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Laurence Louër
Deputy Director for Scientific (CERI) - Associate Professor, Sciences PoPhone: +33 (0) 1 58 71 70 15 - laurence.louer@sciencespo.fr
Laurence Louër has an interdisciplinary training in philosophy (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), sociology (University Paris X Nanterre), Arabic (Institut des langues et civilisations orientales - INALCO, Paris) and political science (Sciences Po Paris). She obtained her PhD from Sciences Po Paris in 2001.
She was editor of the journal Critique internationale from 2006 to 2016, and has been a member of the editorial board of Arabian Humanities since its creation in 2013. Between 2004 and 2009, she was a permanent consultant at the Centre for Analysis, Forecasting and Strategy of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. Between 2013 and 2017, she was a member and then director of the Scientific Advisory Board of UMIFRE (French Research Centres Abroad) in Egypt, Sudan and the Arabian Peninsula.
Between 2017 and 2020, she led (with Laetitia Bucaille) the Inalco-Sciences Po Master on the Middle East. Since 2021, she is in charge (with Jan Rovny) of the Comparative Politics programme of the Master in Political Science at Sciences Po (School of Research).
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Teaching
She teaches at Sciences Po in French and English, on the Menton campus (“Introduction à la science politique” and “Introduction to Political Science”), at the Paris School of International Affairs – PSIA (“Shiism and Politics in the Middle East”; “States and Societies in the Gulf Monarchies”) and at the School of Research (“Le religieux dans le monde contemporain”, with Kathy Rousselet and Antonela Capelle-Pogacean).
She also teaches at the Paris-Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) (Master in Applied Sociological Research, “Introduction to Gulf Studies” and “Advanced Topics in Gulf Studies”).
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Languages
English, Arabic, French, Italian Hebrew, Portuguese
"Bahrain: The Army and the Dynamics of State-Society Relations", in William R. Thompson and Hicham Bou Nasif (eds), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Military in Politics, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Sunnis and Shi’a. A Political History, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2020.
"Sectarianism in the Gulf Monarchies: Regional and Domestic Factors of Sunni-Shi‘a Tensions", in Mehran Kamrava (ed), Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics, London, Routledge, 2020.
« Communautarisations chiite et sunnite en miroir au Bahreïn », Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 181, janvier-mars 2018.
"The Arab Spring Effect on Labor Politics in Bahrain and Oman", Arabian Humanities, n° 4, automne 2014.
"Activism in Bahrain: Between Sectarian and Issue Politics", in Lina Khatib and Ellen Lust (eds), Taking to the Streets: The Transformation of Arab Activism, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
« Soulèvements et factionnalismes des élites autoritaires en Egypte et au Bahreïn », Critique internationale, 61, octobre-décembre 2013.
Shiism and Politics in the Middle East. Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Gulf monarchies, London, Hurst/New York, Columbia University Press, 2012.
Transnational Shia Politics. Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf, London, Hurst/New York, Columbia University Press, 2008.
