Conversations with Sergei Guriev

What encourages voters to support populist right parties? What has made Marine Le Pen’s discourse so powerful, especially with regards to its female vote share? What policies do radical right parties generally look for at the European Union level? Could support for the radical left and the radical right overlap? In this episode, Nonna Mayer, a specialist in radical ideologies and populism, answers these and many other questions regarding the rise of right-wing populism in France and Europe at large.

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Recorded on 15th September 2023

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Social networks pose very complex challenges to governments. Those who want to sell news have become very good at creating clickbait on negative news, knowing that we are naturally more sensitive to this kind of news. Social media discourse also contributes to exaggerating minority positions. Even scientific knowledge, which is one of the factors informing good government policy, can be challenged that way, as we have seen during the pandemic. Even more worrying, social media has a feedback effect on traditional media and mainstream politicians are tempted to join in the populist drive. What can be done to counter this trend?

Answers by Emilina Grossman">Emiliano Grossman, a researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. His research focuses on political  life  institutions in Europe and more specifically in France. 

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Emiliano Grossman, Media and Policy Making in the Digital Age">Media and Policy Making in the Digital Age, Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 25, pp. 443-46

Recorded on 14th September 2023.

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In this conversation, Alexander Etkind sets out the reasons why environmental challenges are largely ignored in Russia, by public authorities and more generally by society.

Alexander Etkind, Professor of international relations at the Central European University. He has now launched a major project : “Politics of Anthropocene Interdisciplinary Hub”, jointly conducted by CEU and Sciences Po. 

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Recorded on 14 June 2023

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The vulnerability of agriculture and energy production to water scarcity is not so new. Historically, this issue has been mainly addressed through the regulation of water sharing. A major problem today is that the water scarcity is worsening and that past solutions are not sufficient to resolve the problem. What are the new parameters to take into account? What public policies should be put in place? How can we adapt to the new hydrological conditions which promise to last for a long time?

This is what Giacomo Parrinello, an environmental historian, devotes a large part of his research to. In this episode Giacomo Parrinello shares with us the results of his research.

An assistant professor and researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre for History, Giacomo Parrinello is also a member of the European Society for Environmental History. For a long time, he has in particular investigated the history of the Mediterranean coast.

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Recorded on 9 June 2023

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The mobilisation of children for climate policies started in 2018, with Greta Thunberg benefiting from strong media coverage and social media. 

After her speech at the UN Climate Action Summit, it became a concern at the level of international organisations. If children's rights were already a concern of UNICEF, the approach radically changed since international organizations had to consider young people as actors and no longer as simple victims. How did this process take place? What are its real consequences? This is what Anaelle reveals to us.

Anaëlle Vergonjeanne, is a young researcher at the Sciences Po’s Centre for International Studies. She has dedicated her doctoral thesis ‘How dare you?’ : The United Nations and children's climate commitment » (in French).

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Recorded on 10 May 2023

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It’s a well-known fact that rich countries pollute more than poor countries. What is less taken in account is that it is within countries and especially inside emerging countries that inequalities in terms of pollution are increasingly significant. The middle classes, in India, China or Latin America, are beginning to pollute just as much as the western middle classes. What policies should be put in place to reverse the trend?

Answers by Lucas Chancel">Lucas Chancel, Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po's Center for Research on Social Inequalities  and affilited to the Department of Economics. Lucas Chancel is also Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab"> World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics and Senior advisor at the European Tax Observatory.  

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Recorded on 30th May, 2023

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Decay, frugality, green growth; so many concepts that invite us to rethink our growth appeal as it dominated the 20th century. Where does our conception of limitless economic growth come from? What would have been the opinion of the economists of the 18th and 19th centuries who have laid down the first ideas of what growth should be? What did they think about the relationship between growth and nature? Did they really not see that natural resources are not unlimited?

Answers by Thomas Kayzel">Thomas Kayzel, who joined the Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) as  a post-doc  of the Bruno Latour Fund.

Recorded on 5 May 2023

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What do social movements have to say about climate change? What is their role in local and global governance of climate change? How do climate activists coordinate alternative futures in a postapocalyptic present? Some people say individual changes are needed, while others think it should come from systemic change. How does the climate movement reconcile both? 

Answers by Joost de Moor, a researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, who has been working on these issues for years.

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Recorded on 20 April 2023 

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Small island states - that have 65 million inhabitants  - are all strongly impacted by climate change. What can they do, given their limitations in terms of financial and human resources ? Carola Klöck, who has been working on this subject for years, explains to us  their adaptation policies, their influence in international negotiations…

Carola Kloeck  is an Associate Professor at the Sciences Po’s Centre of International Studies (CERI).  Carola’s research is located at the  interface of political science, human geography and development studies, and examines adaptation to climate change, and the politics of climate

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Recorded on 26 March 2023

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Welcome to the first episode of the environmental transformation series of the Sciences Po’s podcast “Conversations with Sergei Guriev”. In this series, Sergei Guriev talks with our best researchers to understand the fundamental issues of environmental transition. Let’s start with the decisive role of cities in building a sober world.

Cities are the main sources of pollution, but they also are the major actors for struggling against it. What are the challenges ? How to meet them ? Can cities be sober and low-carbon?  Whereas cities are so different from each other, how can we devise common solutions? How to combine solutions to be implemented immediately and a long-term strategy?

Answers by Charlotte Halpern, a researcher at  Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, who has been working on these issues for years. 

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European project CIVITAS SUMP-PLUS">European project CIVITAS SUMP-PLUS website

Building Governance Capacity To Achieve Sustainable Urban Mobility Transitions">Building Governance Capacity To Achieve Sustainable Urban Mobility Transitions, a Policy Brief by Charlotte Halpern, Dan Broghan, Anna Emilie Wehrle)Enabling Governance to Support Sustainable Mobility Planning">Enabling Governance to Support Sustainable Mobility Planning, a presentation by Charlotte Halpern 

Recorded on 17th March 2023

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