Contact : camille.abescat@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Elise Massicard and Eric Verdeil
Thèse : Recompositions des conditions de l’échange politique en situation autoritaire : pour une sociologie des pratiques des députés jordaniens (2016-2022) (titre provisoire)
Middle East
Jordan
Political science, Sociology
Contact : vera.ageeva@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Thierry Balzacq and Kathy Rousselet
Thèse : Russian and Chinese grand strategies in Kazakhstan
Russia and China in Central Asia, Russian soft power, French soft power
Caucasus / Central Asia, Russia
France, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Political science
International Relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics, Identity and politics
Contact : andrew.aguilar@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Riva Kastoryano
Thèse : Sécuriser l'Etat à travers l'intégration religieuse : une analyse comparative de l'application des politiques d'intégration à l'égard des musulmans en France et au Royaume-Uni, 1980-2016
Religious integration policy, Islam in Europe, Security institutions, immigration
Western Europe
France, United Kingdom
Political science
Comparative politics
Identity and politics, Violence and danger management
Contact : gabriel.andretreglia@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Richard Banégas
Thèse : Une jeunesse ethnicisée ? Sociologie des mobilisations ethniques de la jeunesse en pays hadiya dans le sud éthiopien
East Africa and The Horn
Ethiopia
Sociology
Contact : ayrton.aubry@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Frédéric Ramel (CERI) & Souleymane Bachir (Columbia U.)
Thèse : L'africanisation de la sécurité en Afrique de l'Ouest
West Africa, security, postcolonial studies
West Africa
Ghana, Senegal
Political science
International relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : pablo.barnierkhawam@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Thierry Balzacq
Thèse : L’autodétermination comme principe d’autonomie politique : histoire et appropriation d’un droit équivoque en Bolivie et au Chili depuis les années 1970
Right to self-determination, political autonomy, indigenous peoples, globalisation and international changes
Latin America and the Caribbean
Bolivia, Chile
Political science
International relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics, Identity and politics
Contact : louis.baudrin@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Christian Lequesne
Thèse : Diplomatie culturelle autour de l'enseignement supérieur, cas de la France et de l'Allemagne
Global realm, Western Europe
France, Germany
Political science
Contact : guillaume.beaud@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Christophe Jaffrelot and Philippe Bezès
Thèse : Construire et réformer l'État et la relation à l'État par la fonction publique : Loyauté, expertise et représentativité des hauts fonctionnaires en républiques islamiques d'Iran et du Pakistan
Middle East
Iran, Pakistan
Political science
Comparative politics
Identity and politics, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : louise.beaumais@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Frédéric Ramel and Thomas Lindemann
Thèse : On the use of quantitative data in foreign policy: from datafication to datafiction
Foreign policy, militaries and diplomats, quantitative data, perception, security, Arctic
Arctic / Antarctica
France, United Kingdom
Political science
Relations internationales
Contact : salihisik.bora@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Christian Lequesne
Thèse : Greatness through a European Developmental State: France’s European policy under the Macron Presidency (2017-2022)
Political science
Contact : eddine.bouyahi@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Richard Banégas & Rachel Riedl (Northwestern U.)
Thèse : Incumbent Populism in Southern Africa: Race, Land, Liberation and Dominant Parties. Comparative Study of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia
Southern Africa
Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Contact : justine.brisson@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Astrid von Busekist and Marc Crépon
Thèse : Pour une éthique du neutre. Histoire intellectuelle du contre- engagement politique
History of Political Ideas, Literary Theory, Politics of Literature, Theory of Commitment
Western Europe
France
Political science
Contemporary literature, Political philosophy
Identity and politics
Contact : alix.chaplain@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Eric Verdeil
Thèse : La diversification des configurations de fourniture d'électricité au Liban
Middle East
Lebanon
Sociology
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : solange.chatelard@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Richard Balme
Thèse : From Imperialism to Intimacy : an Ethnography of the first Chinese migrants to Zambia 1980-today
China-led globalisation, China-Africa relations, migration, development
North-East Asia, Southern Africa
China, Zambia
Political science
Anthropology, political sociology
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : maya.chehade@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Jean-Pierre Filiu
Thèse : L’impact du secteur privé sur les réfugiés syriens en Jordanie, Liban et Turquie
Middle East
Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Contact : leonard.colombapetteng@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Christian Lequesne
Thèse : Les experts de l’Union européenne au Sahel : une étude de la mission de soutien aux forces de sécurité intérieure du Niger (EUCAP Sahel)
Global realm, West Africa
Mali, Niger
Political science
International relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : mark.corcoral@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Thierry Balzacq
Thèse : Using Law to Protect the Nation: The Strategic Functions of the US Justice Department
National security; intelligence; cybersecurity; lawfare; grand strategy
Global realm
Political science
International Relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : pablo.corroyer@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Hélène Combes (Sciences Po,CERI) and Sylvaine Bulle (Paris 7)
Thèse : Nulle terre sans guerre. Reconquérir le territoire : entre politisation contestataire et réaffirmation de l’ordre socio-spatial (Bure, Meuse)
Environnmental conflict, contestatory living, common
Western Europe
France
Political science
Political sociology
Political participation and mobilization, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : romane.dacunhadupuy@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Richard Banégas
Thèse : "Rentrer dans le rang ?" Etat, vigilantisme et politiques de sécurité au Burkina Faso
Self-defense/vigilante groups, mob justice/vigilantism, security policies
West Africa
Burkina Faso
Political science, Sociology
Comparative political sociology
Identity and politics, Violence and danger management
Contact : alix.defrainmeunier@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Guillaume Devin
Thèse : Le changement dans les organisations internationales : le cas de l'Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM)
Global realm
Political science
International Relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics
Contact : camille.denicourtfauvel@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Olivier Dabène and Marie-Christine Doran
Thèse : Au nom de la démocratie: entre impunité transitionnelle et extrême violence actuelle. Analyse à la lumière des cas du Chili et du Brésil post-transition
Political violence, Democracy and democratization, Human Rights, Rule of Law, Political participation and mobilization
Latin America and the Caribbean
Brazil, Chile
Political science
Comparative politics
Political participation and mobilization, Violence and danger management
Contact : kamina.diallo@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Richard Banégas
Thèse : La cité bureaucratique post-conflit en Côte d’Ivoire : analyse de la bureaucratisation par le haut et par le bas de la société ivoirienne sous l’effet des politiques de postconflit
Post conflict reconstruction policies: combatants' disarmament, demobilization and reintegration; reform of the security sector; bureaucratization of African societies
West Africa
Ivory Coast
Political science, Sociology
Comparative political sociology
Political participation and mobilization, Violence and danger management
Contact : fatoumata.diallo@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Laurent Fourchard and Patrick Le Galès
Thèse : The differentiated translations of BRT policies. A comparative examination of the implementation of mass transit policies at the local level in Cape Town, Lagos, Greater Paris and Rio de Janeiro
Public action, BRT, local governance, public policy transfer
Latin America and the Caribbean, Southern Africa, West Africa, Western Europe
Brazil, France, Nigeria, South Africa
Political science
Public policy analysis
The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : claire.duboscq@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Sandrine Revet
Thèse : La fabrique du droit de la nature. Approche ethnographique de la judiciarisation de fleuves et forêt en Colombie
Colombia
Political science
Anthropology
Contact : anastasia.fairchild@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Nadège Ragaru
Thèse : Seeking Justice, Finding Dogma/Forgetting Collectively: the permeating influence of prosecuting
Contact : thibault.fournol@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Delphine Allès (Inalco) et Christophe Jaffrelot
Thèse : Recomposition des pratiques multilatérales en Indo-Pacifique : l'approche indienne du multilatéralisme stratégique
Indo-Pacific strategic and security dynamics, Multilateralism and defence cooperation, Indian foreign and defense policy, Regional security architectures in the Indian Ocean
Global realm, South Asia
India
Political science
International relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics
Contact : thomas.fraise@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Didier Bigo and Benoit Pélopidas
Thèse : Governing nuclear knowledges. A comparative genealogy of the regimes of governance of nuclear knowledges in nuclear armed states (1939-1975)
History of nuclear knowledges, practices of secrecy in democractic states, nuclear weapons programs
Global realm
Political science
International Relations
Contact : kevin.gauthier@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Thierry Balzacq
Thèse : La diplomatie spatiale ou la redéfinition des frontières de l’espace mondial au XXIe siècle
Central and Eastern Europe, Global realm, North America, North-East Asia, Western Europe
China, United States
Political science
International relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics
Contact : alexane.guerin@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Astrid von Busekist
Thèse : Le viol au tribunal : régimes de véridiction pénale. Analyse comparative des pratiques judiciaires, France/Amérique du nord
North America
France
Contact : yahiahussain.hakoum@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Jean-Pierre Filiu
Thèse : L’auto-organisation en politique : l’émergence de conseils locaux en Syrie de 2012-2018
Middle East
Syria
Political science
International Relations
Political participation and mobilization, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : ronan.jacquin@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Richard Banégas and Philippe Bezès
Thèse : Les transferts monétaires en Afrique. Circulations, conception et mise en oeuvre : une analyse comparée Ouganda, Namibie et Cameroun
Social protection, public policies, anthropology of development, policy-feedbacks
Central Africa, East Africa and The Horn, Southern Africa
Cameroon, Namibia, Uganda
Political science
Comparative politics
The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : anton.karppanen@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Hugo Meijer
Thèse : Regulation and Security Screening of Chinese FDI in the European Union
European Union, Asia-Pacific
China
Economy, Political science
Contact : hicham.lahouiri@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Alain Dieckhoff
Thèse : Le Likoud et les mandats locaux. Comment les mandats locaux permettent-ils l’émergence d’une nouvelle classe politique ?
israeli politics, study of political parties, local governance, development of political elites
Middle East
Israel
Political science
Political participation and mobilization, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : iris.lambert@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Ariel Colonomos
Thèse : Laws of War and Non-State Actors : A Critical Approach
Ethics of political violence; Terrorist organisations and strategies of terrorism; International Relations; Data analysis
Political science
Ethics
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics, Violence and danger management
Contact : alix.lemoign@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Luis Martinez & Christian Olsson
Thèse : Les groupes armés non-étatiques : structures, assises territoriales et relations à l’Etat
armed organizations, conflicts, civil wars
Middle East, North Africa
Algeria, Lebanon
Political science, Sociology
Violence and danger management
Contact : bernardino.leon.reyes@gmail.com
Supervisor: Didier Bigo
Thèse : “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”: An Anthropological Study of “Everyday” Intelligence Oversight
The oversight of intelligence agencies, critical (in)security studies, anthropology of political violence, IR Theory
Middle East, North America, Western Europe
Belgium, France, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
Sociology
International Political Sociology; Political Anthropological Research for International Sociology (“PARIS”) of (in)security; International Relations Theory; Anthropology of Violence
The State and the transformations of the State, Violence and danger management
Contact : clara.leroy@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Frédéric Ramel
Thèse : Les conséquences de l'accaparement vert en Asie du Sud-Est : un enjeu de sécurité humaine
Southeast Asia
Contact : doha.lkasmi@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Thierry Balzacq
Thèse : La Grande stratégie du Maroc : déterminants de la politique étrangère
Grand Strategy, Maghreb, Morocco, armament
North Africa
Morocco
Political science
International relations
Contact : philippe.martinitoriz@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Ariel Colonomos
Thèse : Les Indicateurs Internationaux de Développement et la Construction d'un Monde Pluriel
Global realm, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia
Bhutan, Ecuador
Political science
International relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics
Contact : barthelemy.michalon@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Didier Bigo
Thèse : Surveillance en ligne : les stratégies d'adaptation des géants des nouvelles technologies face aux exigences des services nationaux de sécurité
Internet giants, Internet Governance, privacy, personal data, online surveillance
Global realm, North America, Western Europe
Political science
International relations
Violence and danger management
Contact : elisabeth.miljkovic@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Kathy Rousselet
Thèse : Le rôle de l’Église orthodoxe russe dans les questions environnementales en Russie contemporaine : l'exemple de la Sibérie
Russia
Contact : renata.mustafina@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Gilles Favarel-Garrigues
Thèse : Against Impossible Odds: Defensive Legal Mobilization in Russian Protest Related Prosecutions (2012-2017)
Courts, trials, legal repression, legal mobilization, politicized justice, human rights
Russia
Political science
Comparative Political Sociology
Political participation and mobilization, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : shreya.parikh
Supervisors: Daniel Sabbagh and Charles Kurzman (Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Thèse : Race and Racialization in North Africa: The case of Blackness in "Arab" Tunisia
Middle East, North Africa
Tunisia
Sociology
Political sociology
Identity and politics, Political participation and mobilization
Contact : benjamin.puybareau@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Ariel Colonomos et Thierry Balzacq
Thèse : Secrecy and unveiling in international relations: the reconfigurations of the norm of secrecy in the Western world
The norm of secrecy in IR, normative debates in IR, history of secret services, intelligence service cooperation
Global realm, North America, Western Europe
France, United Kingdom, United States
Political science
International relations
The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : lucas.puygrenier@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Béatrice Hibou
Thèse : Redundant people: capitalism and the art of governing mobilities in Malta
Migration and labour, unlawful accumulation, state-capital relations
Western Europe
Malta
Political science
The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : mariam.raoufkamelattalla@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Eric Verdeil & Eberhard Kienle
Thèse : The Contested Geopolitics of Eastern Mediterranean Oil and Gas Discoveries and Exploration Process
Political science
Comparative politics
Contact : eric.repetto@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Thierry Balzacq
Thèse : Security, coalitions and modes of interaction: a new path for the analysis of security issues and policies and its application to foreign electoral interference
Global realm
Political science
Contact : laure.derochegonde@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Ariel Colonomos
Thèse : La régulation des systèmes d'armes létales autonomes : les négociations internationales entre logiques de puissance et poids de la société civile
Political science
International Relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics
Contact : samia.sahloulepjbara@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Jean-Pierre Filiu
Thèse : Services de renseignement et Etat de droit - Cas de la Tunisie
Middle East, North Africa
Political science
International relations
The State and the transformations of the State, Violence and danger management
Contact : miguel.salazar@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Hélène Combes
Thèse : Représentativité et incidence politique des acteurs non-étatiques au sein des réunions consultatives du traite sur l'Antarctique. Quelle est la place des relations inter-transnationales dans la gouvernance de l'Antarctique ?
Non State Actors, Environmental Policy, Political Representation, Inter-Transnational Relations
Arctic / Antarctica, Global realm, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Western Europe
Argentina , Chile, France, United Kingdom
Political science
International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Theory
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics, Political participation and mobilization
Contact : petra.samaha@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Eric Verdeil
Thèse : On the Meaning of the “Public” in a Propertied Landscape: Space matters and State representations. The case of Lebanon
Public space, land, State theory
Middle East
Lebanon
Geography
Urban Geography
Identity and politics, The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : jusmeet.sihra@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Christophe Jaffrelot & Nurit Stadler (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem)
Thèse : Relegation of Dalits in Urban India: a Study of Socio-Spatial Segregation in Ajmer
Urban segregation, social mobility, social stratification, sociology of religion, Indian politics
South Asia
India
Sociology
Urban Sociology, Political Sociology
Identity and politics, Political participation and mobilization
Contact : lingyue.tang@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Jean-Louis Rocca
Thèse : Social protest, political field and reform policy in China: the case of sanitation workers in Guangzhou
North-East Asia
China
Contact : alphan.telek@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Élise Massicard
Thèse : The bonds between precarization and mobilization in Turkey
Precarization, precarity, precariat, Turkey, Middle-East, populism, autocratization
Middle East
Turkey
Political science
Contact : virginie.troit@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Frédéric Ramel
Thèse : L'humanitaire international à l'épreuve de l'universalisme : quelle(s) approche(s) éthique(s) au sein des sociétés nationales africaines de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge ?
Central Africa, East Africa and The Horn, Global realm, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa
Contact : rodolpho.valentebayma@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Ariel Colonomos
Thèse : La paix à l'âge des ODD : étude sur l'élévation normative de la paix dans le contexte des Objectifs de Développement Durable des Nations Unies
Global realm
Contact : anaelle.vergonjeanne@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Frédéric Ramel
Thèse : La cause de l’enfance dans les institutions internationales : genèse et transformation de la cause des enfants migrants
Childhood studies, Climate change, International organizations, Gender, Sociology of IR
Global realm, Western Europe
Political science
International relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics, Political participation and mobilization
Contact : earl.wang@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Christian Lequesne
EU and Member States, East Asia, the PRC, grand strategy, foreign and security policy
Central and Eastern Europe, North-East Asia, Western Europe
Political science
Contact : rouba.wehbe@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Eric Verdeil
Thèse : Différentiel de rentes et rentes différentielles des sous-marchés du logement à Beyrouth; le marché locatif précaire et les propriétés des réfugiés palestiniens
Middle East
Lebanon, Syria
Geography
Urban political economy
The State and the transformations of the State
Contact : di.yang@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Christian Lequesne
Thèse : La diplomatie publique et la promotion de l'image nationale chinoise en Europe depuis 2010
Western Europe
China
Political science
International relations
Contact : binxin.zhang@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Françoise Mengin
Thèse : Chinese Attitudes towards African Immigrants: Chinese Nationalism and Racial Discourses in a Globalized Age
African immigrants in China, nationalism, racism
North-East Asia
China
Political science
Identity and politics, The State and the transformations of the State
