# Nicolas Lemay-Hébert

> Nicolas Lemay-Hébert is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations, and the Department’s Director of Research at Australian National University

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Nicolas Lemay-Hébert is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations, and the Department’s Director of Research at Australian National University (ANU). Prior to joining ANU in 2019, Nicolas worked as an invited professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal and senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Nicolas is co-editor of the *Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding* and the Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding. His current research interests include statebuilding and intervention issues in Asia/Pacific and beyond. He is particularly interested in local resistance to international interventions and the political economy of interventions. Nicolas has co-edited four books, including *Semantics of Statebuilding: Language, Meanings and Sovereignty* (Routledge, 2014); *The Political Invention of Fragile States* (Routledge, 2015); and *Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development* (Routledge, 2017).