Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Political Science: Foreign And/or Security Policy Of Russia

The Centre for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, Paris, seeks an Assistant Professor whose work focuses on Russian foreign and/or security policy. While the research theme remains open, the successful candidate will have a specialized proficiency in the field of International Relations (IR), capable of contributing to IR theoretical, empirical, and methodological debates. 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. They will have an excellent research and publication record.

The position will be based at Sciences Po’s Center for International Studies (CERI).

Sciences Po is ranked 1st in the EU and 2nd in the world in the QS World University Ranking by subject 2024 for Politics and International Relations.

Deadline: March 15, 2025

Founded at Sciences Po in 1952, the CERI is today France’s leading research center dedicated to the study of international/transnational relations and regional area studies. The Center is directed by Stéphanie Balme and has enjoyed the status of joint research entity (UMR 7050) under the combined auspices of Sciences Po and the CNRS, since 2002.

The CERI currently comprises 60 permanent faculty members. It also hosts nearly 80 doctoral students in IR and area studies from the Sciences Po Doctoral School. The CERI’s research agenda is based on the conviction that the study of the globalized world must proceed through a two-pronged approach: area studies and international and transnational relations.

The Center brings together scholars from several social science disciplines, among which political science is the best represented, along with sociology, anthropology, history and economics. A dozen or so of the Center’s scholars are specialists of international relations in the strict sense. In area studies, the Center is particularly strong in North Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, the Far East, South Asia, West Africa and the African Great Lakes Region. The Center’s approach to area studies emphasizes fieldwork, empirical and comparative approaches, and the study of rare languages.

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