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#iranelection#gr88 #neda Please RT: just what has Twitter done in Iran?
Article , Friday 5 February 2010
When Iran took to the streets to contest the official results of the June 2009 presidential election, the world’s press give wide coverage to the global support movement that emerged on the internet,... Read more

In the eyes of the world: mobiles, Iran and video
Article , Thursday 4 February 2010
In the eyes of the world: mobiles, Iran and video Six months after the Iranian elections and the subsequent protests, Laurence Allard and Olivier Blondeau take a fresh look at the use of mobiles and... Read more

E-Democracy vs. Open Democracy
Article , Monday 14 December 2009
E-Democracy vs. Open Democracy The cathedral and the bazaar…1 redux (Part I) By Laurence Allard and Olivier Blondeau2 In a contribution to a collection of essays put together by Pascal Perrineau,... Read more

nosdeputes.fr: “Mr Hacker goes to Parliament”
Article , Tuesday 20 October 2009
The resumption of the French parliamentary session on 16 September this year coincided with the appearance of a new website, nosdeputes.fr (“ourdeputies”), which aims to “highlight the parliamentary... Read more

Iran or proxy warfare: towards a public culture of IT security?
Article , Friday 14 August 2009
Forsaking the sterile arguments that dominated the French and foreign media during the so-called “Twitter revolution” in Iran in June – the actual protests having taken place in the streets of Teheran... Read more

Moving in for the kill
Tribune released in Times Higher Education by Zoe McKenzie, Thursday 4 December 2008
One of the larger-than-life billboards to be seen recently on the Paris Metro features a battered London bobby under a giant sign reading "Arretez de massacrer l'anglais!" (Stop massacring (the) English!).... Read more

A table for continental tastes
Tribune released in Times Higher Education by Zoe McKenzie, Thursday 30 October 2008
 A common attitude to league tables of international universities was summed up by Valerie Pecresse, France's Higher Education Minister, when she stammered in fury last February that the problem... Read more

Grandes ecoles a class apart?
Tribune released in Times Higher Education by Zoe McKenzie, Thursday 25 September 2008
What to do when your higher education system receives poor ratings in the two international league tables of note, the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings and that of Shanghai Jiao Tong?... Read more

The Gallic exception: it is time for a giraffe of a system to evolve
Tribune released in Times Higher Education by Zoe McKenzie, Thursday 21 August 2008
Developed along idiosyncratic lines since the age of Napoleon, France's universities must embrace globalisation, Zoe McKenzie says. Read more

Will Iran Finally Blink?
Tribune released in Iran Va Jahan by Mehrdad Khonsari, Friday 18 July 2008
In a bid to end its 5 year nuclear standoff with the international community, Iran’s so-called “constructive and creative” response on July 4 has come on the back of hints and rumors suggesting that it... Read more

Arabia awaits us
Chronicle released in French in L'Expansion by Franck Debié, Saturday 1 September 2007
Why should anyone feel sorry for the countries of the Arabian Peninsula? The rocketing oil prices are of tremendous benefit to them. Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait watched their balance... Read more

Discours de Franck Debié à l'occasion de la Convention générale de la Fondation
Speech by Franck Debié, Thursday 21 June 2007
Le 20 juin 2007 se tenait la Convention générale de la Fondation pour l'innovation politique. Moment privilégié d'information, d'échange et de dialogue, cet événement annuel réunit les conseillers, les... Read more

Are EU-China relations back on track?
Tribune released in European Voice , Thursday 21 September 2006
EU and Chinese leaders met in Helsinki on 9 September, against a backdrop of growing tensions on trade issues. Only a few days after the summit, the EU requested the establishment of a World Trade Organization... Read more

Reasonable Accommodation and Recognition as an Integration Policy Tool
Policy Brief by Jocelyn Maclure, Thursday 11 May 2006
In their final report, the members of the French Stasi Commission keep referring and favorably so, to the standard of “ reasonable accommodation” pertaining to the cultural and religious diversity developed... Read more

From Crime Prevention to Integration. Community Policing the American Style
Policy Brief by Annie Russell, Thursday 4 May 2006
Crime prevention in most American cities, has been for quite a few years, based on the philosophy and practice of community policing. This policy has proved to be quite effective in lowering crime-rate... Read more

Immigration: How Advanced is the Debate?
Policy Brief by Anna Stellinger, Friday 14 April 2006
It is in the United States, in Germany, in the United Kingdom and in Denmark that the think tanks are especially active in the debate on immigration. The common point between all the proposals is to welcome... Read more

Towards a common european development policy
Policy Brief by Jean-Michel Debrat, Wednesday 29 March 2006
Development issues are a chief concern to Europe. Yet, these issues do not have a political weight in line with the financial support that they benefit from. Moreover, current European policies have not... Read more

The European Union: Which Issues Shall We Move forward with Today?
Newsletter by Stuart Bell, Franck Debié, Elvire Fabry, Bronislaw Geremek, Wednesday 1 March 2006
Europe cannot afford to have a break, as euroscepticism is gaining ground in public opinion and among governmental circles. Within such a context of accelerated globalization, the specificity of the European... Read more

Which taxation policy for the UE?
Policy Brief , Tuesday 28 February 2006
The European Member States just agreed upon the reduced tax rates of VAT to be applied within the EU: any restoration work done on buildings will be taxed at 5.5% until 2010, and Poland could apply this... Read more

What should the european budget be?
Policy Brief , Tuesday 7 February 2006
European citizens expect the Union to boost up their economic system. But, in spite of the single market and the euro, the per head European income has, over the last thirty years, only represented 70%... Read more

Relaunching the European Union: a Civic Approach
Policy Brief by Elvire Fabry, Wednesday 25 January 2006
The protest vote of May 29, 2005, showed that the civic and political deficiency of the European Union can no longer remain a haunting leitmotiv, which you just have to expose in the course of any European... Read more