Philippe Kourilsky

The Right Usage of the Precautionary Principle

The precautionary principle is a term so frequently repeated in most spheres of public life that it has become something of a mantra. And yet it remains controversial and has been given many different, and often contradictory, interpretations by its supporters and opponents. For these reasons, the author argues that it is essential to clarify the way the term is used, and this forms the basis of this work. Philippe Kourilsky is the head of the Institut Pasteur and a member of the French Academy of Science.

Bernard Kouchner

The Suffering of Others

Bernard Kouchner, Patrick Aeberhard, Jean-Pierre Daulouède, Bertrand Lebeau Leibovici, William Lowenstein

Toxicos Drug addiction: Thirty Years that Changed Everything – But Tomorrow?]

Against the institutional inertia and the comfort of habits of thought, the invigorating and instructive account by five uncommon brothers in arms, driven by the same will to care for those who in the past were despised.

Henri Korn

Promised Lands

From a childhood under the Nazi occupation to great scientific discoveries: a life of passionate curiosity in which nothing is predetermined

Ismaïl Kadaré, Stéphane Courtois, Shaban Sinani

The File on Kadaré

Philippe Jurgensen

The Error of the West In the face of globalization

Philippe Jurgensen shows how the growing economic gap between North and South is responsible for four major threats that, in the short or long term, will endanger the small group of rich nations that possess three-quarters of the world’s wealth. These four threats — demographics, health, the environment, strategy — are each analysed in turn in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. Jurgensen shows that the current selfish attitude of the West is not only reprehensible but, above all, dangerous and therefore politically untenable. Philippe Jurgensen is a senior official of the French Treasury.

Jean-Noël Jeanneney

When a Fallacy Becomes Reality National Stereotypes in Europe

Jean-Marcel Jeanneney

Out of a Job

For the past twenty years France has been slipping into unemployment. This evil, which is becoming more and more serious, is leading our country into decline, and is threatening our democracy. After having described the difficulties resulting from the new world environment, the author discards the false solutions, such as intensified inflation, devaluation or protectionism. He then outlines the daring, but realistic policies he sees as necessary not only in France, but also for a more dynamic European Union. An economist, Jean-Marcel Jeanneney was a minister for seven years under the presidency of General de Gaulle. In 1980, he created the French Economic Research Institute, which he ran until 1990.