Emma Soubrier
Associate Researcher, Institute for Peace and Development at Université Côte d’Azur (Nice, France)
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Associate Researcher, Institute for Peace and Development at Université Côte d’Azur (Nice, France)
twitter: @esoubrier
email: esoubrier [at] hotmail [dot] fr
WhatsApp: +33 6 63 00 10 32 phone: +1 202 664 0607
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Dr. Emma Soubrier is an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Peace and Development at the Université Côte d’Azur’s LADIE International and European Law Department (Nice, France) and a Non-Resident Fellow at the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Boston, USA). Over the past ten years, her research has focused on the security strategies and foreign policies of the Gulf countries as well as the political economy of the global arms trade. Soubrier is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW). Her work promotes a renewed approach to security in the Middle East that no longer focuses merely on political and military aspects but includes a broader look at people-centered dimensions of security (human security, particularly societal security and environmental security).
Soubrier has many publications in French and English on Gulf security issues, including “Gulf Security in a Multipolar World: Power Competition, Diversified Cooperation” and “Redefining Gulf Security Begins by Including the Human Dimension” (AGSIW 2020). Her forthcoming book, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates: Diverging Paths to Regional and Global Power (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2023), is based on her PhD thesis, which received a Dissertation Award from the Institute for Higher National Defense Studies (France) in 2018. As part of the World Peace Foundation team conducting the project “Defense Industries, Foreign Policy and Armed Conflict” funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, she published the report “Weaponized storytelling à la française: Demystifying France’s narratives around its arms export policies” in April 2022.
Soubrier was previously a professorial lecturer and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs on two occasions, a visiting scholar at AGSIW for two years, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Michel de l’Hospital, Université Clermont Auvergne (France). She worked for three and a half years at the French Ministry of Defense and for three years at Airbus Defence and Space. She received her PhD in political science from the Université Clermont Auvergne in 2017 and holds an MA in international relations from Sorbonne University (Paris, France).
Recent publications:
Dr. Emma Soubrier is an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Peace and Development at the Université Côte d’Azur’s LADIE International and European Law Department (Nice, France) and a Non-Resident Fellow at the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Boston, USA). Over the past ten years, her research has focused on the security strategies and foreign policies of the Gulf countries as well as the political economy of the global arms trade. Soubrier is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW). Her work promotes a renewed approach to security in the Middle East that no longer focuses merely on political and military aspects but includes a broader look at people-centered dimensions of security (human security, particularly societal security and environmental security).
Soubrier has many publications in French and English on Gulf security issues, including “Gulf Security in a Multipolar World: Power Competition, Diversified Cooperation” and “Redefining Gulf Security Begins by Including the Human Dimension” (AGSIW 2020). Her forthcoming book, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates: Diverging Paths to Regional and Global Power (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2023), is based on her PhD thesis, which received a Dissertation Award from the Institute for Higher National Defense Studies (France) in 2018. As part of the World Peace Foundation team conducting the project “Defense Industries, Foreign Policy and Armed Conflict” funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, she published the report “Weaponized storytelling à la française: Demystifying France’s narratives around its arms export policies” in April 2022.
Soubrier was previously a professorial lecturer and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs on two occasions, a visiting scholar at AGSIW for two years, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Michel de l’Hospital, Université Clermont Auvergne (France). She worked for three and a half years at the French Ministry of Defense and for three years at Airbus Defence and Space. She received her PhD in political science from the Université Clermont Auvergne in 2017 and holds an MA in international relations from Sorbonne University (Paris, France).
Recent publications:
- "Unpacking the storytelling around French arms sales: Demystifying the ‘strategic autonomy’ argument," in Global Policy, Volume 14, Issue 1, Durham University.
- "Weaponized storytelling à la française: Demystifying France’s narratives around its arms export policies," WPF, April 1, 2022.
- "A New U.S. Weapons Exports Policy: Transformed or Simply Revamped?" Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, September 27, 2021.
- "Eye to the Horizon: The UAE’s Maritime Ambitions," The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, July 28, 2021.
- "Introduction: new trends in Gulf international relations and transnational politics," International Affairs, July 5, 2021.
- "The Gulf Cooperation Council at 40: Finally Ripe for a Regional Security System?," The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, May 27, 2021.
- "The UAE’s Message of Hope, Delivered With a Soft-Power Focus and Some Strategic Hedging," Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, April 22, 2021
- "The United States is Ready for Teamwork in the Gulf," Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, January 29, 2021.
- "Redefining Gulf Security Begins by Including the Human Dimension," Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, November 19, 2020.
- "What the F-35 Deal Says About U.S.-UAE Relations," Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, November 3, 2020.