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Trumpland isn&#8217;t just hell for Muslims, Hispanics, women, and other vulnerable populations; it is hell for anyone trying to make sense of what is going on.&#160; It is a topsy-turvy world, a world turned upside down, a world where absurdity reigns. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;Andrew&#160;LevineArgumentaireL&#8217;&#233;lection de Donald Trump a &#233;t&#233; pr&#233;sent&#233;e, de fa&#231;on quasi-unanime chez les journalistes, universitaires ou chercheurs comme un d&#233;sastre ou un tsunami annonciateurs de temps chaotiques. Le pr&#233;sident a cependant b&#233;n&#233;fici&#233; du soutien de presque la majorit&#233; des &#233;lecteurs, et notamment d&#8217;&#233;lecteurs des Etats cl&#233;s de la &#171;&#160;ceinture de rouille&#160;&#187;.Il convient donc de s&#8217;interroger sur les raisons qui expliquent la survenue d&#8217;un tel ph&#233;nom&#232;ne. En d&#8217;autres termes, il est appropri&#233; de relancer les questions pos&#233;es d&#232;s le jour de l&#8217;&#233;lection&#160;: qui est Trump sur le plan politique mais aussi&#160;personnel ? D&#8217;o&#249; vient-il et comment se place-t-il dans la longue d&#233;rive droiti&#232;re du parti r&#233;publicain qui, initialement, ne lui &#233;tait pas favorable&#160;? Quel est donc le monde de Trump, celui des magnats de l&#8217;immobilier, des milliardaires &#224; la conqu&#234;te du pouvoir, des d&#233;magogues inscrits dans le syst&#232;me &#233;conomique qui se font passer pour des candidats hors syst&#232;me&#160;?Une r&#233;flexion de type sociologique, par exemple celle men&#233;e par Arlie Specter Hochschild (Strangers in Their Own Land, Anger and Mourning on the American Right), mais aussi politique et historique s&#8217;impose. Peut-on trouver des pr&#233;c&#233;dents historiques de Trump ou des &#233;quivalents dans d&#8217;autres pays o&#249; des d&#233;magogues se hissent jusqu&#8217;au pouvoir&#160;?On pourra &#233;galement aborder la question de la prise de d&#233;cision dans l&#8217;administration Trump tant le flou r&#232;gne en ce qui concerne la cha&#238;ne de commandement et la formulation des politiques dans ce gouvernement qui semble avoir mis le chaos au centre de sa propre organisation. Le chaos lui-m&#234;me peut &#234;tre analys&#233; comme une tactique d&#233;lib&#233;r&#233;e de destruction des institutions.Sur le plan international, les d&#233;clarations et premi&#232;res d&#233;cisions cr&#233;ent la confusion et il est l&#233;gitime de se demander si cette confusion est d&#233;lib&#233;r&#233;e ou si elle est fonction de la personnalit&#233; hors normes voire, selon certains commentateurs, pathologique du pr&#233;sident. Ou peut-&#234;tre des deux. Trump pratique-t-il la &#171;&#160;strat&#233;gie du fou&#160;&#187; th&#233;oris&#233;e par Nixon, un autre pr&#233;sident coutumier des &#233;carts avec la loi&#160;? On pourra donc interroger l&#8217;impact de Trump sur le monde en commen&#231;ant par une r&#233;flexion sur l&#8217;existence ou non d&#8217;un corpus doctrinal de Trump ou de son administration. La r&#233;flexion pourra aussi s&#8217;articuler autour des relations internationales affect&#233;es par la nouvelle pr&#233;sidence, par exemple les relations entre les &#201;tats-Unis et le Moyen Orient ou l&#8217;un des pays importants dans cette r&#233;gion (Arabie saoudite, Iran, Isra&#235;l, Egypte), les relations avec la Russie et la Chine sont &#233;galement cruciales, notamment pour mesurer l&#8217;&#233;cart entre d&#233;clarations tonitruantes et inhabituelles durant la campagne et premi&#232;res d&#233;cisions qui n&#8217;&#233;manent pas forc&#233;ment du pr&#233;sident lui-m&#234;me. Les relations avec le Mexique ou Cuba, l&#8217;Am&#233;rique latine de fa&#231;on plus g&#233;n&#233;rale sont &#233;galement un champ d&#8217;investigation capital.Enfin, last but certainly not least, il faudra &#233;valuer l&#8217;impact n&#233;gatif de Trump et de ses soutiens financiers et politiques sur les politiques environnementales aux &#201;tats-Unis mais aussi dans le monde apr&#232;s le retrait de la COP 21, connu sous le nom d&#8217;accord de Paris, un accord pourtant non contraignant.Apr&#232;s quelques mois de pr&#233;sidence Trump, et &#224; supposer que ce pr&#233;sident ne soit pas destitu&#233;, il ne s&#8217;agit pas ici d&#8217;&#233;tablir un bilan mais d&#8217;approfondir une analyse des transformations, &#233;volutions ou continuit&#233;s historiques, analyse qui a commenc&#233; avec la d&#233;signation du candidat apparemment si peu cr&#233;dible par le parti r&#233;publicain en ao&#251;t 2016.Modalit&#233;s pratiques d'envoi des propositionsLes propositions d&#8217;articles (300 &#224; 500 mots, en fran&#231;ais ou en anglais) ainsi qu&#8217;une courte biographie sont &#224; envoyer d&#8217;ici le 15 septembre 2017 &#224;&#160;:Pierre Guerlain pierre.guerlain@gmail.com &#38; Rapha&#235;l Ricaud raphael.ricaud@univ-montp3.frCoordination du num&#233;roPierre Guerlain (Universit&#233; Paris-Nanterre)Rapha&#235;l Ricaud (Universit&#233; Paul Val&#233;ry-Montpellier 3)Trumpland isn&#8217;t just hell for Muslims, Hispanics, women, and other vulnerable populations; it is hell for anyone trying to make sense of what is going on.&#160; It is a topsy-turvy world, a world turned upside down, a world where absurdity reigns. &#160;Andrew&#160;LevineArgumentAmong journalists, academics and researchers, the election of Donald Trump was quasi-unanimously presented as a disaster, a tsunami threatening to wreak havoc. The president, however, received the support of almost a majority of voters, especially in key Rustbelt states.How can such a paradox be accounted for? This phenomenon raises a number of questions, asked as early as the day of the election, that need to be re-opened for debate: who is Trump on a personal and political level? Where does he come from and how does he fit into the long right-wing drift of the GOP&#8212;a party that initially was not in favor of his candidacy? In short, what is the world of Trump? One of real estate tycoons, billionaires seeking to conquer power, demagogues who are fully part of an economic system yet pretend to be at its margins? Such interrogations call for political, historical but also sociological reflections (see Arlie Specter Hochschild&#8217;s Strangers in Their Own Land, Anger and Mourning on the American Right for example). Are there Trump precedents or equivalents in other countries where demagogues have made it to the top?The question of the decision-making process in the Trump administration should also be addressed, as there is uncertainty about the chain of command and the formulation of policy. Chaos, which can be analyzed as a deliberate tactic of destruction of institutions, seems to be the essence of Trump-style organization.On the international level, contradictory statements and a first set of decisions have left observers confused. One may wonder whether this confusion is deliberate or whether it is due to the president's unconventional&#8212;or even, according to some analysts, pathological&#8212;personality. Or both. Does Trump put into practice the "madman theory" invented by Nixon, another law-defying president? Trump's impact on the world can be questioned, beginning with a reflection on whether Trump's doctrinal corpus&#8212;or that of his administration&#8212;really exists. Equally worthy of study is the relationship between the United States and the Middle East, or any one of the most important countries in the area (Iran, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc.) Relations with Russia and China are also crucial, notably to gauge the gap between unusual, bombastic declarations that were made on the campaign trail and initial decisions, which incidentally do not always emanate from the president himself. Relations with Mexico, Cuba and more generally Latin America offer an equally important field of investigation.Last but certainly not least, it will be necessary to evaluate the negative impact of Trump and that of his financial and political supporters on environmental policies in the United States and in the world, especially after the withdrawal of the Paris Agreement (which was non-binding anyway).A few months into Trump's presidency, it is too soon for any form of assessment. But, assuming that there will be no impeachment, now is the time to deepen analyses of the historical evolutions, changes and continuities that began with the unlikely choice that was made at the Republican Convention of August 2016.Submission guidelinesProposals of approximately 300-500 words accompanied by a short bio should be submitted no later than 15 September 2017 to Pierre Guerlain pierre.guerlain@gmail.com &#38; Rapha&#235;l Ricaud raphael.ricaud@univ-montp3.fr.Editors&#160;Pierre Guerlain (Universit&#233; Paris-Nanterre)Rapha&#235;l Ricaud (Universit&#233; Paul Val&#233;ry-Montpellier 3)