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Sébastien Soriano

The Future of Public Service

A decisive contribution to thinking about the sovereignty of society in the face of the era of networks and the digital world.

Philippe Ratte

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing The Other Great President

An original biography that convincingly and in a remarkably well-informed way develops arguments that support its position.

Jean-Philippe Feldman

The French Exception From the Ancien Régime to Emmanuel Macron, the story of a blocked society

Abundant historical documentation used to address a current issue and a very heated polemical debate.

Renaud Lassus

The Renaissance of America foreword to Pascal Lamy

An essential contribution for an understanding of what is at stake in the 2020 presidential election.

André Grimaldi, Frédéric Pierru

Your Health in the Future

How can we maintain the quality of care in hospitals? Is our health system equipped to respond to the challenges of the aging of the population and of chronic illnesses?

Philippe Bas

The Paths of the Republic

In a bogged down Europe, the Republic no longer finds the extra power it needs to solve the problems of the French. Yet, against the destructive forces at work, the need for a Republic continues to grow.

Alain Bauer, Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon

The Protectors An Inside History of the French Gendarmerie

Following Les Guetteurs [the Lookouts], the first history of French Intelligence as told by its heads, here is Les Protecteurs, the inside history of the National Gendarmerie.

Emmanuel Terray

The Trial of the Revolution

In the first part, the author begins by letting the prosecution talk about the French Revolution. In the second part, Emmanuel Terray asks: where are we today, after two other revolutions, in Russia and in China?

Stéphane Gompertz

A Diplomat Drinks and Eats for His Country

Stéphane Gompertz’s book is neither an autobiography, nor a university course. Based on the author’s experience, it is the defense and portrait of an often caricatured profession.

Philippe Kourilsky

Science and Democracy

An analysis of democracy to understand the current crisis in our political system

Atticus

Governing is an Ambition For Which One Must Have Talent

What is power? This wonderfully written book, powerfully argued, enhanced with contemporary examples, attempts to respond to that crucial question.

François Saint-Pierre

The Law against the demons of politics

If in the future even a government resulting from regular elections decided to implement an unworthy policy, contrary to the fundamental rights of people, could the justice system oppose it and defend the essential, the rule of law?

Jean-Claude Hazera

How Democracies Die Democracies now know they are mortal

How can one explain the fact that the greatest and the oldest democracies were able, in just a few weeks, sometimes in just a few days, to collapse?

Jean-François Sirinelli

Life and Survival of the Fifth Republic An Essay on Political Physiology

A work of reflection on institutions, their strengths, and their weaknesses, and the reason for their endurance.

Maurice Vaïsse

French Diplomacy Tools and Participants Since 1980

A complete and documented view of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of French diplomatic policy. A diplomatic history of the Fifth Republic, from the 1970s to the present.

Alain Bauer, Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon

The Bloodhounds: A Story of the French Intelligence Services in Their Own Words

Interviews with the great leaders in French Intelligence. These interviews break with a culture of secrecy; what the leaders say in no way glosses the difficulties, or the missteps, of the Services, or the manipulations that occur for reasons of high-level – or low-level – politics.