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Dr Sarah Leonard

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Email: s.l.leonard@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1382 384594

Dr Sarah Leonard is Lecturer in Politics. Prior to joining the University of Dundee in October 2012, she was Lecturer in International Security at the University of Salford and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies of Sciences Po, Paris (France).  She received her PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.  In 2010, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI, Spain).  Together with Dr Christian Kaunert, she was Editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Research, which is an open-access peer-reviewed journal owned by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), in 2009-2012.

Teaching

Undergraduate Modules

Postgraduate 

Research

Sarah Leonard’s research interests lie at the intersection between Security Studies and European Studies.  She is particularly interested in the development of the European Union internal security policies, especially those relating to asylum, migration and borders, as well as counter-terrorism.  She has also written on securitization theory.

Publications

Books

Refugees, Security and the European Union (with C. Kaunert) (London: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies Series, forthcoming January 2013).

European Security, Terrorism, and Intelligence: Tackling New Security Challenges in Europe (ed. with C. Kaunert) (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2013).

European Security Governance and the European Neighbourhood after the Lisbon Treaty (ed. with C. Kaunert) (London: Routledge, 2012).

European Homeland Security: A European Strategy in the Making? (ed. with C. Kaunert and P. Pawlak) (London: Routledge, 2012).

Developing European Internal Security Policy: After the Stockholm Summit and the Lisbon Treaty (ed. with C. Kaunert) (London: Routledge, 2011).

Journal Articles

'"Between a Rock and a Hard Place?" The European Union's Financial Sanctions against Suspected Terrorists, Multilateralism and Human Rights' (with C. Kaunert), Cooperation and Conflict, 47:4 (forthcoming 2012)

'European Security and Supranational Governance after the Lisbon Treaty' (with C. Kaunert), Cooperation and Conflict, 47:4 (forthcoming 2012)

'The Development of the EU Asylum Policy: Venue-shopping in Perspective' (with C. Kaunert), Journal of European Public Policy, available on iFirst (2012)

'The Social Construction of an EU Interest in Counter-terrorism: US Influence and Internal Struggles in the Cases of SWIFT and PNR' (with C. Kaunert and A. MacKenzie), European Security, available on iFirst (2012)

'European Security Governance after the Lisbon Treaty: Neighbours and New Actors in a Changing Security Environment' (with C. Kaunert), Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 12:4 (2011), 361-370

'Developments in European Security' (with M. O’Neill and C. Kaunert), Journal of Contemporary European Research, 7:4 (2011), 431-434

'EU Counterterrorism and the European Neighbourhood Policy: An Appraisal of the Southern Dimension' (with C. Kaunert), Terrorism and Political Violence, 23:2 (2011), 286-309

'After the Stockholm Programme: An Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union?' (with C. Kaunert), European Security, 19:2 (2010), 143-149

'EU Border Security and Migration into the European Union: FRONTEX and Securitization through Practices', European Security, 19:2 (2010), 231-254

'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), 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), 371-388

Journal Special Issues

'Developments in European Security' (with M. O’Neill and C. Kaunert), Journal of Contemporary European Research, 7:4 (2011), 429-574

'European Security Governance after the Lisbon Treaty: Neighbours and New Actors in a Changing Security Environment' (with C. Kaunert), Perspectives in European Politics and Society, 12:4 (2011), 359-508

'Internal Security Policies in the European Union - After the Stockholm Programme: An Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union?' (with C. Kaunert), European Security, 19:2 (2010), 143-336

Book chapters

'Beyond EU Counter-terrorism Cooperation: European Security, Terrorism and Intelligence' (with C. Kaunert) in European Security, Terrorism, and Intelligence: Tackling New Security Challenges in Europe, ed. by C. Kaunert and S. Léonard (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2013).

'Information-sharing and the EU Counter-terrorism Policy: A "Securitization Tool" Approach' (with T. Balzacq) in European Security, Terrorism, and Intelligence: Tackling New Security Challenges in Europe, ed. by C. Kaunert and S. Léonard (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2013).

'European Security Governance after the Lisbon Treaty: Neighbours and New Actors in a Changing Security Environment' (with C. Kaunert) in European Security Governance and the European Neighbourhood after the Lisbon Treaty, ed. by C. Kaunert and S. Léonard (London: Routledge, 2012).

'Combating the Financing of Terrorism Together? The Influence of the United Nations on the European Union’s Financial Sanctions Regime' (with C. Kaunert) in The Influence of International Institutions on the European Union: A Framework for Analysis, ed. by O. Costa and K.-E. Jorgensen (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 111-134.

'European Homeland Security: A European Strategy in the Making?' (with C. Kaunert and P. Pawlak) in European Homeland Security: A European Strategy in the Making?, ed. by C. Kaunert, S. Léonard and P. Pawlak (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 1-14.

'The Role of Frontex in European Homeland Security' in European Homeland Security: A European Strategy in the Making?, ed. by C. Kaunert, S. Léonard and P. Pawlak (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 145-164.

'European Homeland Security after Lisbon and Stockholm' in European Homeland Security: A European Strategy in the Making?, ed. by C. Kaunert, S. Léonard and P. Pawlak (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 165-175.

'EU Border Security and Migration into the European Union: FRONTEX and Securitisation through Practices' in Developing European Internal Security Policy: After the Stockholm Summit and the Lisbon Treaty, ed. by C. Kaunert and S. Léonard (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 89-112.

'The EU Asylum Policy: Towards a Common Area of Protection and Solidarity?' (with C. Kaunert) in Freedom, Security and Justice after Lisbon and Stockholm, ed. by S. Wolff, F. Goudappel and J. de Zwaan (The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2011), pp. 79-95.

'The External Dimension of Counter-terrorism Cooperation' (with C. Kaunert) in European Internal Security: Towards Supranational Governance in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, by C. Kaunert (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010), pp. 90-120.

'The External Dimension of the EU Asylum and Border Management Policy’ (with C. Kaunert) in European Internal Security: Towards Supranational Governance in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, by C. Kaunert (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010), pp. 150-176.

'Reconceptualizing the Audience in Securitization Theory' (with C. Kaunert) in Securitization Theory: How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve, ed. by T. Balzacq (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 57-76.

'Values vs. Security? A Human Security Perspective on the European Neighbourhood Policy' in  The External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs: Neighbours, Governance, Security, ed. by T. Balzacq (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 229-247.

'L’impact de la révolution dans les affaires militaires sur la culture stratégique de l’OTAN' (with T. Balzacq) in La révolution dans les affaires militaires, ed. by T. Balzacq et A. De Nève (Paris: Economica, 2003), pp. 157-185.

'La stratégie commune de l’Union européenne à l’égard de la région méditerranéenne' in  L’Europe et la Méditerranée, ed. by M. Dumoulin et G. Duchenne (Bruxelles: Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes – Peter Lang, 2001), pp. 281-300.

Suggested Areas for Postgraduate Supervision

Sarah Leonard has supervised several PhD students on various aspects of European integration and European Union security policies, including counter-terrorism, policing and foreign policy.  She welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in working on European integration; European Union policies; international security; counter-terrorism; borders, refugees and migration; and humanitarian intervention. 


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