Coralie Pison Hindawi studied law, international politics and security in France and Germany. She joined the American University of Beirut (Lebanon) in 2009 and worked there as assistant then associate professor until September 2022.
She is the author of a book on the use of coercion against Iraq (Twenty Years in the Shadow of Chapter VII, published in French by L’Harmattan, Paris, in 2013) and a number of articles and book chapters dealing with arms transfers, control and disarmament, most of them focused on Middle Eastern countries (in particular Iraq, Iran, Syria) and on the relationship between European and Middle Eastern countries. Along with her AUB colleague K. Makdisi,she conducted multiple interviews with numerous actors involved in the dismantlement of the Syrian chemical weapons program. They are currently finalizing a book on the international politics of the disarmament process to be published with Routledge. Coralie has also engaged with the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). She notably explored the role that individuals may be acknowledged as playing in the struggle against mass atrocities, the applicability of the doctrine to the situation in Palestine, as well as the role of countries and thinkers from the Global South in the emergence and shaping of the R2P doctrine.
Her recent work has been published in Alternatives, the Beirut Forum, Critical Studies on Security, Global Governance, the Journal for Conflict and Security Law, the Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect, Security Dialogue and Third World Quarterly. Coralie has recently joined the editorial team of Critical Studies on Security as associate editor.
