# Michel Fortmann

> Michel Fortmann is a scholar in the Strategic Analysis Network and specializes on great power politics.

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Modified: 2024-09-23

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](http://cerium.umontreal.ca/?id=5714) (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*.