Chantal Lavallée

Chantal Lavallée is Assistant Professor of International Studies and Assistant Director of Centre for Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC) at Royal Military College Saint-Jean. Prior to this, she was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, 2017-2019) working on “The European Commission in the Drone Community: A New Cooperation Area in the Making”. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She conducted postdoctoral research at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI, 2010-2012) with a scholarship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture, and at the Institute for Strategic Research of the Paris-based École Militaire (IRSEM, 2015-2016) with a scholarship from the French ministry of Defense. She is associate researcher with the Jean Monnet Centre Montréal, GRIP (Brussels) and the think tank OSINTPOL (Paris). Her research and publications focus on the contribution of the European Commission to the security and defense as well as emerging technology (drones) sectors. The book Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance she edited with Raluca Csernatoni and Antonio Calcara for Routledge Studies in Conflict, Technology and Security Series is forthcoming.

Expertise

• Emerging Security Technologies
• European Union
• NATO

Selected Publications

• Chantal Lavallée, “The Single European Sky: a Window of Opportunity for EU-NATO Relations,” European Security 26:3 (2017) 415-434.
• Chantal Lavallée, “The EU’s dual-use exports: A human security approach?,” in Guns, engines and turbines. The EU’s hard power in Asia (European Union Institute for Security Studies, 2018): 43-50.
• Chantal Lavallée & Florent Pouponneau, “L’approche globale à la croisée des champs de la sécurité européenne,” Politique européenne 51:1 (2016) : 9-21.
• Chantal Lavallée, “La communautarisation de la recherche sur la sécurité : l’appropriation d’un nouveau domaine d’action au nom de l’approche globale,” Politique européenne 51:1 (2016) : 31-59.
• Antonio Calcara, Raluca Csernatoni & Chantal Lavallée (eds.), Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance. Actors, Practices and Processes (Routledge, 2020).