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