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Ahmad Fahim Abdullatif

PhD Candidate

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

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

Vera Ageeva

PhD Candidate

Research Interest(s): Russia and China in Central Asia, Russian soft power, French soft power

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy

Geographical Area(s): Caucasus / Central Asia, Russia

Country(ies): France, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Thesis topic:

Russian and Chinese grand strategies in Kazakhstan, supervised by Thierry Balzacq et Kathy Rousselet

Adam Baczko

CNRS Junior Professor

Research Interest(s): Sociology of civil wars, Taliban Courts in Afghanistan, Armed conflict in Syria, Western military interventions

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): Violence, war and peace, State, political regimes, mobilisations, Global economy, capitalism, extraction

Geographical Area(s): Caucasus / Central Asia, Middle East

Country(ies): Afghanistan, Syria

Language(s): French, English, Spanish, Polish

Bayram Balci

CNRS Research Engineer, HDR

Research Interest(s): Islamism, migrations, pilgrimages, identity conflicts.

Discipline(s): Political Science, Sociology

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Security, defence, nuclear weapons, Violence, war and peace

Geographical Area(s): Caucasus / Central Asia, Global realm , Russia, Middle East

Country(ies): Turkey

Anouk Gohier

PhD Candidate

Research Interest(s): Urban energy governance, infrastructures, transformations of socio-technical systems

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): Environmental risks and planetary limits, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, State, political regimes, mobilisations, Science, technology and power

Geographical Area(s): Caucasus / Central Asia

Country(ies): Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia

Language(s): French, English, Dutch, Russian

Thesis topic:

From Air Pollution Crises to Energy Transitions: Urban Politics and Governance in Bishkek and Ulaanbaatar, supervised by Bayram Balci

Robert Kluijver

Associate Research Fellow

Research Interest(s): Self-governance, State and society in non-Western settings, transnational governance, war on terror

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Political Theory

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Art, humanities, and international research, Violence, war and peace

Geographical Area(s): Caucasus / Central Asia, East Africa and The Horn, Global realm , Middle East

Country(ies): Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen

Language(s): English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Persian, Arabic

Thesis topic:

Chiara Ruffa

Professor

Research Interest(s): Peacekeeping, Multilateralism, Fieldwork, Military Organizations, Norms, Cultures, Global hierarchies

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Political Sociology

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Security, defence, nuclear weapons, Violence, war and peace

Geographical Area(s): Caucasus / Central Asia, Central Africa, Middle East, West Africa, Western Europe

Country(ies): Afghanistan, Central African Republic, France, Italy, Lebanon, Mali

Language(s): French, English, German, Italian, Swedish

Lukas Wahden

PhD Candidate

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Environmental risks and planetary limits, Security, defence, nuclear weapons

Geographical Area(s): Arctic / Antarctica, Seas and Oceans, Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus / Central Asia, Global realm

Country(ies): China, Russian Federation

Language(s): German, English, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Danish

Thesis topic:

‘Osvoenie’ beyond sovereignty: Russia’s policies towards the polar regions, high and deep sea, and outer space, supervised by Hugo Meijer and Marlène Laruelle