Come and meet the Europe-Asia programme of the Havre campus at the Open Day of Sciences Po College, in Paris. March 13th, from 14.00 to 17.30, 27, rue Saint Guillaume et au 28, rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris You will be able to meet students, the board and dean of studies, and attend information sessions

Sciences-Po Europe Asia Conference, also known as SPEAC, was a student initiative back in 2008, when some of the first promotion of students of the Le Havre campus decided to organise a conference for high school students from all over the world, in which esteemed speakers would be invited to interact with the latter and discuss a range of current issues. This has proven to be a great success, and the project has thus been continued. This year, the SPEAC organising committee is proud to bring to you SPEAC 2010, which will be held from 26th April to 1st May. Preparations have been under way for a few months now; we are in the midst of selecting students from the best high schools in many countries, and we are also contacting various speakers who are extremely esteemed in their field of study. Our website, http://speac2010.sciences-po-europe-asia.com/, is up, and shall be updated very shortly with the progress that we are making. Besides the conferences, there will also be workshops in which participants will get to put into practice what they have learnt in the conferences through a series of discussions and debates. Moreover, many social events have already been planned for the conference, the highlight of which will be an unforgettable gala dinner. We cordially invite you to take part in SPEAC 2010, and have a fun and intellectually stimulating week with us!

Thursday February 18th, 15h30, Salle Afrique. Professor Matsumoto, Waseda University: "Tocqueville's Theory of War and the Army and Its Applicability to the Contemporary World" In this presentation, Professor Matsumoto will first show the basic points of Tocqueville’s argument about war and the army in the age of democracy, which he developed in the last several chapters of the 3rd part of the Second Democracy (1840), and, then, will expand its theoretical applicability to the non-Western world, including Japan and East Asian countries.

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