guillaume.beaud

Guillaume Beaud is a PhD candidate in Political Science, Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, affiliated with the Center for International Studies (CERI) since 2020.

His research examines how political changes (revolutions, military coups, governments changes) (re)shape state bureaucracies in historical and comparative perspective. His PhD explores the transformations of civilian administrations and their civil servants in the Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan, with a specific interest for provincial administrators and diplomats.

Guillaume is recipient of a doctoral contract from Sciences Po and conducts his PhD under the supervision of Christophe Jaffrelot and Philippe Bezès. He was an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 2021 and 2022, and a Visiting PhD Fellow at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA) in Istanbul in 2022, and at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in 2023. In 2024, he was awarded the Young Researcher Prize of the Fondation des Treilles.

He had graduated from King’s College London, Sciences Po, and France’s National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) from where he holds a Master’s in Middle Eastern studies and Persian.

 

Thesis

Tenir l’État par-delà le changement politique. Arrangements politico-administratifs dans les corps de préfets et de diplomates en Iran postrévolutionnaire et au Pakistan, sous la direction de Christophe Jaffrelot et Philippe Bezès

State bureaucracies across political transformations. Provincial and diplomatic administrations in the Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan, supervised by Christophe Jaffrelot and Philippe Bezès

Work in Progress

Sociology of the state and public administrations ; Iran ; Pakistan ; Afghanistan.

  • Teaching

    Sciences Po

    2022 – 2023 : "States and their bureaucracies in the Middle East and North Africa"
    2022 – 2023 : "Qualitative Methods"
    2021 : "Introduction to Political Science" (Menton campus)

  • Web

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaumebeaud/

  • Languages

    French, English, Persian

Main Publications

« 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. 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.

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