Frederic Merand

Frédéric Mérand (PhD, Berkeley) is Professor of Political Science and Scientific Director of CÉRIUM, the Centre for International Studies at Université de Montréal. He specializes in the sociology of international relations, global security and European political economy. Looking at the development of the European security and defense policy, to this day the most ambitious project of military integration in times of peace, his dissertation argues that the role of states, political leaders and organizational actors in international relations must be recast within domestic and international “fields of power,” that is, overlapping social spaces wherein organizational struggles and collective representations shape policy-making.