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Elyamine Settoul

Elyamine Settoul Elyamine Settoul is Assistant-Professor at the CNAM. He holds a PhD of Political Science from Sciences Po Paris (2012). He has been a visiting doctoral student at Oxford University (OxPo 2011), a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (2012-2013) and a Jean Monnet researcher at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence (2013-2015). His research focuses on security/defense issues with themes related to ethnicity and migration phenomena as well as radicalization. He has participated in a number of national and international projects and is a radicalization expert for numerous actors (observatory of radicalizations, ministries, local authorities, prison administration, etc.). He was also a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. He is a member of the reading committee of the journal Champs de Mars (Presses de Sciences Po). He created and currently directs the "Prevention of Radicalization" specialization certificate at the CNAM.

Publications

Books:
  • Suprémaciste. Anatomie d’un parcours d’ultra droite, Presses Universitaires Paris Cité, 2025.
  • Penser la radicalisation djihadiste. Acteurs, Théories, Mutations, (préface de Marc Sageman), PUF, 2022. 

Editor :

With Balzacq Thierry, Radicalization in theory and Practice. Understanding religious violence in Western Europe, Michigan University Press, 2022.

Articles:

  • « Les évolutions stratégiques d’une utopie califale », Annuaire Français des Relations Internationales, vol. XXV, Juin 2024.

  • « Des dynamiques conflictuelles aux processus d’ajustement : un regard sur les pratiques de l’islam en contexte militaire français », Confluences Méditerranée, vol. 124, n°1, 2023, pp. 177-195.

  • With Bertout Emmanuelle, « Quand une radicalisation en cache une autre : sociologie des mouvances d’ultra-droite française », Confluences Méditerranée, vol. 121, n° 2, 2022, pp. 81-93.

  • « L'ambivalence des connexions entre l'engagement militaire et les mouvances djihadistes », Les Champs de Mars, vol. n°33, 2019, pp. 135- 151.