Information in English about Pr. COLAS

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email adress :      dominique.colas@sciences-po.fr


Dominique Colas

Professor of political science,
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
 http://www.sciences-po.fr/  and http://mapage.noos.fr/dcolas/
(list of all the publications)

27 rue Saint Guillaume, Paris 75337 Cedex 07
phone : 33 (1) 45 49 50 77
email address :  dominique.colas@sciences-po.fr


personal website : http://mapage.noos.fr/dcolas/


Born in 1944. French citizen

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Fields of specialization :
*    comparative analysis of communist and post communist political areas
*     political sociology
*      history of political ideas
*    political philosophy
*    comparative analysis of communist and post communies political areas

First training in philosophy (graduate level),  Sorbonne
Ph.D. in political science,. Dissertation on Lenin and Leninism, Paris Sorbonne (1980). Abridged version published in 1982 as "Le léninisme. Philosophie et sociologie politique du léninisme". Second edition with additions in 1998, Paris :Presses Universitaires de France, 1998.

Currently Director of a graduate and post-graduate political science program on Russia and CIS.

Editor of  Les Cahiers Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (English abstracts)

Searcher with the CERI  (Centre d'Etude et de Relations Intenationales, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Sciencitifique / Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques).
 
2004-2006, Vice -président of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

Member of the Academic Board of CEFRES (Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences Sociales, Prague), Centre Franco-Russe de Sciences Sociales (Moscow)

Former member of the Academic Board of EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences socials)

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Books in French

- Le Léninisme. Philosophie et sociologie politique du léninisme. Series "Questions." Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1982;  2e éd. revised and expanded, Series "Quadrige." Paris: PUF, 1998.
- Lénine et le léninisme, Series "Que Sais-je ?" Paris: PUF, 1987.
- Textes  constitutionnels soviétiques, "Que Sais-je ?"Paris: PUF, 1987.
- Freud et les éditions Payot, Payot, 1989
- Le Glaive et le Fléau. Généalogie du fanatisme et de la société civile. Paris: Grasset, 1992. Translated into English, Romanian.
- La Pensée politique. Paris: Larousse, 1992.
- Dictionnaire de la pensée politique. Auteurs, notions, œuvres. Paris: Larousse, 1997, translated into  Romanian
- Les Constitutions de l’URSS et de la Russie (1905-1993). PUF,  1997.
- Sociologie politique. PUF, 1994; 2e éd. 2006, Translated into Portuguese, Russian, Georgian, Romanian.
- Textes constitutionnels français et étrangers. Larousse, 1994.
- L'Europe post-communiste. With Anne Gazier, Georges Mink, Anatoli Vichenevski, Jean-Christophe Romer, Gérard Wild. PUF, 2002.
- Citoyenneté et nationalité, “Folio histoire.” Paris: Gallimard, 2004.
- Races et racismes de Platon à Derrida. Anthologie critique. Paris:  Plon, 2004
- L'homosexualité de Platon à Foucault. Anthologie critique. Paris : Plon, 2005





Books and publications in English

Civil Society and Fanaticism: Conjoined Histories. Trans. Amy Jacobs (Originally published as Le Glaive et le Fléau. Généalogie du fanatisme et de la société civile). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

“Nationalism, Culture and the New Information Technologies in Europe.” Keio Communication Review  12, special issue (1991).

“Russian culturalist arguments against the relevance of democracy for Russia.” Trans. Amy Jacobs. In R. Lukic  and M. Brint, eds., Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in the Age of Globalization. Ashgate, Aldershot, Burlington USA, Singapore, Sidney, 2001.

“Civil  society: from utopia to management, from Marxism to anti-Marxism.” In V. Y. Mudimbe, ed.,  Nations, Identites, Cultures. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 1997.

“Civil society: a historical and conceptual aproach.” In Gosewinkel  et Reichardt, eds., Ambivalenzen dez Zivilgesellschaft.Berlin: WZB, 2003.

"The rise of fanaticism in the European Renaissance" in Violence and its Causes. A Stocktaking. Challenges. Unesco. 2005 (trad. d'un texte précédemment publié en français)


Publications in Russian

Polititcheskaia Sotsiologiia. Trans. A.V. Soloviev, forward by A.B. Gofman. Moscow: "Ves Mir," 2001.

"Polititcheskaia Sotsiologia." In Djournal sotsiologii i sotsial'noi  antropologii, Vol. II, special issue, "La Sociologie française," 1999. University of Saint Petersburg.

Michel Foucault and the USSR. Chapter in Oleg Kharkhordine,ed., Michel Foucault i Rossia. European University of Saint Petersburg, 2001.

Political semantics of  “state” and “estate”  in French. In Oleg Kharkhordin, ed., Poniai gosudarstva v tchetirex izikax. European University of Saint Petersburg, 2001.
"The rise of fanaticism in the European Renaissance" in Violence and its Causes. A Stocktaking. Challenges. Unesco. 2005 (trad. d'un texte précédemment publié en français)

Publication in German

"Säubernde und gesaûberte Einheitpartei : Lenin und der Leninismus." In U. Backès et S. Courtois, eds., "Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa",  Das Erbe kommunistischer Ideoligen. Bonn, Vienna: Bölhau Verlag, 2002.

"Zivilgesellschaft. Eine historische und begriffliche Annäherung" in Mittelweg 36, Zeischrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung, février-mars 2006 (trad. d'un texte précédemment publié en anglais)



For other publications (articles, book chapters, books edited, etc.) see  http://mapage.noos.fr/dcolas/



Lectures and conferences at universities abroad

In English: Association for the Study of Nationalities, with Harriman Institute, Columbia University in 2000 2001, 2002, 2004; 2005, 2006 University of Cape Town, RSA, 2002
International conference on New IT, Berlin, 1989.
WSB Berlin, 2003.
Duke University, 1997, 2000;
European University of Saint Petersbourg, 2002;
May-June 2005: Visiting researcher at Waseda University, Tokyo
May 2006 Visiting professor at Luiss, Rome

In French: New York University; University of California at Los Angeles; Harvard University; Université Laval, Quebec; University of Ottawa; University of Montreal; MGIMO, Moscow (every year since 1997 to 2005); MGU, Moscow; University of Nizhni-Novgorod; Marmara University, Istanbul (six times since 1995); University Charles, Prague (five times); University of Budapest; University of Warsaw; University of Bucarest (twice); New Bulgarian University, Sofia, University of Casablanca, Uqam


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Scheduled

April 2007: ASN Convention, Columbia University, New York
November 2007 : American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Convention,  New Orleans
May 2007 Conference in Saint Petersbourg : 5-27 Mai 2007 European University of Saint Petersbourg 3 Gagarrinskaia U.  http://www.eu.spb.ru/

April 2008 ASN Convention,  Columbia University

Empires and Nations, 2-3 July, 2008, Sciences Po, Paris


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