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A sociologist and director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, his books include Enquête sur une guérilla. Nicaragua-Moskitia (1982-2007) (Le Félin, 2009).
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Latin american neo-populism, elements of a political analysis
In Amérique latine (2024/1-2 No 4-5)
Forms of violence in Mexico in the twenty-first century
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2015/1 No 96-97)
On corruption in Latin America
In Revue internationale et stratégique (2018/3 No 111)
Nicaragua (2018–2019): A revolutionary crisis
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2019/1 No 112)
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Latin american neo-populism, elements of a political analysis
In Amérique latine (2024/1-2 No 4-5)
Introduction
In Amérique latine (2024/1-2 No 4-5)
La Llorona, metaphor for the trial of General Efraín Ríos Montt
In Amérique latine (2023/2 No 3)
Afterword: Thinking about revolutionary experience and prison
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2020/3 No 118)
Year one of the Sandinista Revolution
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2020/1 No 116)
Introduction
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2020/1 No 116)
Ernesto Cardenal, a lost life
In Esprit (2020/5 May)
Introduction
- By Gilles Bataillon
- and Garance Robert
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2019/2 No 113)
Politics and environment on the Mosquito Coast, 1960–2018
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2019/2 No 113)
The path of a committed intellectual: From the October Revolution to the Commission for Historical Clarification (interview)
- By Edelberto Torres Rivas,
- Interview with Gilles Bataillon
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2019/2 No 113)
Nicaragua (2018–2019): A revolutionary crisis
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2019/1 No 112)
Introduction
- By Gilles Bataillon
- and Garance Robert
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2019/1 No 112)
Central America: Violence and pseudo-democracies (1987-2018)
In Hérodote (2018/4 No 171)
On corruption in Latin America
In Revue internationale et stratégique (2018/3 No 111)
Introduction
Mexico: History, geography, and sociology (sixteenth to twenty-first centuries)
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2018/2 No 109)
Sergio Ramírez, Cronista de un nuevo caudillismo
Ya nadie llora por mí, Alfaguara, México, 2017, 360 pages
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2018/1 No 108)
Introduction
Situations of democracy (2)
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2017/3 No 106-107)
Daniel Pécaut: An intellectual journey. Interview with Gilles Bataillon and Gérard Martin
- Interview with Gilles Bataillon
- and Gérard Martin
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2016/1 No 100)
Mexico: The war against the drug cartels
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2016/1 No 100)
Introduction: Latin America: Forms of the nation according to Daniel Pécaut
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2016/2 No 101)
Introduction: Colombia: The configurations of violence according to Daniel Pécaut
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2016/1 No 100)
Situations of democracy
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2015/3 No 98)
Forms of violence in Mexico in the twenty-first century
In Problèmes d'Amérique latine (2015/1 No 96-97)
The Capture of El Chapo
In Esprit (2016/3 March April)
Claude Lefort. Practice and Thought of Disincorporation
In Raisons politiques (2014/4 No 56)
The Fragility of Central American Democracies
In Esprit (2009/10 October)
The Work of the Anthropologist and the Work of Witnesses, La Mosquitia 1982–2007
In Cultures & Conflits (2009/2 No 74)
Nicaragua: Electoral Fraud and Forceful Takeover
In Esprit (2009/6 June)
Witch-Hunt in Managua
In Esprit (2008/11 November)
Child Guerillas in Nicaragua
The Pichirules Miskitus 1981-1987
In Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire (2006/1 No 89)
From Sandino to the Contras
Forms and Practices of War in Nicaragua
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2005/3 60th Year)
War and Assembly, Discovering and Learning Democracy in the Miskitus of Nicaragua (1981–1988)
In Cultures & Conflits (2002/3 No 47)
Analyzing Discord
In Cultures & Conflits (1997/1 No 24-25)
Nicaraguan Contras (1982–1993): Reflections on Armed Action and the Development of Political and Military Actors
In Cultures & Conflits (1993/4 No 12)
French NGO Humanitarian Aid in Central America: Between Humanitarian Bureaucracy and New Vision of Humanity
In Cultures & Conflits (1993/3 No 11)