脡thiopie : les obstacles persistants 脿 la paix
- Date:2026-04-01 - Type :BLOG
- Authors:Sonia Le Gouriellec
Sonia Le Gouriellec holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) and is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the Universit茅 catholique Lille, Faculty of Law. She was previously a researcher at the Institut de Recherche Strat茅gique de l鈥櫭塩ole Militaire (IRSEM) of the French Ministry of Defence, where she oversaw the sub-Saharan African region.聽 Besides being a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, she is also an associate researcher at the Fondation pour la Recherche Strat茅gique (FRS) and the Chaire Raoul Dandurand. She is a member of the editorial board of the Annuaire Fran莽ais des Relations internationales (AFRI) and the Revue internationale de politique compar茅e (RIPC). She co-manages the security section of the Observatoire du multilat茅ralisme et des organisations internationales and the C3RD research on security.
Being a specialist in security studies, Sonia Le Gouriellec focuses her work mainly on peace and security issues in Africa, particularly in the Horn of Africa, and the foreign policies, strategies of small states and decentring in international relations. She has published Djibouti: la diplomatie de g茅ant d鈥檜n petit Etat with the publishing house Presses universitaires du Septentrion (2020), G茅opolitique de l鈥橝frique in the series 鈥淨ue sais-je? 鈥 collection (Presses Universitaires de France, 2022), Pourquoi l鈥橝frique est entr茅e dans l鈥檋istoire (sans nous) (in Hikari Editions, 2022) and, with Delphine All猫s and Melissa Levaillant, Regards crois茅s sur la paix et la s茅curit茅: une anthologie d茅centr茅e (in CNRS Editions, 2023).聽 She has also published in International Affairs, Etudes Internationales, Afrique contemporaine, etc. She hosts the @MorningAfrika page on Twitter.