This book is the first comprehensive methodological and empirical synthesis in the field of strategic studies in France.

Created in order to support Vladimir Putin, the party United Russia has widely dominated the Russian political landscape for more than 15 years. Communist Party of the Soviet Union resurgence or tool for the leaders: what role does it play?

The so-called "Arab Springs"give rise to a number of myths and phantasms, and a lot of texts only consider the surface of movements, with both fascination and exaltation about social networks. But the digital expression of contestation is not sufficient to explain the phenomenon. It is preferable to consider deep reasons moving agents and...

This book is an invitation to 'think the state' through an in-depth sociology of the managerialisation of an elite located at its summit. It captures the tensions between its attraction to the private sector and the imperatives of public service.

Beyond an analysis of participatory democracy as an answer to the crisis of representative democracy, this edited book analyses a diversity of citizens mobilizations and experimentations, while questioning their novelty and exploring their relations with public institutions.

Insidious chemical or radioactive contamination of a living environment, plurality of dimensions and contradictory issues to be respected, difficulty in constructing an integrative and shared territory project... there are many situations in which conventional, technical, economic, administrative and legal solutions prove to be helpless.