Women's Rights in the Aftermath of Egypt's Revolution. Arab Citizenship Review No. 9, 26 August 2015 [also EUSpring Working Paper No. 5]

Addressing the issue of “women’s rights” in Egypt may seem like an easy topic from a purely legal standpoint, but the most enlightening way to do so is to adopt a holistic approach by understanding the political, social, cultural and class effects of this issue. Since 1952, people in Egypt have looked at “women’s rights” as a purely state matter, one characterised mainly by legal reforms. Until 2011, women’s rights were manipulated via a top-down approach by making changes in some policies and laws. Since 2011, with the emergence of the question of social movements, tackling women’s rights has been transformed via the use of certain tools and different perspectives. This is clearly manifested in the vast mobilisation that took place in governorates outside Cairo, which featured the use of artistic tools such as graffiti, story-telling performances, the production of feminist songs, open-microphone sessions, etc., in addition to the extensive use of social media and online campaigning to mainstream feminist ideologies and highlight violations experienced by women. Before 2011, the public space in Egypt was limited to citizens, political groups and civil society for employing legal approaches such as litigations and policy changes by direct pressure on authorities. The 2011 revolution opened the public space to the use of new tools that are not limited to protests and sit-ins, but also new media windows and new political forces who carried the question of certain rights in their agendas as well as the accessibility of different governmental actors. This paper will highlight different topics around women’s rights and gender issues in Egypt after 2011. This paper will review different gender issues after 2011, including the targeting of women in public spaces, women’s representation in decision-making bodies, legal reform, economic and social rights, and sexual and reproductive rights. It will also investigate how the feminist movement has changed and evolved since 2011, and to what degree women's issues and feminism can be analysed in a multidisciplinary way.

L’Européanisation des politiques d’innovation en France: une révolution copernicienne? Le cas de la région Rhône-Alpes = "The Europeanization of innovation policies in France: a Copernican revolution? The case of Rhône-Alpes". Bruges Political Research Papers 42/2015.

No abstract.

Aftermath of the Maidan. Ukrainian society two years after the revolution. OSW Commentary Number 199/04.03.2016

Two years after the Revolution of Dignity, it is clear that hopes of a quick reconstruction and modernisation of the Ukrainian state as a political and institutional system have not been fulfilled. The resistance of the bureaucrats, politicians and oligarchs who make up the informal, corrupt systems has proven to be very strong, and the will of part of the political elite and the EU and the United States to implement the procedures they have suggested has proved insufficient. If not for the war and the economic collapse, which forced Kyiv to seek external financial assistance and political support, the modernisation of the state would have proceeded even more slowly and with yet greater difficulty.

The Covenanters, a history of the church in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution,

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of Bertrand Barère, chairman of the Committee of public safety during the revolution;

Vol. 4: Portraits [biographical sketches by Barère]

Partei und Revolution /

Mode of access: Internet.

The whirlwind, an historical romance; being the story of the French revolution as it was seen by René De Massac, deputy to the National assembly and general of the republic,

Mode of access: Internet.

A diary of the Russian revolution,

Mode of access: Internet.

Geschichte der Revolutionen von niederla ndischen Aufstand bis zum Vorabend der franzosi schen Revolution.

Mode of access: Internet.

Diary of the American revolution. From newspapers and original documents.

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal of my life during the French revolution.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Mexican agrarian revolution,

Mode of access: Internet.

The principal speeches of the statesmen and orators of the French revolution, 1789-1795;

v. 1. Mirabeau. Vergniaud. Gensonné. Guadet. Louvet. Cambon.--v. 2. Barère. Danton. Robespierre. Saint-Just. Baudin.