Doctoral Supervision

Professor Bigo is prepared to consider PhD supervision in the following broad areas:

• Mobility, Conflict, Security, Fundamental Rights
• Epistemology of International Relations, Bourdieu, Foucault and other European theorists and their impact on International Relations
• Professionals of politics and emergence of transnational expert networks
• International Political Sociology of (in)security. Terror, fear, unease, risk

• Surveillance studies : relation between liberty, mobility, traceability, technology prevention and security
• Internal security in the European Union: analyse of the different institutions and agencies, relation between public and private actors, forms of policing at a distance : policing, hegemony and empire at the transnational level.
• European security institutions, analyse of the relations between the third pillar (area of freedom, security and justice), second pillar and first pillar, mapping of the different internal security agencies and analyse of the Europeanization enlargement process as a form of (de)securitization.

Past Doctoral Students

• Emmanuel Pierre Guittet (2006)
  'La genèse de la coopération antiterroriste en Europe et l’implication de l’Espagne dans la (re)définition de l’identité européenne : De la raison d’Etat à la raison de la gouvernementalité européenne?' Now lecturer at Manchester U
  
  
• Amandine Scherrer (2007)
  'La production normative du G8 face à la « criminalité transnationale organisée » (1989 – 2005) : La force du discours, le poids de l’expertise.' Now at C&CLS.
  
  
• Philippe Bonditti (2008)
  'L’antiterrorisme aux Etats-Unis (1947-2007). Une analyse foucaldienne de la transformation de l’exercice de la souveraineté et de l’art de gouverner.' NowLecturer at PUC Rio
  
  
• Christian Olsson (2009)
  'Conquérir « les coeurs et les esprits » ? Usages et enjeux de légitimation locale de la force dans les missions de pacification extérieures (Bosnie, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Irak; 1996-2006).' Now lecturer at ULB
  
  
• Florent Blanc (2010)
  'Dissent after September 11: the mobilization of librarians, the ACLU, cities and lawyers.' Now responsible of an NGO Grenoble.
  
  
• Francesco Ragazzi (2010)
  'When Governments Say « Diaspora »: Transnational practices of citizenship, nationalism and sovereignty in Croatia and former Yugoslavia.' Now lecturer at Leiden U.
  

• Julien Jeandesboz (2011)
  'Les politiques de voisinage de l’Union européenne.'Now lecturer at U of Amsterdam
  
  
• Anthony Amicelle (2011)
  'L’Union européenne dans la lutte contre le financement du terrorisme : Enjeux et usages d’un dispositif de gestion des flux financiers.'  Now post doc at PRIO.
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  Current Doctoral Students

• 6 doctoral students under my supervision : 4 doctoral students at KCL, 2 doctoral students at Sciences Po-   For more information see the International Political Sociology group and the Centre for Political Community War Studies KCL.
• topics : radicalisation and far left, antiterrorist collaboration, europeanisation of the british intelligence service?, the notions of fialed and fragiles states and their international consequences, the border controls in central asia and the EU collaboration, the Macedonian diaspora