- Sciences Po
Sciences Po is a French abbreviation of "sciences politiques", or
political science , which is a division of thesocial sciences . It is also an epithet of the former "Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques", founded inParis in 1872 to train future French civil servants and diplomats. It was often referred to as the "Ecole des Sciences Politiques" or simply "Sciences Po", or officially "Institut d'études politiques de Paris " ("IEP").In 1945, General
Charles de Gaulle transformed the study of political science inFrance by creating a system of schools modelled after the "Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques", which was founded as a private school and trained many of the European political and diplomatic elite. This system of schools evolved into nine public Institutes of Political Studies (French:Institut d'Etudes Politiques or IEP) atAix-en-Provence ,Bordeaux ,Grenoble ,Lille ,Lyon , Paris,Rennes ,Strasbourg andToulouse .The only IEP to retain the epithet "Sciences Po" is the
National Foundation of Political Science (France) (French: "Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques") and the school which it manages, theInstitut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (English: Paris Institute of Political Studies) because they are the direct descendants of theÉcole Libre des Sciences Politiques . The other the institutes are referred to as IEP or Sciences Po immediately followed by the city in which they reside (example: "Sciences Po Lyon", "IEP de Lyon").References
* [http://www.sciences-po.fr/ Sciences Po (IEP Paris and FNSP) Website]
* [http://www.sciences-po.fr/presse/sciencespo_infos/cc/txt_1.htm Legal Use of Sciences Po Paris]
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