Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
UCL Mons - ESPO
Chaussee de Binche 151
Box M1.01.01
Mons
7000
Belgium
ABOUT
Elena Aoun is assistant professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and most of her research focuses on the Middle East. As a Lebanese political science student at the Saint-Joseph University (Beirut), she has started by writing a first Master thesis on the Lebanese civil war and the combination of domestic and foreign factors that brought about its ending at the turn of the 1980s-1990s. In the framework of a second Master thesis undertaken at the Institute of political Studies of Paris (Science Po), she worked on the Israeli security policies in the context of the Middle East peace process. Her PhD, defended also at Science Po Paris, widened the scope, tackling the involvement of the European Union in the Middle East peace process. During her post-doctoral stay at the Institute for European Studies (McGill and University of Montreal), she has pursued a research on the EU and the international criminal justice in parallel to her continued work on the Middle East. She is currently involved in projects revolving around: the many crises and conflicts in the Middle East today; the phenomenon of Jihadism and its root causes; the European Union reactions to these crises and phenomenon; the penetration of China in the Middle East; and resistance to international prescriptions in the Middle East.
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Conflict Resolution
Foreign Relations
Middle East/Near East Studies
Peace Studies
Security Studies
Terrorism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Europe
Iran
Israel
Palestine
The Levant
Specialties
EU Involvement In The Middle East
China In The Middle East
Transnational Jidhadi Challenges To ME States
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (native)
English (fluent)
Italian (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2007
| IEP Ecole doctorale
| Institut d\'études politiques de Paris
Abstracts
Fighting for our own. The involvement of Lebanese non-state actors in the Syrian conflict and the sources of the power of identity politics
A Bitter Encounter: The Shi'i Community under Israeli Occupation in South Lebanon
Colliding visions – A fieldwork on the diffusion of and resistance to international women’s rights norms in Jordan
Dealing with violence against women during the coronavirus pandemic in Jordan: an unexpected route towards greater symmetry between local actors and global donors?
