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 Associate Professor of International Studies and 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). 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 and GRIP (Brussels). 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.

• 2023, with Bruno Oliveira Martins, ‘Reframing Civil-Military Relations in the EU: Insights from the Drone Strategy 2.0’, Policy Commentary, Journal of Common Market Studies.
• 2023 « L’influence de la guerre en Ukraine sur la politique de défense de l’UE » in Reconfiguration des relations internationales et modèle européen under the supervision of Olivier Delas et al., Bruxelles, Bruylant, 553-564.
• 2022, « Les écosystèmes de défense et d’innovation en Europe : l’UE et l’OTAN à la croisée des chemins », Diplomatie, Les Grands Dossiers de Diplomatie Géopolitique et technologies : puissance, souveraineté, défense, no. 70, October-November, 68-71.
• 2021, with Bruno Oliveira Martins et Andrea Silkoset, ‘Drone use for COVID-19 related problems: techno-solutionism and its societal implications’, Global Policy, 12(5), 603-612.
• 2021 « Quel avenir pour le multilatéralisme, l’Union européenne et la diplomatie des sommets face aux enjeux de sécurité? » in L’après COVID-19 : Quel multilatéralisme face aux enjeux globaux?, under the supervision of Olivier Delas, Olivier Bichsel and Baptiste Jouzier, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 359-372.
• 2021 ‘The European Union’s two-fold multilateralism in crisis mode: Towards a global response to COVID-19’, International Journal, 76(1), 17-29.
• 2020, with Raluca Csernatoni et Antonio Calcara, Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance. Actors, Practices and Processes, Routledge Studies in Conflict, Technology and Security Series, New York, Routledge.
• 2018 « The EU’s Dual-Use Exports: A Human Security Approach? » in Guns, Engines and Turbines. The EU’s Hard Power in Asia, sous la direction de Eva Pejsova, Chaillot Papers (EU Institute for Security Studies-EUISS, Bruxelles), November, 43-50. https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/CP_149_Asia.pdf
• 2016, with Florent Pouponneau, « L’approche globale à la croisée des champs de la sécurité européenne », Politique européenne, no. 51, 9-21.
• 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, no. 51, 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$.

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