Associate professor in political science at University Toulouse Capitole
Contact: mailys[dot]mangin[at]ens.psl.eu
Career
Maïlys Mangin is a research associate and lecturer at CIENS. She holds a PhD in political science, completed in 2022 under the supervision of Yves Buchet de Neuilly. Her doctoral research focused on the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in shaping international policies to combat nuclear proliferation in Iraq and Iran. From 2020 to 2023, she was a Research Fellow with the “Managing the Atom” project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Her dissertation examines the evolution of the IAEA’s nuclear non-proliferation missions and their utilization, tracing their development from the agency’s establishment during the Cold War to the Iranian nuclear crisis. She highlights the social underpinnings of the agency’s politicization, characterized by the “conflictualization” of interactions among actors leveraging the IAEA’s nuclear expertise.
Maïlys Mangin has received several prestigious awards for her research, including the “Prix de thèse 2022-2023” by Presses du Septentrion (for publication in the ‘Espaces politiques’ collection), the “Prix de thèse (special mention) 2023” from the French Association for War and Strategy Studies (AEGES), and the 2024 Doctoral College Thesis Award of the University of Lille in International Research.
Before joining CIENS, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de recherche de l’Ecole de l’Air, contributing to the ANR ASTRID-CIGAIA research project. Her work focused on studying controversies surrounding the War in Ukraine and their impact on the conflict, utilizing an artificial intelligence algorithm to analyze these dynamics.
Publications
- “La conversion de l’AIEA à la lutte contre la prolifération nucléaire”, PhD thesis in political science, under the supervision of Yves Buchet de Neuilly, Université de Lille, 2022.
- “Regulating the ‘Iranian bomb’. Perspective sur les modes de domination d’un jeu multilatéral”, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 4, n°234, 2020.
