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 nAbout the event: Can efforts to counter a revolution also be revolutionar
 y? The Algerian War fractured the French Empire\, destroyed the legitimacy
  of colonial rule\, and helped launch the Third Worldist movement for the 
 liberation of the Global South. In this discussion of his new book\, Terre
 nce G. Peterson highlights how the conflict also quietly helped to transfo
 rm the nature of modern warfare.\n\nThe French war effort was never define
 d solely by repression. As this talk details\, it also sought to fashion n
 ew forms of surveillance and social control that could capture the loyalty
  of Algerians and transform Algerian society. Hygiene and medical aid effo
 rts\, youth sports and education programs\, and psychological warfare camp
 aigns all attempted to remake Algerian social structures and bind them mor
 e closely to the French state. In tracing the emergence of such programs\,
  Peterson reframes the French war effort as a radical project of armed soc
 ial reform that sought not to preserve colonial rule unchanged\, but to re
 volutionize it in order to preserve it against the global challenges of de
 colonization.\n\nAs Peterson will make clear\, French officers' efforts to
  transform warfare into an exercise in social engineering not only shaped 
 how the Algerian War unfolded from its earliest months\, but also helped t
 o forge a paradigm of warfare that dominated strategic thinking during the
  Cold War and after: counterinsurgency.\n\nAbout the speaker: Terrence G. 
 Peterson is a historian of modern Europe with a focus on decolonization\, 
 migration\, and warfare. His first book\, Revolutionary Warfare: How the A
 lgerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency (Cornell University Press\, Sept
 ember 2024) examines how French officers sought to counter demands for Alg
 erian independence from France by transforming war into an exercise in arm
 ed social reform. His current work examines the nearly seventy-year histor
 y of the Rivesaltes Camp in southern France to understand why migrant dete
 ntion camps emerged as a quintessential tool of modern governance and rema
 in so today.\n\nPeterson’s work appears in a number of peer-reviewed jou
 rnals including the Journal of Social History\, the Journal of Contemporar
 y History\, French Politics\, Culture & Society\, and the Journal of North
  African Studies\, as well as in a book for popular audiences in France en
 titled Colonisations: Notre histoire (Colonizations: Our History). He has 
 also written for the popular outlets War on the Rocks and the Huffington P
 ost.\n\nPeterson’s work has been supported by the Fulbright Program\, th
 e American Historical Association\, the Society for French Historical Stud
 ies\, the Doris G. Quinn Foundation\, and the Council for European Studies
 . In 2021\, he received an FIU Top Scholar Award for teaching\, and in 202
 4 he received a Society for Military History Vandervort Prize for outstand
 ing journal article in the field of military history. He currently serves 
 as Secretary for the Western Society for French History and Board Member o
 f the Remembering Spaces of Internment (ReSI) research network.
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LOCATION:Encina Hall\, William J. Perry Conference Room
SUMMARY:Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsu
 rgency
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/revolutionary-warfare-how-t
 he-algerian-war-made-modern-counterinsurgency-4801
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