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The Social Diplomacy of Multinational Corporations

by Marieke Louis, 19 November 2018

Just as an international treaty on the social responsibility of multinational corporations is being negotiated at the United...
Essay

How Oracles Are Forged

by François Héran, 5 November 2018

The prophecy of an African scramble for Europe
Essay

The Islam of Converts

by Juliette Galonnier, 2 April 2018

The religious convert is a figure of fear and fascination today. Looking beyond clichés, Juliette Galonnier’s investigation in...
Essay

The Bikini Strategy

by Jennifer Bidet, 29 March 2018

Gender and Class Relations in Algeria
Review

The Meaning of Killing

by Nicolas Delon, 22 March 2018

About: Jonathan Glover, Questions de vie ou de mort, Labor et Fides
Review

Why Do We Restore Artworks and Many Other Objects?

by Bernard Sève, 15 March 2018

About: Jean-Pierre Cometti, Conserver/ Restaurer. L’œuvre d’art à l’époque de sa préservation technique, Gallimard
Essay

Ronald Coase: A Century of Economics

by Élodie Bertrand, 8 March 2018

Ronald Coase (1910-2013), the 1991 Nobel Laureate in Economics, is famous for his oft-quoted and just as often misunderstood...
Review

The Enigma of Peronism

by Humberto Cucchetti, 5 March 2018

About: Alain Rouquié, Le siècle de Perón. Essai sur les démocraties hégémoniques, Seuil.
Review

Homosexuality on Trial

by Danièle Voldman, 19 February 2018

About: Florence Tamagne, Le Crime du Palace. Enquête sur l’une des plus grandes affaires criminelles des années 1930, Payot
Review

Running Water on Every Floor

by Emmanuelle Hellier, 15 February 2018

About: Christophe Defeuilley, L’Entrepreneur et le Prince. La création du service public de l’eau, Presses de Science Po.
Essay

Miguel Abensour: Emancipation through Utopia

by Nicolas Poirier, 8 February 2018

Miguel Abensour profoundly renewed thinking about democracy. His political philosophy paid close attention to the desire for...
Review

Digital Literature

by Florent Coste, 5 February 2018

About: Franco Moretti (ed.), La littérature au laboratoire, Ithaque
Review

Sloganising Bodies

by Maëlle Bazin, 1 February 2018

About: H. Prolongeau, « Couvrez ce sein… » La nudité dans tous ses états, Robert Laffont
Review

The Little Society of Children

by Nicolas Sallée, 18 January 2018

About: Wilfried Lignier and Julie Pagis, L’enfance de l’ordre. Comment les enfants perçoivent le monde social, Seuil
Review

Economizing on Scientific Debate

by Olivier Godechot, 15 January 2018

About: Pierre Cahuc and André Zylberberg, Le négationnisme économique. Et comment s’en débarrasser, Flammarion
Review

Awakening the Leader within You

by Jean-Louis Fabiani, 4 January 2018

About: Randall Collins & Maren McConnell, Napoleon Never Slept : How Great Leaders Leverage Social Energy. Microtechniques of success from Jesus to Steve Jobs, Maren Ink
Review

A Digital Age Without Proletarians

by Sébastien Broca, 18 December 2017

About: Mariano Zukerfeld, Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism, University of Westminster Press
Interview

Our Lives as They are Told

by Pauline Peretz, 11 December 2017

An Interview with Sylvain Bourmeau
Interview

The Reception of Refugees

by Ivan Jablonka, 4 December 2017

An Interview with Aline Angoustures and Dzovinar Kevonian
Review

The Moral of Historical Fiction

by Judith Lyon-Caen, 27 November 2017

About: Son of Saul by László Nemes
Review

What Nero Says about Us

by Laurie Lefebvre, 16 November 2017

About: Donatien Grau, Néron en Occident. Une figure de l’histoire, Gallimard
Essay

Hyperincarcerated

by Adèle Momméja, 6 November 2017

Can journalism advance knowledge in the field of social science? Two investigations published by the New York Times have...
Essay

Politicizing Europe, Europeanizing Politics

by Stéphanie Hennette & Thomas Piketty & Guillaume Sacriste & Antoine Vauchez, 5 October 2017

Though they share the diagnosis of an unprecedented democratic crisis of the European project, our critics remain firmly...
Review

Europe without Government

by Shahin Vallée, 28 September 2017

About: S. Hennette, T. Piketty, G. Sacriste and A. Vauchez, Pour un traité de démocratisation de l’Europe, Seuil
Review

The City of Tears

by Christophe Litwin, 22 May 2017

About: Michaël Fœssel, Le Temps de la consolation, Seuil
Essay

Economics: An Experimental Science?

by Sylvie Thoron, 27 March 2017

In economics, the study of behavior has been enriched by a productive dialogue between theory and experiments. Challenging...
Review

French Law and Racist Speech

by Magali Bessone, 13 March 2017

About: Gwénaële Calvès, Envoyer les racistes en prison ? Le procès des insulteurs de Christiane Taubira, LGDJ; Ulysse Korolitski, Punir le racisme ? Liberté d’expression, démocratie et discours racistes, CNRS Editions.
Review

Lobbied by the Laboratories

by Sébastien Dalgalarrondo, 9 March 2017

About: Quentin Ravelli, La stratégie de la bactérie, Seuil.
Review

The Legend of Céline

by Hélène Baty-Delalande, 6 March 2017

About: Odile Roynette, Un long tourment. Louis-Ferdinand Céline entre deux guerres (1914-1945), Belles Lettres
Essay

Jordan and Syrian Refugees

by Kamel Doraï, 20 February 2017

While the spotlight is focused on the arrival of Syrian refugees in Europe, researcher Kamel Doraï reminds us that the main...
Review

The Avant-Garde System

by Pamela Bianchi, 16 February 2017

About: Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Les avant-gardes artistiques 1848–1918. Une histoire transnationale, Gallimard.
Review

A Journey into Eurocracy

by Camille Herlin-Giret, 6 February 2017

About: Sylvain Laurens, Les courtiers du capitalisme. Milieux d’affaires et bureaucrates à Bruxelles, Agone.
Review

Shaping Indochinese Identity

by Blaise Truong-Loï, 2 February 2017

About: Christopher E. Goscha, Indochine ou Vietnam, Vendémiaire, 2015, translated from English by Agathe Larcher (first English language edition published in 1995)
Essay

The Return of Economic History?

by Guillaume Calafat & Éric Monnet, 30 January 2017

The recent success of books on economic history – at a time when this specialism often seems disregarded in universities –...
Essay

The Rise of Transparency

by Erik Neveu, 26 January 2017

About: Michael Schudson, The Rise of the Right to Know, Politics and the Culture of Transparency (1945-1975), The Belknap Press.
Essay

Learning from Randomized Controlled Experiments

by Agnès Labrousse, 23 January 2017

The Narrative of Scientificity, Practical Complications, Historical Experience
Review

The Logic of Revolutions

by Giedre Sabaseviciute, 19 January 2017

About: Hamit Bozarslan and Gaëlle Demelemestre, Qu’est-ce qu’une révolution ? Amérique, France, Monde Arabe, 1763-2015, Éditions du Cerf.
Essay

The Other Election

by Marieke Louis, 16 January 2017

The Secretary General of the United Nations and Democratic Debate
Interview

Fighting Terrorism with Emergency Legislation

by Florent Guénard, 9 January 2017

The state of exception has a long history in France. Intended as a measure for dealing with crises of any sort, it is now...
Review

The Great Climate Change Market

by Lucile Maertens, 5 January 2017

About: Romain Felli, La grande adaptation. Climat, capitalisme et catastrophe, Seuil.

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