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Jean-François Bayart

Jean-François Bayart (born 20 March 1950 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French political scientist and former director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). His specialty is the comparative historical sociology of the state.

He is notably the author of several books on sub-Saharan Africa and the historicity of politics. Since 2015, he has been a professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva.

Bayart founded the journal ''Politique africaine'' (in 1980–81), ''Critique internationale'' (in 1998), and the book collection “Recherches internationales” (in 1998, published by Éditions Karthala). He served as director of the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI) at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) from 1994 to 2000 and is the founding president of the Fund for the Analysis of Political Societies (FASOPO), established in 2003.

He is a commentator on international politics in various media outlets, notably Mediapart. He was a permanent consultant for the Policy Planning Staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1990 to 2005 and a member of the commission for the 2013 French White Paper on Defence and National Security (2012–2013). He has served as the scientific director of the Focus section of the Rencontres des cinémas d'Europe at the Maison de l'image d'Aubenas since 2010. He has taught at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, the University of Lausanne, and the University of Turin. Provided by Wikipedia