Masha Cerovic, Les Enfants de Staline. La guerre des partisans soviétiques, 1941-1944

Renewing the historiography of the Second World War, one of the most studied conflicts of all time, particularly the battle between Soviet partisans and Nazi Germany, is no small task. However Masha Cerovic manages to brilliantly do so in her new book Les enfants de Staline [Stalin’s Children] which sheds new light on the brutal “irregular warfare” that ravaged Western Soviet territories for three years. Working with unpublished sources from Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and Germany – including..

La suprématie aérienne en péril. Menaces et contre-stratégies à l'horizon 2030

Depuis la fin de la Guerre froide, la force aérienne incarne, plus que toute autre capacité militaire, la puissance occidentale. Or, dans les années à venir, les armées occidentales vont devoir faire face à des adversaires potentiels dotés de capacités défensives nettement plus performantes : missiles antiaériens modernes et intégrés dans des réseaux redondants, chasseurs de 5e génération, moyens d’agression à longue distance, drones ou encore cyber-attaques… Confrontées à des formes de contestation sophistiquées, technologiquement comme stratégiquement, les forces aériennes vont devoir réagir. Cet ouvrage présente ce que pourrait être la supériorité aérienne à l’horizon 2030. (Résumé éditeur

Guérillas et contre-insurrections en Amérique latine et aux Caraïbes de la guerre froide à nos jours

"En 1967, le jeune Régis Debray résumait en ces termes les défis qu’affrontaient les membres les plus radicaux de la « Nouvelle Gauche » en Amérique latine et aux Caraïbes : « Toute ligne prétendue révolutionnaire doit pouvoir apporter une réponse concrète à la question : comment renverser le pouvoir d’État capitaliste ? C’est-à-dire, comment casser son squelette, l’Armée, de jour en jour renforcée par les missions militaires nord-américaines ? » Au même moment, peu ou prou, se tenait à l’École militaire de Buenos Aires un « Cours interaméricain de guerre révolutionnaire » rassemblant des officiers de chacun des pays de la région, sous influence française et états-unienne, dans le but de « faire reconnaître officiellement le communisme comme ennemi commun [et] de faire admettre un plan d’action contre la subversion marxiste »." [...

National experiences with insurgencies and counterinsurgencies: are there “National styles”?

There are clearly identifiable patterns in the way in which insurgents operate in certain geographic areas and cultures, and in which states deal with them. These have been stressed by writing about national "ways of war", strategic culture, or national styles. Nevertheless, there have been important ruptures and changes in some of these, so that for Britain, for example, three successive phases corresponding to patterns can be identified. For France, two pronounced rivaling traditions coincided over two centuries. Algerians by contrast changed fundamentally in their fighting style with the different political ideologies they were following. Palestinian insurgency against Israel is also marked by change in approach. Russia and China possibly show the longest continuity in their handling of insurgencies

“‘The Talking Demon’: Liberty and Liberal Ideologies on the 1820s British Stage”

Il saggio prende in esame una porzione finora relativamente poco studiata della drammaturgia romantica in ambito britannico. Si occupa, cioè, della ricca produzione di opere tragiche improntate ad ideali liberali, ovvero radicati nell’ideologia Whig e legati alle richieste sempre più pressanti di riforme politiche e parlamentari nella Gran Bretagna degli anni 1820. Inoltre, l’articolo approfondisce come queste opere evochino, al tempo stesso, collegamenti espliciti con i principi ispiratori dei movimenti libertari e costituzionali che, nello stesso periodo, percorrevano gli stati dell’Europa meridionale. Fra le tragedie esaminate nell’articolo vi sono opere di autori noti come Lord Byron, nonché di figure di drammaturghi di successo ma ingiustamente dimenticati quali James Sheridan Knowles, John Howard Payne, Felicia Hemans e Mary Russell Mitford. Nel considerare il nesso tra drammaturgia, messinscena e ideologia, l’articolo intende fornire un contributo originale e di respiro internazionale a un campo di ricerca che si sta dimostrando uno dei più vivaci in seno ai ‘Romantic studies’ in Gran Bretagna e negli Stati Uniti

Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions

© 2020, The Author(s). The availability of high-quality RNA-sequencing and genotyping data of post-mortem brain collections from consortia such as CommonMind Consortium (CMC) and the Accelerating Medicines Partnership for Alzheimer’s Disease (AMP-AD) Consortium enable the generation of a large-scale brain cis-eQTL meta-analysis. Here we generate cerebral cortical eQTL from 1433 samples available from four cohorts (identifying >4.1 million significant eQTL for >18,000 genes), as well as cerebellar eQTL from 261 samples (identifying 874,836 significant eQTL for >10,000 genes). We find substantially improved power in the meta-analysis over individual cohort analyses, particularly in comparison to the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project eQTL. Additionally, we observed differences in eQTL patterns between cerebral and cerebellar brain regions. We provide these brain eQTL as a resource for use by the research community. As a proof of principle for their utility, we apply a colocalization analysis to identify genes underlying the GWAS association peaks for schizophrenia and identify a potentially novel gene colocalization with lncRNA RP11-677M14.2 (posterior probability of colocalization 0.975)