Xavier Mabille (3 July 1933 – 24 December 2012) was a Belgian historian and

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

. He served as President of the

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

-based ''

Centre de recherche et d'information socio-politiques Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics *Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentricit ...

'' (CRISP or Centre for Socio-Political Research) in

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

. In the 1990s, he was a notable political commentator in Belgium. He was born in July 1933 in

Anderlecht Anderlecht (; ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, B ...

and died in December 2012 at the age of 79.

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External links

CRISP homepage
(French)
CRISP homepage
(UK English) 1933 births 2012 deaths 20th-century Belgian historians Belgian political scientists Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite {{Belgium-historian-stub