Editorial – Le Dragon Déchaîné

L’opium, arme de guerre.

Par Pr. Sophie Rochefort-Guillouet

On connaît mieux les résultats militaires et diplomatiques des guerres de l’Opium, qui opposèrent la Chine à la Grande Bretagne, que les raisons profondes de leur déclenchement.

Ramenez la coupe à la raison – Je ne verrai pas les Bleus jouer leur troisième étoile

Par Arthur Barrier

Deux ouvriers migrants dormant sur les chantiers de construction des stades qataris en périphérie de Doha (Reuters/Stringer)

Quand j’avais 12 ans, j’ai visité Rome. Fasciné par la splendeur des ruines du Colisée, j’avais naïvement demandé à mes parents pourquoi de pareilles merveilles n’étaient plus construites aujourd’hui. Parce que, de nos jours, on n’a malheureusement plus le droit d’exploiter des esclaves pour construire des lieux de divertissement, avait répondu mon père avec sarcasmes.

Sciences Po, the Musical

On this gloomy Sunday, we almost see the door to the last week of semester 1. And one might ask: where’d all the time go? As the song says, it’s starting to fly, hands waving goodbye. It feels like we spent a total of 5 months waiting for time to fly, for hands to wave goodbye, for the delicious relief of a Saturday night where only the estranged faces of customers in a bar seem to whisper, “you have a life outside of Sciences Po”.

An over-analysis of the year rep re-election

Marx says that history repeats itself, first time as tragedy, second time as farce. And here we are, facing our second year rep election in a year. This is an accomplishment recently surpassed only by the Cabinet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

An address from our former Year Rep

Jiayi Qiu, a former student on Le Havre campus, was the Year Rep for the 2021/22 cohort until he left Sciences Po just prior to this academic year. In his absence the position became vacant, until the re-election this week. He is best remembered by his quote: “The GP is here 2 days a week, while i’m sick 6 days a week”