guillaume.beaud
Guillaume Beaud
guillaume.beaud@sciencespo.frGuillaume Beaud is a political scientist and sociologist, holding a PhD in Political Science / Comparative Politics from Sciences Po (Centre for International Studies). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR). His research focuses on state bureaucracies and civil service elite bodies in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan across periods of political change, such as revolutions, coups, and changes in government, with a particular interest in provincial and diplomatic administrations, and in issues of taxation and trade.
He has been a visiting doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, the European University Institute (EUI), the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA), and the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). In 2024, he was awarded the Fondation des Treilles’s Young Researcher Prize. He holds a Bachelor in Political Science from King’s College London, a Master of Research in Comparative Politics from Sciences Po, and a Master in Middle Eastern Studies from the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO).
His work has been published in the journals Governance, Politix, Critique Internationale, and the Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances, as well as in several edited volumes.
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Teaching
Sciences Po Lille
2025 : History of IranSciences Po
2022-2023 : States and their bureaucracies in the Middle East and North Africa.
2022-2023 : Qualitative Methods.
2021 : Introduction to Political Science. -
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Languages
French, English, Persian
The politicization of the civil service in the Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan. In Peters, B. G., Knox, C., Panizza, F., Larraburu, C. R., & Staroňová, K. (eds.). Handbook of Politicization and Political Patronage, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.521-536, 2025.
[avec Behnaz Khosravi] Les hommes pluriels de la révolution : fabrique d’une première génération de hauts fonctionnaires islamistes et structuration de l’État en Iran (post)révolutionnaire. Critique internationale, 2024/3, n°104, pp.59-88.
« J’ai décidé d’être le père de la province ». Écriture de soi et répertoires de légitimation chez les élites administratives en Iran et au Pakistan. Politix, 2023/2, n°142, pp.27-61.
Negotiating public service bargains in postrevolutionary times: The case of Iran's diplomatic corps. Governance. An international Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 2023, Vol. 36, n°3, pp.909-931.
[avec René-Eric Dagorn] Afghanistan Since 2001: US Geostrategic Ambitions, a Failed State, and the Return of the Taliban. In Lambert, L.A. & Elayah, M. (eds). The Post-American Middle East, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.23-59, 2023.
Book review - The ‘Sovereign’s Dilemma’: Accounting for State Development in Imperial China. The International Spectator, 2023, Vol. 58, n°3, pp.193-195.
Book review - Regime threats and state solutions. Bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya. Public Administration and Development, 2022, Vol. 42, n°5, pp.305-307.
The Making of a Diplomatic Elite in a Revolutionary State: Loyalty, Expertise and Representativeness in Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In Lequesne, C. (ed.). Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the World. Actors of State Diplomacy, Brill (Diplomatic Studies), pp.89-115, 2022.
Compte rendu - Le Gouvernement transnational de l’Afghanistan. Une si prévisible défaite. Gouvernement & action publique, 2022, Vol. 11, n°2, pp.167-171.
Compte rendu - Chercheur.es critiques en terrains critiques. European Review of International Studies, 2021, Vol. 8, n°2, pp.284-290.
Rendre compte des tensions et hégémonies épistémiques qui sous-tendent la production de savoirs sur l’Afrique : Une étude empirique de la revue African Identities (2003-2018). Revue d'Anthropologie des Connaissances, 2021, Vol. 15, n°1, en ligne.
La France et le nucléaire iranien : enjeux bureaucratiques et politique étrangère. Politique étrangère, 2019, Vol. 84, n°4, pp.153-168.
