Prénom de l'expert

François

Nom de l'expert

GAULME

Associate Research Fellow, Sub-Saharan Africa Center, Ifri

Research Areas:

France’s and UK’s African policy
Security and Development; integrated approach
International aid mechanisms
Historical anthropology
Gabon, Congo- Brazzaville, Central and Western Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa Center

François Gaulme, an anthropologist and historian by training, is an Associate Research Fellow at Ifri’s Sub-Saharan Africa Center. A former Editor of the weekly Marchés tropicaux and the quarterly Afrique contemporaine, he lectured on Africa at the Institut d’études politiques, at the Catholic University of Paris, and at the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan National Military Academy.

He recently retired from service at the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he specialized in situations of conflicts and of State fragility. His publications include Le Gabon et son ombre [Gabon and its Shadow] (Paris, Karthala, 1988).

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Publications

Studies

Caravan of camels walking through ochre-colored desert dunes in Mauritania's interior

The integrated territorial approach (ITA). Hopes and limits of local stabilisation in the Sahel

08 July 2024

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attacks of 11 September 2001, the proliferation of local conflicts and the partitioning of certain states (Yugoslavia, Somalia) have given rise to external interventions, both bilateral and multilateral, in which the military element has been combined with civil action in innovative ways.

François GAULME Alain ANTIL

Memos

Antelope by Samson Kambalu on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square., Trafalgar Square, London, UK - 28 Sep 2022

Charles III's United Kingdom and Africa. A Temptation to Withdraw

05 May 2023

On May 6, 2023, King Charles III will be crowned at Westminster Abbey in London. This briefing assesses the UK-Africa relations against the backdrop of the new King's discourse on Global Britain.

François GAULME

Studies

Globe facing Africa, UK flag and Boris Johnson

Great Britain and Africa: Boris Johnson's Strategic Reversals

12 May 2021

In 2020-2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson undertook to fundamentally change the operational mode and strategy of relations between the United Kingdom and the African continent bequeathed by his predecessors since 1997.

François GAULME

Papers

Adjustment Is Back: The Political and Financial Crisis in Central African Oil-Producing Countries. Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville

19 July 2018

This paper aims to highlight both the financial, economic and political adjustment cycle, affecting two Central African petro-states, Gabon and the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville).

François GAULME

Articles from Politique Etrangère

International Relations: the Era of Anthropologists

01 September 2014

Both perpetrators and forms of violence change. States are no longer the central referents of contemporary conflicts. We can no longer understand them as the outcome of a linear history starting from tribal societies and leading to Western political structures.

François GAULME

Studies

The Architect and Fragile States: Development Assistance's Contribution to Global Security

22 December 2011

Up to Europe’s threshold in the middle of Sahara and Sahel region, a growing insecurity led beyond mere reconsideration of field practice to a whole change of paradigm for multilateral and bilateral aid institutions.

François GAULME