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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.


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Violence de la rente pétrolière
Luis Martinez
Violence de la rente pétrolière
Algérie - Libye - Irak
Violence and Oil Wealth
Algeria - Libya - Iraq

In the 1970s, Oil was the blessing that allowed Algeria, Libya and Iraq to "catch up" economically. Decades later, it is a cruel disappointment with disastrous conseuqences for their populations. The first analysis on oil wealth from 1970 to 2008.
Le soutien américain à la Francophonie
Marine Lefevre
Le soutien américain à la Francophonie
Enjeux africains 1960-1970
The United States Support to Francophonie
African Issues 1960-1970

50 years after the independance of African States, the history of the interest and active support of the United States in the development of the Francophonie.
Archéologie de la représentation politique
Didier Mineur
Archéologie de la représentation politique
Structure et fondement d'une crise
The Archeology of Political Representation

This book addresses what is called the "crisis of representation". Parting from the idea that this is a rhetorical issue, it attempts to shed light on the truth of representative systems.
L'économie ordinaire entre songes et mensonges
Gilbert Rist
L'économie ordinaire entre songes et mensonges
Standard Economics: between the Dreams and Schemes

Why are we subdued by economic imperatives? Is the vision of the world that this discipline offers realistic? Can we otherwise understand the phenomena of production, consumption, and exchange? A different way of thinking society and ecological problems.
Le sexe de la mondialisation
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.
Les habits neufs de David Cameron
Agnès Alexandre-Collier
Les habits neufs de David Cameron
Les conservateurs britanniques (1990-2010)
David Cameron's New Ways
British Conservatives (1990-2010)
Chine ou Japon : quel leader pour l'Asie ?
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.
L'Europe par le marché
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.
Politiques européennes
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.
Théories des relations internationales
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.
Faire la paix
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.
L'arme du droit
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?
La grève de la faim
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.


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