Interview with Arnault Barichella
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Arnault Barichella defended his PhD thesis in political science, "The UN Climate Change regime and the articulation of multi-level governance. A case study of the global cities of Paris, Boston and New York" in December 2022. He just started a post-doctoral researcher position and reflects in this interview on his experience as a PhD candidate at the CEE and Sciences Po.
Congratulations to Nathalie Morel
- Nathalie Morel © Aurore Papegay / Sciences Po
Nathalie Morel, Assistant Professor at Sciences Po, member of the CEE and LIEPP, earned her accreditation to supervise research in political sciences on January 31st, 2023. She defended her habilitation thesis entitled “The politics of fiscal welfare: towards a social division of welfare and labour in France and Sweden”.
The jury was composed of:
Congratulations to Andreas Eisl and Weiting Chao
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On January 30th, 2023, Weiting Chao and Andreas Eisl both made a brilliant end to their PhD by defending their thesis in political science.
Why ethnic politics can act as a check on democratic backsliding
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The presence of politically organised minority groups is often viewed as a source of instability or conflict within a democracy. Yet in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, democratic backsliding is more common in states that lack meaningful ethnic mobilisation, such as Poland and Hungary.
Replay - Simon Hix, "The Dance of European Integration: How Ideology and Policy Shape Support for the EU"
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"The Dance of European Integration: How Ideology and Policy Shape Support for the EU"
CEE General Seminar, 7 February 2023
Louis Baktash, CamPo visiting PhD candidate: Comparing public policies... and academic cultures
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Louis Baktash, a 3rd year PhD student at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, just finished a four-month visiting stay at the CEE as part of the CamPo exchange scheme.
In 2022, seven new PhD subjects with a focus on Europe and comparative studies
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In 2022, seven new PhD candidates have started working at the CEE. This new, international class is focusing on comparative policy issues with a European backdrop.
Three doctoral students have started a thesis funded by a Cifre contract (PhD theses carried out jointly in a university laboratory and a company, non profit or public administration):
Recruitment · Postdoctoral position
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Postdoctoral position: ANR-funded research project on central banking
The Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po invites applications from postdoctoral researchers in Social Science for the project Central banking in hard times: Knowledge, legitimacy, and politics (KNOWLEGPO). The French-German research project is led by Prof. Matthias Thiemann at Sciences Po Paris in collaboration with Dr. Benjamin Braun at the MPIfG
"Studying the governance of transnational illegal markets”
- Gabriel Feltran - © Aurore Papegay / Sciences Po
Gabriel Feltran joined the CEE as a CNRS Research Professor in November 2022, from the Federal University of São Carlos in Brazil.
Through a long ethnography in urban outskirts, Gabriel Feltran focuses on governance, power, violence and normative regimes, particularly among illegal and criminal market chains.
In this video, he talks about his past and current research and tells his reasons for choosing to join the CEE.
From Dictatorships to Terrorism, How to End the Violence?
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South Africa, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, post-communist Eastern Europe, post-dictatorship Latin America, etc. Since the 1990s, many countries have sought to negotiate a transition to peace after mass violence. In her latest book, Sandrine Lefranc examines the parameters for success.