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A few years ago, together with Franz Schultheis, of the University of Saint-Gallen and coordinator of the social sciences network ESSE, we chose to study the international circulation of the categories and concepts that are in use in European social sciences. With the publication of the Dictionnaire des concepts nomades ("Dictionary of nomadic concepts"), that includes only a small number of quite lengthy entries, what we tried to propose were not ready-made solutions, or vademecums for the comparative academic, but a series of questions, or rather the means to ask crucial questions for anyone who practises history, political science, history of economic ideas, or comparative sociology. We did so with two considerations in mind: one political, and the other academic, both of which I will evoke in turn in this paper.

2 páginas.-- A Commentary on Giovanni Sartori. ; In his reflections on "Where is Political Science Going?," professor Sartori brightly points out some present flaws in the discipline: too much empiricism and too little applied research. At attacking "American-type" political science, however, I think he chooses a mistaken enemy. I will hold, in contrast, that the main source of the mentioned flaws is the weakness of political theory. ; Peer reviewed

An attempt to explain a diagnostic test that identifies the presence of chaotic dynamics in an empirical time series. Finding of chaotic dynamics in a social context has two important implications: it implies that there exists an underlying causality to the process, & it suggests that the process can be modeled with relatively simple, although nonlinear, models. 2 Tables, 10 Figures, 1 Appendix, 40 References.