"A perfectly timely guide for conflict analysis, put forth by two great masters. There is no better instrument for teaching students how to understand the causes, the processes and the results of different forms of political conflict." Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University.

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Designed for practitioners, students and professors, this is the first dictionary devoted to health expertise. It describes the uses, notions and concepts of the field. Drawing on the most recent research, it simultaneously illustrates the institutional context surrounding expertise and the actors that contribute to it or endure its consequences.

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The EU's greatest success of the past twenty years remains the expansion of its democratic model to Eastern Europe. But its neighborhood policy should be reassessed in the light of the Ukrainian crisis, the Arab revolutions, etc. By the most prominent experts, this book invites readers to reconsider the relationship between the EU and its borders.

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The author gives a comprehensive overview of the Chinese political system that fills a major gap. This publication therefore appears essential for any researcher in RI, whatever their field of study, given the prominent role played by the Chinese power on the world stage.

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Serving as a reference point on climate change and related strategical questions, this work examines the relationship between science and politics; the evolving geopolitics of climate; energy transition in Europe, the United States and major emerging countries; and the multiple links between climate change and globalisation.

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This first dictionary of entrepreneurship provides both the concepts and examples needed to describe and understand entrepreneurship from different economic perspectives, thus offering a large overview of both seminal and contemporary research.

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Born in the 1970s in the US, the UK and Canada, international political economy (IPE) has helped us to understand the transformations of the international scene. A critical overview of the main actors, debates and paradigms that structure the discipline.

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Le storytelling de l'Europe, construit autour de la norme plutôt que sur la force, est-Il encore crédible aujourd'hui face à la montée en puissance des grands pays émergents et à l'instabilité de son voisinage méditerranéen ? "Un ouvrage qui vaut à la fois par la clarté de son écriture et la richesse de ses analyses." Thomas Ferenczi, Le Monde

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What gender brought to political sciences? The articles of this dictionary, written in a clear and accessible language, identify the concepts, theories and canonical objects of the discipline (citizenship, democracy, government, political parties, voting, etc.) showing the role played by gender in their genesis and in their maturation.

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Political scientists, diplomats, lawyers, historians, philosophers, and French international, analyze the new realities of the war, the fight against terrorism, international legitimacy, the problem of ends and means.

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An incisive essay on Europe's strenghts and weaknesses, as it seems to be stepping back on the international scene.

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Should politicla institutions refletc our societies' cultural diversity? As in a play, Cosimo and Therese draw us into their passionate discussions on issues of representation in a multicultural democracy. A brilliant introduction to the questions raised by the positive discrimination.

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Cet ouvrage, rédigé une équipe de chercheurs français, fournit un cadre pour comprendre la situation des partis en France et soulève également une interrogation sur une éventuelle « manière française » de les appréhender, en bref qui ouvre un débat.

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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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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.

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This didactic presentation of the controversies spurred by the idea of a « universal State » reveals the fault lines that they draw within the major contemporary ideological currents. An introduction to the philosophy of international relations.

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An analysis of the oratorical secrets, manipulation techniques and favourite words of Nicolas Sarkozy, who invented a new kind of expression, shocking many in the process and creating an authentic break in the history of the 5th Republic! .

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A passionate reading of the evolution of presidential speeches since 1958, in which we see delivery take precedence over content: the leader replaces the idea and political thought becomes a matter of communication.

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