21 September 2023

Green Consumerism: Between Ambition and Action

Calls for eco-citizenship and commitment to the energy transition are everywhere. The idea seems obvious: by transforming our individual consumption practices, our modes of transport […]
21 September 2023
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European Cities: Governing the Transition to Sustainable and Decarbonised Mobility

by Charlotte Halpern  The European Union (EU) has committed to carbon neutrality by 2050, requiring a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation […]
21 September 2023
Volodymyr Zelensky au Parlement européen CC-BY-4.0: © European Union

Enlargement of the European Union: Stop or Else?

The influence of Eurosceptics in the European Parliament The invasion of Ukraine has once again brought the issue of European Union enlargement to the fore. […]
21 September 2023
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Is State Reorganisation Perpetual?

by Philippe Bezes How often and how intensively are administrative structures inside central governments created, split up, merged and reformed by hierarchically shifting them, changing […]
21 July 2023

Child Support: Why Isn’t it More Common and Significant in France?

by Émilie Biland-Curinier Child Support, a Major Root of Gender Inequality After Parental Separation Marital separations increase economic inequality between women and men. This observation […]
30 May 2023

Should We Believe in Economic Impact Assessments?

How can we ensure, as rigorously as possible, that a public policy has the desired economic effects? Clément de Chaisemartin, a researcher in the Department of […]
17 April 2023
«Faites la paix, pas la guerre» par Banksy

Useful Knowledge About Wars and Peace

By Sergueï Guriev In his 1939 famous essay ‘The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge’, Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in […]
16 April 2023
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Why War?’ – A Philosophical Question?

By Frédéric Gros ‘But why war?’ The question seems naive and childish. It is fundamental, but made obsolete by the glaring absence of a definitive […]
16 April 2023
Mappa Generalis Totius Imperii Russici. Author: Joseph Nicolas de L'Isle,,1745 . Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Imperialism Revealed in the War. Russia Exposed

 By Sabine Dullin The war in Ukraine has revealed the breadth and depth of Russian imperialism and colonialism. However, many analyses of the war still […]