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“Punitive action is not the only response”

Should we decriminalise cannabis? Or legalise it? Or, as in one option discussed by the French government, make its use punishable only by a fine? Two members ...

Diplomacy, or the art to adjusting to reality

Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy to Syria, came to speak at Sciences Po on the delicate art of negotiation in wartime, an art that requires patience, creativity ...

Saving money, losing lives

Analysis by David Paltiel, professor at Yale School of Public Health and a visiting professor at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) at ...

“Being LGBTI is not a Western influence, it’s a human reality”

In 2012, Anan Bouapha founded Proud to Be Us Laos, the country's first civil society organisation promoting equal rights for young LGBTI. ...

A healthy passion for helping others

Ashale Chi from Cameroon is part of the first cohort of MasterCard Foundation Scholars at Sciences Po. Ashale talked to us about her first months in the Europe-Africa ...

Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at Sciences Po

In October, Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus came to Sciences Po for an hour-long discussion with students at the Sciences Po School of Public ...

“As arbitration practitioners, we have a duty to take part in institution building”

After four years of working as a lawyer in international arbitration and cross-border litigation, Leia Shin (33) decided ...

“The undergraduate years are a turning point in students’ lives”

It was exactly 15 years ago that Tilman Turpin first discovered Sciences Po. “I really appreciated Sciences Po’s international dimension ...

1917, the revolution that continues to disturb

A century ago, on October 25, 1917, Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized control of St. Petersburg. This founding act would lead to the birth of the Soviet Union ...

A new dual degree with the Stockholm School of Economics

The Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation in Paris and the Stockholm School of Economics have joined forces to create a dual Master's degree ...

Meet the youngest president of a charitable organisation in Europe

When Léa Moukanas found she had been admitted to the London School of Economics and to Sciences Po, she chose to remain in France so she ...

Investigating negotiation practices by African governments in Africa-China relations

Sciences Po PhD Folashadé Soulé-Kohndou has been appointed Research Fellow in International Relations at the University ...

Alumna Rula Ghani, Afghanistan's First Lady

Imagine being a well-behaved young foreign woman far from her family in Paris in May '68. Imagine being any young woman at Sciences Po in the late 1960s, where ...

So it begins

Sciences Po undergraduates have just started their academic year at the Sciences Po Undergraduate College. These students come from many different backgrounds and they each have their own story ...

Sciences Po in the world's top 50 for social sciences

The 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings by subject places Sciences Po in 50th position worldwide for social sciences. Sciences Po ...

“Here everything is geared towards us being creative”

Alexis Ngahane is a first-year student on the Paris campus. He launched his first entrepreneurial venture even before he finished high school and he ...

In search of lost cities

Thomas Chaney, a researcher in Sciences Po’s Department of Economics, specialises in international trade and finance and their underlying networks. His research mixes theoretical ...

“I’m uncomfortable with the notion of a monolithic ‘West’”

Jasdeep Singh Hundal, who comes from Singapore, will be a first-year student at the Reims campus this fall. He is pursuing the Dual BA Programme ...

“Ending poverty depends on public and private sector collaboration”

In a speech to students at the School of Management and Innovation, Jose Luis Oquinena, executive director of NGO Gawad Kalinga, made ...

Headed for an EU career

Licinia Güttel, 19, was born and raised near the small town of Koblenz, Germany. After graduating with honours from Werner Heisenberg Gymnasium Neuwied, she enrolled to study for ...

“The Middle East is a region that Americans tend to misjudge”

Rosalyn Jeffries, 19, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating from San Mateo High School in the United States, she ...

10 measures to advance gender equality at university

In 2010, Sciences Po created PRESAGE, a gender studies and research programme. This trailblazing initiative now forms part of a comprehensive gender ...

What Bachelor’s graduates take away from their studies at Sciences Po

On 6 September, students celebrated their graduation from the Sciences Po Undergraduate College. They all spent two years at one of ...

Happy Birthday Le Havre Campus

On 2 September 2017, current students, alumni, faculty and members of Sciences Po staff came together to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Sciences Po campus in Le Havre ...