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.

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By recounting the origins, the history and the posterity of the Ligue from the 1880s to the 1930s, this book casts a new light on the history of French society in the first half of the 20th century.

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A close account of Algerian women's’ struggle for egalitarian laws governing the family.

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What education, what cultural baggage do young people need today if they are to become citizens of Europe and of a global society?

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How did Vietnamese Communists succeed within 50 years in overthrowing colonial rule, keeping the American army at bay and conquering the South in 1975? The first exhaustive study on Vietnamese communism in over 30 years !

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For the first time, an original investigation of the CFDT (French Democratic Confederation of Labour) reveals the aspects of continuity and discontinuity characteristic of this trade union, its history and its universe.

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How to created scientific controversies and who benefits from them? A book for everyone who wants to understand what's behind the climate change denial.

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This book analyses the internal and external policies of Obama's term, with a particular attention to the institutional and partisan context marked by the end of the conservatism of Bush's years and the difficult emergence of a new progressivism.

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The first analysis of the major reforms and policies that characterize Sarkozy's presidency.

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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.

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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.

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Revolutionary at 20, conservative at 60: is there truth in this old adage? Do our political attitudes change as we age? This work gives light to the ties between age, generation, life cycle and our political lives.

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This book analyses public finances, in a context marked by the issue of government debt, budget constraints and the renewed policy of rigor and fiscal reforms.

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50 years of history of conflict between women and power in France. This book tells the decisive stages of their accession to the highest steps of political life.

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This book focuses on the evolution of campaigns and political activism online. ...). It offers an unprecedented overview of the uses of the Internet by the French parties compared to American, Italian and British parties.

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