Sharon Lecocq
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Lecocq |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lecocq |
| SIGNATURE | LECOCQ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5039-5667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Protean power and adaptive governance in EU peacebuilding: Engaging hybrid actors in a fragmented European neighbourhood
In an uncertain and fragmented neighbourhood, the EU’s approach to peacebuilding increasingly needs to deal with countries where the state is absent or dysfunctional. This raises the question of how to engage with a growing range of hybrid actors that perform important governance functions that are traditionally associated with states. Against this backdrop, this article examines the EU’s capacity to adapt its peacebuilding institutions and pract…
Decentring European Foreign Policy Analysis: Towards a Paradigmatic Shift
The article argues that considering Eurocentrism as a meta‐paradigm helps scholars to be conscious about assumptions, simplifications and distortions that undermine scholars' abilities to analyse European foreign policy. The article integrates several conceptualisations of decentring that originate from both postcolonial and more mainstream scholarship. It explains how analytical limitations and simplifications can be overcome through various int…
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices
Diplomacy increasingly demands taking into account a large variety of polities, featuring not only state but also non-state actors (such as IGOs and NGOs) and ‘hybrid’ actors. Particularly in the broader Middle East and North Africa region, hybrid actors are important players in local, regional and international order. The European Union and its Member States have a distinct interest in gaining influence in the geopolitics of the region and are i…
Critical and Problem-Solving Perspectives on Decentring EU External Action Studies
This article proposes a decentring approach for EU External Action Studies as a debate that is ‘disrupting’ the mainstream in European Studies. It theoretically contributes to the decentring debate in three ways. First, by identifying decentring as a meta-theoretical current of thinking, the article helps define the decentring debate as an area of theorising which can accommodate scholars from various backgrounds and bring them together around a …
Decentring Norms in EU Relations with the Southern Neighbourhood
The EU's external promotion of norms and the idea of normative power Europe itself are increasingly contested, which is especially true in the EU's southern neighbourhood. However, whereas scholars of EU foreign policy acknowledge the contestation of external norms, they find it difficult to understand why other normative frameworks could be equally or more appealing to Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries, as they entail norms that …
EU foreign policy and hybrid actors in the Middle East: Ready for geopolitical contestation
The 2019 European Commission recognizes a need to learn the language of power and geopolitics for the EU to become a stronger player in a contested world. Yet the EU experiences difficulties in navigating the geopolitical scene in its immediate neighbourhood, the Middle East and North Africa, characterized by fast-changing alliances among international and regional powers but also a wide array of non-state and hybrid actors. Policy recommendation…
Hamas and Hezbollah: Hybrid Actors Between Resistance and Governance
This analytical review essay discusses five recent books on Hamas and Hezbollah, which see the groups as peculiar yet increasingly important actors in the Middle East and in international relations more broadly. The books illustrate a growing attention to these actors, not merely as armed spoilers, but as legitimate incumbents in national elections and providers of local governance. They also highlight the challenges this approach creates for tra…
Decentring the analysis of EU foreign policy and external-internal legitimacy: (Re-)Introducing Polity
This article intends to further refine the multi-tiered debate on legitimacy in EU foreign policy by examining the external legitimacy of EU foreign policy within the wider context of the internal legitimacy of other polities in third countries, regions or societies. Through (re-)introducing and further developing the “polity” concept, this contribution presents a framework for analysing and comparing the (output) legitimacy of different authorit…
Operationalising the decentring agenda: Analysing European foreign policy in a non-European and post-western world
Eurocentrism in the analysis of European foreign policy often renders scholars blind to other world views and realities, although engaging with these may be critical for understanding the relevance and impact of this policy in other parts of the world. Notwithstanding calls for decentring the study of International Relations and European foreign policy in particular, scholars of European foreign policy generally lack the tools and conceptual lens…
Operationalising the decentring agenda: Analysing European foreign policy in a non-European and post-western world
Eurocentrism in the analysis of European foreign policy often renders scholars blind to other world views and realities, although engaging with these may be critical for understanding the relevance and impact of this policy in other parts of the world. Notwithstanding calls for decentring the study of International Relations and European foreign policy in particular, scholars of European foreign policy generally lack the tools and conceptual lens…
Decentring Norms in EU Relations with the Southern Neighbourhood
The EU's external promotion of norms and the idea of normative power Europe itself are increasingly contested, which is especially true in the EU's southern neighbourhood. However, whereas scholars of EU foreign policy acknowledge the contestation of external norms, they find it difficult to understand why other normative frameworks could be equally or more appealing to Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries, as they entail norms that …
Decentring the analysis of EU foreign policy and external-internal legitimacy: (Re-)Introducing Polity
This article intends to further refine the multi-tiered debate on legitimacy in EU foreign policy by examining the external legitimacy of EU foreign policy within the wider context of the internal legitimacy of other polities in third countries, regions or societies. Through (re-)introducing and further developing the “polity” concept, this contribution presents a framework for analysing and comparing the (output) legitimacy of different authorit…
EU foreign policy and hybrid actors in the Middle East: Ready for geopolitical contestation
The 2019 European Commission recognizes a need to learn the language of power and geopolitics for the EU to become a stronger player in a contested world. Yet the EU experiences difficulties in navigating the geopolitical scene in its immediate neighbourhood, the Middle East and North Africa, characterized by fast-changing alliances among international and regional powers but also a wide array of non-state and hybrid actors. Policy recommendation…
Decentring European Foreign Policy Analysis: Towards a Paradigmatic Shift
The article argues that considering Eurocentrism as a meta‐paradigm helps scholars to be conscious about assumptions, simplifications and distortions that undermine scholars' abilities to analyse European foreign policy. The article integrates several conceptualisations of decentring that originate from both postcolonial and more mainstream scholarship. It explains how analytical limitations and simplifications can be overcome through various int…
Critical and Problem-Solving Perspectives on Decentring EU External Action Studies
This article proposes a decentring approach for EU External Action Studies as a debate that is ‘disrupting’ the mainstream in European Studies. It theoretically contributes to the decentring debate in three ways. First, by identifying decentring as a meta-theoretical current of thinking, the article helps define the decentring debate as an area of theorising which can accommodate scholars from various backgrounds and bring them together around a …
Protean power and adaptive governance in EU peacebuilding: Engaging hybrid actors in a fragmented European neighbourhood
In an uncertain and fragmented neighbourhood, the EU’s approach to peacebuilding increasingly needs to deal with countries where the state is absent or dysfunctional. This raises the question of how to engage with a growing range of hybrid actors that perform important governance functions that are traditionally associated with states. Against this backdrop, this article examines the EU’s capacity to adapt its peacebuilding institutions and pract…
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices
Diplomacy increasingly demands taking into account a large variety of polities, featuring not only state but also non-state actors (such as IGOs and NGOs) and ‘hybrid’ actors. Particularly in the broader Middle East and North Africa region, hybrid actors are important players in local, regional and international order. The European Union and its Member States have a distinct interest in gaining influence in the geopolitics of the region and are i…
Hamas and Hezbollah: Hybrid Actors Between Resistance and Governance
This analytical review essay discusses five recent books on Hamas and Hezbollah, which see the groups as peculiar yet increasingly important actors in the Middle East and in international relations more broadly. The books illustrate a growing attention to these actors, not merely as armed spoilers, but as legitimate incumbents in national elections and providers of local governance. They also highlight the challenges this approach creates for tra…
Decentring the analysis of EU foreign policy and external-internal legitimacy: (Re-)Introducing Polity
This article intends to further refine the multi-tiered debate on legitimacy in EU foreign policy by examining the external legitimacy of EU foreign policy within the wider context of the internal legitimacy of other polities in third countries, regions or societies. Through (re-)introducing and further developing the “polity” concept, this contribution presents a framework for analysing and comparing the (output) legitimacy of different authorit…
Operationalising the decentring agenda: Analysing European foreign policy in a non-European and post-western world
Eurocentrism in the analysis of European foreign policy often renders scholars blind to other world views and realities, although engaging with these may be critical for understanding the relevance and impact of this policy in other parts of the world. Notwithstanding calls for decentring the study of International Relations and European foreign policy in particular, scholars of European foreign policy generally lack the tools and conceptual lens…
EU foreign policy and hybrid actors in the Middle East: Ready for geopolitical contestation
The 2019 European Commission recognizes a need to learn the language of power and geopolitics for the EU to become a stronger player in a contested world. Yet the EU experiences difficulties in navigating the geopolitical scene in its immediate neighbourhood, the Middle East and North Africa, characterized by fast-changing alliances among international and regional powers but also a wide array of non-state and hybrid actors. Policy recommendation…
Hamas and Hezbollah: Hybrid Actors Between Resistance and Governance
This analytical review essay discusses five recent books on Hamas and Hezbollah, which see the groups as peculiar yet increasingly important actors in the Middle East and in international relations more broadly. The books illustrate a growing attention to these actors, not merely as armed spoilers, but as legitimate incumbents in national elections and providers of local governance. They also highlight the challenges this approach creates for tra…
Decentring Norms in EU Relations with the Southern Neighbourhood
The EU's external promotion of norms and the idea of normative power Europe itself are increasingly contested, which is especially true in the EU's southern neighbourhood. However, whereas scholars of EU foreign policy acknowledge the contestation of external norms, they find it difficult to understand why other normative frameworks could be equally or more appealing to Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries, as they entail norms that …
Critical and Problem-Solving Perspectives on Decentring EU External Action Studies
This article proposes a decentring approach for EU External Action Studies as a debate that is ‘disrupting’ the mainstream in European Studies. It theoretically contributes to the decentring debate in three ways. First, by identifying decentring as a meta-theoretical current of thinking, the article helps define the decentring debate as an area of theorising which can accommodate scholars from various backgrounds and bring them together around a …
European Foreign Policy Towards Hybrid Actors in the Middle East and North Africa: An Exploration of Diplomatic Practices
Diplomacy increasingly demands taking into account a large variety of polities, featuring not only state but also non-state actors (such as IGOs and NGOs) and ‘hybrid’ actors. Particularly in the broader Middle East and North Africa region, hybrid actors are important players in local, regional and international order. The European Union and its Member States have a distinct interest in gaining influence in the geopolitics of the region and are i…
Protean power and adaptive governance in EU peacebuilding: Engaging hybrid actors in a fragmented European neighbourhood
In an uncertain and fragmented neighbourhood, the EU’s approach to peacebuilding increasingly needs to deal with countries where the state is absent or dysfunctional. This raises the question of how to engage with a growing range of hybrid actors that perform important governance functions that are traditionally associated with states. Against this backdrop, this article examines the EU’s capacity to adapt its peacebuilding institutions and pract…
Decentring European Foreign Policy Analysis: Towards a Paradigmatic Shift
The article argues that considering Eurocentrism as a meta‐paradigm helps scholars to be conscious about assumptions, simplifications and distortions that undermine scholars' abilities to analyse European foreign policy. The article integrates several conceptualisations of decentring that originate from both postcolonial and more mainstream scholarship. It explains how analytical limitations and simplifications can be overcome through various int…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Foreign policy (6 works) · Normative (5 works)