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Laura Lisboa
PhD Candidate
marialaura.lisboa@sciencespo.fr
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy; Security, defence, nuclear weapons
Geographical Area(s): North America, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, European Union
Thesis topic:
The Babel Tower of European Security: An analysis of the utility of the term 'hybrid threats' in a European context, supervised by Ariel Colonomos
Doha Lkasmi
PhD Candidate
doha.lkasmi@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Grand Strategy, Maghreb, Morocco, armament
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy; Security, defence, nuclear weapons
Geographical Area(s): North Africa
Country(ies): Morocco
Language(s): French, English, Arabic
Thesis topic:
La Grande stratégie du Maroc : déterminants de la politique étrangère, supervised by Thierry Balzacq
Hugo Longieras
PhD Candidate
hugo.longieras@sciencespo.fr
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): Global realm
Thesis topic:
Agency of Local Staff in the UN Bureaucracy: How Local Staff Negotiate their Position within Hierarchies, supervised by Chiara Ruffa

Ciara Luxton
PhD Candidate
ciara.luxton@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Distributive justice, ethics, equality.
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Political Theory
Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): Global realm
Thesis topic:
"Getting real about equality? Defending global egalitarianism after basic equality scepticism”

Alessandro Maffei
PhD Candidate
alessandro.maffei@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): International political economy, digital economy, digital policies, economic history, capitalism
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Political Economy, International Relations
Research Group(s): Global economy, capitalism, extraction; International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): Central and Eastern Europe, Global realm , North America, East Asia, Western Europe
Country(ies): China, United States of America
Language(s): Italian, English, French, Spanish
Thesis topic:
An IPE comparison between the US and China digital policies, supervised by Hugo Meijer

Sophie Maier
PhD Candidate
sophie.maier@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Populism; India; Discourses; Transnational Relations
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations; Art, humanities, and international research
Geographical Area(s): South Asia, Global realm , Central and Eastern Europe
Country(ies): United Kingdom, India, Germany
Language(s): German, English
Thesis topic:
Populist Networking: The special relationship between populist parties and non-democratic states, supervised by Christian Lequesne
Roland Marchal
CNRS Junior Professor
roland.marchal@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Armed conflicts in Central Africa and in the Horn of Africa, great powers and Africa
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, International Relations
Research Group(s): Global economy, capitalism, extraction; State, political regimes, mobilisations; Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination; International order, foreign policy, diplomacy; Security, defence, nuclear weapons; Violence, war and peace
Geographical Area(s): Central Africa, East Africa and The Horn
Language(s): English, Italian, Spanish
Philippe Martini Toriz
PhD Candidate
philippe.martinitoriz@sciencespo.fr
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): Global realm , Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia
Country(ies): Bhutan, Ecuador
Thesis topic:
Les Indicateurs Internationaux de Développement et la Construction d'un Monde Pluriel, supervised by Ariel Colonomos

Hugo Meijer
HDR, CERI Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs
hugo.meijer@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Origins of war and peace; origins of diplomacy; deep history; bio-cultural evolution
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy; Security, defence, nuclear weapons; Violence, war and peace
Geographical Area(s): Global realm
Language(s): French, Italian, English, Dutch, Spanish, Arabic

Françoise Mengin
FNSP Research Professor, HDR
francoise.mengin@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Imperial legacies and the formation of the State in the Chinese world, political economy of the partition of China, non-recognized States, international organizations
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations; International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): Global realm , East Asia
Country(ies): China, Taiwan
Language(s): English, Chinese

Adlene Mohammedi
Associated Expert
adlene.mohammedi@gmail.com
Research Interest(s): The evolution of Russian foreign policy towards the Arab world, The new political and geopolitical balances in North Africa, The crisis of the state in the Arab world, The Yemeni conflict
Discipline(s): Geography
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): Global realm , Middle East, North Africa, Russia
Country(ies): Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, Russian Federation, Syria, Tunisia
Language(s): French, English, Arabic, Russian

Augustin Normand
PhD Candidate
augustin.normand@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): EU trade policy, EU studies diplomatic practices, qualitative methods
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): European Union, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus / Central Asia, Global realm
Language(s): French, English, German
Thesis topic:
The role of the national representatives in charge of trade in the EU common commercial policy through their practices (2008-2023), supervised by Christian Lequesne

Valérie November
CNRS Research Professor
valerie.november@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Risks and crises, very long-term storage, seed banks, endangered and threatened species
Discipline(s): Geography
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): Art, humanities, and international research; Environmental risks and planetary limits
Geographical Area(s): North America, Arctic / Antarctica, Global realm , Western Europe, Oceania
Country(ies): United States of America, Norway, France, Switzerland
Language(s): French, Hungarian, English, German
Edgar Paysant
PhD Candidate
edgar.paysant@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Security, civil-military relations, the French War on Terror, military sociology, gender, emotions
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): Violence, war and peace; State, political regimes, mobilisations; Security, defence, nuclear weapons
Geographical Area(s): Global realm , Western Europe
Language(s): English
Thesis topic:
Protection and emotions in non-conventional military operations, supervised by Chiara Ruffa and Béatrice Châteauvert-Gagnon

Benoît Pelopidas
Full Professor, HDR
benoit.pelopidas@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Global nuclear history, French nuclear history, the role of expertise in the field of international security, construction, legitimation and contestation of the nuclear knowledge, the Anthropocene, international political theory (democracy in the nuclear age), memory and memorialization of nuclear events, oral history
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): Art, humanities, and international research; International order, foreign policy, diplomacy; Environmental risks and planetary limits; Science, technology and power; Security, defence, nuclear weapons; Violence, war and peace
Geographical Area(s): Global realm
Language(s): French, English, Spanish

Catherine Perron
FNSP Junior Researcher
catherine.perron@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Memory and identity, policies of history and policies of memory vis-à-vis territorial losses and forced migrations, policies of the past.
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, International Relations
Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories; Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination; Violence, war and peace
Geographical Area(s): Central and Eastern Europe
Country(ies): Germany
Language(s): German, English, Czech

Karoline Postel-Vinay
FNSP Research Professor
karoline.postelvinay@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Narratives in international politics, from the global to the planetary, Japan in Northeast Asia, Connectivity geopolitics
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Comparative Politics
Research Group(s): Art, humanities, and international research; Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination; International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): Global realm , East Asia
Country(ies): Japan
Language(s): French, English, Japanese

Gabriel Pourre
PhD Candidate
gabriel.pourre@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): Ethics of war, Just war, Law of Armed Conflict, Nuclear and deterrence strategy, International Political Theory
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Political Theory
Research Group(s): Security, defence, nuclear weapons; Violence, war and peace
Geographical Area(s): Global realm
Country(ies): United States of America
Language(s): English, Chinese, Italian
Thesis topic:
La politique de ciblage nucléaire des États-Unis face au droit des conflits armés, supervised by Ariel Colonomos
Benjamin Puybareau
PhD Candidate
benjamin.puybareau@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): The norm of secrecy in IR, normative debates in IR, history of secret services, intelligence service cooperation
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations
Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy
Geographical Area(s): Global realm , North America, Western Europe
Country(ies): France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Thesis topic:
Secrecy and unveiling in international relations: the reconfigurations of the norm of secrecy in the Western world, supervised by Ariel Colonomos et de Thierry Balzacq

Nadège Ragaru
CNRS Research Professor, HDR
nadege.ragaru@sciencespo.fr
Research Interest(s): History and historiography of World War II and of the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe, historical sociology of communism and identities, arts and politics
Discipline(s): Political Science, History
Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, International Relations
Research Group(s): Art, humanities, and international research; State, political regimes, mobilisations; Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination; Violence, war and peace; Environmental risks and planetary limits; Science, technology and power
Geographical Area(s): Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe
Country(ies): Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia
Language(s): English, Bulgarian, Macedonian, German, Serbian, Russian, Romanian, Hebrew
