Emil Archambault

Addison Wheeler Fellow in the School of Government and International Affairs , Durham University
I am an Addison Wheeler postdoctoral fellow in Government and International Affairs at the University of Durham since January 2024. My research is situated at the intersection of International Security and International Political Theory, and addresses the broad political dynamics shaping remoteness and war in global politics. My main research project engages with democratic contestation of contemporary military practices, particularly the use of military drones and military infrastructure. In addition to this project, I am currently working on a monograph titled Making War Remote, which expands on my doctoral dissertation. Furthermore, I continue to conduct research on non-state actors' use of armed drones. My full research activities can be found on my website.

Prior to my current postdoctoral fellowship, I was a MINDS-SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa, Canada. I hold a PhD in Government and International Affairs from the University of Durham and an MPhil in International Political Theory from the University of St Andrews, UK.

Research interests
International security; war studies; remote warfare; military drones; Carl Schmitt; Visual Investigations; Democracy and War
Publications
Book review

Archambault, E. (2020). Book review: Rise and kill first. https://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.1506
Archambault, E. (2019). Imperialism and the Making of Armies. International Studies Review, 21(3), 542-543. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viz035
Archambault, E. (2019). Book review: Death machines: the ethics of violent technologies. International Affairs, 95(2), 470-472. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz024
Chapter in book

Archambault, E., & Veilleux-Lepage, Y. (2024). The Islamic State's Drone Innovation. In J. P. Rogers (Ed.), De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare (243-254). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110742039-017
Archambault, E., & Veilleux-Lepage, Y. (2019). The Soldiers of Odin in Canada: The failure of a transnational ideology. In T. Bjørgo, & M. Mareš (Eds.), Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities (272-285). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429485619
Doctoral Thesis

Archambault, E. (2021). Making Drone Violence Strategic: A Conceptual Genealogy of Remote Warfare. (Thesis). University of Durham. https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2292011
Journal Article

Archambault, E. (2020). A good guy with a drone: On the ethics of drone warfare. Contemporary Political Theory, 19(S3), 169-175. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-019-00328-w
Veilleux-Lepage, Y., & Archambault, E. (2020). Drone imagery in Islamic State propaganda: flying like a state. International Affairs, 96(4), 955-973. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa014
Veilleux-Lepage, Y., & Archambault, E. (2019). Mapping Transnational Extremist Networks: An Exploratory Study of the Soldiers of Odin’s Facebook Network, Using Integrated Social Network Analysis
Archambault, E. (2018). Targeted Killing, Technologies of Violence, and Society. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 47(1), 142-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818779124