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PRESSES DE SCIENCES PO (the University Press of Sciences Po) has a threefold role: to publish original research, to edit reference works for student use, and to help public and political debate. We publish advanced research in geopolitics, globalization and governance, sustainable development, trends in political life, change and development in society and 20th century history.

Please note that all of our titles are in French, unless otherwise stated.

Pierre Jacquet, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Laurence Tubiana

Regards sur la terre 2010. L'annuel du développement durable
Villes changer de trajectoire
Cities Changing direction

Cities have crucial importance for sustainability concerns. This new edition of Regards sur la Terre analyses how cities work and identifies contemporary trends, mecanisms and tools that can influence curent strategies and choices.

Jules Falquet, Helena Hirata, Danièle Kergoat, Brahim Labari, Nicky Le Feuvre, Fatou Sow

Le sexe de la mondialisation
Genre, classe, race et nouvelle division du travail
The Sex of Globalization
Gendre, class, race and the new division of labor

Gender is a central organizer of contemporary neoliberal globalization. Uniting international specialists on issues rarely confronted, this work renews criticism of the economic, social, political, cultural, ideological consequences of globalization.

Claude Meyer

Chine ou Japon : quel leader pour l'Asie ?
China or Japan: Which leader for Asia?

Both China and Japan have strong assets to claim for the leadership in Asia. This stimulating essay presents the recent developments in China and in Japan, in terms of economic evolutions but also with respect to their global strategic ambitions.

Nicolas Jabko

L'Europe par le marché
Histoire d'une stratégie improbable
Europe by the Market
History of an Unlikely Strategy

A provocative and simple analysis of the European integration process. Nicolas Jabko demonstrates that the European Commission deployed a strategy that invoked mulitple dimensions of the logic of the "market" to promote its political objectives.

Renaud Dehousse

Politiques européennes
European Politics

A very precious tool! This work offers a complete view of the institutional system, the actors, the political game and modes of action of the European Union. It aims to offer the fundamental elements for comprehending current challenges Europe must face.

Christophe Jaffrelot, Christian Lequesne

L'Enjeu mondial
Les migrations
Global Issues
Migrations

Global Issues: A New Geopolitical Series on Globalization with a focus on a specific global challenge : Migrations

Olivier Fillieule, Lilian Mathieu, Cécile Péchu

Dictionnaire des mouvements sociaux
Dictionnary of Social Movements

A usefull toolbox for decoding the language and analysis of social movements. This dictionary lists all of the key concepts, explains their origins and development, specifies their usages as well as the debates they address. More tahn 60 authors.

Dario Battistella

Théories des relations internationales
3e édition mise à jour et augmentée
Theories of International Relations
Third enlarged and up to date edition

Pedagogical and exhaustive, this work is an excellent introduction to international relations theories. Third edition totally revised, improved and expanded.

Guillaume Devin

Faire la paix
La part des institutions internationales
Making Peace
The Role of International Institutions

Do international institutions really contribute to building a lasting peace? If it is impossible to fight against the recommendations of international institutions, it will become difficult to reject them as a means of making peace.

Liora Israël

L'arme du droit
Legal Weapon
- number 7
What use does politics of law serve? How has legal action progressively integrated itself into the repertory of resistance throughout the social movements and crises of the 20th century?

Johanna Siméant

La grève de la faim
Strike Hunger
- number 6
An historical analyse of this mode of protest from its birth at the beginning of the twentieth century with British suffragettes and Irish nationalists to its later use on every continent.

Marie Duru-Bellat

Le mérite contre la justice
Merit Vs. Justice

The notions of merit and equal opportunity constitute not only the precepts of a society where strong inequalities persist, but that they are, in certain ways, contrary to justice.