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Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Full Professor
ricardo.soaresdeoliveira@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): International political economy of African states with a focus on the extractive industries, the financial sector, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction, and African-Asian relations
Discipline(s): Political Science, Economics
Subdiscipline(s): Political Economy, International Relations, Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): Global economy, capitalism, extraction, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, State, political regimes, mobilisations
Geographical Area(s): Central Africa, East Africa and The Horn, Southern Africa, West Africa

Alphan Telek
PhD Candidate
alphan.telek@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Precarization, precarity, precariat, Turkey, Middle-East, populism, autocratization
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Art, humanities, and international research, Global economy, capitalism, extraction, Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination
Geographical Area(s): Middle East
Country(ies): Turkey
Language(s): Turkish, French, English
Thesis topic:
Les liens entre précarisation et mobilisation en Turquie/The bonds between precarization and mobilization in Turkey, supervised by Elise Massicard

Hélène Thiollet
CNRS Junior Professor
helene.thiollet@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Migration policies in the South, global governance of mobilities.
Discipline(s): Political Science, Geography
Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics, International Relations
Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, State, political regimes, mobilisations, Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination
Geographical Area(s): East Africa and The Horn, Global realm , Middle East
Language(s): English, Arabic, Spanish, French
Thesis topic:
Migrations et intégrations dans le Sud de la mer Rouge : migrants et réfugiés érythréens dans le monde arabe 1991-2007 sous la direction du Pr Bertrand Badie.

Ayşen Uysal
Associate Researcher
aysen.uysal@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): State repression, surveillance studies, social movements, political activism, political parties
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations
Geographical Area(s): Middle East
Country(ies): Turkey
Language(s): Turkish, French, English

Éric Verdeil
Professor
eric.verdeil@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Political ecology and crises of urban infrastructures, urban metabolism, cities and governance, energy issues in the South.
Discipline(s): Political Science, Geography
Subdiscipline(s): Urban Geography, Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): Global economy, capitalism, extraction, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Environmental risks and planetary limits, Violence, war and peace
Geographical Area(s): Global realm , Middle East, North Africa
Country(ies): Lebanon, Tunisia
Language(s): English, German, Arabic

Gilles Verniers
gilles.verniers@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Political representation, Democracy, Political violence, Gender and politics, Political minorities
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination
Geographical Area(s): South Asia
Country(ies): India, Pakistan
Language(s): French, English

Rouba Wehbe
Associate Research Fellow
rouba.wehbe@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Housing, Rent theories/ rent gap theory, political economy, property rights, land and Housing submarketsmiddle eastern cities
Discipline(s): Geography
Subdiscipline(s): Political Economy, Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Global economy, capitalism, extraction
Geographical Area(s): Middle East
Country(ies): Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
Language(s): French, Arabic, English
Thesis topic:
Disrupted Uneven Development, Rent Gap Embeddedness as a Vehicle for Land and Housing Submarkets in Lebanon, supervised by Éric Verdeil

Jasmine Zerinini
jasmine.zerinini@sciencespo.fr
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination, State, political regimes, mobilisations
Geographical Area(s): South Asia
Country(ies): India
Language(s): French, English, Spanish

Binxin Zhang
Associate Research Fellow
binxin.zhang@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Racial studies; Chinese nationalism; China-African relations; race and international law
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): Global realm , East Asia
Country(ies): China
Language(s): English, Chinese
Thesis topic:
Meet the Other and (Re)define the Self: Africans in China and Chinese Imaginings of Race, Nation and World Order, supervised by Françoise Mengin
