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- Status: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track – Private law contract with Sciences Po
- Profile: Foreign and/or security policy of Russia
- Discipline: Political science
- Job starting date: September 2025
This position, focusing on Russian foreign and/or security policy, requires a dual academic expertise in International Relations and Russia. While the research theme remains open, Sciences Po seeks a candidate with specialized proficiency in International Relations (IR), capable of contributing to IR theoretical, empirical, and methodological debates, coupled with a robust regional expertise. The candidates should demonstrate their ability to contextualize one's work within the broader field of social sciences and a solid knowledge of Russia, both in terms of its history and language. The position will be based at Sciences Po’s Center for International Studies (CERI), which has a large pool of researchers working on international relations and areas studies.
Through their publications, candidates must demonstrate their ability to conduct innovative and internationally recognized (or potentially recognized) research. They should also showcase their engagement in international academic networks and willingness to contribute to CERI's ongoing research programs. CERI prioritizes candidates with publications in international academic journals and/or with recognized university presse.
The capacity to secure external funding for research programs will be considered an additional asset.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
- Status: Assistant professor, tenure track - Private law contract
- Profile: Politics of the ocean: markets, ecology and conflicts
- Discipline : Political Science
- Job starting date : September 2025
We are looking for a candidate working on the political and ecological issues of the oceans, seas and coasts, in an innovative way. The environmental issues specific to these areas are at the heart of many situations of violence and conflict, linked to the predation of resources and their entry into trade circuits, which raises both economic and political issues. Possible research topics include, but are not limited to, practices conceptualised as ‘blue grabbing’ to indicate the dispossession of local communities of resources linked to the sea, the struggles and conflicts between protection, conservation, exploitation and grabbing of maritime and coastal spaces, the politicisation and judicialisation of pollution and contamination issues, as well as the claims and practices of ‘blue justice’, involving a variety of actors: local communities, multinationals, NGOs, national and international public actors and institutions, as well as groups involved in piracy practices.
In methodological terms, the research programme is expected to be based on an expertise in one or more fields (particularly in the global South) as a starting point for comparative reflection.
In terms of discipline, the profile is open-ended: in addition to the sub-disciplines of political science (particularly comparative politics and international relations), other social science disciplines inclined to dialogue with political science are welcome, such as anthropology, geography, sociology and history. An interest in interdisciplinary openness towards maritime environmental science disciplines will be considered an asset.
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Full professor in Political science, International Political Economy & Comparative Politics (Africa)
Assistant professor Gender & international relations.
PhD Candidates
The CERI is one of the hosting laboratories for the Political Science Doctoral Program at Sciences Po. The Sciences Po Research School's webpage provides information about the requirements for admission to a doctoral program and the timetable. Applicants must have a source of funding to be accepted. Funding opportunities are detailed on the "Funding" page of the Research School.
Call for Doctoral Contracts : The International Dimensions and Effects of Populism (IDEoPOP).
Deadline: December 2nd 2024
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Letters of support from CERI in response to these calls for applications must be requested at least 3 weeks before the closing date of the call.
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