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Ahmad Fahim Abdullatif
PhD Candidate
Center for International Studies (CERI)
Research Interest(s): Political sociology of the state, Armed forces in Afghanistan, Violence and mobilisation, Western military interventions
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Security, defence, nuclear weapons
Geographical Area(s): Caucasus / Central Asia, Middle East, South Asia
Country(ies): Afghanistan
Language(s): Persian, Pashto, English, French, Turkish, Urdu, Arabic
Biography
Fahim is a PhD student in Political Science, Comparative Politics at Sciences Po's Center for International Studies (CERI) since 2022.
His research focuses on the political and historical sociology of the state in Afghanistan. His PhD investigates the Afghan armed forces (1880-1993) and is being conducted under the supervision of Stéphane Lacroix and Adam Baczko.
Before joining the CERI, he had obtained his undergraduate degree from Sciences Po's Menton campus and had completed a research master's in Political Theory at Sciences Po's School of Research.
Thesis topic
The Afghan State and its recompositions: a socio-historical study of armed forces in Afghanistan (1880-1993), supervised by Stéphane Lacroix & Adam Baczko
Teaching
2021-2022: Afghanistan: a nation-state not meant to be? Sciences Po Paris, Undergraduate College
2022-2023: Afghanistan: a nation-state not meant to be? Sciences Po Paris, Undergraduate College
2023-2024: Afghanistan: a nation-state not meant to be? Sciences Po Paris, Undergraduate College
2024-2025: Afghanistan: a nation-state not meant to be? Sciences Po Paris, Undergraduate College
