Chantal Lavallée 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.
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, 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 Montréal and GRIP in Brussels.
Chantal holds a PhD in Political Science from UQAM and received an EU Marie Skłodowska-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 Québec – Société et Culture, and at IRSEM with a grant from the French Ministry of Defence (2015-2016).
Selected Publications
Edited volume
2020 (with Antonio Calcara and Raluca Csernatoni) Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance, Routledge Studies in Conflict, Technology and Security Series, New York, Routledge.
Articles in Refereed Journals
2024 (co-authored 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, 62(2), 619-625.
2021 (co-authored with Bruno Oliveira Martins and Andrea Silkoset) “Drone use for COVID-19 related problems: techno-solutionism and its societal implications”, Global Policy, 12(5), 603-612.
2021 “The European Union’s two-fold multilateralism in crisis mode: Towards a global response to COVID-19”, International Journal, 76(1), 17-29.
2017 « La Politique européenne de voisinage à l’épreuve de la guerre en Ukraine », Les Champs de Mars, no. 29, 109-137.
2017 “The Single European Sky: a Window of Opportunity for EU-NATO Relations”, European Security, 26 (3), 415-434.
Chapters in Edited Books
2023 « L’influence de la guerre en Ukraine sur la politique de défense de l’UE » in Reconfiguration des relations internationales et modèle européen edited by Olivier Delas et al., Brussels, Bruylant, 553-564.
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? edited by Olivier Delas et al., Brussels, Bruylant, 359-372.
2020 (co-authored with Raluca Csernatoni) “Drones and Artificial Intelligence: The EU’s Smart Governance in Emerging Technologies” in Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance, New York, Routledge, 206-223.
2020 (co-authored with R. Csernatoni and A. Calcara) “Introduction: Emerging Security Technologies: An Uncharted Field for the EU” in Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance, New York, Routledge, 1-22.
2018 “The EU’s Dual-Use Exports: A Human Security Approach?” in Guns, Engines and Turbines. The EU’s Hard Power in Asia edited by Eva Pejsova, Chaillot Papers, Brussels (EU Institute for Security Studies), 43-50.
Other publications
2025 “Embracing Innovation to Strengthen Canada’s Leadership in NATO”, Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute, June 25, https://cdainstitute.ca/embracing-innovation-to-strengthen-canadas-leadership-in-nato/
2025 « L’OTAN face à la compétition stratégique », Éclairage du GRIP, Brussels, June 23, https://www.grip.org/lotan-face-a-la-competition-strategique/
2022 « Les écosystèmes de défense et d’innovation en Europe : l’UE et l’OTAN à la croisée des chemins », Diplomatie, n°70, 68-71.