Michel Fortmann (Ph.D., Montréal) is professor emeritus of political science at Montreal University. He was director and founder of the Centre d’études sur paix et la sécurité internationale (CEPSI). His research focuses on weapons control, nuclear strategy, war history, foreign affairs. He is the author, with Albert Legault, of Une diplomatie de l’espoir, le Canada et le désarmement de 1945 à 1988 (Presses de l’Université Laval, 1990), and the English version (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992) was nominated for the Gelber Prize. He is co-director of Balance of Power, Theory and Practice in the 21st Century (University Press, 2004) and Le système politique américain, mécanismes et décisions (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2008 et 2012). He is co-director since 1999 of Les conflits dans le monde / Conflicts around the World aux Presse de l’Université Laval. His most recent book is Les cycles de Mars. Révolutions militaires et édification étatique de la Renaissance à nos jours (Economica, 2010). He has publlished in academic journals International Journal, Études internationales, Canadian Foreign Policy et Relations internationales et stratégiques.
Expertise
- Military Institutions
- Armed Conflicts
- Political and Military Alliances
Selected Publications
- Michel Fortmann, Les Cycles De Mars – Révolutions militaires et édification étatique de la renaissance à nos jours (Economica, 2010).
- T.V. Paul, J. Writz & Michel Fortmann, Balance of Power, Theory and Practice in the 21st Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).
- Michel Fortmann, “Penser et maîtriser l’innovation ? Les forces armées américaines de la révolution à la transformation,” Études Internationales 44 :2 (2013) : 251-282.
- David Haglund & Michel Fortman “Of ghosts and other spectres:the Cold War’s ending and the question of the next ‘hegemonic’ conflict,” Cold War History 14:4 (2014): 515-532.
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