Jérôme Doyon

Professor Jérôme Doyon

2024-25

The Chinese Communist Party Goes Global: Tracing CCP Organizations and Networks in Europe

This project focuses on an under-researched aspect of China’s rise: the globalisation of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) organizations and networks in Europe. Rather than the exportation of a ‘Chinese model of governance’ or of a ‘new normative order’, the tangible and observable aspect of the political influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) abroad involves the more subtle expansion of specific institutions and networks. This expansion relies on the party’s ‘magic weapons’, to paraphrase Mao Zedong: ‘party-building’, namely the creation of party cells abroad, and its ‘united front’ tactics, aiming at co-opting potential opponents to make them valuable intermediaries.

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Areas of interest

International Relations China Politics Elites Youth Politics

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Biography

Jérôme Doyon is a Junior Professor at the Centre for International Relations (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on Chinese politics and foreign policy with a specific interest in the inner working of the Party-State apparatus and its exportation beyond Chinese borders, as well as elite politics, political youth organizations, and the management of ethnoreligious minorities.

His work has appeared in various outlets, such as Political Studies or The China Quarterly, and his most recent book titled Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post- Mao Chinawas published by the University of Michigan Press in 2023.

Prior to joining Sciences Po he held fellowships and positions at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Oxford School for Global and Area Studies, the University of Edinburgh, and the SOAS China Institute. He obtained a joint PhD in Political Science from Columbia University (New York) and SciencesPo (Paris). He also worked as an Associate Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and was for several years the editor of ECFR’s publication China Analysis.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25