Sunca Jan Yasin

Units

REPI Recherche et Études en Politique Internationale

REPI is a research unit, mainly dedicated to research and studies in international politics at the Université libre de Bruxelles. It is linked to the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences. REPI fosters fundamental research in the field of international relations and aims at providing a high quality framework for the research in this field (PhD dissertations, publications, conferences...). Depending on available resources, members of REPI can also provide specific expertise for national and international institutions. Furthermore, the research centre encourages the dissemination of knowledge in international relations to a larger audience and represents a convenient space for discussing the teaching of international relations within the university. REPI also organises seminars and summer schools for professionals and young scholars.

Its scientific activities focus on two major areas of international politics: the study of security issues and international public policy (environment, health, international economics, development, etc.). These activities are rooted in several research traditions and schools of thought: foreign policy analysis, political sociology of international affairs, critical approaches to security, international political economy, etc., with the aim of better understanding power issues in international relations at different levels. The research agenda also includes the study of the European Union's external action and the main international institutions.

Director : Christian Olsson

Projetcs

Autodétermination sans État ? Hiérarchies inter-subalternes et coninuités coloniales globales

he subordination of different ethnic groups in postcolonial countries is often studied as the internal conflicts of postcolonial states. This leads to at least two historical and structural problems. Firstly, the colonial continuities and how they reflect in the internal space of postcolonial states remain largely invisible. Secondly, the possibilities of self-determination are almost exclusively linked to statehood. This research proposes a critical study on the stateless possibilities of self-determination against inter-subaltern hierarchies resulting from the colonial legacy of the nation-state in the postcolonial world. Embarking on a decolonial methodological framework, the research studies two poitical movements and regions directly associated with "stateless self-determination": The Democratic Union Party in North and East Syria, aka. Rojava, and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico. Placed in postcolonial sociology and decolonial International Relations, the research theoretically problematizes the association of decolonization with independent nation-states. It aims to theorize stateless self-determination through its ideological roots, historical emergence, and political paradoxes.