Contact : amr.abdelrahim@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Stéphane Lacroix and Nicolas Puig
Thèse : Rhymes from the Margins: “New School” Hip-Hop and the Rise of Urban Subaltern Youth’s Voices to the Center of Egyptian Popular Culture
Middle East
Egypt
Political science
Identity and politics
Contact : ahmadfahim.abdullatif@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Stéphane Lacroix & Adam Baczko
Thèse : The Afghan State and its recompositions: a socio-historical study of armed forces in Afghanistan (1880-1993)
Political sociology of the state, Armed forces in Afghanistan, Violence and mobilisation, Western military interventions
Caucasus / Central Asia, Middle East, South Asia
Afghanistan
Political science
Comparative politics
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 : gabriel.andretreglia@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Richard Banégas
Thèse : Écritures et pratiques historiographiques de soi en contexte de post-esclavage. Dans le Fouta-Djallon (Guinée), les historicités d'un passé théocratique en dispute
West Africa
Guinea
Political science
Contact : joel.ansah@sciencespo.fr
Laurent Fourchard
Thèse : Settlements of contestations: A comparative exploration of the experiences, contestations, and mobilizations of inhabitants in flood-prone cities along the Gulf of Guinea.
Urban informality, social movements, mobilizations, environment, contentious politics
West Africa
Nigeria
Political science
Comparative Politics, Political Sociology
Contact : julien.argoud@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Stéphane Lacroix and Philippe Portier
Thèse : Comprendre la restructuration du champ chrétien au Maroc
Religions, Ideologies, Identities, Methods, Aesthetics
Global realm, North Africa, Western Europe
France, Morocco
Political science
Sociology, Religious Sciences
Contact : ariane.badet@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Daniel Sabbagh & Céline Béraud
Thèse : Diversité et religion : insertion professionnelle et carrière des personnes musulmanes ou perçues comme telles en France
Religion, Islam, gender, discrimination, work
Western Europe
France
Political science
Sociology of discriminations, gender studies, sociology of religion
Contact : louis.baudrin@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Christian Lequesne
Thèse : Attirer les étudiants étrangers, en réformant la politique étrangère : une comparaison des transformations organisationnelles des Ministères des Affaires Etrangères allemand et français (1998-2020)
Global realm, Western Europe
France, Germany
Political science
Contact : elie.beressi@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Christian Lequesne (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS) and Yael Shomer (Tel Aviv University)
Thèse : Between Representation and Estrangement: a political sociology of Israel’s Foreign Service
Middle East
Israel
Political science
International Relations
Contact : julie.bouchet@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Bayram Balci and Thierry Balzacq
Thèse : L’instrumentalisation des arguments éthiques à des fins stratégiques au Moyen-Orient : analyse, implications stratégiques et contre-mesures
International relations, security studies, strategic studies, political philosophy and ethics, IHL, influence, foreign policy of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran
Middle East
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey
Political science
International relations, philosophy (ethics)
Contact : michael.bourdon@sciencespo.fr
Richard Banégas
Thèse : Un nouvel entrepreneuriat du développement ? Les start-ups, l'Etat et la recomposition du capitalisme en Afrique de l'Ouest
West Africa
Ghana, Togo
Political science
Politics / Political Anthropology
Contact : justine.brisson@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Astrid von Busekist and Marc Crépon
Thèse : Une histoire intellectuelle du contre-engagement. Figures et postures de l'écrivain en retrait du politique (1950-1980)
History of Political Ideas, Theory of Commitment and Anti-Commitment, Literary posture and auctorial scenography, Politics of Literature
Western Europe
France
Political science
Political philosophy, French Literature
Identity and politics
Contact : perrine.chabanel@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Astrid von Busekist
Thèse : Faire naître : une phénoménologie de la naissance
Biopolitics, intimacy, governance
Political science
Political theory
Contact : sofyaine.chbari@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Hélène Combes
Thèse : "Mettre le peuple en (parti) mouvement ? Sociologie politique comparée de l’incorporation des secteurs populaires dans les partis- mouvements en France et en Argentine"
Political parties, popular classes
Latin America and the Caribbean, Western Europe
Argentina , France
Political science
Comparative Politics
Contact : antonia.collardnora@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Bayram Balci et Delphine Allès
Thèse : La gouvernance humanitaire en Turquie et dans le nord-ouest de la Syrie (2014-2025)
Caucasus / Central Asia, Middle East
Turkey
Contact : quentin.couvreur@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Frédéric Ramel
Thèse : Être « grand » tout en étant un pays en développement : la diplomatie onusienne de la Chine depuis 2012
China, Foreign Policy, Multilateralism, International Organizations
Global realm
China
Political science
International Relations
Contact : hugo.dassenzadavid@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Eric Verdeil (CERI) and Olivier Borraz (CSO)
Thèse : L'instrumentation de la comptabilité des flux de matières ou l'institutionnalisation de l'hétérotrophie urbaine comme problème public : analyse comparée du changement politique dans trois métropoles européennes
Public policy analysis, political sociology, urban and territorial governance, environmental transformations, long term planning
Western Europe
France, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Political science
Comparative politics - Political sociology - Public policy analysis
Contact : manon.deguet@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Sandrine Revet (CERI) and Franck Poupeau (CNRS, CREDA)
Thèse : La construction politique des droits de la nature : l’expérience péruviano-bolivienne autour du lac Titicaca
Rights of nature, Ecology, Peru, Bolivia
Latin America and the Caribbean
Bolivia, Peru
Political science
Comparative 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 : charlotte.desmasures@sciencespo.fr
Directeur de thèse : Frédéric Ramel
Thèse : L'intégration des enjeux climatiques dans le mandat d'une organisation multilatérale de défense : le cas de l'OTAN
Political science
International relations
Contact : fatoumata.diallo@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Laurent Fourchard and Patrick Le Galès
Thèse : The differentiated translations of Bus Rapid Transit. A comparative examination of the implementation of a traveling policy model at the local level in Cape Town, Lagos and Greater Paris
Public action, BRT, local governance, public policy transfer
Southern Africa, West Africa, Western Europe
France, Nigeria, South Africa
Political science
Urban studies, comparative politics, policy transfer, 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 : sarah.elabd@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Chiara Ruffa
Thèse : Humanitarians in Blue Helmets? How the United Nations Integrated Humanitarian Action in UN Peacekeeping Operations
Peacekeeping, humanitarian affairs, civil-military relations, international law, peace and conflict studies.
Global realm, Middle East, West Africa
Lebanon, Mali
Political science
International Relations
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
India’s foreign policy, Indo-Pacific, multilateral practices, regional cooperation, informal diplomacy
Global realm, South Asia
India
Political science
International relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics
Contact : kevin.gauthier@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Thierry Balzacq
Thèse : States in planetary spaces diplomacy: navigating the polymorphic concept of sovereignty at the turn of the millennium
diplomatie studies ; state sovereignty ; outer space ; air space ; the high seas and deep seabed ; polar regions ; cyber space ; history and theory of international relations
Global realm
Political science
International Relations
Actors and levels of regulation in world politics
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 : yuyang.hong@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Françoise Mengin (with Jérôme Doyon)
Thèse : The hidden cogs of China's powerhouse: how Chinese street-level bureaucrats in local Taiwan Affairs Office influence and execute China's policy on Taiwan
China's Foreign Policy, Sino-Taiwanese Relations, Diaspora Diplomacy, Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy
North-East Asia
China, Taiwan
Political science
International Relations
Contact : aizaz.hussain@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Christophe Jaffrelot
Thèse : The Impact of Chinese Geoeconomics on Ethnic Communities: a Case Study of Pakistan
Geoeconomics, Geopolitics, Terrorism, Nationalism, Hybrid Regimes, Populism, and Non-violence.
Global realm, South Asia
China, India, Pakistan, United States
Political science
Comparative Politics
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
Thèse : Quelle que fut la part du feu : des FARC-EP au PKK, portrait d'une normativité rebelle
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 : marialaura.lisboa@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Ariel Colonomos
Thèse : The Babel Tower of European Security: An analysis of the utility of the term 'hybrid threats' in a European context
Political science
Relations internationales
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 : hugo.longieras@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Chiara Ruffa
Thèse : Agency of Local Staff in the UN Bureaucracy: How Local Staff Negotiate their Position within Hierarchies
Political science
International Relations
Contact : ciara.luxton@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Ariel Colonomos and Annabelle Lever
Thèse : An investigation into cooperation, reciprocity and inequalities between states
Contact : marina.machucadegodoi@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Hélène Combes
Thèse : Les usages politiques de la vérité électorale au Brésil. Mobilisations et controverses autour des résultats électoraux et de l’organisation des scrutins, du passage à la démocratie à la présidence de Jair Bolsonaro
Latin America and the Caribbean
Brazil
Political science
Comparative Politics
Contact : alessandro.maffei@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Hugo Meijer
Thèse : An IPE comparison between the US and China digital policies
International political economy, digital economy, digital policies, economic history, capitalism
Central and Eastern Europe, Global realm, North America, North-East Asia, Western Europe
China, United States
Political science
International political economy
Contact : sophie.maier@sciencespo.fr
Christian Lequesne
Thèse : Global Populist Networking: The Special Relationship Between European Populist Parties and India
Populism, Hindu Nationalism, Climate Policy
Central and Eastern Europe, Global realm, South Asia, Western Europe
Political science
International Public Law
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 : remi.meehan@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Christian Lequesne
Thèse : The practices of contemporary digital cultural diplomacy & State power
Digital diplomacy, State use of social media, Public diplomacy
North America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Political science
International Relations, Diplomacy
Contact : georges.mercier@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Ariel Colonomos
Thèse : Responsabilité politique et implications éthiques des constructivismes sociaux
Political science
Political theory
Identity and politics
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 : mohamedamyn.nfaoui@sciencespo.fr
Hélène Combes
Thèse : La consolidation d'une culture électorale en contexte monarchique : imaginaires et matérialités des processus électoraux au Maroc (1997-2027)
Elections, Sufism, Arab world, Electoral culture
Middle East, North Africa
Morocco
Political science
Comparative politics
Contact : augustin.normand@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Christian Lequesne
Thèse : Le leadership du couple franco-allemand dans les relations commerciales de l’Union Européenne avec la Chine et la Russie, 2008-2021
China, France, Germany, Russian Federation
Contact : gabriel.pourre@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Ariel Colonomos
Thèse : La politique de ciblage nucléaire des États-Unis face au droit des conflits armés
Ethics of war, Just war, Law of Armed Conflict, Nuclear and deterrence strategy, International Political Theory
Global realm
United States
Political science
International Relations
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 : gregoire.rame@sciencespo.fr
Supervisors: Eric Verdeil (CERI) & Melissa Marschke (University of Ottawa)
Thèse : Les marchands de sable de Taïwan : pour une écologie urbaine de l'extractivisme ordinaire
Extractivism, political ecology and urban metabolisms
Southeast Asia
Taiwan
Geography
Urban geography
Contact : juliette.refle@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Laurent Fourchard
Thèse : Expériences ordinaires des changements climatiques : mobilisations, adaptations, contestations dans les quartiers littoraux urbains de Lagos (Nigéria) et Cotonou (Bénin)
West Africa
Benin, Nigeria
Contact : maximilian.reinold@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Hugo Meijer
Thèse : Preserving Maritime Order in an Era of Great Power Competition Mapping the Emerging Naval Security Cooperation System in the Indo-Pacific and Europe’s Role Therein
Contact : eric.repetto@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Thierry Balzacq
Thèse : Sovereignty practices in the interactions between states and digital platforms
Global realm
Political science
Contact : jeannelouise.roellinger@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Ariel Colonomos
Thèse : The Security Dilemma in the Information Age of Uncertainty
Arms control, norms of responsible behavior, cyberspace, outer space, uncertainty
Global realm
Political science
International Relations
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 : 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 : dan.sanaren@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Laurent Fourchard
Thèse : La police morale du cadre de vie : Policing, hygiène et environnement urbain à Cotonou et Accra
West Africa
Benin, Ghana
Political science
Comparative Politics
Contact : eugenio.sanchez@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Hugo Meijer
Thèse : Comparative Economic Statecraft: How State-Business Relations Shape Modern Great Power Competition
Economic Statecraft, Industrial Policy, Global Value Chains, International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Foreign Policy
Central and Eastern Europe, Global realm, Latin America and the Caribbean, Western Europe
France, Germany
Political science
International Political Economy, Comparative Political Economy, International Relations
Supervisor: Carola Klöck
Thèse : Beyond coalitions: Small states in international climate negotiations
Negotiation, transnational climate governance, UNFCCC, small states
Global realm, Latin America and the Caribbean, Oceania
Political science
International Relations
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 : lukas.wahden@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Hugo Meijer
Thèse : The impact of Russia’s cooperation with China and other non-Arctic states on the transformation of the Arctic regional order
Political science
International Relations
Contact : corneel.weyers@sciencespo.fr
Christian Lequesne and Leslie Wehner
Thèse : The impacts of populism on diplomatic policymaking
Decolonialism, diplomacy, democracy, populism, capitalism
Political science
International Relations
Contact : matthew.winkler@sciencespo.fr
Supervisor: Carola Klöck
Thèse : Voice of the Climate Vulnerable
Political science
International Relations
