Folashade Soule-Kohndou,
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Folashade Soule-Kohndou teaches Political Science and International Relations at undergraduate and graduate level at Sciences Po Paris, both in english and french and is a research associate at the Center of Sociology and Political studies (CESPO) at the University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC) in Benin. In 2015, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, of the London School of Economics. She is currently the academic coordinator of the joint teaching and research initiative on “Revisiting African Agency in Global Politics” co-led by the London School of Economics (prof. Chris Alden), Sciences Po Paris and the University of Cape Town (Dr. Karen Smith) . ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS •
PhD degree in Political science (summa cum laude), Sciences Po Paris (2014) o Qualification, Maitre de Conférence en science politique (Conseil National des Universités – CNU – section 04) (2016)
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Master’s degree in Political Science, major International Relations (magna cum laude) Sciences Po Paris (2009°
RESEARCH POSITIONS Post-doctoral Fellowship, Africa International Affairs Programme, London School of Economics London, United Kingdom (2015) • Research the politics of negotiation tactics and strategies by west African governments while dealing with south-south cooperation flows from rising donors (supervised by Prof Chris Alden) • Analyze the relationships and processes that make up new donor-recipient relations in francophone West Africa • Conduct empirical work (collect data, lead interviews in order to provide a comparative approach) • Produce an extensive research paper and a policy brief presenting the results for the benefits of the LSE Africa International Affairs Programme and the Global South Unit Visiting PhD fellow, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, New York New York, USA (November 2011 – February 2012) • Collected data on the different development projects set up by the (IBSA) Fund and managed by the special unit for South-South cooperation. • Led interviews with the IBSA high-level officials to get their understanding of South-South development cooperation and IBSA political concertation in the UN Security Council Visiting PhD fellow, Instituto Rio Branco (IRBr), Brasilia, Brazil (April-June 2011) • Field research internship at the diplomatic academy of Brazil for PhD fieldwork • Observed; analysed the diplomatic environment and collected data on IBSA, BRICS matters • Led interviews to understand the Brazilian perspective of southern coalition-building and the fostering of South-South cooperation through the IBSA dialogue forum • Attended high-level policy conferences organized by the institute
Visiting PhD Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) New Delhi, India (January 2011 – March 2011) • Field research mission at the Research and Information system for developing countries (think tank affiliated to the Ministry of External Affairs) • Collected data and lead interviews to understand the Indian perspective of southern coalitionbuilding and strategic aims of South-South cooperation (IBSA-BRICS) Visiting PhD Fellow, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) Johannesburg, South Africa (September 2010 – November 2010) • Collected data and presented communication on PhD findings after the field mission • Observed the policy-thinking/making environment of the No.1 think-tank in Africa (rated by the Global go-to think-tank ranking) • Led interviews to understand the South African perspective of southern coalition-building and strategic aims of the IBSA forum AWARDS • CNRS Scholarship Award (2009 – 2012) 3-year PhD scholarship awarded by the National French Council of Scientific Research (CNRS) • Field Research Grants (January 2011 – June 2011) Field research grant for field trip to Brazil awarded by the Institut des Amériques and REFEB (Réseau des Etudes Françaises au Brésil) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, RESEARCH NETWORKS • Member of the Advisory Board – LSE Africa summit 2016 (London School of Economics) • International Studies Association, Global South Caucus (ISA) • European International Studies Association (EISA) • Development Studies Association (DSA) • Sciences Po Alumni _Africa division (current head of division)
TEACHING, SUPERVISING AND MENTORING ACTIVITIES Folashadé has taught on courses in Political Science and International Relations among which Contemporary World Politics, Theories and Practices of International Cooperation, Africa’s strategies in International politics, Politics of International Development, and International Politics of Sustainable Development and the Environment. She provided these sessions to classes between 20 and 100 students, 2-8 hrs per week, requiring a prior-assessment of course curriculum, development of suitable resources in collaboration with lead professors, organisation and delivery of sessions and coursework. She provided research methodology, map-making skills during office hours and reviewed/graded 3 series of work assignments per student. During her post-doctoral appointments, she pursued several teaching and academic development courses at the Teaching and Learning Centre of the London School of Economics among which a 2-day intensive workshop on “Effective course design”. Course
Level and Type
Academic Duration Year SCIENCES PO - UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE / MASTERS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Economics of International Development Masters 2011-2012 International Politics of Sustainable development and Masters 2011-2012 the Environment Espace Mondial (tutorial seminar) Bachelor 2012-2013 Institutions et Politiques du Développement Masters 2011-2012 SCIENCES PO PARIS – REIMS CAMPUS - EUROPE-AFRICA PROGRAMME African Strategies in International Politics (lecture) Bachelor 2015-2016
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LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (LSE)/ UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT) Africa and Global Transformation: The Rise of Emerging Powers and a New International Order Summer school 2015-2016 4 hours UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY-CALAVI (BENIN) – FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Sociology of the State (States in International Masters 2015-2016 10 hours Relations) INALCO – MASTERS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Cultures stratégiques: cas d'étude Afrique (lecture) Masters 2014-2015 20 hours 2015-2016 Les BRICS et le Monde (lecture) Masters 2015-2016 4 hours CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARIS – FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ECONOMICS Contemporary World Politics (lecture) Bachelor 2015-2016 21 hours Régimes Politiques Comparés (tutorial seminar) Bachelor 2015-2016 2 x 18 hours Théories et Sociologie des Relations Internationales Bachelor 2015-2016 2 x 18 hours (fr/en) (tutorial seminar) UNIVERSITY PARIS NORD – MASTERS INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND NGOs Theories and Practices of International Cooperation Masters 2015-2016 21 hours (lecture) UNIVERSITY OF LILLE II – BACHELOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Science politique : Citoyenneté, Partis, Elections (tutorial seminar) Bachelor 2015-2016 15 hours Vie politique française (tutorial seminar)
Bachelor
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Member of the ‘College of Academic Mentors’ from the Diaspora to support African Universities Programs’, CODESRIA (University Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal) (methodology tutorial support, additional research supervision, support in joining international research networks – since september 2016) Curriculum co-development for the Masters of International Politics and Development of the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin Member of the Advisory Board, LSE-Africa summit, “Africa within a global context”, 2016 Supervisor, Masters’ students collective project on “Global Value Chains in Agriculture in West Africa”, (partner: World Food Programme), Sciences Po Paris (2016) Masters’ thesis supervisor, two International Affairs candidates (2015-2016), University Paris Nord Tutor, (1) Internship at the United Nations (Bachelor – Political Science), Catholic Institute of Paris, (2015-2016) Member, Interview Panels for Bachelor applicants, Europe-Africa programme, Sciences Po Paris (2013-2014) Co-organisation and scientific coordination of an international workshop on South Africa, 20 years after apartheid at CERI – Sciences Po Paris (April 2014) and an international colloquium on “Beyond the periphery: Unpacking African Agency in Global Politics” at CERI-Sciences Po (October 2016) Discussant (2) Master’s thesis –International relations and Strategy, (promotion chef de bataillon Bulle), Ecoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan, (2013)
PUBLICATIONS MONOGRAPHS • ‘Puissances émergentes et Multilatéralisme: le cas de l’Afrique du Sud (1999-2008) - Analyse des stratégies d’une puissance émergente’, (2010) Préface de Bertrand Badie, editions l’Harmattan, Collection Etudes africaines, 176 p. Book review by Thierry Vircoulon, in Afrique Contemporaine, No. 235, 2010/3, pp.144-146. CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS “Bureaucratic agency and power asymmetry in Africa-China negotiations” in New directions in the study of Africa and China, Routledge / Social Science and Research Council (SSRC) project, (under press) • « Rising powers and norm entrepreneurship: IBSA and the Responsibility to Protect » in Southern perspectives on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’(R2P), Nomos (under press), • ‘Analyse de la Résolution 418 (embargo on South Africa)’ (2012) in Les grandes résolutions du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies, Editions Dalloz, pp. 91-100. • ‘L’Afrique du Sud, une puissance entre émergence économique et diplomatique’ (2011) in L’Afrique des nouvelles convoitises, Editions Ellipses, pp. 109-116. •
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES • « South-South Cooperation and Transformational change in International Organizations », Global Governance (co-authored with Carolina Milhorance de Castro), (accepted) (publication in December 2016).
• « L’action culturelle sud-sud du Brésil à travers les clubs de puissances émergentes : fonctions et usages », Cahiers des Amériques Latines, n°80/2016. • « Los emergentes del Sur ante la gobernanza mondial de la ayuda al desarollo : estrategias reformadoras, rivalidades y tentativas », Foro Internacional, (co-authored) Isaline Bergamaschi, Université de Los Andes, Colombie), n°223, vol.1, janvier-mars 2016. JOURNAL ARTICLES • ‘L’Afrique du Sud dans la relation BRICS-Afrique’ (2013), Afrique contemporaine, No. 248, vol.4. • ‘Histoire des relations sud-sud contemporaines: contours d’une évolution graduelle’ (2013), Afrique contemporaine, n°248, vol.4 • ‘IBAS, BRICS, les nouveaux “clubs” du Sud’ (2014) in Carto, No. 22, avril-mai, p.56. • ‘Forums d’émergents et multilatéralisme: le cas du forum Inde-Brésil-Afrique du Sud’ (2012), Perspectives Internationales, No. 2, p. 135-145. • L’activisme du Brésil au sein des forums d’émergents’ (2012), Questions Internationales, no. 55 • ‘Coopération sud-sud et lutte contre la pauvreté’ (2012), CERISCOPE Pauvreté WORKING PAPERS AND POLICY OUTREACH CONTRIBUTIONS • ‘Passive agents? Bureaucratic agency in Africa-China negotiations: a case study of Benin’, London School of Economics (LSE) LSE Global South unit Working papers series, n°5 (under press) • ‘South Africa – competing with the other BRICs in Africa’ (2014), Great Insights, ECDPM, No. 4, vol.3 • ‘The India – Brazil – South Africa (IBSA) dialogue forum, a decade on mismatched partners or the rise of the South?’ (2013), Global Economic Governance Programme Working Papers, No. 88, University of Oxford • «Triangular cooperation: what is the literature telling us? » – Development Cooperation Directorate – Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD (2013) • «Triangular cooperation: what can we learn from a survey of actors involved? » – Development Cooperation Directorate – Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD (2013) • ‘IBSA, BRICS: l’intégration des pays émergents par les clubs?’ (2011), Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, CERI – Sciences Po/ CNRS COMMUNICATIONS AND RESEARCH DISSEMINATION COMMUNICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES •
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«Resistance and Adaptation of IOs: South-South Cooperation and Transformational Change», panel, TA10: Meeting the Challenges of Global Change: Rethinking Norms and Practices in the Global South, 58th convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), Baltimore, 22-25 février 2017 « Collaborating and confronting great powers: dilemmas in South Africa’s grand strategy», Panel RC04 Dilemmas of Grand Strategy Formation: Rising and Resurgent Powers confronting the U.S – Annual Congress of the International Political Science Association (AISP – IPSA), Poznan, Poland, 23-28 July 2016. « Exceptionalism in South Africa’s foreign policy in Africa: evolutions, paradoxes and challenges », Panel TB66, Comparative Exceptionalism - implications in a polycentric world, 57th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), Atlanta, 16-19 March 2016.
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‘South-South development funds: tools for soft-revisionism in International Development?’, International Conference on Capital, Labour and South-South Development, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 9-11 October 2015 ‘Emerging middle powers and club diplomacy: functions and limits of an exclusive diplomacy’ Panel ‘Is Diplomacy of Concert weakened by the risk of exclusion?’, European International Studies Association, (EISA) congress, (8th edition) Warsaw, Poland 21 September 2013. ‘Le rôle des forums IBAS et BRICS dans la diplomatie d’émergent de l’Inde’, Section Thématique 48, Les diplomaties des pays émergents, 12th congres, l’Association Française de Science Politique, AFSP, Paris, 10 July 2013. ‘Reforming the United Nations Security Council from within: the strategies of India, Brazil and South Africa through the IBSA forum’ Joint Seminar ‘Beyond the BRICs metaphor. Making Sense of Non-Western Powers’, Oxford-Sciences Po (OXPO) Workshop, Oxford University 16-17 May 2012. ‘Emerging middle powers groupings in global governance: the case of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) forum in the United Nations’, Panel ‘Southern States and United Nations Multilateralism’, International Studies Association (ISA) congress, Montréal, Canada, 17 Mach 2011. ‘The emergence of IBSA and its role in shaping global governance: perspectives from South Africa’, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 4 November 2010.
WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS AND ROUNDTABLES • « South Africa in the international system”, international seminar « The BRICS and the international order » organized by the Instituto Portuguesa de Relacoes Internacionas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Instituto da Defesa Nacional (IDN), Lisbon, 27 april 2016 • « Passive agents? Bureaucratic agency in Africa-China negotiations », Department of International Relations, London School of Economics (LSE), Londres, 04 december 2015. • « African agency in Africa-China infrastructure negotiations », ‘Beyond the ‘North-South’: new territorialities between Africa and Asia’, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, 03 december 2015. • « Southern norm entrepreneurship in multilateralism », Southern perspectives on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’(R2P), Helmut Schmidt Universität, Hambourg, Allemagne, 6-7 november 2015. • « Les émergents et la sécurité collective: des logiques de contestation aux réinterprétations normatives», La place des émergents en droit international : perspectives pluridisciplinaires, Centre Universitaire de Recherche sur l’Action publique et le Politique (CURAPP), Université de Picardie Jules Verne Amiens, Amiens, 23-24 november 2015. • « Les coalitions de puissances émergentes au Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies (2011-2012) » Centre des Etudes sur la Sécurité Internationale et les Coopérations Européennes (CESICE), Université Pierre-Mendès France Grenoble, Grenoble, 22-23 octobre 2015. • ‘The new international finance architecture for development’, International Relations lecture series, Regent’s University London, London, 23 April 2015. • ‘ L’action des émergents dans la résolution des crises et conflits en Afrique de l’Ouest ‘, Teaching seminar Analyse de la sécurité régionale : acteurs et enjeux, organisé conjointement, Ecole Nationale d’Administration et de la Magistrature, (ENAM) - Université des Sciences Juridiques et Politiques de Bamako (U.S.J.P.B) ; l’Ecole Militaire Interarmes (EMIA), Bamako, Mali, 17 april 2015. • ‘Expressions de la puissance au 21ème siècle – les émergents’, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire, IRSEM; Institut Jean Lecanuet, Paris, 13 April 2015.
• ‘Les postures internationales des BRICS’, Seminar Les BRICS en questions, Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale, IHEDN, Paris, 7 October 2013. • ‘Les clubs d’émergents dans la politique étrangère de l’Afrique du Sud’, Joint Working group between Sciences Po and the Prospective division of the French Ministry of External Affairs ‘Les diplomaties des pays émergents’ CAPS-MAE / CERI-Sciences Po Paris, Paris, 16 May 2012. • ‘Les dynamiques d’intervention extérieure en Afrique australe’, Research Atelier, Perspectives stratégiques en Afrique, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire, IRSEM, Paris, 12 January 2012. • ‘Quelle émergence pour l’Afrique du Sud? L’émergence comme statut ambivalent’, workshop L’émergence: phénomène stratégique, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire, IRSEM, Paris, 6 October 2011. OUTREACH DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH (Newspaper articles, radio talks, policy dialogues, Enewsletters) • ‘Perspectives Economiques: le 7ème sommet des BRICS’, Soleil FM (Beninese radio), 10 July 2015 • ‘La dénonciation des conflits et la prudence: l’équation des pays émergents’ in L’ONU, seule solution au chaos du monde, L’Humanité, 21 August 2014. • ‘La banque des BRICS ou comment concurrencer le FMI’, Europe 1, 15 July 2014. • ‘L’Afrique du Sud vote sans Mandela’, La Croix, 07 May 2014. • ‘L’Afrique du Sud, un intrus parmi les BRICS’”, Sciences Po Executive Education conference, Sciences Po, Campus de Reims, in partnership with the Champagne-Ardennes region, 17 April 2014. • ‘BRICS countries central banks rise their interest rate’, radio podcast BBC Afrique, Dakar, 30 January 2014. • ‘Les fonds multilatéraux sud-sud: acteurs, objectifs et stratégies’, Rencontres de la Prospective, Agence Française de Développement (French Development Agency,AFD), Paris, 12 September 2013 • ‘L’âge d’or des BRICS est-il fini?’ L’œil de la rédaction, TV5 Monde, 17 August 2013. • Audition by the Foreign Affairs Commission of the French National Assembly Mission d’information No. 1535, Les émergents de l’Afrique anglophone, ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE (French National Assembly), Paris, 5 June 2013. • ‘L’Afrique du Sud, les BRICS et les politiques anti-dumping’, radio talk BBC Africa, 15 May 2012. • ‘Les pays des BRICS: de la force économique à un désir d’influence diplomatique’, L’œil de la rédaction, TV5 Monde, March 2012. • ‘IBSA, BRICS: l’intégration des pays émergents par les clubs?’ Le Monde, May 2011, (article selected for publication on the website of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). • ‘Inde-Brésil-Afrique du Sud: Santé, agriculture, des projets communs’, Le Monde Diplomatique, March 2011. • ‘Quelle place pour les émergents dans le monde?’ radio talk Géopolitique – le débat (MarieFrance Chatin), Radio France Internationale (RFI), 29 June 2011. • ‘Emergences: le basculement du monde?’ Festival de Géopolitique et Géo-économie, Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM), 27 March 2011.
