Louis Bélanger
GEM-STONES Academic Supervisor
Host Institutions
Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science at Université Laval, Canada
Director of the Institute for Advanced International Studies (HEI), Université Laval
Louis Bélanger is a Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval, Quebec City, and the Director of the Institute for Advanced International Studies (HEI). He is the author of numerous publications on regional integration, free trade, Canadian foreign policy, inter-American cooperation, and the politics of secession.
He held visiting positions at Duke University, at SciencePo-Paris (Centre d’études et de recherches internationales), at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, and, as a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Scholar, at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins University), and at the Institut d’études politiques de Grenoble.
From 2000 to 2005, Professor Bélanger was the Director of Université Laval’s Institute for Advanced International Studies (HEI). He has also been founding President of the Canadian chapter of the International Studies Association (2001-2003) and a member of the ISA Executive Council (2003-2004). Louis Bélanger was guest editorialist for international affairs for the newspaper Le Devoir in 1998. He was a member of the Advisory Council on National Security from 2007 to 2010 and a member of the Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada from 2007 to 2011.
Areas of expertise: regional integration, free trade, Canadian foreign policy, inter-American cooperation, and the politics of secession.
