15 December 2022
Signing Ceremony of Peace Agreement in Mali. Crédit photo : United Nations Photo CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr

From Dictatorships to Terrorism, How to End the Violence?

South Africa, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, post-communist Eastern Europe, post-dictatorship Latin America …: since the 1990s, many countries have had to negotiate a transition from violent […]
15 December 2022

On the State and Religions in France

After his reference book on the relationship between religion and politics in the French Revolution(1)Lucien Jaume,  Le religieux et le politique dans la Révolution française. […]
15 December 2022
Cogito 19 - Crédits ScPo

Cogito 19

In this issue, Cogito addresses structural issues: from secularism to the evaluation of public policies, and including economic, educational and gender inequalities, the manipulation of […]
14 December 2022

Are We Saturated With Organisations?

A group of researchers at the Center for the Sociology of Organisations has recently published a book entitled: The society of organisations (Presses de Sciences […]
14 December 2022

Erasures and the Quest for Modernity: The Case of China

The writing and rewriting of history, and its use for political purposes are in the spotlight again. But the disproportionate attention given to violence in […]
14 December 2022

Making Public Policy Evaluation Accessible

What is the purpose of public policy evaluation? How are evaluations produced? How can the issues be shared with a wide audience in order to […]
13 December 2022

Schoolyards: An Answer to Climate Challenges?

Like all large cities, Paris is, and will continue to be, particularly impacted by climate change. It is also a city brimming with potential for […]
13 December 2022
Alexandre Prokhanov

New Russia, New Empire: Prokhanov’s Dream

If there is a Russian intellectual who has theorised the cultural ideology behind Putin’s Russia, it is Alexander Prokhanov. Juliette Faure, a doctoral student at […]
27 November 2022
Laura - Séance de portrait pour la campagne 2018 de l'association "Tombée du Nid", pour la reconnaissance des personnes porteuses de trisomie 21. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Refusing Down’s Syndrome Screening: A Reasoned Choice

How to understand pregnant women who refuse screening for Down’s syndrome(1)It is a genetic disease that can cause physical and mental disabilities, the extent and […]