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Since 1990, the quarterly political science journal Cultures & Conflicts has been co-published by the CECLS and L’Harmattan. The journal aims to analyse the different expressions of conflictuality. It opens its columns, in French but also sometimes in English or Spanish, to political scientists but also to sociologists, anthropologists, historians, geographers specialised in particular areas, by privileging the analysis of the relations between phenomena often arbitrarily divided. 

Latest issue
141 | printemps 2026
De l’in/stabilité du jeu politique

(In)stability of the Political Game

This issue of Cultures & Conflits explores a specific operative grammar: what are the political and social consequences of the fixation on stabilising and promoting “resilience”? What mediations are exhausted when technical architectures, whether in the form of security apparatuses or indicators, replace democratic deliberation? How do precautionary policies become government doctrines that normalise exceptions, externalise costs, and ultimately restrict the scope for contestation? Often, to prevent such contestation, precautionary policies as governing doctrines invoke impending catastrophes and rely on preventive policies and predictive instruments that, despite relentless technological acceleration, are unable to deliver on their promises. The result is a governmentality of unease or anxiety that fosters autocratic tendencies. By mapping these shifts across several domains – security, diplomacy, expertise, the city and academic knowledge – the contributions in this issue examine the impact of the promise of continuity on politics and how the invocation of resilience often obscures the collective invention of change.

Editor’s notes

Ont participé à ce numéro : Pierre Baghdad, Clément Beunas, Costa (Konstantinos) Delimitsos, Shoshana Fine, Laura Monfleur, Anastassia Tsoukala

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