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Karoline Postel-Vinay
FNSP Research Professor
Center for International Studies (CERI)
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
Biography
Holds a Master’s degree in Japanese studies from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales(INALCO) and a Ph.D. in international relations from Sciences Po.
Lived in Japan for four years as a visiting fellow with the Department of International Relations, National University of Tokyo (Todai) and a grantee of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Member of the advisory board of the Japanese studies journal Ebisu and co-editor of the Global Order Studies book series published by Routledge, London. Member of the Re-Thinking Europe in a Non-European World(RENEW) research network based at Oxford University. Contributor to working group 1 of the IDEAS project financed by the European Research Council. Member of the editorial board of Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, a Sciences Po-CERI electronic publication.
Current Research
• The production of narratives: narratives of uncertainty (case studies, France and Japan), narratives of regions and regionalization (Northeast Asia and comparative perspective).
• Connectivity geopolitics.
• Japan's "lost decades".
Teaching
2015-2018
• History as Present in Northeast Asia (niveau Master, Paris School of International Affairs).
• Understanding International Politics (niveau Licence, Sciences Po Campus de Reims).
2019-2022
• Revisiting Made in Japan (niveau master, EMI - Ecole du Management et de l'Impact)
publications
Main publications
K. Postel-Vinay avec Pierre-Yves Cadalen et Connor Mills (2024), "Narrating Global Order: Stories about and around the United Nations" in Jeremy Adelman et Andreas Eckert, Narratives, Nations and Other World Concepts in the Making of Global History, Bloomsbury.
K. Postel-Vinay avec John Ikenberry et Daniel Deudney (2023), Debating Worlds. Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order, Oxford University Press.
K. Postel-Vinay (2023), "The West and the Dissemination of Japanese Historical Revisionism" in Tina Burrett and Jeff Kingston (2023), Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia, Routledge.
K. Postel-Vinay (2023), "Les régions du monde face aux incertitudes internationales" in Eberhard Kienle, et al, Un monde en crises, Presses de Sciences Po.
See all publications on Sciences Po Institutional Repository
