Leila Nicolas, PhD serves as a consultant to many international NGOs. She has been working with civil societies in the MENA region since 2000 to promote Human rights, the Rule of Law, and the empowerment of women and youth. She is a strategic communication expert, and she trains politicians and young leaders how to participate in politics and elections and to master their media appearances.
She is a political analyst and commentator for several media outlets on MENA regional issues and international affairs. She is a co-founder/ CEO of Lebanese for Democracy and Good Governance (NGO), a member of the Academic Council of the UN System (ACUNS), and a board member at many MENA Regional NGOs.
At the Academic Level:
She serves as both a scholar and practitioner. She is a Professor of International Affairs at the Lebanese University, plus two institutions at the Lebanese Army (Command and Staff Academy and The Centre of Research and Strategic Studies.
She was a Fulbright scholar at Fordham University—NY and has been a visiting scholar at Oxford, Stanford, Claremont McKenna College, and California State University.
Her research and teaching interests include Grand Strategies, Broader Middle East politics, R2P, transitional Justice, and peacebuilding.
She is the author of 11 published English and Arabic Books, and more than 80 ( Arabic and English) refereed journal articles, book chapters, working papers, and conference lectures.
She has been granted a grant by The International Center of Human Sciences( CISH)—UNESCO to conduct field study research about transitions in the Arab world (2014). She has also been granted a scholarship by the US Department of State for a postdoc diploma " US Grand Strategy in context" (2016).
Her English and Arabic Papers have appeared in leading journals in the Arab World, including Leb. University Law and Political Sciences Quarterly.
Her published books are: "International Judicial Law" (2021), "Arab world in transition: the hard way to Justice (2020), "international relations: From Power to influence" (2nd edition- 2020), "The Problem of forecasting in International Relations" (2019), international relations: from power to influence" (1st edition- 2020) International Criminal tribunals: Achievements and Failures ( 2013), which is found in the Peace Palace Library and The ICC Library in the Hague, "International Intervention and Sovereignty: developing norms in International affairs" ( 2011).
Her latest published books are "Global and regional strategies in the Middle East: In pursuit of hegemony" (Routledge, 2024) and "Effective Forms of Environmental Diplomacy" (Routledge, 2021).
