Far from the impediments of a heroic history of Europe with its crises and re-founding treaties, the author shows why and how law became the principal device through which Europe was able to impose itself as a new power centre.
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L'invention d'un programme institutionnel pour l'Europe
Antoine Vauchez
An essay on the culture of adolescents and young adults based on their use of the Internet and social networks, social transformations they induce, transformatios that the author mentions as a possible rupture anthropological.
Les jeunes et les réseaux sociaux, de la dérision à la subversion
Monique Dagnaud
A sociological, historical and European approach to the phenomenon of partisanship applied to the Right in France and to the UMP (Union pour un mouvement populaire) since 2002, that will help understanding the actual leadership conflict at the top of UMP.
Transformations de l'UMP
Florence Haegel
Les contributions réunies dans cet ouvrage permettent de s'interroger sur la pertinence et la portée, en 2012, des principes du service public en matière de santé et d'analyser les mutations de la gestion des services publics de soins.
Didier Tabuteau
Marisol Touraine
Sociology analysis what contemporary armies owe to the political, institutional and social context in which they develop. It recalls what the understanding of military matters brings to the understanding of our societies and phenomenas of power.
Jean Joana
The process of decentralisation is progressing all over Europe. France is no exception. The author analyses the rise of the regions and offers a new perspective on contemporay France, where local actors play an increasing role in public legislation.
Mobilisations, décentralisation et gouvernance en France
Romain Pasquier
This book recalls the history of industrial and innovation policies implemented by China since 1949, especially in the domain of nanotechnologies, which Beijing intends to make the launching pad of its future competitivity.
Des politiques industrielles aux entreprises innovantes
Romain Bironneau
Rigas Arvanitis, François Bafoil
A unique comparative history of South East Asian and Central European economies, before and after 1989, through the prism of different models of political domination.
Économies politiques comparées, Europe de l'Est et Asie du Sud-Est
François Bafoil
What purpose do ambassadors serve? After a historical retrospective beginning in the Third Republic, the author shows that in spite of all these changes, the profession of ambassador has conserved its specificity and its usefulness.
Marie-Christine Kessler
A close account of Algerian women's’ struggle for egalitarian laws governing the family.
La lutte pour l'égalité
Feriel Lalami
How do these people, be they immigrants or the descendents of immigrants, write themselves into French society?
Enquête sur les citoyens d'origine maghrébine, africaine et turque
Sylvain Brouard, Vincent Tiberj
The first analysis of the major reforms and policies that characterize Sarkozy's presidency.
Jacques de Maillard, Yves Surel
In an environment characterized by cultural diversification and globalization, the cultural heritage faces new challenges which, beyond the issue of returning objects to their country of origin, make a new "cultural heritage pact" imperative.
Patrice Béghain
Based on a unique comparative analysis of four French presidential contests over the last two decades, this book is an original and comprehensive study of the sociological and psychological forces driving French voters' choices.
1988-1995-2002-2007
Éric Belanger, Bruno Cautrès
This work retraces the invention of the constitutionalist, this law professor specializing in constitutional policy, and demonstrate how these professors played a crucial role in the advent of the new regime.
Professeurs de droit et légitimation de l'État en France (1870-1914)
Guillaume Sacriste
This book brings a strictly scientific perspective to the measurement of crimes arguing for three major changes: an analyse over the long term, an evaluation method no longer monopolized by the most powerful and an urgente evaluation of financial crime.
Philippe Robert, Renée Zauberman
The author analyses the profound transformation of Japanese capitalism, along with a reflection on the diversity of capitalisms. He shows that Japan is still a subjet of studies capable of throwing light on the global issues of the world economy.
Sébastien Lechevalier
Examining the history of international criminal justice, from Nuremberg to today, with the aid of numerous examples from the Balkans to Libya, touching on Rwanda and Darfur, this book questions the pacifying effect of justice and its limitations.
Le dilemme de la paix et de la justice en sortie de conflit armé
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer