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As evident from their charter, Transversal ptojects follow a few simple but ambitious guidelines that they all must meet: a transversal project brings together several CERI researchers who decide to work together for a period of at least three years on a transversal topic that is not confined to the study of a single country or region. Above all, six months after embarking in this new direction, CERI researchers submitted to the center's board Transversal Projects which all pertain to majorissues in international politics and accurately reflect CERI’s trademark: not only do these projects fit within a resolutely comparative outlook, but they are also at the crossroads of the three disciplines best represented at the research center: political sociology, international relations and political economy. This enables them to take account of the interactions between internal and external dynamics. The six Transversal Projects on which much of the research conducted at CERI will hinge in the next three years are the following:
Some of the Transversal Projects grew out of exchanges that have taken place in already functioning research groups working on a more specialized line of inquiry and that will continue their activity; others have been conceived by a group of researchers interested in pooling their individual investigations or in drawing up a common set of problems. These Transversal Projects bring together over 50 CERI researchers into what now truly constitute teams of researchers. The notion of research team is further reinforced here by the pluriannual nature of the projects and the allocation of a specific budget for each project. Furthermore, researchers involved in these projects will make a considerable contribution to the drafting of the CERI activity report that is submitted to the CNRS every four years. Their collective research will be coordinated thanks to the help of a paid research assistant, another innovation designed to better integrate PhD students working under the center's auspices. Each of these Transversal Projects will give rise to a final symposium by which the added value of a long-term collective research project will be gauged. Naturally this new tool in no way calls into question the individual, even solitary nature of the task of research. Instead it will help to further enhance its results by creating a framework for comparison and even confrontation of various approaches. |
- Economic reform and regulations:
business and the state in Latin America, Europe and Asia -New forms of violence today - Migration and international relations - Transatlantic relations and comparisons - Beliefs and practices
of democracy - Historical trajectories
of the state
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