Sarah Léonard

Marie Curie Research Fellow

Sarah Léonard joined Sciences Po in October 2010 as a Marie Curie Research Fellow. She holds a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship within the 7^th European Community Framework Programme. She is working on a research project entitled ‘Securitization versus Depoliticization in the European Union Asylum and Migration Policy: The Role of the New Agencies (FRONTEX, EASO & Large-Scale IT Systems Agency)’.

She is currently on secondment from the University of Salford, where she has been a Lecturer in International Security since September 2006.

She is also Editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER), which is an open-access peer-reviewed journal owned by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES): www.jcer.net.

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Education

Sarah Léonard holds a first degree in Political Science (International Relations) and a Masters degree in European Studies from the University of Louvain (UCL, Belgium), as well as an MA in Russian and Eurasian Studies from the University of Leeds (United Kingdom). She received her Ph.D. in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (United Kingdom).

Research interests

Sarah Léonard’s research interests lie at the intersection of European studies and Critical Security Studies. She is particularly interested in the internal security policies of the European Union (asylum, migration, borders, counter-terrorism), as well as in securitization theory.

Recent publications

"EU Border Security and Migration into the European Union: FRONTEX and Securitization through Practices", European Security, 19(3), 2010.

"Reconceptualising the Audience in Securitization Theory", in Balzacq, T. (ed.), Securitization Theory: How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve, Routledge, London, 2010.

"The Use and Effectiveness of Migration Controls as a Counter-Terrorism Instrument in the European Union", Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, 4(1), 2010, pp.32-50.

"The Creation of FRONTEX and the Politics of Institutionalisation in the European Union External Borders Policy", Journal of Contemporary European Research, 5(3), 2009, pp.371-388.

"Values vs. Security”? A Human Security Perspective on the European Neighbourhood Policy", in Balzacq, T. (ed.) The External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs: Neighbours, Governance, Security. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.