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Léo Mugneret-La Gravière

PhD Candidate

Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Chinese politics, diaspora, authoritarianism

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Geographical Area(s): East Asia, Oceania

Country(ies): China

Language(s): French, English, Chinese, Spanish, German, Tahitian

Biography

Léo Mugneret-La Gravière is a PhD candidate in Political Science (Comparative Politics) at Sciences Po's Center for International Studies under the joint supervision of Professors Françoise Mengin and Jérôme Doyon.

His research interests relate to China’s domestic politics and foreign policy. His PhD research specifically focuses on the relations between the Chinese Party-State and the Chinese (descent) diasporic communities in the Pacific.

Léo Mugneret-La Gravière is coordinator of the Doctoral Workshop on Contemporary China with Tom Abram and Ariane Thévenet.

He holds a dual BA from Sciences Po and University College London and a MPhil in Political Science (Comparative Politics) from Sciences Po’s School of Research. He has previously conducted research on diaspora politics in the Chinese (descent) community in French Polynesia based on archival research and a two-month fieldwork in Tahiti.

Léo Mugneret-La Gravière is coordinator of the Doctoral Workshop on Contemporary China with Tom Abram and Ariane Thévenet.

Thesis topic

China’s Party-State Diasporic Modes of Authoritarian Governance Among Overseas Chinese Communities in Europe and the Pacific, supervised by Françoise Mengin and Jérôme Doyon