Political leadership and the politics of performance:France, Syria and the chemical weapons crisis of 2013

This article draws upon developments in UK research on political rhetoric and political performance in order to examine the incident in 2013 when French President François Hollande committed French forces to a US-led punitive strike against Syria, after the use of chemical weapons in a Damascus suburb on 21 August. The US-led retaliation did not take place. This article analyses Hollande's declaration on 27 July and his TV appearance on 15 September. His rhetoric and style are best understood as generic to the nature of the presidential office of the Fifth Republic. The article concludes by appraising how analysis of the French case contributes to the developing literature on rhetoric, celebrity and performance

On Using Multi-agent Systems in End to End Adaptive Monitoring

International audienceThe complexity (in terms of services and multimedia streaming) and dynamicity of telecommunication networks are continually growing, making network management and control more and more difficult. Such a management must be adaptive, dynamic and smart. In order to be sure of getting the best management mechanisms’ choice, a monitoring operation becomes fundamental. This paper presents a new adaptive monitoring approach based on a multi-agent system, taking into consideration the features of the networks namely flexibility, dynamicity, heterogeneity of users generated traffic, etc. A two-layers monitoring architecture is proposed in this paper. The first layer is responsible for dealing with monitoring of some local parameters, which are useful for the second layer. Indeed, this latter is adaptive, autonomous and able to make new decisions- about the data to monitor and the management mechanisms to activate- based on the current node’s state

Les sciences ­humaines et ­sociales en ­Amérique latine, XXe siècle

Ce dossier de la Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines a pour objectif d’explorer la constitution et le développement historiques des sciences sociales et humaines en Amérique latine au xxe siècle. Les six articles rassemblés ici abordent les processus de construction et d’institutionnalisation de ces disciplines à différentes périodes et dans différents espaces, marqués, entre autres, par des traditions académiques nationales et des contextes politiques et idéologiques particuliers. Les analyses accordent une attention particulière aux acteurs, à leurs pratiques et à leurs stratégies, aux structures, aux politiques et aux systèmes nationaux d’organisation universitaire ou para-universitaire, aux réseaux et aux institutions transnationaux, aux échanges et aux connexions entre les espaces latino-américains et les autres régions du monde, aux programmes de coopération et de financement internationaux et à leur influence sur les orientations de la production intellectuelle. Ces études de cas éclairent dès lors les débats théoriques, que ce soit au sein de champs disciplinaires spécifiques ou transversaux à l’ensemble des sciences humaines et sociales, aussi bien à l’échelle locale que continentale. This dossier of the Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines aims to contribute to exploring the historical constitution and development of the social sciences and humanities in Latin America in the 20th century. The six articles gathered here address the processes of construction and institutionalization of these disciplines in different periods and spaces, marked, among other things, by national academic traditions and particular political and ideological contexts. The analyses pay special attention to the actors, their practices and strategies, to national structures, policies, and systems of academic organization, to transnational networks and institutions, to exchanges and connections between Latin American spaces and other regions of the world, to international cooperation and funding programs and their influence on the orientations of intellectual production. In this way, this series of case studies also shed light on local as well as continent-wide theoretical debates and their transformations