The conditions of knowledge production in the social sciences have attracted growing interest in academic and public debates over the past two decades, particularly through scholarship on the decolonization of research. However, few studies have examined the ways in which war operates as a mechanism for the re-production of coloniality.

As far-right movements and populism gain ground in a context where armed violence has become globalized - from Ukraine to the Congo, and from Palestine to Syria - how do security crises and North–South scientific cooperation mechanisms contribute to the reproduction of the structural vulnerability of researchers from the Global South?