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Laurence Lowe

Laurence Lowe

Unstable Elements

Foreign Affairs
24 April 2006

Around the end of March, hoping to provoke a debate, I asked my first-year students at Sciences-Po, some of whom had been protesting against the CPE, “Who are the casseurs?” The question gave way to silence and a smattering of uncomfortable giggles. I found myself trying to pry answers out of students who normally fall all over each other to speak. More…