Philippe Bourbeau
Director of the Graduate School of International Relations
Professor
Philippe Bourbeau is the first director of the Graduate School of International Relations (ESEI) at Université Laval. He is also the Canada Research Chair in Immigration and Security and an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval. He takes a multidisciplinary approach to international studies and addresses a wide range of issues, including the securitization of migration, the power of numbers in global governance, resilience applied to global politics, the practice approach to global governance, and the multidisciplinary theorization of security. His most recent books include On Resilience, Genealogy, Logics and World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Security: Dialogue across Disciplines (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and The Securitization of Migration (Routledge, 2013). He earned a doctorate from the University of British Columbia and served as assistant professor at the University of Cambridge (UK) before joining the team at Université Laval.
Recent publications:
- Bourbeau, Philippe, “Detention and Immigration: Practices, Crimmigration, and Norms”, Migration Studies, 7(1): 83-99, 2019
- Bourbeau, Philippe, “A Genealogy of Resilience”, International Political Sociology, 12(1): 19-35, 2018
- Bourbeau, Philippe and Caitlin Ryan, “Resilience, Resistance, Infrapolitics, and Enmeshment”, European Journal of International Relations, 24(1), 221-239, 2018
- Baele, Stéphane, Thierry Balzacq, and Philippe Bourbeau, “Numbers in Global Security Governance”, European Journal of International Security, 3(1), 22-44, 2018
- Bourbeau, Philippe, On Resilience. Genealogy, Logics and World Politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018
Research interests
- Migration
- Security
- International relations