Sonia Le Gouriellec

Sonia Le Gouriellec holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) and is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université catholique Lille, Faculty of Law. She was previously a researcher at the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’École Militaire (IRSEM) of the French Ministry of Defence, where she oversaw the sub-Saharan African region.  Besides being a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, she is also an associate researcher at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS) and the Chaire Raoul Dandurand. She is a member of the editorial board of the Annuaire Français des Relations internationales (AFRI) and the Revue internationale de politique comparée (RIPC). She co-manages the security section of the Observatoire du multilatéralisme 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 géant d’un petit Etat with the publishing house Presses universitaires du Septentrion (2020), Géopolitique de l’Afrique in the series “Que sais-je? ” collection (Presses Universitaires de France, 2022), Pourquoi l’Afrique est entrée dans l’histoire (sans nous) (in Hikari Editions, 2022) and, with Delphine Allès and Melissa Levaillant, Regards croisés sur la paix et la sécurité: une anthologie décentrée (in CNRS Editions, 2023).  She has also published in International Affairs, Etudes Internationales, Afrique contemporaine, etc. She hosts the @MorningAfrika page on Twitter.