Dorota Dakowska - Interview in Le Monde: "To join the EU, Kiev has reformed a lot but still has work to do".

The European Council has announced that it has granted Ukraine candidate status for membership of the European Union. In order to join the EU, Kiev has undertaken numerous reforms. But, as political science professor Dorota Dakowska points out, there is still a long way to go. https://www.lemonde.fr/international/video/2022/06/24/pour-integrer-l-ue-kiev-a-beaucoup-reforme-mais-a-encore-du-travail_6131885_3210.html

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Jessy BAILLY's thesis defense

A big well done to Jessy Bailly, a doctoral student at Mesopolhis and a graduate of Sciences Po Aix, who defended his thesis "Les citoyens-contrôleurs de la dette publique (France, Spain, Belgium, années 2010)" on 13 June. The jury nominated this research work for a thesis prize.

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Pierre-Olivier Weiss, Romane Blassel, Camille Gillet, Fabrice Dhume & Tana Bao (2022). Studying discrimination in higher education in France: what are the issues? The Conversation. 

The field of higher education and research (ESR) in France is now beginning to be well analysed from the perspective of social inequalities and their evolution in general. It is much less so from the point of view of discrimination, an issue that is the subject of ambiguous institutional recognition and a scientific assessment that is still in its infancy. Political recognition, knowledge...

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Benoit Pouget
La Syphilis, Itinéraires croisés en Méditerranée et au-delà, XVIe-XXIe siècles.

Collective work co-edited with Yann Ardagna (ADES) published by Presses Universitaires d'AMU. Author(s): Yann Ardagna, Benoît Pouget, dir.Publication date: 2021 quarter 2Abstract: Perhaps more than any other contagious disease, syphilis embodies the tensions of a world that was becoming globalised between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. If we follow Alain Corbin's description of "the...

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Benoit Pouget
Wars, armies and epidemics (18th-19th centuries)

December 2021 issue of the RHA co-edited with Oxford colleague Prof. Erica Charters Contents Editorial Professor Walter Bruyère-Ostells p.1-2 DOSSIER Scientific introduction Erica Charters, Benoît Pouget p.3-6 Preventing and containing epidemics on board French warships in the 18th century, Guillaume Linte p.7-17 Mosquitoes, fleas and iron:...

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Dorota Dakowska - Interview in Le Parisien: "Attacking Poland would be tantamount to attacking NATO": after Ukraine, Warsaw in Russia's sights?

Speech by Dorota Dakowska "A major provocation, unlikely to materialise". In Le Parisien, Dorota Dakowska, Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Aix, looks back at the threats made by Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov against Poland. https://www.leparisien.fr/international/sattaquer-a-la-pologne-reviendrait-a-sattaquer-a-lotan-apres-lukraine-varsovie-dans-le-viseur-28-05-2022-6QRKZLBB7RAI7GUBUZCAJZEDTY.php

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Sophie Daviaud, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Sciences Po Aix, gives her analysis of the rise in the polls of former guerrilla leader Gustavo Petro, in Les Echos.

https://www.lesechos.fr/monde/ameriques/un-candidat-de-gauche-favori-de-la-presidentielle-colombienne-1409894

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