Laure Delcour (FR) is an Associate Professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris, France). Her research interests focus on the diffusion and reception of EU norms and policies as part of the European Neighbourhood Policy, the interaction between European and Russian policies in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus, as well as region-building processes in Eurasia. She acted as a coordinator or researcher in several EU-funded and French-funded research projects on these topics and is currently conducting a project (co-funded by French ANR and Austrian FWF) on civil society participation in the policymaking process in the EU’s neighbourhood. She has lectured on EU external action, EU enlargement and neighbourhood policies, EU-Russia relations and Russian foreign policy at Sciences-Po Paris; Sciences-Po Strasbourg; INALCO Paris; MGIMO (Moscow).
Selected publications:
Books:
- The EU and Russia in their “Contested Neighbourhood: Multiple External Influences, Policy Transfer and Domestic Change. London: Routledge, 2017.
- Shaping the Post-Soviet Space? EU Strategies and Approaches to Region-Building. London: Ashgate, 2011.
Articles and book chapters:
- “The Road to Equality? EU diffusion of anti-discrimination norms”, Democratization 29, no. 3 (2022): 469-486.
- “From a ‘Common’ to a ‘Contested’ Neighbourhood: Connecting Levels of Analysis in EU–Russia Interaction”, in The Routledge Handbook of EU-Russia Relations, edited by Tatiana Romanova and Maxine David, 392-402. London: Routledge, 2021.
- “From principle to practice? The resilience–local ownership nexus in the EU Eastern Partnership policy” (with Irina Petrova), Contemporary Security Policy 41, no. 2 (2020): 336-360.
- “Dealing with the elephant in the room: the EU, its ‘eastern neighbourhood’ and Russia”, Contemporary Politics 24, no. 1 (2018): 14-29.
- “Well-Meaning but Ineffective? Perceptions of the EU’s Role as a Security Actor in the South Caucasus” (with Kataryna Wolczuk), European Foreign Affairs Review 23, Special issue (2018): 41-60.
- “Beyond geopolitics: exploring the impact of the EU and. Russia in the ‘contested neighborhood’” (with Esther Ademmer and Kataryna Wolczuk), Eurasian Geography and Economics 57, no. 1 (2016): 1-18.
- “Between the Eastern Partnership and Eurasian Integration: Explaining Post-Soviet Countries’ Engagement in (Competing) Region-Building Projects”, Problems of Post-Communism 62, no. 6 (2015): 316-327.
- “Spoiler or Facilitator of Democratization? Russia’s role in Georgia and Ukraine” (with Kataryna Wolczuk), Democratization 22, no. 3 (2015): 459-478.
- “The EU’s Unexpected ‘Ideal Neighbour’? The Perplexing Case of Armenia’s Europeanisation” (with Kataryna Wolczuk), Journal of European Integration 37, no. 4 (2015): 491-507.