Sarah Wolff
Professor International Studies and Global Politics
- Name
- Prof.dr. S.C.A. Wolff
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2698
- s.wolff@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-6225-3500
Sarah Wolff is Professor in International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University. Her research concentrates on EU-UK foreign and security cooperation, EU migration and asylum policies, EU-Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU’s policies on gender and religion abroad.
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Europe Hub launched in European Parliament: ‘A bridge between research and policy is vital’ -
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According to Professor Sarah Wolff, EU migration agreements are a bad solution to a non-existent problem -
Sarah Wolff: 'Doing research and teaching are inseparable'
Workplace
Leiden:
Johan Huizinga gebouw, Doelensteeg 16, Leiden. Room 1.25aTelefoon: +31 (0)71 527 2698
The Hague:
Schouwburgstraat 2, Den Haag. Room B2.10
Telefoon: +31 (0)70 800 9005
Sarah Wolff is Professor in International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University. Her research concentrates on EU-UK foreign and security cooperation, EU migration and asylum policies, EU-Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU’s policies on gender and religion abroad. She is on the Editorial Board of the journal Mediterranean Politics. Her book Michigan University Press on ‘Secular Power Europe and Islam: Identity and foreign policy’(summer 2021) was conducted thanks to a Fulbright-Schuman and a Leverhulme research grants.
Grants and awards
• 2022-2023 Co-Duties: Democratic Duties, Collective Action, and the Greater Good after COVID-19, Research Council of Norway, 1 Sep 2022 - 30 Nov 2023, £82,965.83 (co-funding £56,900.00) Work package leader France. PI Simon Reid-Henry.
• 2019-2022 Principal Investigator NEXTEUK Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on the future of EU-UK relations, £299.798 (co-funding European Commission 42%). Preparation phase, more info here.
• 2019 Strategic Impact Funding, HSS, QMUL, to fund a research and YouGov poll on British views of Europeans in a context of Brexit negotiations, £3000. The findings of the project were published on the QMUL HSS homepage (incl. a link to the data tables), in The Conversation, on the ‘UK in a Changing Europe’ website here and here, and on the LSE blog.
• 2018 Small Grant University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), £1000 to fund an ‘Decentring Europe: Critical Approaches to European Foreign Policy’ one-day exploratory workshop on 7 March 2019 at ULIP in Paris.
• 2018 Center for Public Engagement, QMUL, ‘Europe at all costs’ documentary on refugees in Calais and Ceuta (with. A. Hlaoua) £1000
• 2014 Leverhulme Research Grant ‘Explaining European Union’s engagement with Moroccan and Tunisian Islamist parties’. £43,930
• 2014 The Fulbright-Schuman Scholar Fellowship Does Religion matter in Transatlantic Engagement with Islamist political parties? 9000€
• 2013 QM SPIR General Research Fund, Workshop ‘ An International Perspective on EU Migration Governance’ co-funded with University of Vienna £1666
• 2012 Early Career Leverhulme Fellowship The conditions of EU (non) engagement with Moroccan and Tunisian political opposition (declined due to incompatibility with post at QM) £23.000
• 2011 Jean Monnet Research Activity, European Commission, DG Research EU Agencies and their External Relations- which way forward? Togeterh with A. Schout, 16.630,50€
• 2007 Fellowship “European Foreign and Security Policy Studies” Programme Compagnia di San Paolo (Italy) Rijksbankens Jubileumsfond,(Sweden) and Volkswagen Stiftung (Germany), The Mediterranean Dimension of EU’s Internal Security 35.000€
Curriculum Vitae
She previously was Professor in European Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), where she also led the Centre for European Research (2017-2023) and was the Director of the QMUL MA in International Relations in Paris (2021-2023).
Professor International Studies and Global Politics
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Int. Relations and European Studies
- Ladi S. & Wolff S.C.A. (2025), The EU’s vaccine strategy: a glimpse of protean power?, Comparative European Politics : .
- Fisher‐Onar N., Gazsi D. & Wolff S.C.A. (2025), Contested alliances: a contrapuntal reading of European (global) gender agendas, Journal of Common Market Studies : .
- Wolff S.C.A. (2024), Migrations in the Mediterranean: IMISCOE regional reader. IMISCOE Research Series. London: Routledge.
- Wolff S.C.A. & Zardo F. (2024), The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services, Comparative European Politics : .
- Wolff S.C.A. (2024), The new pact on migration: embedded illiberalism?, Journal of Common Market Studies : .
- Trauner F. & Wolff S.C.A. (2024), The impact of the Russian war against Ukraine on the reform of the common European asylum system, European Politics and Society : .
- Wolff S.C.A., Carrapico H. & Piquet A. (2024), Out of sight, out of mind?: UK–EU Member States bilateralism as an enabler of europeanisation, Journal of Common Market Studies : .
- Piquet A. & Wolff S.C.A. (2023), Au-delà de la déseuropéanisation: Rrepenser la diversité des (non-)changements des politiques publiques post-Brexit au Royaume-Uni, Gouvernement et Action Publique 11(4): 9-30.
- Wolff S.C.A., Gazsi D., Huber D. & Fisher-Onar N. (2022), How to reflexively decentre EU foreign policy: dissonance and contrapuntal reconstruction in migration, religious and neighbourhood governance, Journal of Common Market Studies 60(6): 1611-1628.
- Wolff S.C.A. & Piquet A. (2022), Post-Brexit Europeanization: re-thinking the continuum of British policies, polity, and politics trajectories, Comparative European Politics 20(5): 513-526.
- Wolff S.C.A., Piquet A. & Carrapico H. (2022), UK's withdrawal from justice and home affairs: a historical institutionalist analysis of policy trajectories, Comparative European Politics 20(5): 604-625.
- Kutz W. & Wolff S.C.A. (2022), Urban geopolitics and the decentring of migration diplomacy in EU-Moroccan affairs, Geopolitics 27(3): 703-728.
- Khakee A. & Wolff S.C.A. (2021), EU democracy projection in the Southern Mediterranean a practice analysis, Mediterranean Politics 27(4): 419-434.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2021), Gender equality in Tunisia: the EU's tripartite dialogue, Mediterranean Politics 27(4): 435-455.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2021), Conceptualizing Security Sector Governance (SSG) and migration. In: Wolff S.C.A. (Ed.), The security sector governance–migration nexus: rethinking how security sector governance matters for migrants’ rights. London: Ubiquity Press. 11-15.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2021), Conclusions and policy recommendations. In: Wolf S.C.A. (Ed.), The security sector governance–migration nexus: rethinking how security sector governance matters for migrants’ rights. London: Ubiquity Press. 51-56.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2021), Introduction. In: Wolf S.C.A. (Ed.), The security sector governance–migration nexus: rethinking how security sector governance matters for migrants’ rights. London: Ubiquity Press. 1-5.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2021), Mapping the field: the role of SSG actors and institutions in migration. In: Wolff S.C.A. (Ed.), The security sector governance–migration nexus: rethinking how security sector governance matters for migrants’ rights. London: Ubiquity Press. 27-46.
- WolffS.C.A. & Ladi S. (2021), European Union responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: adaptability in times of permanent emergency, Journal of European Integration 42(8): 1025-1040.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2021), Migration: trends and terminology. London: Ubiquity Press.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2021), The Security Sector Governance–Migration Nexus: rethinking how Security Sector Governance matters for migrants’ rights. London: Ubiquity Press.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2021), The SSG/R–migration nexus and migrants’ journeys. In: Wolf S.C.A. (Ed.), The security sector governance–migration nexus: rethinking how security sector governance matters for migrants’ rights. London: Ubiquity Press. 17-24.
- Kutz W. & Wolff S.C.A. (2021), Le « piège localiste »: de la gouvernance décentralisée des migrations au Maroc, Migrations Société 185: 155-170.
- Zardo F. & Wolff S.C.A. (2021), Decentering the study of migration governance in the Mediterranean, Geopolitics 27(3): 687-702.
- Ladi S. & Wolff S.C.A. (2021), The EU institutional architecture in the Covid‐19 response: coordinative Europeanization in times of permanent emergency, Journal of Common Market Studies 59(1): 32-43.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2021), Secular power Europe and Islam: identity and foreign policy. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press.
- Wolff S.C.A. & Ladi S. (2020), European Union responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: adaptability in times of permanent emergency, Journal of European Integration 42(8): 1025-1040.
- Wolff S.C.A., Servent A.R. & Piquet A. (2020), Framing immobility: Schengen governance in times of pandemics, Journal of European Integration 42(8): 1127-1144.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2017), EU religious engagement in the Southern Mediterranean: much ado about nothing?, Mediterranean Politics 23(1): 161-181.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2017), The external dimension of the European Union’s internal security. In: Hill C., Smith M. & Vanhoonacker S. (Eds.), International relations and the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2017), EU religious engagement in the Southern Mediterranean: much ado about nothing?, Mediterranean Politics 23(1): 161-181.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2017), Reassessing the role of religion and secularism in US and European foreign policies, Global Affairs 3(2): 173-177.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2015), Migration and refugees in the Mediterranean: rethinking geopolitical constraints, Western-centric policies and mobility’s precariousness, Mediterranean Politics 20(3): 439-444.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2015), EU budget support as a transnational policy instrument: above and beyond the state?, Public Administration 93(4): 922-939.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2015), Integrating in justice and home affairs: a case of new intergovernmentalism par excellence? . In: Bickerton C.J., Hodson D. & Puetter U. (Eds.), The new intergovernmentalism: states and supranational actors in the post-Maastricht era. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 129--145.
- Trauner F. & Wolff S.C.A. (2014), The negotiation and contestation of EU migration policy instruments: a research framework, European Journal of Migration and Law 16(1): 1-18.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2014), The politics of negotiating EU readmission agreements: insights from Morocco and Turkey, European Journal of Migration and Law 16(1): 69-95.
- Wolff S.C.A. & Schout A. (2013), Frontex as agency: more of the same?, Perspectives on European Politics and Society 14(3): 305-324.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2013), The rule of law in the area of freedom, security and justice: monitoring at home what the European Union preaches abroad, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 5(1): 119-131.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2012), A rational–choice-historical institutionalist approach. In: Wolff S.C.A. (Ed.), The Mediterranean dimension of the European Union's internal security. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 18-46.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2012), Border management in the Mediterranean. In: Wolff S.C.A. (Ed.), The Mediterranean dimension of the European Union's internal security. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 119-149.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2012), Conclusions. In: Wolff S.C.A. (Ed.), The Mediterranean dimension of the European Union's internal security. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 197-217.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2012), Introduction. In: Wolff S.C.A. (Ed.), The Mediterranean dimension of the European Union's internal security. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-17.
- Schout A. & Wolff S.C.A. (2012), The paradox of Lisbon: supranationalism-intergovernmentalism as an administrative concept. In: Laursen F. (Ed.), The EU's Lisbon treaty: institutional choices and implementation. London: Routledge. 21-40.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2012), The Mediterranean dimension of European Union counter-terrorism. In: Wolf S.C.A. (Ed.), The Mediterranean dimension of the European Union's internal security: Palgrave Macmillan. 150--177.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2012), The Mediterranean dimension of the European Union’s internal security. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Wolff S.C.A. & Mounier G. (2012), A kaleidoscopic view on the external dimension of justice and home affairs, European Foreign Affairs Review 17: 143-162.
- Wolff S.C.A., Goudapel F. & Zwaan W.J. de (2011), Freedom, security and justice after Lisbon and Stockholm. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press.
- Wolff S.C.A., Wichmann N. & Mounier G. (2010), The external dimension of Justice and Home Affairs: a different security agenda for the European Union? . London: Routledge.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2009), Constraints on the promotion of the rule of law in Egypt: insights from the 2005 judges' revolt, Democratization 16(1): 100--118.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2009), The Mediterranean dimension of EU counter‐terrorism, Journal of European Integration 31(1): 137-156.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2009), The Mediterranean dimension of EU’s internal security. In: Balzacq T. (Ed.), The external dimension of EU justice and home affairs: governance, neighbours, security. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 154-183.
- Wolff S.C.A., Wichmann N. & Mounier G. (2009), The external dimension of justice and home affairs: a different security agenda for the EU?, Journal of European Integration 31(1): 9-23.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2008), Review of: Casarini N. & Musu C. (2007), European foreign policy in an evolving international system: the road towards convergence. London: Palgrave. Mediterranean Politics 13(1): 125-127.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2008), Border management in the Mediterranean: internal, external and ethical challenges, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 21(2): 253--271.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2007), España y la gobernanza de la seguridad mediterránea: vecinos, espacios y actores, CIDOB d'Afers Internationals (80): 107-123.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2007), La dimension méditerranéenne de la politique Justice et Affaires intérieures, Cultures {&} conflits (66): 77--99.
- Wolff S.C.A. (2007), Spain and Mediterranean security governance: neighbours, spaces and actors, CIDOB d'Afers Internationals 79: 107-123.
- Wolff S.C.A. & Mounier G. (2005), France: the come-back of political parties, European Constitutional Law Review 1(3): 383.
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