Chantal Lavallée

• European Union
• Emerging Security Technologies
• NATO

• Emerging technologies (drones)
• Common Security and Defense Policy
• Civil-Military Cooperation
• European Neighborhood Policy
• Transatlantic Relations

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. She is a senior researcher at Peace Research Institute Olso (PRIO), involved in the RegulAIR project: The integration of drones in the Norwegian and European Airspaces, led by Bruno Oliveira Martins and funded by the Research Council of Norway (2021-2024). She is deputy editor of the Canadian Military Journal. 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 an associate researcher with IRSEM, 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 sectors as well as emerging technologies (drones). The book Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance she co-edited with Raluca Csernatoni and Antonio Calcara was published by Routledge in 2020.

• Calcara, A. Csernatoni, R. etl Lavallée, C. (dir.) (2020). Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance. Actors, Practices and Processes. Londres : Routledge.
• Lavallée, C. (2018). “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, 43-50.
• Lavallée, C. (2017). The Single European Sky: a Window of Opportunity for EU-NATO Relations, European Security, 26(3), 415-434.
• Lavallée, C. et Pouponneau, F. (2016). “L’approche globale à la croisée des champs de la sécurité européenne,” Politique européenne 51(1), 9-21.
• Lavallée, C. (2016). 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), 31-59.

• Research Grant from the Research Council of Norway for the RegulAIR projet “The integration of drones in the Norwegian and European Airspaces” (https://www.prio.org/projects/1902 ), led by Bruno Oliveira Martins at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), 2021-2024, 1,76M$.

• Assistant Director, Centre for security and crisis governance (CRITIC)