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Chantal Lavall\u00e9e is Associate Professor at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean where she teaches and conducts research on the European Union since 2019. This academic year, she will be spending her sabbatical in the Department of Political Science as a Visiting Scholar. Her research focuses on the contribution of the European Commission in the fields of security and defence, as well as emerging technologies, drones in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chantal has been a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO, 2021-2024) within the research project RegulAIR on The Integration of Drones in the Norwegian and European Airspaces<\/em>, led by Bruno Oliveira Martins and funded by the Research Council of Norway. At RMC Saint-Jean, she was deputy director (2020-2023) and then director (2023-2025) of the Centre for Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC). In addition, she is an associate researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School in Paris (IRSEM), the Jean Monnet Centre Montr\u00e9al and GRIP in Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chantal holds a PhD in Political Science from UQAM and received an EU Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, 2017-2019). Before, she had carried out postdoctoral research at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI, 2010-2012) with the support of the Fonds de recherche du Qu\u00e9bec – Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 et Culture, and at IRSEM with a grant from the French Ministry of Defence (2015-2016).
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Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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2020 (with Antonio Calcara and Raluca Csernatoni) Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance<\/em>, Routledge Studies in Conflict, Technology and Security Series, New York, Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles in Refereed Journals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 (co-authored with Bruno Oliveira Martins) \u201cReframing Civil-Military Relations in the EU: Insights from the Drone Strategy 2.0\u201d, Policy Commentary, Journal of Common Market Studies<\/em>, 62(2), 619-625.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 (co-authored with Bruno Oliveira Martins and Andrea Silkoset) \u201cDrone use for COVID-19 related problems: techno-solutionism and its societal implications\u201d, Global Policy<\/em>, 12(5), 603-612.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 \u201cThe European Union\u2019s two-fold multilateralism in crisis mode: Towards a global response to COVID-19\u201d, International Journal<\/em>, 76(1), 17-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 \u00ab La Politique europ\u00e9enne de voisinage \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9preuve de la guerre en Ukraine \u00bb, Les Champs de Mars<\/em>, no. 29, 109-137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 \u201cThe Single European Sky: a Window of Opportunity for EU-NATO Relations\u201d, European Security<\/em>, 26 (3), 415-434.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapters in Edited Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 \u00ab L\u2019influence de la guerre en Ukraine sur la politique de d\u00e9fense de l\u2019UE \u00bb in Reconfiguration des relations internationales et mod\u00e8le europ\u00e9en<\/em> edited by Olivier Delas et al., Brussels, Bruylant, 553-564.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 \u00ab Quel avenir pour le multilat\u00e9ralisme, l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne et la diplomatie des sommets face aux enjeux de s\u00e9curit\u00e9? \u00bb in L\u2019apr\u00e8s COVID-19 : Quel multilat\u00e9ralisme face aux enjeux globaux?<\/em> edited by Olivier Delas et al., Brussels, Bruylant, 359-372.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 (co-authored with Raluca Csernatoni) \u201cDrones and Artificial Intelligence: The EU\u2019s Smart Governance in Emerging Technologies\u201d in Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance<\/em>, New York, Routledge, 206-223.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 (co-authored with R. Csernatoni and A. Calcara) \u201cIntroduction: Emerging Security Technologies: An Uncharted Field for the EU\u201d in Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance<\/em>, New York, Routledge, 1-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 \u201cThe EU\u2019s Dual-Use Exports: A Human Security Approach?\u201d in Guns, Engines and Turbines. The EU\u2019s Hard Power in Asia<\/em> edited by Eva Pejsova, Chaillot Papers, Brussels (EU Institute for Security Studies), 43-50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 \u201cEmbracing Innovation to Strengthen Canada\u2019s Leadership in NATO\u201d, Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute, June 25, https:\/\/cdainstitute.ca\/embracing-innovation-to-strengthen-canadas-leadership-in-nato\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 \u00ab L\u2019OTAN face \u00e0 la comp\u00e9tition strat\u00e9gique \u00bb, \u00c9clairage du GRIP<\/em>, Brussels, June 23, https:\/\/www.grip.org\/lotan-face-a-la-competition-strategique\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 \u00ab Les \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes de d\u00e9fense et d\u2019innovation en Europe : l\u2019UE et l\u2019OTAN \u00e0 la crois\u00e9e des chemins \u00bb, Diplomatie<\/em>, n\u00b070, 68-71.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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