Established in 1945, the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FNSP) has ever since played a prominent role as one of the leading research institutions in France in the field of social sciences.

In quantitative terms, the research activities at the FNSP represent : 8 research centres, five of which are operated within the CNRS national research framework and a research staff of about 250 persons, including permanent researchers, part-time scholars and junior fellows, most of which are also members of the faculty at the FNSP's teaching component, the Institute d'Etudes Politiques (I.E.P.) de Paris, further, a doctoral school offering 7 graduate programmes in political science, history, economics and sociology. The average number of enrolled Ph.d students is about 500 per year.

The common aims of the FNSP research centers are to analyse and explain political, economic and social life in the contemporary world, using a comparative approach. In particular, research at the FNSP focuses on two main sets of issues : the causes, actors, processes and effects of globalisation on economics, politics and culture and social behaviour, and crises and new forms of social linkages emerging in the developed countries, particularly in Europe.

Sciences-Po

Institut d'Etudes Politiques, 27 rue Saint Guillaume, 75007 Paris, France.

Tel : +33-1- 43 72 96 01, Fax : +33-1- 42 22 31 26

Web : www.sciences-po.fr

Chair : Prof. Dr. René Remond

ELISE Contact person : Dr. Didier Bigo (Project leader)

Senior Researcher : Jean Paul Hanon

The responsible for elise website is Dr Jean Pierre Masse