sarah.tanke

Sarah Tanke has completed her PhD at Sciences Po’s Center for International Studies (CERI) in political science / international relations. Under the supervision of Guillaume Devin, she wrote her thesis on Japan’s multilateral diplomacy at the United Nations. Currently, Sarah is an OxPo postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and its Department of Politics and International Relations, an associate member of Nuffield College and affiliated with the Maison Française d’Oxford. She is also an active member of the French research group on multilateral action (GRAM), a member of its executive committee and co-responsible of the research domain on “multilateral diplomacy and international organizations” within the GRAM observatory on multilateralism.

During her doctoral research, Sarah has been ATER lecturer at Sciences Po Toulouse and conducted research stays at the University of Cambridge (Department of Politics and International Studies / Newnham College), the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo and at Columbia University. She has also been the PhD student representative at CERI for three years, co-founder of the DocSem PhD seminar at CERI and co-organizing the GRAM research seminar on multilateral action.

Prior to her PhD, Sarah has been working at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York and obtained an M.A. in Political science / international relations (Sciences Po) and an M.A. in Japanese studies (University of Hamburg).

  • Teaching

    She has been teaching international relations, sociology of international relations, introduction to political sociology, international governance, geopolitics, diplomacy, international relations and foreign policy of Japan, Japanese history, geopolitics in Asia and academic methods. These classes have been taught at Sciences Po Paris, Reims, Le Havre, Saint Germain en Laye, Grenoble and Toulouse, at the universities of Cergy and Rennes 1 as well as at UCO Nantes.

  • Languages

    French, English, German, Japanese

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Main Publications

Ouvrage/Book

2017. Une diplomatie du respect : Le Japon et le multilatéralisme. Trois cas d’étude : l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, le PNUD et l’AIEA depuis les années 2000. Paris : L’Harmattan, Collection Questions contemporaines, 247 p.


Article dans une revue à comité de lecture/Peer-reviewed article

2022. "Japan’s narrative on human security: International norms, diplomatic identity and recognition", Japan Forum, vol. 34, no. 4, p. 419-442.


Articles dans des ouvrages collectifs/Book chapters

2023. "La diplomatie au prisme des Trois ivrognes de Nakae Chōmin". Allès, Delphine ; Le Gouriellec, Sonia et Levaillant, Mélissa (ed.) : Paix et sécurité : Une anthologie décentrée. Paris : CNRS Editions, p. 61-72.

2020. With Morgan Larhant : "L’Assemblée au travail". Devin, Guillaume ; Petiteville, Franck and Tordjman, Simon (ed.) : L’Assemblée générale des Nations unies : Une institution politique mondiale. Paris : Presses de Sciences Po, Collection Relations internationales, p. 65-81.

2019. "Le Japon et l'ONU : présence, action, influence". Delamotte, Guibourg (ed.) Le Japon dans le monde. CNRS Editions, p. 203-221.

2018. "Comparing Japanese and US leaders’ Communication: The Construction of Meaning in Addresses to the United Nations General Assembly". Feldman, Ofer and Zmerli, Sonja (ed.) The Psychology of Political Communicators: How Politicians, Culture, and the Media Construct and Shape Public Discourse. New York: Routledge, p. 56-75.


Article dans une revue sans comité de lecture/Article without peer-review

2018. "Perspectives japonaises sur la relation Abe – Trump en 2017 : consolidation des relations nippo-américaines ou début d’inflexion ?Asia Trends, vol. 3, p. 51-59.

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