POMARÈDE Julien
Chargé de cours
Faculté de Droit, de Science politique et de Criminologie
Département de science politique
International Politics / Politique internationale
Cité
- Adresse ULiège
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Bât. B31 International Politics / Politique internationale
Quartier Agora
Place des orateurs 3
4000 Liège
Belgique
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- CSRV
- Sciences humaines
- Diplômes universitaires
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2018: PhD in Political and Social Sciences (International Relations) (Université libre de Bruxelles)
2013: Master Degree in Political Science and International Relations (Security, Peace and Conflict) (Université libre de Bruxelles)
2011: Bachelor in History and Geography (University of Cergy-Pontoise - France)
Biographie
I am Associate Professor of International Politics at the Department of Political Science at ULiège and Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of War and Violence. Before joining the Department in September 2022, I held a postdoctoral research position at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and was a Wiener-Anspach Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford. I received my PhD in Political Science from ULB in October 2018, which focused on a political sociology of NATO's counterterrorism professional networks, practices, and policies after 9/11. My research interests focus on Critical War Studies, with a particular emphasis on the historical sociology of Western organized violence.
I am now conducting a new research project - "WEAPONS" - funded by a multi-year grant from the FNRS (PDR-2025-2029), dedicated to the historical sociology of conventional weapons in ground combat between the mid-19th century to the late 20th century.
Project abstract: the project seeks to explain the uses of modern weapons on the battlefield. The project argues that these uses are conditioned less by means-ends logics (instrumental-rational paradigm), social perceptions (constructivism) or the ethical/socio-technical calibration of force (critical constructivism) than by deep sociological structures such as the organizational anatomy of the state and its military institutions, socio-economic mutations, and ideological penetration in combat. Drawing on Historical sociology, Science and technology studies, with a particular focus on the US artillery warfare and a strong accent put on archival research, this project intends to offer fresh insights on the connections between society, military technology and organized violence.
Publications (selected):
(2025) Devastation: Field artillery, conventionality and the pathological economy of modern warfare. European Journal of International Relations, 32(1), 2025: 209-236.
(2024) Deadly ambiguities: NATO and the politics of counter-terrorism in international organizations after 9/11. Security Dialogue, 2024, 55(6), 588-606.
(2021) Imagining (in)security: NATO's collective self-defence and post-9/11 military policing in the mediterranean sea. Review of International Studies, 47(2), 192-210.
(2021) Nettoyer, contrôler et cibler : les engrenages de violence et la guerre de l¿OTAN contre le terrorisme en Afghanistan. Critique Internationale, 92(3), 71-94.
(2021). Ethnographie et secret diplomatico-militaire : Réflexions sur une observation participante dans le contre-terrorisme de l'OTAN. Cultures et Conflits, 118(2), 37-69.
(2020) La fabrique de l'OTAN : Contre-terrorisme et organisation transnationale de la violence. Bruxelles, Bruxelles : Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles.
(2020) Archipelagos of death: the assemblage of population-centric war in Afghanistan. Defence Studies, 20(3), 202 - 223.
(2018). Normalizing violence through front-line stories: the case of American Sniper. Critical Military Studies, 4(1), 52-71.
I am also interested in supervising PhD and postdoctoral researches is the following areas:
- Critical, sociological and post-colonial approach to war, military strategy, armaments and great power politics
- Sociology of international organizations and global governance
- Military/police hybridation
- Reflexive approach on the discipline of International Relations
Fonctions ou mandats
- Programme Director of the Master Global Politics & Political Affairs
- President of the Collège doctoral in social and political sciences
Distinctions scientifiques
- Xavier Mabille Award - Belgian Association of Political Science, for the Best PhD thesis in Political Science (2019)
