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Citizens’ Responses to Covid-19: A Worldwide Comparison

Tracking and analysing populations’ reactions to this unprecedented global pandemic is essential. But in order to understand their underlying foundations ...

"This crisis affects all of our topics of research": Three Questions for Guillaume Plantin, Vice President for Research

How do states govern during a pandemic? Is democracy at risk? How can we remain a ...

Government crisis communications during the pandemic

The scale of the Covid-19 crisis demands new, globally coordinated governmental responses. Philipp Brandt and Jan Wörlein, researchers at the Sciences ...

MOOC: 'Searching for the Grand Paris'

Update 17 April 2020: Population density, the inequality of circumstances in quarantine, the exodus of Parisians to the countryside, hospital coordination and the postponing ...

Fake News in the Digital Public Space

Article by Dominique Cardon, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou, Guillaume Plique of the Sciences Po médialab and Bruno Patino, Jean-François Fogel of the ...

COVID-19: How the crisis affects society

Ettore Recchi, University Professor and Research Director at the Sociological Observatory of Change (OSC), is coordinating a new research project that brings together ...

A MOOC for starting up a business in the cultural industry

Update 17 April 2020: Ideas aren’t in confinement! While millions of people all over the world are having to stay at home, the cultural sector ...

COVID-19: What Can We Expect From the G20 and the EU?

Article by Sébastien Treyer, Executive Director of IDDRI, and Nicolas Berghmans, Research Fellow on Energy and Climate Policies. 

COVID-19: The Situation in India

In this interview, Christophe Jaffrelot, senior researcher of the CERI Sciences Po and the CNRS, analyses the situation in India in the context of the COVID-19 health crisis ...

CO2 or GDP: The choice is ours

Precise, passionate, and deliberately iconoclastic, the climate specialist and engineer Jean-Marc Jancovici delivered the 2019 inaugural lecture to second-year undergraduate ...

“To Kill The Coronavirus, We Have to Kill the Economy”

“To kill the virus, we have to kill the economy, because the economy is about social interactions, which is exactly what we don’t want.” Sciences Po ...

The Urgency of the Crisis and a Time to Reflect Together

Article by Sébastien Treyer, Executive Director of the IDDRI Think Tank (Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations).

Virus, Memes and Protocol in the Competition for Propagation

Article by Dominique Boullier, Professor of Sociology and Director of Research at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) ...

A MOOC on International Migrations

Update 8 April 2020: Ideas aren’t in confinement! While the Covid-19 crisis is upturning our vision of the world and asking us to question notions of cooperation, mobility ...

“It’s no longer a question of ecology, but of civilisation”

"One of a kind and indispensable": these are the terms FNSP President Olivier Duhamel used to welcome Bruno Latour to the podium of the Boutmy ...

Fact-Checking: Between Belief and Knowledge

Article by Emeric Henry, Associate Professor in Sciences Po’s Department of Economics. “Fake news” has become the great animator of recent elections, from the ...

Bertrand Badie’s “Espace Mondial”: A MOOC for a Global View

Updated 1 April 2020: Ideas aren’t under lockdown! All our MOOCS are available on Coursera, including Bertrand Badie’s indispensable and popular ...

Hackathoning Against the Global Pandemic

Simonas Žilinskas is a second-year student from our Dijon campus. As the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, Simonas returned to his native Lithuania and began to look for ...

MOOC: Cities are back in town

Update March 2020: Ideas are not in confinement! All of our MOOCs are available on Coursera, and it is once again possible to take the course "Cities are Back in Town" by Patrick ...

Roland Marchal released from Iran after 9 months of wrongful imprisonment

Roland Marchal, CNRS researcher at the Sciences Po Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI) who had been imprisoned ...

The Future of Luxury with Astrid Wendlandt

On 12 March 2020, author and journalist Astrid Wendlandt came to Sciences Po to give a masterclass on the evolution of the luxury industry over the past forty ...

When the truth is inconvenient, or "motivated" reading of information

Jeanne Hagenbach is a CNRS researcher at the Sciences Po Department of Economics. Her work, which is in the field of microeconomics ...

Covid-19: Letter to our Communities

Frédéric Mion, Director of Sciences Po, and Olivier Duhamel, President of the FNSP, address our communities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in this communication ...

"The Dark Matter of Democracy"

In his latest work, La matière noire de la démocratie, Luc Rouban, a researcher at the Centre for Political Research (CEVIPOF), puts forward the argument that the Gilets Jaunes ...