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. I am also Programme Director of the Master in Global Politics & Political Affairs. 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-2025-2028), 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 (online first: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13540661251366737).
(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 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)
