Christian Olsson - Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales

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Christian Olsson
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Institute of European Studies (CP 172/01)
39 avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt
Telephone (Office): + 32 (0)2 650 44 83
1050 Brussels
Belgium
[email protected]
Date of birth: 4th of June 1978
Place of birth: Stockholm (Sweden)
Nationality : Swedish
Associate Professor (Tenured), Politics and International Relations, Université Libre de Bruxelles
(ULB).
Member of “Research and Teaching in International Politics” (REPI/ ULB) research unit
(http://repi.ulb.ac.be/fr/users/colsson) and of the Observatory of the Arab and Muslim World
(OMAM, Maison des Sciences Humaines/ ULB).
Associate editor of Francophone journal of international political sociology Cultures & Conflits
(http://conflits.revues.org/).
Education
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2009: PhD in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris (CERI) under the supervision of
Didier Bigo (KCL/ Sciences Po Paris); highest distinction; title: The Use and Legitimization of
Force in the Context of Overseas Military Operations - The US, British and French Military in
Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq (600 p.).
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2003-2009: PhD candidate in Political Sciences/ International Relations at the IEP de Paris/
Sciences Po, France.
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2001-2002: Master (DEA) in International Relations at Sciences Po Paris, France.
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2000-2001: linguistic program (German) at the University of Vienna, Austria.
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1997-2000: Sciences Po Paris; Diploma of Sciences Po; Highest distinction: « Laureate and
Congratulations of the Jury » (Lauréat et félicitations du jury).
Membership in Academic Associations
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Member of International Studies Association (ISA), section: International Political Sociology; since
2004.
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Member of European International Studies Association (EISA) since 2015.
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Member of the Centre d’Etudes sur les Conflits, Liberté, Sécurité (http://www.ccls.eu/) since 2015.
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Member of the Francophone network of Research on Peace Operations (ROP; University of
Montreal, http://www.operationspaix.net/82-banque-d-experts-olsson-christian.html).
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Member of European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR) between 2015-2016.
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Member of ESRC-funded “International Collaboratory on Critical Methodologies in Security
Studies” (Open University, UK) between 2010 and 2014.
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Member of French Association of Sociology (AFS), permanent working group 45: “Sociology of
conflicts” between 2008 and 2010.
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Member of French & Belgian Association of Political Sciences (ABSP & AFSP) in 2010-2011.
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Until 2010: Member of “Critical Approaches to Security in Europe” (CASE) network.
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Professional Experience
• 2010-Today: Diverse administrative tasks at ULB since 2010: member of diverse faculty boards and
committees; coordination of the doctoral school since 2014; member of diverse selection committees;
president of the jury (admissions) of the Masters in International relations (since 2015); direction of REPI
(2015-2016); president of the BA Jury (2014-2015); president of the jury (admissions) of the Masters in
International relations (since 2015); program coordinator for the Pôle Bernheim d’Etudes sur la Paix et la
Citoyenneté (Bernheim Foundation, 2013-2015).
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• 2009-2010 : Associate Lecturer (ATER), University of Lille II, France.
• 2009-2010: Main researcher (with Pr. G. Dorronsoro, Paris Sorbonne) for the contract with the IRSEM
(French MoD) on the “Sociology of insurgent movements and of counterinsurgency”.
• 2007-2012: Member of the editorial and communication team of the journal of the International Studies
Association International Political Sociology (Blackwell).
• 2004-2009: Researcher for the EU Commission-funded European Framework Program (FP6) Challenge
(www.libertysecurity.org ; French Team/ WP2) on “liberty and security in an enlarged Europe” at CERI/
Sciences Po.
• Until 2010: Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Conflicts (Centre d’Etudes sur les Conflits), Paris,
France; at IRSEM (Ecole Militaire, Paris); and at CREC (Centre de Recherche des Ecole de Coetquidan)
Saint Cyr.
• 2008-2009: Researcher for the contract between CERI/ Sciences Po and the Centre d’études en sciences
sociale de la défense (C2SD, MoD) on “The parliamentary control of armed forces in Europe : A
comparative perspective” directed by B. Irondelle, Senior research fellow, CERI/ Sciences Po, june 2009,
writing of the chapter on the Swedish case.
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• Translation of 3 academic articles (from French to English) for S. Cohen, senior research fellow at CERI/
Sciences Po, 2009.
• 22-23 april 2009 : courses based on a collectively written consultancy note on “Human security issues in
Afghanistan”, Finnish Defence Forces International Centre (FINCENT), 6 hours, Tuusula, Finland.
• Researcher and teacher for a joint CERI-University of Kabul project on “local perceptions of
international peacebuilding” financed by the French ministry of Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan, 2007-2008
• Main Researcher (with 3 others) on the research contract on “The Role of the Military in Post-Conflict
State building” for the C2SD/ French MoD between November 2006 and November 2007.
• Consultancy for the Centre for the Study of Conflicts on its research contract on “The Military and the
Fight against Terrorism in France, Spain, the United Kingdom and Poland” financed by the C2SD/
French MoD; 2006-2007.
• Translation (French-English; English-French) of Notes of the European Parliament for the Secretariat of
the European Parliament (August 2006).
• Research assignment for G.T. Marx (MIT, Harvard) in June 2006 on European security-studies and
policing in Europe.
• Consultancy for the Open University (London, UK) on the research project MIDAS (Migration,
Democracy and Security) coordinated by J. Huysmans on the securitization of community relations in the
UK after 2005, December 2006.
• Co-writer (with E-P. Guittet, University of Manchester) of a consultancy note on “The participation of
the Armed Forces in the fight against terrorism within national borders” for the Delegation for Strategic
Affairs (DAS), French MoD (March 2005).
• 2002-2005: Research and Teaching Assistant (Allocataire de recherché-moniteur), Sciences Po, Paris.
• Peer reviewer for Review of International Studies (UK) ; Security Dialogue ; International Political
Sociology ; Cultures & Conflits ; Journal of Statebuilding and Intervention ; Critique Internationale ;
Cahiers de la Sécurité Intérieure ; International Journal of Peace and Development Studies ; Politique
américaine ; Revue Québecoise de Criminologie ; Revue canadienne de science politique ;
Négociations ; Global Society;
Courses & Research Supervision (Selection)
Courses taught:
Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Security Practices and Political Violence II (POLID520; in English, since 20016-2017), 36h of lectures +
12h of Seminar, Master in IR, 10 ects.
• International Actors (POLID446; in English since 2013), 24h, master in IR, 5 ects.
• Doctoral seminar on Theory, Methodology and Research in Political Science, (POLID514, in English),
24h, with Ramona Coman, since 2014; 10 ects.
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• Contemporary political history (POLID104; in French, between 2010-2014), 24h, 1st year’s Bachelor, 5
ects.
• Peace & Conflict Studies (POLID536; in English, between 2010-2016), 24h, Master in IR, 5 ects.
• Security Practices and Political Violence I (POLID520, in English, between 2011-2016), 24h, Master in
IR, 5 ects
At the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland:
- Political Violence and Security Practices (RI III, in French, 1st semester 2014-2015), 48h, with Stephan
Davidshofer (UNIGE);
At University of BeiHang in Beijing, China:
- The Social Geographies of the State and Warfare, 21h (Master course developed in the framework of the
ULB-BeiHang cooperation, 2 weeks in spring of 2014); The Historical sociology of the modern state in
comparative perspective, 19h, 1 week in April 2016;
At the University of Grenoble, France:
- Theories of International Security (in French), 15h (online teaching); since 2011; Master II International
Security and Defense, UPMF, since 2012
Sciences Po Paris (in French)
• Conflict Regulation and Peace, Masters (28h) at Sciences Po Paris, (winter-spring 2005)
• Conflict Regulation and War, Masters (28h) at Sciences Po Paris, (winter-spring 2004)
• Conflict Regulation and Security, Masters (28h) at Sciences Po Paris (winter-spring 2003)
• Classes in methodology (28h) for foreign students at Sciences Po Paris (2004)
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lille (in English)
• External/ Domestic Securities and the Management of Transnational Threats, 24h, Masters “Defence,
Security and Strategy”, 2008 and 2009
• Counterinsurgency: History and Contemporary Challenges, 24h, Masters “Defence, Security and
Strategy”, (2008-2013)
King’s College, London (in English)
• London Centre of International Relations/ King’s College: Sociology of Armed Conflicts, Master’s
course, November 2003 (2h)
• Department of War Studies/ King’s College: What is War Today?; Masters, February 2007 (2 h)
• Department of War Studies/ King’s College: War and ‘Global Policing’, Masters, February 2008 (2h)
Special Military School of Saint-Cyr/ Coëtquidan (in French)
• Civil-Military Cooperation in Overseas Military Operations, 7 and 8 of March 2007 (6h)
• Asymetric conflicts’ and the use of force : from ‘peacekeeping’ to ‘stabilization’, 27 of March 2008
(4h)
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• The French Military in Afghanistan, 13 March, 2009 (4h)
University of Kabul, Afghanistan (in English)
• for the CERI Program on Peace and Human Security (CPHS) Local Perceptions of Peacekeeping
Operations, Seminar for Afghan masters students, one month in September 2007, one month in March
2008
University of Lille II (in French)
• French Politics, first year political sciences program, fall 2009 (36h)
• Comparative politics of EU countries, third year political sciences program, fall 2009 (36h)
PhD Supervision:
- Gustavo Gayger Müller, ULB/ University of Warwick/Erasmus Mundus GEM (depuis 2011): “Regional
Security and the New Polities: The Legitimation of Regional Security Organization - African Union and
European Union” (PhD successfully defended in January 2016).
- Alix le Moign (ULB), since 2015: “Non State Armed Groups: structure, territorial control and relations
with the state - The cases of the Algerian and Lebanese civil wars”, funded by the French Ministry of
Defence, Co-direction with L. Martinez, CERI-Sciences Po.
- Krystel Wanneau, Teaching assistant (TA) at ULB, (since 2013): “The securitization of the environment
at the UN: the production of new norms? Comparative case studies of the UNEP and the UNDP since the
Rio summit”, Co-direction with Jean-Frédéric Morin (University of Laval, Canada).
- Julien Pomarède, Teaching assistant (TA) at ULB, (since 2013), “The institutionnization of anti-terrorist
practices in NATO”; ULB.
- Hélène Mutter, ULB/ ED20: Faculty of literature and philosophy, (since fall 2014) “The eye of the sky : a
geographical architecture – The consequences of war on our visible environment”.
- Anissa Mâa, ULB/ Germe (since fall 2014), “The practice of marginalizing undesirable strangers in
Morocco: from Europeanization to Transnationalization of security practices”.
Active Participation to Conferences (selection; since 2011)
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14 September 2016: Conference at CERI/ Sciences Po Paris, “Security Professionals: Trajectories,
Field Dynamics and Symbolical Capital”, Presentation with Mathias Delori (CNRS): Professional
Stances and Colonial Legacies in the French Armed Forces: Strategies of Distinction between Center
and Periphery.
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29-30 June 2016: “Between Masculinity and Technicity: Understanding Narrative Framings of Armed
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Violence” organized by Ecole polytechnique (Thomas Lindemann, LinX). Presentation: The Enemy as
Techno-Scientific Abstraction: The Impact of Schematized Representations of Armed Organizations in
Contemporary Wars.
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5-6 April 2016: International conference organized by Centre Emile Durkheim, IEP de Bordeaux, “The
Faces of Enmity in Contemporary Wars”; Presentation: (Dis)Assembling Enmity: The Persistence and
Fragmentation of Enmity in Contemporary Wars.
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November 2015: Conference organized by the Philosophy Department of ULB: “The Great War and
the transformations of the concept of war”; Presentation: The First World War and the Question of the
State : The Last Imperialist War or the First Global Civil War?.
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23-26 September 2015: 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: “Worlds of
Violence”; organized by EISA; Giardini Naxos, Sicily. Presenter on the roundtable “TC57: Violence
and Critical Security Studies: A missed Encounter?”; discussant for panel “SB57: Postcolonial?
Development, War, Counterinsurgency”.
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26-29 August 2015: Annual ECPR Convention, Montréal, Canada; Presentation: The Force of the
Weak? The Impossible Idiom of Military Force under Conditions of Asymmetry.
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6 July 2015: REPI conference “Show of Force: violence politics in cinema”, ULB, concluding remarks
with Caroline Holmqvist.
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24-25 April 2015: participation to the annual convention of Croat Sociology association in Dubrovnik,
Croatia: “The clash of Civilizations in the 21st Century?”; presentation: From Civilizational Divide to
Alter Ego: The End of the American War on “Insurgents” in Iraq or How to Make Virtue Out of
Necessity.
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18-21 February 2015: annual convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in New
Orleans, US; presentation: The Ontology of Violent Practice: A practice-theoretical approach to
‘political violence’. (Chair: Anna Leander, Discussant: Joao Pontes Nogeira) in the panel “Theorizing In
IPS (III): The Transformation and Diffusion of Violence”.
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9-10 February 2015: discussant and chair at the conference “Securitization Theories and the
Environment” organized in the context of the “Workshops on the Environment and Security” (WES)
series, University of Geneva.
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5 December 2014: participation to the conference “Emotions & Conflicts: socio-political and psychosocial aspects” organized by A. Azzi (ULB) at ULB; presentation: Armed Conflicts between Rationality
and Emotion: some Thoughts on the ‘Targeted Mass-Killings’ at the Afghan-Pakistani Border.
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17-18 November 2014: participation to the “SOURCE Workshop: Mapping the Professionals of
‘Societal Security’ in Europe” organized by D. Bigo (King’s College), Presentation: Internal Security
and Defence: A Hybrid World?; King’s College, London, UK.
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17-18 October 2014: participation to the Workshop “The impact of the EU's interregional relations”
organized by M. Telo, ULB-IEE; presentation with G. G. Müller of a paper: Comprehensive approach
or Incomprehensible Jabber? On the Practice of EU-NATO Comprehensiveness in Afghanistan and
Somalia.
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29-20 August 2014; 10-11 November 2014 & 11-12 May 2015 ; Participation to a series of 3
“International Cities Workshops” at the University of Edinburgh organized by X. Guillaume (University
of Edinburgh).
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26-29 March 2014: participation to the annual convention of the International Studies Association
(ISA) in Toronto, Canada; presentation with Tugba Basaran (University of Kent/ Princeton University):
Privilege, Authority and Postcoloniality: Bourdieu in the International Sphere in the panel "Trajectories
in the Postcoloniality: The Authority of Transnational Bureaucrats and Experts" (Chair: Tarek Barkawi,
Discussant: Rita Abramsen).
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14 March 2014: participation to the seminar “The Methodological Contributions of IR to Political
Science” organized by Thomas Lindemann (University of Versailles-St Quentin, France) at the
University of Lille II; Discussant of a paper of Richard Ned Lebow (King’s College, London) on
counterfactual reasoning.
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27 February 2014: Participation to the AGORA-forum, Round Table n°4 : Assessment of Existing
Security and Intelligence Assessments in the Light of the Challenges of a Multipolar World, IEE, ULB;
http://www.agora-forum.eu/en/session/assessment-of-existing-security-and-intelligence-arrangementsin-light-of-the-challenges-of-a-multipolar-world/4
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7 November 2013: Participation to the seminar “How did technologies and disasters transform
environmental security? Evidence from geo-engineering and the Fukushima accident” organized by
ULB and Science Po Paris at l’ULB; Discussant of the presentations by Simon Dalby (CIGI-BSIA) on
“Anthropocene Reconceptualizations of Security” and Luc Mampaey (GRIP) on “Environmental
Modification Techniques as a Weapon of War”.
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April 2013: annual convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) in San Francisco;
presentation: Languages of Mutual Recognition. The Case of the Iraq War (2003‐2012) in the panel
"The Janus Face of International Violence" (Chair: Thomas Lindemann, Discutant: Reinhard H. Wolf).
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6-7 December 2012: “The Algerian war of independence: a war like any other?”, Institute of the Arab
World (IMA) & National Library of France, Paris; Presentation: Uses and abuses of the Algerian war in
contemporary military thinking on the armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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23 November 2012: “At the borderlands of Jus Ad Bellum and Jus in Bello”, Conference organized by
University of Grenoble; Presentation: Operation Infinite Justice as Metaphor: The Implications of the
Criminalization of the Enemy in the Context of Contemporary Military Interventions.
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22 November 2012: “The representation of war in recent conflicts: political, ethical and esthetical
issues”; Colloquium of CEVIPOL, ULB; presentation: The Force of the Weak: The Esthetics of
Oxymoron in so-called ‘Asymmetric’ Wars.
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26-27 September 2012: “From Defeating Enemies to Creating ‘Good Order’?”, University of
Gothenburg, Sweden. Presentation of paper: Counterinsurgency and the ‘Unthought Known’ of
Domestic Pacification.
• 17-18 September 2012: “Uncertain Futures II: temporality and changing regimes of knowledge”
(COST-conference), University of Malaga; Presentation of paper: ‘Force Protection’ and the Calculus
of Survival in the Context of Overseas Military Operations.
• 8-9 June 2012: organization of the REPI workshop "The Faces of Enmity in IR", Presentation of a paper
The Three Faces of Enmity and the War in Iraq, ULB, IEE.
• 30 May 2012: participation to the conference "Towards an Analysis of Strategic Reason", Paris, Military
Staff School, Presentation: Strategic Reason and the Challenge of Asymmetry.
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• 14 -15 May 2012: 4th Conference of the International Collaboratory on Critical Methodologies in
Security Studies (ICCM), University of Edinburgh.
• 9 -10 December 2011: "Commercialization of Security in Europe" (COSEPAR) workshop organized by
A. Leander and P. Burgess, Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), Norway; Presentation of paper:
Making both ends meet? Commercial Security and Defence Privatization in France and Beyond.
• 31 August-2 September 2011: Congress of French Association of Political Sciences; Co-organizer with
T. Lindemann of the panel on “Representations and Labelizations of War – Interpretivist Analyses of
International Conflicts”.
• 12-13 September 2011: participation to ICCM conference (ESRC funded), University of Edinburgh:
Presentation of co-authored paper: Re-routing Maps: On Bourdieu’s and Latour’s mapping
method(ologie)s in Critical Security Studies.
• 20 September 2011: 1st joint Research Seminar War Studies KCL-CERI, “Military Interventions and
Ethics - Contemporary Situations”, organized by D. Bigo, CERI, Paris, Presentation: Colonial
Continuities in Contemporary Military Interventions. Between “Genesis Amnesia” and “Invention of
Tradition.
• 6-7 June 2011: Conference "Irregular armed organizations in the Arab and Muslim world", Military
Staff School, Paris; Presentation of paper: The American Military Perception of the 'Iraqi Insurgency':
Elements of Comprehensive Sociology.
• 9 June 2011: organization of REPI workshop "Interventionism in IR Today: between Banalisation &
Transgression", ULB, Presentation: The military intervention: the anatomy of an international actionrépertoire.
• 3-4 March 2011: participation to training school: Critical Methods in Security Studies (organized by J.
Huysmans, C. Aradau, A. Neal, N. Voelkner), Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
• 16-19 March 2011: participation to the annual convention of the International Studies Association
(ISA), Montréal, Canada; presentation: Legitimate or Symbolic Violence? The Dilemmas of
Counterinsurgency in the panel "Symbolic and Physical Violence in IR".
• 24-25 Feb. 2011: participation to the transatlantic workshop "Does the State still make War?" organized
by J. Joana (IEP Toulouse) and F. Mérand (University of Montreal), presentation: Privatisation of
Warfare and the Transformation of the State, Toulouse, France.
Publications
Link to publications :
http://difusion.academiewb.be/vufind/Search/Home?lookfor=OLSSON,Christian&sort=pubdate+desc&type=person
Books
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D. Bigo, L. Bonelli, D. Chi and C. Olsson (2008) The Field of the EU’s Security Agencies,
Paris: l’Harmattan.
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G. Dorronsoro, C. Olsson and R. Pouyé (2012), Insurrections et contre-insurrections: éléments
d'analyse sociologique à partir des terrains irakien et afghan [Insurgencies and Counter-insurgencies :
Sociological Analyses from the Iraqi and Afghan Fields], Paris : IRSEM.
Edited books/ Scientific coordination of special issues
• Scientific coordination of two issues of the Journal Cultures & Conflits, the n°52 in 2004 (“Para-Private
Military Companies”) and the n°67 in 2007 (“The Military and Overseas Military Operations”).
• Scientific coordination of the the special section in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (Routledge)
on “Practices of Intervention” (9(4), 2015).
Articles in peer-reviewed journals:
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Christian Olsson (2015), « De la sécurité à la violence organisée : tropismes et points aveugles de «
l’Ecole de Copenhague » [From Security to Organized Violence : Tropes and Blind Spots of the
Copenhagen School], Etudes Internationales (Québec), 46 (2-3), September-December: 211-233.
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Christian Olsson (2015), “Intervention as Practice: On ‘Ordinary Transgressions’ and their
Routinization”, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 9(4), Winter 2015: 425-441.
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Christian Olsson (2014) “Between Transition and Transnationalism: The Spatial and Temporal
Ramifications of Contemporary Armed Conflicts”, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (Taylor &
Francis), 8(1): 91-99.
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Christian Olsson (2013) “‘Legitimate Violence’ in the Prose of Counterinsurgency : an Impossible
Necessity?”, Alternatives (Sage), 38(2): 155-171.
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Christian Olsson (2013), “Les perceptions militaires américaines de “l’ennemi insurgé” en Irak:
éléments de sociologie compréhensive” [American Military Perceptions of the ‘Insurgent Enemy in Iraq :
Elements for a Comprehensive Sociology], Stratégique, n°103: 55-80.
Christian Olsson (2012), "Méconnaître pour reconnaître ? La ‘stratégie de sortie’ américaine
d’Irak ou comment faire de nécessité vertu" [Recognition through Denial? The American “Exit Strategy”
in Iraq or How to Make Virtue out of Necessity], Cultures & Conflits, n°87, October: 187-214.
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• Christian Olsson (2012), "De la pacification coloniale aux opérations extérieures: retour sur la
généalogie des coeurs et des esprits dans la pensée militaire contemporaine" [From Colonial Pacification to
Overseas Military Operations : Back to the Genealogy of Contemporary Military Thinking], Research
Questions (CERI/Sciences Po Working Papers) n°39, April.
• Christian Olsson & C.a.s.e. Collective (2007). “Europe, Knowledge, Politics - Engaging with the
Limits: The c.a.s.e Collective Responds”, Security Dialogue 38 (4): 559-576.
• Christian Olsson (2007), “The Politics of the Apolitical, PMCs, Humanitarians and the Quest for
(anti-)Politics in Post-Intervention Environments”, Journal of International Relations and Development
(JIRD) 10(4): 332-361.
• Christian Olsson (2009), “¿Guerra total y/o fuerza mínima? Historia y paradojas de ‘los corazones
y los espíritus’” (published translation of article), Cultures & Conflits, published online 3rd March 2009 ;
URL : http://conflits.revues.org/17286
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Christian Olsson (2007), "Guerre totale et force minimale, Histoire et paradoxes des ‘cœurs et des
esprits’" [Total War and Minimum Force: History and paradoxes of the « Heart and Minds], Cultures &
Conflits, n°67: 35-63.
• Christian Olsson et Pauline Vermeren (2007), "Editorial - militaires et engagements extérieurs : à
la conquête des cœurs et des esprits ? " [The Military in Overseas Operations : Conquering Hearts and
Minds ?], Cultures & Conflits, n°67: 7-13.
Christian Olsson & C.a.s.e. collective (2006) “Critical Approaches to Security in Europe: A
Networked Manifesto”, Security Dialogue, 37(4): 443-487.
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Didier Bigo and Christian Olsson (2004) "Refuser le silence et sortir de l’impunité, retour sur
Guantanamo" [Refusing to be Silenced, Escaping Impunity: Guantanamo in Retrospect], Cultures et
Conflits n°56: 71-81.
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• Christian Olsson (2003), "Vrais procès et faux débats : perspectives critiques sur les argumentaires
de légitimation des entreprises militaires privées" [True Trials and False Debates : Critical Perspectives
on the Legitimizing Arguments of Private Military Companies], Cultures et Conflits, n°52: 11-48.
Chapters in Edited Books
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Sinisa Malesevic and Christian Olsson, "Chapter 43: War" in William Outhwaite and Stephen P.
Turner (eds), The Sage Handbook of Political Sociology, Sage (forthcoming 2017).
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Entry “ennemi” in Benoît Durieux, Pierre Hassner et Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer (eds),
Dictionnaire de la guerre et de la paix, Paris : Presses Universitaires de France (« Qadrige Dicos » Series.
Forthcoming 2017).
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Philippe Bonditti and Christian Olsson (2016) "Violence, War and Security Knowledge: Between
Theoretical Practices and Practical Theories" in T. Basaran, D. Bigo, E.-P. Guittet, R.B.J. Walker (eds.),
International Political Sociology - Transversal Lines, London: Routledge: 228-253.
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Christian Olsson (2016) « Coercion and Capital in Afghanistan: The Rise, Transformation & Fall of
the Afghan Commercial Security Sector » in J. Berndtsson & C. Kinsey (eds.), The Routledge Research
Companion to Outsourcing Security, NY & London: Routledge: 41-51.
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Christian Olsson and Gustavo G. Müller (2015), “Interregional or Intraregional? On EU-NATO
Comprehensiveness in Afghanistan and Somalia” In: M. Telò, L. Fawcett & F. Ponjaert (eds),
Interregionalism and The European Union: A Post-Revisionist Approach to Europe's Place in a Changing
World, Aldershot: Ashgate: 307-324.
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Christian Olsson (2015) "Wars among Nation-States: Patterns and Causes". In: James D. Wright
(ed), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 25. Oxford:
Elsevier: 420–427.
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Victoria Loughlan, Christian Olsson and Peer Schouten (2014) "Mapping" in Cl. Aradau, J.
Huysmans, A. Neal, N. Voelkner (ed) Critical Security Methods: New Frameworks for Analysis, London:
Routledge: 23-56.
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Christian Olsson (2014) “‘Operation Infinite Justice’ comme métaphore : sens et pertinence de la
métaphore policière dans le cadre des interventions militaires contemporaines" [Operation Infinite Justice
as Metaphor : Meaning and Relevance of the Police Metaphor in Contemporary Military Operations],
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Bannelier, Karine & Pison, Cyrille (Eds) Le recours à la force autorisé par le Conseil de Sécurité : droit et
responsabilité, Paris : Pédone : 147-158.
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Christian Olsson (2013) "France: Making Both Ends Meet? " in Leander, Anna (ed)
Commercialising Security: Political Consequences for European Military Operations, London & New
York: Routledge: 141-160.
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Bastien Irondelle and Christian Olsson (2011) "La privatisation de la guerre : le cas anglo américain"
[The Privatization of War : the Anglo-American Case]in C. Malis, D. Danet, H. Strachan (dir), La Guerre
irrégulière, Paris : Economica,: 113-143.
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Christian Olsson (2011), "Répression et ‘radicalisation violente’ : une perspective relationnelle sur
l’usage de la force dans les opérations extérieures de ‘pacification’" [Repression and ‘violent
radicalization’ : a relational perspective on the use of force in overseas military operations] in S. Schehr,
M. Klinger (Eds.) Lectures du Conflit, Strasbourg, Néothèque: 129-148.
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Didier Bigo, Philippe Bonditti and Christian Olsson (2010) "Mapping the European Field of Security
Professionals", in D. Bigo, S. Carrera, E. Guild, R. Walker, Europe’s 21st Century Challenge , London:
Ashgate: 49-65.
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Th. Balzacq, T. Basaran, D. Bigo, E-P. Guittet, C. Olsson (2010). "Security Practices" in R. A.
Denemark (ed.) International Studies Encyclopedia Online. Blackwell Publishing: 1-30.
•
Christian Olsson (2009) “Régimes juridiques et régulation des mobilités dans l’Union européenne”
[Legal Regimes and the Regulation of Mobilities at the EU level] in C. Jaffrelot and C. Lequesne (ed.)
L’enjeu mondial : les migrations, Paris, Les Presses de Sciences Po: 53-63.
•
Christian Olsson (2008) “Military Interventions and the Concept of the Political: Bringing the Political
Back into the Relations between External Forces and Local Societies” in D. Bigo, A. Tsoukala (eds.),
Terror, Liberty and Security: illiberal practices of illiberal regimes, London, Routledge: 146-178.
•
Christian Olsson (2008) "Afghanistan et Irak. Les origines coloniales des guerres anti-terroristes"
[Afghanistan and Iraq. The Colonial Origins of Anti-Terrorist Wars] in D. Bigo, L. Bonelli and T.
Deltombe (ed) La guerre globale contre le terrorisme, Paris, la Découverte : 49-62.
Other articles (including book-reviews)
• Christian Olsson (2014) « Book Review : Bastien Irondelle, La réforme des armées en France. Sociologie
de la décision », European Review of International Studies (ERIS), 1(2) : 159-164.
• Christian Olsson (2014), “Warfare and Recognition in IR: On the Potential Input of the Historical
Sociology of the State”, Global Discourse (Taylor & Francis), 4(2): 1-4 (Book Symposium).
• Christian Olsson and Stephan Davidshofer (2009) "Europe’s Defence Dimension and the UN", Défense
Nationale et Sécurité Collective English Edition, February: 58-65.
• Christian Olsson and T. Garcia-Berrio (2005) “Los nuevos desafios a la seguridad: Perspectivas criticas en
el debate sobre la legitimacion de las practicas contemporaneas de coercion militar para-privada ante los
Derechos Humanos”, Anuario de Derechos Humanos, October.
• Christian Olsson (2009) "Les relations houleuses entre SMP et tenants de la contre-insurrection" [The
Tumultuous Relations between PMCs and Counter-insurgency Theoreticians], Sécurité Globale, June: 6780.
Olsson 12/12
• Christian Olsson (2009) "La contre-insurrection otanienne en Afghanistan : ruptures et continuités à ‘l’ère
d’Obama’" [NATOs Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan : Changes and Continuities of the
‘Obama Era’], Politique Américaine, n°13, spring-summer: 65-80.
Reports
• Y. Braem, A. de Hoop Scheffer, C. Olsson & R. Pouyé (2008) Le rôle des militaires dans la
reconstruction d’Etat après les conflits [The Role of the Military in Post-Conflict Statebuilding], Paris:
C2SD.
• with the Centre d’études sur les conflits, Le rôle des militaires dans la lutte contre le terrorisme [The
Role of the Military in the Fight against Terrorism], Paris: C2SD, 2008.
Miscellaneous
Languages: French: fluent; Swedish: mother tongue; Dutch: mother tongue; English: fluent; German:
Reading; Arabic: 5 years at the primary school.
Field Research: Afghanistan (2 months, Sept. 2007, April 2008, October 2015 in Kabul; 2 weeks in
Mazar-e-Sharif in May 2014); Iraq (3 weeks in Aug. 2010 in Baghdad & Diwaniyah).
References
Upon request