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Christophe Jaffrelot
Senior researcher, CNRSPhone: +33158717034 - christophe.jaffrelot@sciencespo.fr
Christophe Jaffrelot is a CERI-CNRS Senior Research Fellow who teaches at Sciences Po in three different schools. He has served as director of CERI in 2000-2008.
He holds degrees from Sciences Po (1985), Sorbonne University (1986), EHESS (1986) and INALCO (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations - 1990) and a Ph.D. in political science from Sciences Po (1991).
He joined CNRS in 1991, was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 1993 and became a CNRS senior research fellow in 2002. He has been president of the Political Science section of the French National Committee for Scientific Research (CNRS) from 2012 to 2016.
He is the senior editor of a CERI-Sciences Po book series, Comparative Politics and International Studies, published by Hurst (London) and Oxford University Press (New York). He has been the editor-in-chief of Critique internationale (1998-2003) and then his director (2003-2008).
He belongs to the editorial board of several journals (incl. India Review, Asian Survey, Nations and Nationalism and International Political Sociology).
He chairs the scientific council of the French Institute (UMIFRE - MAE/CNRS) in Asia. He is a permanent consultant with the Policy Planning Staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a Nonresident Scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington DC).
He has been visiting Professor at Columbia University, Princeton University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University and Montreal University. He has been Global Scholar at Princeton University (2012 - 2015) and teaches at the King's India Institute (London) since 2012.
He is a member of the scientific councils of the Südasien Institut of Heidelberg University, of the Center for the Study of Multilevel Federalism (New Delhi) and of the South Asia Center of Göttingen University.
He’s a member of the Academic Council of Ashoka University, where he serves as chairman of the Trivedi Center for political Data.
His current research deals with the sociology of the Indian political personnel (including the Members of Parliament and the Members of the Legislative Assemblies), the Dargahs of Ajmer, the India-Pakistan relations, the political history of Gujarat (from the point of view of the relations between politicians and businessmen in particular) and populist politics with special reference to the “Modi phenomenon”.
He holds degrees from Sciences Po (1985), Sorbonne University (1986), EHESS (1986) and INALCO (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations - 1990) and a Ph.D. in political science from Sciences Po (1991).
He joined CNRS in 1991, was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 1993 and became a CNRS senior research fellow in 2002. He has been president of the Political Science section of the French National Committee for Scientific Research (CNRS) from 2012 to 2016.
He is the senior editor of a CERI-Sciences Po book series, Comparative Politics and International Studies, published by Hurst (London) and Oxford University Press (New York). He has been the editor-in-chief of Critique internationale (1998-2003) and then his director (2003-2008).
He belongs to the editorial board of several journals (incl. India Review, Asian Survey, Nations and Nationalism and International Political Sociology).
He chairs the scientific council of the French Institute (UMIFRE - MAE/CNRS) in Asia. He is a permanent consultant with the Policy Planning Staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a Nonresident Scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington DC).
He has been visiting Professor at Columbia University, Princeton University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University and Montreal University. He has been Global Scholar at Princeton University (2012 - 2015) and teaches at the King's India Institute (London) since 2012.
He is a member of the scientific councils of the Südasien Institut of Heidelberg University, of the Center for the Study of Multilevel Federalism (New Delhi) and of the South Asia Center of Göttingen University.
He’s a member of the Academic Council of Ashoka University, where he serves as chairman of the Trivedi Center for political Data.
His current research deals with the sociology of the Indian political personnel (including the Members of Parliament and the Members of the Legislative Assemblies), the Dargahs of Ajmer, the India-Pakistan relations, the political history of Gujarat (from the point of view of the relations between politicians and businessmen in particular) and populist politics with special reference to the “Modi phenomenon”.
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Theories of nationalism and democracy, Mobilization of the lower castes and untouchables in India, Hindu nationalist movement, Ethnic conflicts in Pakistan, Mobilization of the lower castes and untouchables in India, Hindu nationalist movement, Ethnic conflicts in Pakistan
Research Interests
Theories of nationalism and democracy, Mobilization of the lower castes and untouchables in India, Hindu nationalist movement, Ethnic conflicts in Pakistan,
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Last Publications
- The Political Economy of the Jat Agitation for Other Backward Class Status (Article dans une revue sans comité de lecture)
- Introduction - Business and Politics in India (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Conclusion - Business and Politics in India (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Business-friendly Gujarat in 2000s: The Implications of a New Political Economy (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
- Business and Politics in India (Direction d'ouvrage)
- Business and Politics in India (Direction d'ouvrage)
- Inde : le médiocre bilan de Narendra Modi (Articles de presse)
- Portrait of Narendra Modi - Prime Minister of India (Contribution à un site web)
- Le nouveau champion des militaires pakistanais (Articles de presse)
- Indian Secularism and Its Challenges (Chapitre d’ouvrage)
Online Publications (CERI website)
- La fin d’un “ parti-Etat ” ? Le Congrès et la démocratie indienne
- Inde : l'Etat de droit en procès
- L’Inde, le G20 et la gouvernance mondiale
- Le Sangh Parivar et la diaspora hindoue en Occident : Royaume-Uni, États-Unis et Canada
- For a theory of nationalism
- L'Etat face au défi maoïste en Inde
- La relation Pakistan – Etats-Unis : un patron et son client au bord de la rupture ?
- Secularization without Secularism in Pakistan
- Les élections indiennes : une surprise lourde de sens, mais pas un séisme
- Nationalisme hindou : le retour des radicaux
- Les violences entre hindous et musulmans au Gujarat (Inde) en 2002 : émeutes d'Etat, pogromes et réaction anti-jihadiste
- Prolifération nucléaire : les Etats-Unis face à la filière pakistano-nord coréenne
- La situation au Pakistan après le 11 septembre
- Inde : un émergent en quête d’un second souffle Du bureau du monde à l’atelier du monde ?
- Les BRICS : chronique d’une mort annoncée… mais sans cesse reportée