Dr. Emma Soubrier is the Director of the Pathways to Renewed and Inclusive Security in the Middle East (PRISME) Initiative, an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Peace and Development at the Université Côte d’Azur’s LADIE International and European Law Department in Nice, France, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the World Peace Foundation (WPF) at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston, USA. She is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW). For over a decade, her research has focused on the security strategies and foreign policies of Gulf countries, as well as the political economy of the global arms trade. Her work promotes a renewed approach to security in the Middle East, moving beyond traditional political and military perspectives to include broader, people-centered dimensions of security, such as human security, societal security, and environmental security.   She has published extensively in both French and English on Gulf security issues, including “Gulf Security in a Multipolar World: Power Competition, Diversified Cooperation” and “Redefining Gulf Security Begins by Including the Human Dimension” (AGSIW 2020). Her forthcoming book, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates: Diverging Paths to Regional and Global Power (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2024), is based on her award-winning PhD thesis. As part of the WPF team conducting the projects “Defense Industries, Foreign Policy and Armed Conflict” (2020-2022) and “Revitalizing Debate on the Global Arms Trade” (2022-2024), funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, she published the report “Weaponized Storytelling à la Française: Demystifying France’s Narratives Around its Arms Export Policies” in April 2022, along with numerous synthesis papers from the SALAM workshops. These works challenge the traditional centrality of the arms trade in international relations with and among Middle East & North Africa (MENA) countries.   Soubrier teaches at Sciences Po Paris, on its Middle East campus in Menton, and at the French Military Academy of Saint-Cyr. Previously, she was a professorial lecturer and visiting scholar at the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, a visiting scholar at AGSIW, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Michel de l’Hospital, Université Clermont Auvergne. She also has experience working at the French Ministry of Defense and Airbus Defence and Space. Dr. Soubrier earned her PhD in political science from Université Clermont Auvergne in 2017 and holds an MA in international relations from Sorbonne University in Paris, France.