No. 31 (2019): Thomas C. Schelling in the Social Sciences. Little and Major Strategies.

Coordinated by Natália Frozel Barros and Alessio Motta.
Editorial coordination for Emulations by  Lionel Francou.

Thomas Crombie Schelling, an American strategic advisor, has influenced his country's foreign policy, as well as many social science researchers. In France, his work provided decisive stones for individualist approaches, for the theory of the strategic actor of Crozier and Friedberg, but also for the sociology of political crises of Dobry. This influence was mainly exerted through occasional touches and conceptual contributions. These incursions reflect Schelling's project, which was not the creation of a theoretical framework for thinking about the entire functioning of a society, but rather a succession of fruitful ideas and bridges between the great phenomena and moments of history and the most mundane everyday coordination situations. Three years after Schelling's death, this issue of Emulations returns to the contributions of his work and mobilises them to open up new avenues for understanding the small and large strategies behind the decisions taken in an administration, an assembly, a coup d'état, a collective mobilisation...