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

• Review: Chin, Warren. War, Technology and the State. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023
  
  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.
• Book review: Rise and kill first
  
  Archambault, E. (2020). Book review: Rise and kill first. Contemporary Voices, 1(3), 101-105. https://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.1506
• Imperialism and the Making of Armies
  
  Archambault, E. (2019). Imperialism and the Making of Armies. International Studies Review, 21(3), 542-543. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viz035
• Book review: Death machines: the ethics of violent technologies
  
  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

• The Islamic State's Drone Innovation
  
  Archambault, E., & Veilleux-Lepage, Y. (2024). The Islamic State’s Drone Innovation. In J. P. Rogers (Ed.), De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare (pp. 243-254). DeGruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110742039-017
• The Soldiers of Odin in Canada: The failure of a transnational ideology
  
  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 (pp. 272-285). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429485619

Doctoral Thesis

• Making Drone Violence Strategic: A Conceptual Genealogy of Remote Warfare
  
  Archambault, E. (2022). Making Drone Violence Strategic: A Conceptual Genealogy of Remote Warfare [Thesis]. University of Durham. https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14200/

Journal Article

• What Lies Over the Horizon? Remoteness and the Evolution of American Global Counterterrorism
  
  Archambault, E. (2025). What Lies Over the Horizon? Remoteness and the Evolution of American Global Counterterrorism. Journal of Strategic Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2025.2477642
• A good guy with a drone: On the ethics of drone warfare
  
  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
• Drone imagery in Islamic State propaganda: flying like a state
  
  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
• Mapping Transnational Extremist Networks: An Exploratory Study of the Soldiers of Odin’s Facebook Network, Using Integrated Social Network Analysis
  
  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. Perspectives on Terrorism, 13(2), 21-38.
• Targeted Killing, Technologies of Violence, and Society
  
  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

• Liberal Democratic Killing
  
  Archambault, E. (2022, January 5). Liberal Democratic Killing. Books and Ideas La Vie Des idées.

Report

• A Comparative Study of Violent Non-State Drone Use
  
  Veilleux-Lepage, Y., & Archambault, E. (2022). A Comparative Study of Violent Non-State Drone Use. Department of National Defence of Canada, MINDS Initiative. https://doi.org/10.19165/2022.3.01
• Learning from Foes: How Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists Embrace and Mimic Islamic State's Use of Emerging Technologies
  
  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. Global Network on Extremism and Technology.