Staff profile

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.

• International security; war studies; remote warfare; military drones; Carl Schmitt; Visual Investigations; Democracy and War

Book review

• Archambault, E. (2024). Review: Chin, Warren. War, Technology and the State. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023. St Antony's International Review, 19(2), 248-253
• 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. 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

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Archambault, E. (2022). Liberal Democratic Killing. [Books and Ideas / La vie des idées]

Report

• Veilleux-Lepage, Y., & Archambault, E. (2022). A Comparative Study of Violent Non-State Drone Use. The Hague: Department of National Defence of Canada, MINDS Initiative
• Archambault, E., Veilleux-Lepage, Y., & Daymon, C. (2022). Learning from Foes: How Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists Embrace and Mimic Islamic State's Use of Emerging Technologies. London: Global Network on Extremism and Technology