeur du Centre de recherche pour la société civile.
Le débat sera animé par Mlle Ana JOVKOVSKA, journaliste, diplomée en communication et auteur de l’émission “Pouls”.
Ouverture officielle par: S.E.M. Erwan FOUÉRÉ, Ambassadeur de l’Union Européenne et S.E.M. Jean-Claude SCHLUMBERGER, Ambassadeur de France.
Entrée libre.
Traduction simultanée trilingue.
Dans le cadre du Fonds d’Alembert et en collaboration avec le Centre culturel français
de Belgrade et le Centre informatif de la Délégation de l’Union Européenne à Skopje.
Avec la participation de: Mme Stella GHERVAS, spécialiste de l’histoire culturelle et politique de l’Europe et chercheur à l’Institut d’études avancées de Paris; M. Betrand Lévy, maître d’enseignement et de recherches en géographie humaine au sein de l’Institut européen de l’Université de Genève; Mme Mileva GJUROVSKA, professeur à l’Institut de sociologie au sein de la Faculté de philosophie de Skopje, Présidente du Mouvement macédonien pour l’Europe et Directrice du Centre d’études du développement international et des mouvements économiques et sociaux de Skopje (CEDIMES - Skopje) ; Mme Ana DIMISKOVSKA, professeur à l’Institut de philosophie de Skopje ; M. Goce ADZI-MITREVSKI, professeur à la Faculté d’architecture de Skopje et M. Suad MISSINI, expert et Directeur du Centre de recherche pour la société civile.
Le débat sera animé par Mlle Ana JOVKOVSKA, journaliste, diplomée en communication et auteur de l’émission “Pouls”.
Ouverture officielle par: S.E.M. Erwan FOUÉRÉ, Ambassadeur de l’Union Européenne et S.E.M. Jean-Claude SCHLUMBERGER, Ambassadeur de France.
Entrée libre.
Traduction simultanée trilingue.
Dans le cadre du Fonds d’Alembert et en collaboration avec le Centre culturel français
de Belgrade et le Centre informatif de la Délégation de l’Union Européenne à Skopje.
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Research Interests: History, European History, Eastern European Studies, Greek History, Ottoman History, and 24 moreRomanian History, Border Studies, Geopolitics, South East European Studies, Christian Orthodoxy and Nationalism, Eastern European history, Russian Orthodox Church, Ottoman Empire, Modern Greek History, 18th & 19th Centuries, Ottoman Balkans, Russian History, Russian Orthodoxy, 19th Century (History), Southeastern Europe, Orthodox Christianity, 19th Century, Balkans, Russian Empire, Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Danubian Principalities, Orthodox Words, and Borders and Limits
Research Interests: History, European History, Greek History, Balkan History, Migration, and 25 moreModern Greece, Modern Greek History, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, Diaspora Studies, Russian Orthodoxy, 19th Century (History), Russian Intellectual History, Greek Diaspora, Black Sea region, Black Sea Studies, Russia, Comparative History of the Russian, Ottoman, and Chinese Empires, South-Eastern Europe, Russian Empire, Modern Greek Studies, Black Sea, Europe, Odessa, Black Sea, 19th century Russian History, Black Sea history, Eastern Question, The Powers and the Eastern Question, the Eastern Question, and History of Black Sea Regiuon
Stella Ghervas, Table ronde L'"identité européenne" en question / Reassessing European identity
Research Interests: European History, Geography, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, European integration, and 19 moreHistory and Memory, Central European history, Eastern European history, European Politics, European Union, Lieux de memoire, Collective Memory, European identity, Identity, Memory, Cities, Borders and Frontiers, Europe, European memory, Borders and Borderlands, European borders, FRONTIERS, Mémoire Collective, and European Cities
Research Interests: History, European History, Travel Writing, Romanticism, German History, and 13 moreWomen's travel narratives, History of Space Travel, Mysticism, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century German History, 19th Century (History), Travel, Europe, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, German romanticism and idealism, Travel Narratives, and Cosmopolitism
Research Interests: History, European History, Russian Studies, Geopolitics, Balkan History, and 15 moreNapoleonic Wars, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), Imperial Russia, 18th Century Russia, Napoleonic Europe, 19th Century, South-Eastern Europe, Tsarist Empire, Russian Intellectual History, Europe, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Napoleonic History, Congress of Vienna, and Russian Tsar
Research Interests: History, European History, Women's History, German History, South East European Studies, and 10 moreBalkan History, Migration, History of Universities, 19th Century (History), History of Switzerland, 19th Century, University, Student Migration, International Student Migration, and Academic (Student) Migration
Stella Ghervas, UCLA’s Eugen Weber Chair of Modern European History, won the 2023 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for her book “Conquering Peace.” Link to the interview:... more
Stella Ghervas, UCLA’s Eugen Weber Chair of Modern European History, won the 2023 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for her book “Conquering Peace.”
Link to the interview: https://www.college.ucla.edu/2023/11/22/social-sciences-history-stella-ghervas-pondering-peace-2023
Link to the interview: https://www.college.ucla.edu/2023/11/22/social-sciences-history-stella-ghervas-pondering-peace-2023
Research Interests: History, European History, European Studies, International Relations, Education, and 15 morePeace and Conflict Studies, Political Science, Politics, Eastern European history, European Union, Peace Studies, Moldova, Modern European History, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, Romania, Books, Switzerland, University of California Los Angeles, and Stella Ghervas
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, and 15 morePolitical Science, United Nations, Political History, Second World War, First World War, European Union Politics, War and Peace, Cold War history, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, The League of Nations, History of Political Ideas, NATO-Russian Relations, Security and Peace Studies, and Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace
Research Interests: History, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, Political Science, and 15 moreEastern European history, European Union, Soviet Union (History), European Union Politics, Black Sea region, Cold War history, Russia, Portugal, Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Crimea, Security and Peace Studies, History of the European Union, Peace and Conflicts Studies, and Stella Ghervas
Stella Ghervas, a Jaroslaw and Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HURI, will present some of her recent research at the Seminar in Ukrainian Studies on Monday, April 24. At HURI, Ghervas is carrying out research on the Black Sea... more
Stella Ghervas, a Jaroslaw and Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HURI, will present some of her recent research at the Seminar in Ukrainian Studies on Monday, April 24.
At HURI, Ghervas is carrying out research on the Black Sea coastal areas, as part of her larger project on the Black Sea region. Her work challenges the idea that the Black Sea space naturally leads to conflict and nationalism, while assessing economic development, population increases, and growth of cities during a time of "thawed" relations.
On Monday, her talk, "Calming the Waters? Toward a New History of the Black Sea," will examine the history and historiography of the Black Sea. In a different approach to its history, Ghervas argues, could lie the key to "calming the waters," i.e. fostering peace and prosperity in the region.
Link: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/news/news-from-huri/301-calming-the-waters-stella-ghervas-calming-the-waters-stella-ghervas.html
At HURI, Ghervas is carrying out research on the Black Sea coastal areas, as part of her larger project on the Black Sea region. Her work challenges the idea that the Black Sea space naturally leads to conflict and nationalism, while assessing economic development, population increases, and growth of cities during a time of "thawed" relations.
On Monday, her talk, "Calming the Waters? Toward a New History of the Black Sea," will examine the history and historiography of the Black Sea. In a different approach to its history, Ghervas argues, could lie the key to "calming the waters," i.e. fostering peace and prosperity in the region.
Link: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/news/news-from-huri/301-calming-the-waters-stella-ghervas-calming-the-waters-stella-ghervas.html
Research Interests: History, Greek History, Ottoman History, Romanian History, Geopolitics, and 33 moreMaritime History, Historiography, Nationalism, Turkish and Middle East Studies, National Identity, Russian History, History of Nationalism, Crimean Tatar, Nations and nationalism, Black Sea region, Bulgarian history, Black Sea Studies, Maritime and Oceanic History, Constantinople, Ukrainian History, Crimean War, Black Sea, Port cities, Ancient Greek Colonies of the Northern Black Sea Shore, Ocean Circulation, Crimea, Mediterranean and Black Sea Byzantine and Medieval Marine environmental history, Crimean Tatars, Longue durée, Odessa, Black Sea, Ports, Crimean Khanate history, Crimean Khanate, Black Sea Geopolitics, History of Black Sea Regiuon, Geostrategy In the Black Sea, Ports & Maritime Security, and Novorossiya
By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Staff Writer -- Interview with Stella Ghervas, Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Center for European Studies. See: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/05/europes-calmer-side/ Visiting scholar Stella... more
By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Staff Writer -- Interview with Stella Ghervas, Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Center for European Studies. See: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/05/europes-calmer-side/
Visiting scholar Stella Ghervas' Harvard Summer School course will get a novel view of Europe: that its history is more about making peace than it is about making war.
Visiting scholar Stella Ghervas' Harvard Summer School course will get a novel view of Europe: that its history is more about making peace than it is about making war.
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, and 33 moreInternational Relations, Political Philosophy, Peace and Conflict Studies, European Law, Political Theory, Political Science, Governance, Politics, Political History, Diplomacy, European Politics, European Union, History of Political Thought, Rousseau, Russian History, Immanuel Kant, Peace Studies, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Jaques Rousseau, War and Peace, Moldova, Russia, Peace, Romania, Woodrow Wilson, Friedrich Gentz, Europe, Switzerland, Harvard University, Balance of Power, Congress of Vienna, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Abbé De Saint-Pierre
Research Interests:
"Bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna: Three Myths Revised by Stella Ghervas": http://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/interviews/files/486617.asp Napoleon.org, 27 February 2015 Stella Ghervas is a visiting scholar at Harvard... more
"Bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna: Three Myths Revised by Stella Ghervas": http://www.napoleon.org/en/magazine/interviews/files/486617.asp
Napoleon.org, 27 February 2015
Stella Ghervas is a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Center for European Studies. Her major book, "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance" (Guizot Prize of the Académie Française in 2009), explores the intellectual climate and the political conceptions at the time of the Congress of Vienna; an English version is under contract with Cambridge University Press and will be published in 2016.
Napoleon.org, 27 February 2015
Stella Ghervas is a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Center for European Studies. Her major book, "Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance" (Guizot Prize of the Académie Française in 2009), explores the intellectual climate and the political conceptions at the time of the Congress of Vienna; an English version is under contract with Cambridge University Press and will be published in 2016.
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, French History, Eastern European history, and 17 morePolitical History, Napoleonic Wars, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), French Revolution and Napoleon, Ancien Regime France, Napoleonic Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Napoleon, Concert of Europe, Napoleonic History, Balance of Power, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Congress of Vienna, and The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich
Faculti Media Link: https://facultimedia.com/downloads/building-peace-in-post-napoleonic-europe/ Dr Stella Ghervas, Harvard University Building Peace in Post-Napoleonic Europe Other great publication from this author: (2008)... more
Faculti Media
Link: https://facultimedia.com/downloads/building-peace-in-post-napoleonic-europe/
Dr Stella Ghervas, Harvard University
Building Peace in Post-Napoleonic Europe
Other great publication from this author:
(2008) “Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance” | (Paris: Honoré Champion). An English version is under contract with Cambridge University Press.
(2014)”Antidotes to Empire: From the Congress System to the European Union”: In EUtROPEs. The Paradox of European Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
Link: https://facultimedia.com/downloads/building-peace-in-post-napoleonic-europe/
Dr Stella Ghervas, Harvard University
Building Peace in Post-Napoleonic Europe
Other great publication from this author:
(2008) “Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance” | (Paris: Honoré Champion). An English version is under contract with Cambridge University Press.
(2014)”Antidotes to Empire: From the Congress System to the European Union”: In EUtROPEs. The Paradox of European Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, and 30 moreInternational Relations, History of Ideas, Peace and Conflict Studies, Film Theory and Practice, Political Theory, Political History, Diplomacy, Napoleonic Wars, History of International Relations, Peacekeeping, Russian History, Australian History, Cultural Diplomacy, War and Peace, Napoleonic Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Henry A. Kissinger, Napoleon, Path to Perpetual Peace, Longue durée, Napoleonic History, Peacemaking, Balance of Power, Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace, Congress of Vienna, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, Peacemaking/peacekeeping, and Perpetual Peace
Narrating Europe - Stella Ghervas, in "H - Europe: A Blog about European Historiography", University of Luxembourg: http://h-europe.uni.lu/?p=2579 L’interview avec Stella Ghervas, Visiting Scholar au Center for European Studies de... more
Narrating Europe - Stella Ghervas, in "H - Europe: A Blog about European Historiography", University of Luxembourg: http://h-europe.uni.lu/?p=2579
L’interview avec Stella Ghervas, Visiting Scholar au Center for European Studies de l’Université de Harvard (Etats-Unis), a été réalisé par Dimitri Dessily et Coline Wascotte, dans le cadre du cours Narrating Europe du Master en Histoire Européenne Contemporaine.
L’interview avec Stella Ghervas, Visiting Scholar au Center for European Studies de l’Université de Harvard (Etats-Unis), a été réalisé par Dimitri Dessily et Coline Wascotte, dans le cadre du cours Narrating Europe du Master en Histoire Européenne Contemporaine.
Research Interests: History, European History, Modern History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, and 50 moreGeography, Cultural Geography, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, Russian Studies, International Relations, Western Europe, Ottoman History, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, Romanian History, Critical Geopolitics, Geopolitics, Space and Place, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Contemporary History, International History, Political History, Transnational History, Diplomacy, European Politics, European Union, Modernity, Ottoman Empire, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, European identity, Intellectual and cultural history, 19th Century (History), Religion and Modernity, Southeastern Europe, Black Sea region, War and Peace, Moldova, European Geography, Russia, Peace, Peacebuilding, Greece, Romania, Black Sea, Europe, Cultural and Intellectual History, Russian Geopolitics, Longue durée, European borders, European Civilisation, Historical Narrative, and Enlarged Europe
The leaders of Europe in debate during the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15. Historians will gather at Harvard on April 11 to mark the 200th anniversary of the Congress of Vienna.
Research Interests: History, European History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, International Relations, and 40 moreWomen's Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, Women's History, Polish History, War Studies, Political Science, Slavery, Politics, Power System, History of Slavery, United Nations, European Politics, International Politics, European Union, Napoleonic Wars, World War I, Rousseau, First World War, Russian History, Immanuel Kant, Peace Studies, History of History, War and Peace, Napoleonic Europe, Russia, Peace, Peacebuilding, Crimean War, Histoire, history of Poland, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, Crimea, Concert of Europe, Eastern Question, Congress of Vienna, The Powers and the Eastern Question, the Eastern Question, The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich, and Abbé De Saint-Pierre
Interview with Stella Ghervas "La paix, valeur cardinale", Radio Program "Le Mag Europe", Euradio Nantes (France)
Research Interests:
Carrefours de la pensée : l'Europe en questions au Mans Politique européenne vendredi 15 mars 2013 Entretien avec Stella Ghervas, historienne et spécialiste de l'histoire politique et culturelle de l'Europe, qui ouvre les Carrefours... more
Carrefours de la pensée : l'Europe en questions au Mans
Politique européenne vendredi 15 mars 2013
Entretien avec Stella Ghervas, historienne et spécialiste de l'histoire politique et culturelle de l'Europe, qui ouvre les Carrefours de la pensée, ce vendredi, à 14 h 30, au Mans.
Politique européenne vendredi 15 mars 2013
Entretien avec Stella Ghervas, historienne et spécialiste de l'histoire politique et culturelle de l'Europe, qui ouvre les Carrefours de la pensée, ce vendredi, à 14 h 30, au Mans.
Research Interests: European History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, European integration, and 16 moreEuropean Law, Border Studies, European Foreign Policy, European Politics, European Union, European Integration History, European Union Law, European identity, European Union (International Studies), European/EU Politics, European culture, European Enlargement, Enlargement and Integration in the EU, European Union Politics, European Construction History, and European borders
L’Union européenne, mal comprise par ses citoyens, souffre d’un vrai déficit d’image. Est-il possible d’y remédier ? Oui, en changeant de discours et en élargissant les schémas d’explication, dans l’espace et dans le temps : il faut... more
L’Union européenne, mal comprise par ses citoyens, souffre d’un vrai déficit d’image. Est-il possible d’y remédier ? Oui, en changeant de discours et en élargissant les schémas d’explication, dans l’espace et dans le temps : il faut inclure les pays de l’Europe orientale et remonter au siècle des Lumières. En se fondant sur l’histoire européenne, Stella Ghervas expose pourquoi l’idée de paix pourrait bien être le principe de légitimation de l’Union.
Research Interests: History, European History, Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, International Relations, and 36 morePolitical Philosophy, Kant, Development Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Eastern Europe, Political Theory, Intelligence Studies, Values, War Studies, Enlightenment, History Of Political Thought (Political Science), Political History, European Union, Electoral Systems, 18th & 19th Centuries, European Enlargement, Enlargement and Integration in the EU, 19th Century (History), Peace & Conflict Studies, Social Imaginaries, Peace Studies, Nations and nationalism, Jean Jaques Rousseau, 19th-20th Century Europe, Peace, Good Governance, Environmental Sciences, Political Studies, Poltical Theory, Nation-State, Peacemaking, Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace, European Values Study, History of Empires, Peace and Conflicts Studies, and Land Planning
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
[In French] Stella Ghervas presents the book "Réinventer la tradition. Alexandre Stourdza et l'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance", Paris, Honoré Champion, coll. "Histoire culturelle de l'Europe", 2008, 624 p. - Guizot Prize of the French... more
[In French]
Stella Ghervas presents the book "Réinventer la tradition. Alexandre Stourdza et l'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance", Paris, Honoré Champion, coll. "Histoire culturelle de l'Europe", 2008, 624 p.
- Guizot Prize of the French Academy, 2009
- Xenopol Prize of the Romanian Academy, 2010
- Prize and Merit Diploma of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 2009
- Selected for the Great Prize for History Chateaubriand (France)
See also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgjIlawtLrY&feature=related"
Stella Ghervas
"Réinventer la tradition.
Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance"
N° 9, 624 p., relié, 15 x 22 cm. ISBN 978-2-7453-1669-1. 85 €
1815. Après vingt années d’expansion révolutionnaire et napoléonienne, l’heure est à la réaction. La Russie, qui a été menacée dans son existence même, émerge comme pilier du nouvel ordre politique européen. Pour assurer celui-ci, et sceller la paix enfin retrouvée, le tsar Alexandre Ier propose une Sainte-Alliance des souverains et des peuples chrétiens. Il charge son conseiller Alexandre Stourdza (1791-1854) de mettre en forme cette surprenante proclamation politico-mystique bientôt ratifiée par tous les pays du continent. Après le fracas des armes, le destin de l’Europe se joue désormais dans les chancelleries, dans la presse et dans l’opinion. Face à l’héritage des Lumières, les partisans d’un retour à la tradition sont pourtant divisés : mystiques et théocrates d’un côté, conservateurs plus laïcs de l’autre, catholiques ou orthodoxes, Russes ou Autrichiens. Chaque parti, chaque puissance du moment, a en fait sa propre vision du nouvel ordre qui doit régir l’Europe. Défendue par Stourdza de congrès en congrès, la Sainte-Alliance sera bientôt mise en échec par les libéraux allemands, et débordée par le système répressif de Metternich.
Abandonné par son souverain, Alexandre Stourdza quitte le service diplomatique en 1822 pour s’établir à Odessa. Il mettra désormais sa plume au service d’une orthodoxie rénovée, capable de fédérer les différentes populations chrétiennes de Russie et de l'Empire ottoman. Loin de se réduire à un combat d’arrière-garde, ce grand projet de « modernisation défensive » des sociétés orthodoxes incluait l’émancipation nationale des Grecs et des Roumains, ainsi que l’abolition du servage en Russie.
http://www.honorechampion.com/cgi/run?wwfrset+3+0+1+2+cccdegtv1+08531669+1
Stella Ghervas presents the book "Réinventer la tradition. Alexandre Stourdza et l'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance", Paris, Honoré Champion, coll. "Histoire culturelle de l'Europe", 2008, 624 p.
- Guizot Prize of the French Academy, 2009
- Xenopol Prize of the Romanian Academy, 2010
- Prize and Merit Diploma of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 2009
- Selected for the Great Prize for History Chateaubriand (France)
See also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgjIlawtLrY&feature=related"
Stella Ghervas
"Réinventer la tradition.
Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance"
N° 9, 624 p., relié, 15 x 22 cm. ISBN 978-2-7453-1669-1. 85 €
1815. Après vingt années d’expansion révolutionnaire et napoléonienne, l’heure est à la réaction. La Russie, qui a été menacée dans son existence même, émerge comme pilier du nouvel ordre politique européen. Pour assurer celui-ci, et sceller la paix enfin retrouvée, le tsar Alexandre Ier propose une Sainte-Alliance des souverains et des peuples chrétiens. Il charge son conseiller Alexandre Stourdza (1791-1854) de mettre en forme cette surprenante proclamation politico-mystique bientôt ratifiée par tous les pays du continent. Après le fracas des armes, le destin de l’Europe se joue désormais dans les chancelleries, dans la presse et dans l’opinion. Face à l’héritage des Lumières, les partisans d’un retour à la tradition sont pourtant divisés : mystiques et théocrates d’un côté, conservateurs plus laïcs de l’autre, catholiques ou orthodoxes, Russes ou Autrichiens. Chaque parti, chaque puissance du moment, a en fait sa propre vision du nouvel ordre qui doit régir l’Europe. Défendue par Stourdza de congrès en congrès, la Sainte-Alliance sera bientôt mise en échec par les libéraux allemands, et débordée par le système répressif de Metternich.
Abandonné par son souverain, Alexandre Stourdza quitte le service diplomatique en 1822 pour s’établir à Odessa. Il mettra désormais sa plume au service d’une orthodoxie rénovée, capable de fédérer les différentes populations chrétiennes de Russie et de l'Empire ottoman. Loin de se réduire à un combat d’arrière-garde, ce grand projet de « modernisation défensive » des sociétés orthodoxes incluait l’émancipation nationale des Grecs et des Roumains, ainsi que l’abolition du servage en Russie.
http://www.honorechampion.com/cgi/run?wwfrset+3+0+1+2+cccdegtv1+08531669+1
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, Greek History, History of Ideas, and 20 moreEastern Europe, Romanian History, Christian Orthodoxy and Nationalism, Eastern European history, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, 19th Century (History), Russia (History), Imperial Russia, Orthodox Christianity, 19th-20th Century Europe, Napoleonic Europe, Concert of Europe, Napoleonic History, Romanian Principalities, Eastern Question, and History of Empires
[In French] Video Interview of Stella Ghervas: "L'Europe élargie, de la Sainte-Alliance au Traité de Lisbonne" (Enlarged Europe, from the Holy Aliance to the Treaty of Lisbon) by Alain d'Iribarne, Institut d'Etudes Avancées -... more
[In French] Video Interview of Stella Ghervas:
"L'Europe élargie, de la Sainte-Alliance au Traité de Lisbonne" (Enlarged Europe, from the Holy Aliance to the Treaty of Lisbon)
by Alain d'Iribarne,
Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
Part I: Introduction à l'Europe élargie / Introduction to Enlarged Europe
(also on on YouTube)
See more: Web site: http://www.ghervas.net/en_GB/medias.html"
"L'Europe élargie, de la Sainte-Alliance au Traité de Lisbonne" (Enlarged Europe, from the Holy Aliance to the Treaty of Lisbon)
by Alain d'Iribarne,
Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
Part I: Introduction à l'Europe élargie / Introduction to Enlarged Europe
(also on on YouTube)
See more: Web site: http://www.ghervas.net/en_GB/medias.html"
Research Interests:
[In French] Video Interview of Stella Ghervas: L'Europe élargie, de la Sainte-Alliance au Traité de Lisbonne, / Enlarged Europe, from the Holy Aliance to the Treaty of Lisbon, by Alain d'Iribarne, Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris... more
[In French] Video Interview of Stella Ghervas:
L'Europe élargie, de la Sainte-Alliance au Traité de Lisbonne,
/ Enlarged Europe, from the Holy Aliance to the Treaty of Lisbon,
by Alain d'Iribarne, Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
Part II: Les projets européens de la Sainte-Alliance au traité de Lisbonne: perspective historique
/ European projects, from the Holy Alliance to the Treaty of Lisbon: a Historical Perspective
(also on YouTube)
Web site: http://www.ghervas.net/en_GB/medias.html"
L'Europe élargie, de la Sainte-Alliance au Traité de Lisbonne,
/ Enlarged Europe, from the Holy Aliance to the Treaty of Lisbon,
by Alain d'Iribarne, Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
Part II: Les projets européens de la Sainte-Alliance au traité de Lisbonne: perspective historique
/ European projects, from the Holy Alliance to the Treaty of Lisbon: a Historical Perspective
(also on YouTube)
Web site: http://www.ghervas.net/en_GB/medias.html"
Research Interests:
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, and 13 moreLegal History, Enlightenment, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Diplomacy, European Union, History of Political Thought, European Enlightenment, War and Peace, Peace, History of Law, Political Studies, Europe, and Diplomacy and international relations
24 FEBRUARY 2021 A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment Editors Stella GHERVAS (Newcastle) and David ARMITAGE (Harvard) in conversation with Sylvana TOMASELLI (Cambridge) and Richard WHATMORE (St Andrews) For... more
24 FEBRUARY 2021
A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment
Editors
Stella GHERVAS (Newcastle) and David ARMITAGE (Harvard)
in conversation with Sylvana TOMASELLI (Cambridge) and Richard WHATMORE (St Andrews)
For Zoom login details please email: [email protected]
Time: 16:00 GMT – All welcome!
Commentator: Rachel HAMMERSLEY (Newcastle)
All welcome!
A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment
Editors
Stella GHERVAS (Newcastle) and David ARMITAGE (Harvard)
in conversation with Sylvana TOMASELLI (Cambridge) and Richard WHATMORE (St Andrews)
For Zoom login details please email: [email protected]
Time: 16:00 GMT – All welcome!
Commentator: Rachel HAMMERSLEY (Newcastle)
All welcome!
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, History of Ideas, and 12 morePeace and Conflict Studies, Political Theory, Enlightenment, Early Modern Europe, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Peace Movements, History of Political Thought, European Legal History, Peace Studies, 18th Century, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, and History of Political Ideas
Maritime Humanities Workshop and Networking Hour: "An Empire of the Seas: Russian Maritime Expansion in the White and the Black Seas (18th-19th Centuries)", organized by Prof. Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University), 8 May 2019. Most... more
Maritime Humanities Workshop and Networking Hour: "An Empire of the Seas: Russian Maritime Expansion in the White and the Black Seas (18th-19th Centuries)", organized by Prof. Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University), 8 May 2019.
Most historians have described Russia as a territorially expansive land empire spanning Eurasia. In recent years, however, increasing attention to transnational and environmental history has led scholars to reconsider the Russian Empire as a maritime power that reached far beyond its land boundaries. This workshop brings together two international scholars working on the new maritime history of Russia to reveal the current state of the field. The two participants will probe the limits and possibilities of this new approach to Russian history, by considering how Russia expanded toward the White and the Black Seas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This event is part of the Newcastle University Maritime Humanities Hub (MHH), a new initiative developed by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and sponsored by the Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute (NUHRI). It will also be an opportunity to survey interests on Maritime Humanities within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Participants: Prof. Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University) and Dr. Alexei Kraikovski (National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg).
Link: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/events/item/maritimehumanitiesworkshopandnetworkinghour.html
Most historians have described Russia as a territorially expansive land empire spanning Eurasia. In recent years, however, increasing attention to transnational and environmental history has led scholars to reconsider the Russian Empire as a maritime power that reached far beyond its land boundaries. This workshop brings together two international scholars working on the new maritime history of Russia to reveal the current state of the field. The two participants will probe the limits and possibilities of this new approach to Russian history, by considering how Russia expanded toward the White and the Black Seas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This event is part of the Newcastle University Maritime Humanities Hub (MHH), a new initiative developed by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and sponsored by the Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute (NUHRI). It will also be an opportunity to survey interests on Maritime Humanities within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Participants: Prof. Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University) and Dr. Alexei Kraikovski (National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg).
Link: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/events/item/maritimehumanitiesworkshopandnetworkinghour.html
Research Interests: History, European History, Maritime History, Environmental History, Russian History, and 15 more19th Century (History), 18th Century, Black Sea region, Empire, Maritime and Oceanic History, Russia, Borders and Frontiers, Russian Empire, Arctic, Black Sea, Boundaries, Crimea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, and History of Black Sea Regiuon
Keynote: Stella Ghervas, "La mer Noire: colonisation d'un espace de frontière au XIXe siècle" (University of Lausanne, 7 February 2019). International Conference "Les communautés suisses de la mer Noire", University of Lausanne... more
Keynote: Stella Ghervas, "La mer Noire: colonisation d'un espace de frontière au XIXe siècle" (University of Lausanne, 7 February 2019). International Conference "Les communautés suisses de la mer Noire", University of Lausanne (Switzerland), 7-8 February 2019).
Research Interests: History, European History, Languages and Linguistics, Border Studies, Eastern European history, and 15 moreSwiss History, Cross-Cultural Studies, Ottoman Empire, Migration Studies, Russian History, Migration History, 19th Century (History), Black Sea region, History of Switzerland, Black Sea Studies, Russian Empire, Crimean War, Black Sea, Crimea, and Borders and Borderlands
"Maritime Humanities: History and Beyond" (Newcastle University, 1 November 2018). Abstract: "70% of the Earth’s surface is water, but the humanities and social sciences remain stubbornly attached to the land. The maritime, or “blue”,... more
"Maritime Humanities: History and Beyond" (Newcastle University, 1 November 2018).
Abstract:
"70% of the Earth’s surface is water, but the humanities and social sciences remain stubbornly attached to the land. The maritime, or “blue”, humanities aim to redress the balance by focusing on the human relationship with the world's oceans, seas and other watery regions of circulation, exchange and interaction with non-human nature. This event brings together historians and other scholars to consider the past, present and future of the maritime humanities, using the recently published volume Oceanic Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2018) as its springboard.
The event also inaugurates the chair of Professor Stella Ghervas, a specialist in Russia and its maritime history, whose recent appointment begins a new chapter in the maritime humanities at Newcastle University. This event is co-sponsored by the Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and will be followed by a reception.
Confirmed participants include David Armitage (Harvard University), Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University), Matthew Grenby (Newcastle University), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge University) and Philip Steinberg (Durham University)."
Abstract:
"70% of the Earth’s surface is water, but the humanities and social sciences remain stubbornly attached to the land. The maritime, or “blue”, humanities aim to redress the balance by focusing on the human relationship with the world's oceans, seas and other watery regions of circulation, exchange and interaction with non-human nature. This event brings together historians and other scholars to consider the past, present and future of the maritime humanities, using the recently published volume Oceanic Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2018) as its springboard.
The event also inaugurates the chair of Professor Stella Ghervas, a specialist in Russia and its maritime history, whose recent appointment begins a new chapter in the maritime humanities at Newcastle University. This event is co-sponsored by the Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology and will be followed by a reception.
Confirmed participants include David Armitage (Harvard University), Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University), Matthew Grenby (Newcastle University), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge University) and Philip Steinberg (Durham University)."
Research Interests: History, Geography, Oceanography, Humanities, Social Sciences, and 15 moreGeopolitics, Maritime History, Environmental History, Atlantic World, World History, Global History, Russian History, Environmental Sustainability, Black Sea region, Pacific History, Maritime and Oceanic History, Arctic Ocean, Oceans, Regional Seas, and Maritime Humanities
Conference "200 Years of Conference Diplomacy: From the Congress of Vienna to the G7". An Academic Conference in Berlin, 8-9 June 2015 (Conference Programme).
Research Interests: History, European History, Diplomatic History, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, and 39 moreGerman Studies, Russian Studies, International Relations, Legitimacy and Authority, International Relations Theory, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Theory, International Studies, International organizations, International Security, NATO, Security, Political Science, International History, Security Studies, Political History, Legitimacy, Political Legitimacy, European Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, European Union, Power and Legitimacy, History of International Relations, Peacekeeping, Global History, Russian History, Peace Studies, International Political Theory, Peace, Peacebuilding, USA - EU Relations, G20 - G8 - G7, US Foreign Policy, US-Russian relations, Geopolitics of South Caucasus, Russia/USSR, Security and Peace Studies, US-Russian relations, Diplomacy and international relations, Congress of Vienna, and Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Organized by David Armitage (Harvard University) and Stella Ghervas (Harvard University / MSHA, Bordeaux) Description: "2014-15 will mark the bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna, a significant step in the transition from the... more
Organized by David Armitage (Harvard University) and Stella Ghervas (Harvard University / MSHA, Bordeaux)
Description:
"2014-15 will mark the bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna, a significant step in the transition from the Ancien Régime to a new international order in which peace was largely maintained through diplomatic dialogue. This post-Napoleonic period has previously been the subject of major works by scholars of international relations and comparative politics (notably the classic studies of Henry Kissinger and Paul Schroeder). Yet many national histories still portray the Congress as a mere “reaction” by conservative monarchs, heralding a time of political and social regression.
More recent works, written from a transnational and even a global perspective, have done much to revise these traditional views. They have also expanded the range of approaches to include cultural history, intellectual history, the history of gender and the history of slavery. The resulting picture has become far more complex and nuanced, bringing new themes and issues to the fore.
The Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University will host a conference to cover these advances in our understanding of this epoch. It will seek to dust off traditional narratives by examining a central paradox: if we admit that the conceptions of peace and political order behind the Vienna Settlement ushered in a truly innovative international system for Europe and the wider world, how could these same ideas and the statesmen who bore them also have been reactionary, as they have so often been portrayed? While the Great Powers were at the center of attention, how did their decisions affect the smaller states of Europe, the stateless peoples, the enslaved, and their colonies, as well as extra-European states? What was the role of women in these diplomatic negotiations? More generally, is there good cause to reconsider our views about the Congress of Vienna from our horizon of experience, in the perspective of the longue durée? By bringing together four leading scholars on the Congress (from Europe, the United States, and Australia) to address these questions, this conference will showcase the most innovative new work in the field. And by virtue of being the first conference of the bicentenary, it should help to set the agenda for subsequent considerations of the Congress in the coming months.
The intended audience is faculty and students in history, politics, International Relations, and European studies broadly defined.""
Description:
"2014-15 will mark the bicentenary of the Congress of Vienna, a significant step in the transition from the Ancien Régime to a new international order in which peace was largely maintained through diplomatic dialogue. This post-Napoleonic period has previously been the subject of major works by scholars of international relations and comparative politics (notably the classic studies of Henry Kissinger and Paul Schroeder). Yet many national histories still portray the Congress as a mere “reaction” by conservative monarchs, heralding a time of political and social regression.
More recent works, written from a transnational and even a global perspective, have done much to revise these traditional views. They have also expanded the range of approaches to include cultural history, intellectual history, the history of gender and the history of slavery. The resulting picture has become far more complex and nuanced, bringing new themes and issues to the fore.
The Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University will host a conference to cover these advances in our understanding of this epoch. It will seek to dust off traditional narratives by examining a central paradox: if we admit that the conceptions of peace and political order behind the Vienna Settlement ushered in a truly innovative international system for Europe and the wider world, how could these same ideas and the statesmen who bore them also have been reactionary, as they have so often been portrayed? While the Great Powers were at the center of attention, how did their decisions affect the smaller states of Europe, the stateless peoples, the enslaved, and their colonies, as well as extra-European states? What was the role of women in these diplomatic negotiations? More generally, is there good cause to reconsider our views about the Congress of Vienna from our horizon of experience, in the perspective of the longue durée? By bringing together four leading scholars on the Congress (from Europe, the United States, and Australia) to address these questions, this conference will showcase the most innovative new work in the field. And by virtue of being the first conference of the bicentenary, it should help to set the agenda for subsequent considerations of the Congress in the coming months.
The intended audience is faculty and students in history, politics, International Relations, and European studies broadly defined.""
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Diplomatic History, and 66 moreEastern European Studies, European Studies, Law, Gender Studies, International Relations, History of Ideas, Women's Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Women's History, International Studies, International Law, International Trade, Global Governance, War Studies, Political Science, International History, Slavery, Politics, Power System, Central Europe, History of Slavery, Central European history, Habsburg Studies, European Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, International Politics, European Union, Peace Movements, Napoleonic Wars, History of International Relations, Slave Trade, Global History, 18th & 19th Centuries, Russian History, Intellectual and cultural history, International trade law, 19th Century (History), Peace & Conflict Studies, Russian Intellectual History, Peace Studies, 19th and 20th Century United States, War and Peace, 19th-20th Century Europe, Napoleonic Europe, War, Central and Eastern Europe, Peace, Historia, Poliical History, Europe, Histoire, post-Napoleonic 19th century history, History and international studies, Henry A. Kissinger, Napoleon, Concert of Europe, Security and Peace Studies, Longue durée, Napoleonic History, Napoleonic Era, Peacemaking, Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th century, Balance of Power, Women and Peace making, Congress of Vienna, and The Congress System of Viscount Castlereagh and Chancellor Metternich
Organisé par Stella Ghervas (Université de Genève) et Jean-Jacques Wunenburger (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) Thématique du Colloque: "L'Europe politique existe, c'est un fait, mais il lui manque un supplément d'âme, un... more
Organisé par Stella Ghervas (Université de Genève) et Jean-Jacques Wunenburger (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Thématique du Colloque:
"L'Europe politique existe, c'est un fait, mais il lui manque un supplément d'âme, un «je-ne-sais-quoi» difficile à appréhender, mais dont l'absence se fait tout de même sentir. Aux yeux d'une majorité des peuples européens et de ses élites dirigeantes l'Europe est souvent perçue comme un objet non identifié. Pour d'autres peuples en revanche, l'existence d'un ensemble européen semble évidente. En dehors de nos confins, ne sommes-nous pas reconnus d'abord comme des Européens et seulement après comme des Français, Allemands ou Italiens ?
Qu'elle soit identifiable ou non, il nous semble que la réponse au problème de la nature européenne doit aussi passer par une mise en question des représentations que nous faisons de l'Europe. Le fait même que tant de politiques, d'historiens, de philosophes et de gens ordinaires poursuivent une quête de leur identité commune semble légitimer le présupposé, peut-être plus de l'ordre de la croyance que de la raison, de l'existence d'une entité européenne. Même si l'Europe s'impose à autant d'esprits, sa nature ne se laisse en effet jamais délimiter définitivement par un seul domaine de la connaissance. Sa représentation exige plutôt l'entrecroisement des images que l'histoire, la géographie, la philosophie, la politique ou encore l'anthropologie ont construites pour définir cet espace.
Ce colloque se positionne donc dans la logique de toute entreprise interdisciplinaire. Parce que la question de l'identité européenne est réfractaire à l'isolement et au rétrécissement, parce que les concepts ne se ramènent plus nécessairement à l'appartenance à une identité européenne unique, nous considérons donc que l'évanouissement des frontières scientifiques est un bon moyen de «dessiner» une carte européenne qui ne soit pas exclusive. C'est cet assemblage interdisciplinaire et transnational qui peut nous donner une représentation du corps européen et de ses composantes, dont l'Europe a tant besoin aujourd’hui."
Thématique du Colloque:
"L'Europe politique existe, c'est un fait, mais il lui manque un supplément d'âme, un «je-ne-sais-quoi» difficile à appréhender, mais dont l'absence se fait tout de même sentir. Aux yeux d'une majorité des peuples européens et de ses élites dirigeantes l'Europe est souvent perçue comme un objet non identifié. Pour d'autres peuples en revanche, l'existence d'un ensemble européen semble évidente. En dehors de nos confins, ne sommes-nous pas reconnus d'abord comme des Européens et seulement après comme des Français, Allemands ou Italiens ?
Qu'elle soit identifiable ou non, il nous semble que la réponse au problème de la nature européenne doit aussi passer par une mise en question des représentations que nous faisons de l'Europe. Le fait même que tant de politiques, d'historiens, de philosophes et de gens ordinaires poursuivent une quête de leur identité commune semble légitimer le présupposé, peut-être plus de l'ordre de la croyance que de la raison, de l'existence d'une entité européenne. Même si l'Europe s'impose à autant d'esprits, sa nature ne se laisse en effet jamais délimiter définitivement par un seul domaine de la connaissance. Sa représentation exige plutôt l'entrecroisement des images que l'histoire, la géographie, la philosophie, la politique ou encore l'anthropologie ont construites pour définir cet espace.
Ce colloque se positionne donc dans la logique de toute entreprise interdisciplinaire. Parce que la question de l'identité européenne est réfractaire à l'isolement et au rétrécissement, parce que les concepts ne se ramènent plus nécessairement à l'appartenance à une identité européenne unique, nous considérons donc que l'évanouissement des frontières scientifiques est un bon moyen de «dessiner» une carte européenne qui ne soit pas exclusive. C'est cet assemblage interdisciplinaire et transnational qui peut nous donner une représentation du corps européen et de ses composantes, dont l'Europe a tant besoin aujourd’hui."
Research Interests:
Organisé par Stella Ghervas (Université de Genève) et François Rosset (Université de Lausanne) Thématique du Colloque International "Lieux d'Europe": "Difficile à cerner dans son identité géographique, l'Europe exprime son... more
Organisé par Stella Ghervas (Université de Genève) et François Rosset (Université de Lausanne)
Thématique du Colloque International "Lieux d'Europe":
"Difficile à cerner dans son identité géographique, l'Europe exprime son histoire, sa consistance culturelle et sa réalité multiforme à travers des lieux particulièrement signifiants. Ce sont des lieux emblématiques de la construction européenne (de Rome à Bruxelles), des noeuds historiques (ex. : Waterloo, Sarajevo, Yalta), des composantes géophysiques (ex. : les îles, les côtes ou encore : les Alpes, le Danube), des villes-charnière (Vienne, Trieste, Wroclaw), des pays d'élection dans la pratique du voyage (l'Italie), des capitales avérées ou proclamées - autant de réalités et de désignations spatiales qui disent autre chose que leur localité, qui disent quelque chose du sens multiple de l'Europe.
La plupart des noms qui désignent ces lieux et ces espaces sont immuables (sauf à tenir compte, bien sûr, de l'évolution des langues), alors que la réalité est changeante. D'autres se transforment au gré des idées et des langages dominants (des noms de rues, ceux de certaines villes ou de pays), tandis qu'une même réalité physique peut être qualifiée différemment, au fil des temps, selon le critère géographique qu'on pourrait pourtant croire le plus sûr et le plus stable : Europe du Nord, Europe de l'Est, Europe centrale.
Ainsi, examiner des lieux d'Europe, c'est arpenter une réalité géographique, historique et culturelle, mais c'est aussi interroger les modèles et instruments de connaissance servant à décrire cette réalité qui appartient autant au domaine des faits qu'aux imaginaires."
Thématique du Colloque International "Lieux d'Europe":
"Difficile à cerner dans son identité géographique, l'Europe exprime son histoire, sa consistance culturelle et sa réalité multiforme à travers des lieux particulièrement signifiants. Ce sont des lieux emblématiques de la construction européenne (de Rome à Bruxelles), des noeuds historiques (ex. : Waterloo, Sarajevo, Yalta), des composantes géophysiques (ex. : les îles, les côtes ou encore : les Alpes, le Danube), des villes-charnière (Vienne, Trieste, Wroclaw), des pays d'élection dans la pratique du voyage (l'Italie), des capitales avérées ou proclamées - autant de réalités et de désignations spatiales qui disent autre chose que leur localité, qui disent quelque chose du sens multiple de l'Europe.
La plupart des noms qui désignent ces lieux et ces espaces sont immuables (sauf à tenir compte, bien sûr, de l'évolution des langues), alors que la réalité est changeante. D'autres se transforment au gré des idées et des langages dominants (des noms de rues, ceux de certaines villes ou de pays), tandis qu'une même réalité physique peut être qualifiée différemment, au fil des temps, selon le critère géographique qu'on pourrait pourtant croire le plus sûr et le plus stable : Europe du Nord, Europe de l'Est, Europe centrale.
Ainsi, examiner des lieux d'Europe, c'est arpenter une réalité géographique, historique et culturelle, mais c'est aussi interroger les modèles et instruments de connaissance servant à décrire cette réalité qui appartient autant au domaine des faits qu'aux imaginaires."
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Geography, and 59 moreUrban Geography, Eastern European Studies, European Studies, Mythology, Art History, Eastern Europe, Medieval History, Cultural Heritage, Literature, Border Studies, Urban History, Eastern European history, Urban Studies, Italian Literature, Rural Geography, European Union, Rural Tourism, Lieux de memoire, Social History, Imagination, European Medieval History, France, Poland, Black Sea region, Frontier Studies, Urban Imaginary, European Geography, Russia, Italy, Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Greece, Borders, Cities, Borders and Frontiers, Urban Design, Seafarers, Europe, Europa, Littérature, Mythe et littérature, Switzerland, Littérature Comparée, Imaginary, Social imaginary, Odessa, Black Sea, Borders and Borderlands, European Capital City, European borders, Periferie, Urban Place, History of the Law of the Sea, European Capital of Culture, Places, Oceans, Historic Centers, European Capitals of Culture, National Imaginary, and European Cities
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Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Diplomatic History, European Studies, and 15 moreRussian Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, War Studies, Political Science, Political History, European Union, History of Political Thought, History of International Relations, Peace Studies, Central and Eastern Europe, Peace, Peacebuilding, Security and Peace Studies, and History of the European Union
Online Spring Seminar 2022 in International Law and Global History, 19 May 2022