Marc Doucet

Chairperson
Faculty of Arts
Political Science

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Faculty Member Information

Office Location: 403
Office Building: McNally North
Telephone: (902) 491-8604
E-Mail: marc.doucet@smu.ca

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Ottawa, 2000
M.A., Political Science, University of Ottawa, 1994
B.A., Social Sciences, Université de Moncton, 1992

Membership

2007 - Present, International Studies Association (ISA)
1994 - Present, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)

Honours

Thesis Nominated for Excellence Award Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Ottawa - 2000
Entrance Scholarships for Doctoral Studies University of Ottawa - 1994

Scholarly Contributions

Book Reviews

Doucet Marc. (2007)"Review of Pierre Manent, A World beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State", A World beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State, Canadian Journal of Political Science 5:40, 1082-84
Doucet Marc. (2004)"Review of Christian Deblock (ed), L’organisation mondiale du commerce: où s’en va la mondialisation?", L’organisation mondiale du commerce: où s’en va la mondialisation? (Christian Deblock), Canadian Journal of Political Science 37:3, 783-785
Doucet Marc. (2003)"Review of Peter Waterman, Globalization, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms", Globalisation, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms (Peter Waterman), Millennium: Journal of International Studies 1:34, 715-717
Doucet Marc. (2003)"Review of Michel Seymour (ed), Etats-nations, multinations et organisations supranationales", Etats-nations, multinations et organisations supranationales (Michel Seymour), Canadian Jounral of Political Science 36:5, 1125-1127
Doucet Marc. (2002)"Review of Bonnie Honig, Democracy and the Foreigner", Democracy and the Foreigner (Bonnie Honig), Politique et sociétés 3:21, 189-194
Mouffe Chantal. (2002)"Review of Chantel Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox", The Democratic Paradox (Chantal Mouffe), Politique et sociétés 1:21, 140-143

Book Chapters

Doucet Marc, de Larrinaga Miguel. (2014). "Security Sector Reform (SSR) and the War:Police Assemblages of International Interventions", War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention
Doucet Marc. (2013). "Thinking Democracy Beyond Political Regimes: 'Untangling Political Analysis from the Nation-State", Critical Explorations in Contemporary Thought: Claude Lefort
Doucet Marc, Larrinaga Miguel. (2012). "Engaging Collaborative Writing Critically", Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction, Chap. 7
Doucet Marc, Larrinaga Miguel. (2010). "Introduction: The Global Governmentalization of Security and the Securitization of Global Governance", Security and Global Governmentality: Globlization, Governance and the State, 1-19
Doucet Marc, Larrinaga Miguel. (2010). "Sovereign Power, Governmentality and Intervention: Reading Security Council Resolutions as Acts of Declaration", Security and Global Governmentality: Globalization, Governance and the State, 96-110
Doucet Marc, Larrinaga Miguel. (2010). "Human Security and Human Life: Tracing Global Sovereign and Biopolitical Rule", Critical Perspectives on Human Security: Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations, 129-143
Doucet Marc, Dobrowolsky Alexandra, Rollings-Magnusson Sandra. (2009). "Security, Insecurity, and Human Rights: Contextualizing Post-9/11", Anti-Terrorism: Security and Insecurity after 9/11, 13-31
Doucet Marc. (2008). "World Politics, the Alter-Globalization Movement and the Question of Democracy", Mobilizations, Protests and Engagements: Canadian Perspectives on Social Movements, 18-34

Journal Articles

Doucet Marc. "Global Assemblages of Security Governance and Contemporary International Intervention (forthcoming)", Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 9:4 (Summer - 2015)
Doucet Marc. "The International Order of Liberal Humanitarian Intervention: Multiple Book Review Essay", International Studies Review 16:3 (Spring - 2014), 467-472
Doucet Marc, Dobrowolsky Alexandra. "Redrawing Security, Politics, Law and Rights: Reflections on the Post 9/11 Decade", Review of Constitutional Studies 16:2 (Spring - 2012), 129-137
Doucet Marc, Larrinaga Miguel. "Sovereign Power and the Biopolitics of Human Security", Security Dialogue 39:5 (Spring - 2008), 497-517
Doucet Marc, Pessoa Carlos. "Empire and the Terrain of Democracy", Theory & Event 10:3 (Spring - 2007)
Doucet M.. "Territoriality and the Democratic Paradox: the Hemispheric Social Alliance and its Alternative for the Americas", Contemporary Political Theory 4:3 (Spring - 2005), 175-295
Doucet M.. "Child's Play: The Political Imaginary of International Relations and Contemporary Popular Children's Films", Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations 19:3 (Spring - 2005), 289-306
Doucet M.. "The Democratic Paradox and Cosmopolitan Democracy", Millennium: Journal of International Studies 34:1 (Spring - 2005), 137-155
Doucet M. "The Possibility of Deterritorialising Democracy: Agonistic Democratic Politics and the APEC NGO Forums", Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 26:3 (Spring - 2001), 283-315
Doucet M.. "Standing Nowhere(?): Navigating the Third Route on the Question of Foundation in International Theory", Millennium: Journal of International Studies 28:2 (Spring - 1999), 289-310

Presentation

Doucet Marc. "Mapping Contemporary International Interventions : Global Assemblages of Security Governance", The 2014 annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association (Spring - 2014)
Doucet Marc, Larrinaga Miguel. "A Dog’s Breakfast : Democracy, Security, Sovereignty", The 2014 annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association (Spring - 2014)
Doucet Marc, de Larrinaga Miguel. "Liberal Assemblages of International Interventions: Security Sector Reform (SSR) and the Military-Police Nexus", From Defeating the Enemy to Creating ‘Good Order’?: Exploring Military-Police Assemblages in Western Interventions (Fall - 2012)
Doucet Marc, de Larrinaga Miguel. "Liberal Assemblages of International Interventions: the Case of Security Sector Reform (SSR)", The 2012 International Studies Association Annual Convention (Spring - 2012)
Doucet Marc. "The Peacebuilding Commission’s ‘Strategic Frameworks’: Therapeutic Global Governmentality in-Formation", The 2011 International Studies Association Annual Convention (Winter - 2012)
Doucet Marc. "ISA-Distinguished Scholar Award Roundtable- Professor Claire Turenne-Sjolander", International Studies Association (ISA) annual conference (Spring - 2012)
Doucet Marc, de Larrinaga Miguel. "The Peacebuilding Commission’s ‘Strategic Frameworks’: Therapeutic Global Governmentality in-Formation", The 2011 annual conference of the Canadian Political Science Association (Spring - 2011)
Doucet Marc. "The Global Governmentalization of Security and the Securitization of Global Governance", The 2010 International Studies Association Annual Convention (Winter - 2010)
Doucet Marc, de Larrinaga Miguel. "Human Security and Human Life: Tracing Global Sovereign and Biopolitical Rule", 2009 annual conference of the Canadian Political Science Association (Spring - 2009)
Doucet Marc, de Larrinaga Miguel. "Sovereign Power, Governmentality and Intervention", 2009 International Studies Association Annual Convention (Winter - 2009)
Doucet Marc. "World Politics, the Alter-globalization Movement and the Question of Democracy", Saint Mary’s University IDS Friday Noon Lecture Series (Winter - 2009)
Doucet Marc, de Larrinaga Miguel. "Sovereign Self-exceptionality and International Intervention : Reading Security Council Resolutions as Acts of Declaration", 2008 annual conference of the Canadian Political Science Association (Spring - 2008)
Doucet Marc, de Larrinaga Miguel. "Human Security and the Securing of Human Life : Tracing Empire’s Sovereign and Biopolitical Rule’", 2008 International Studies Association Annual Convention (Winter - 2008)
Doucet Marc, de Larrinaga Miguel. "Global Governmentality, Biopower, Sovereign Power and the Human Security Discourse’", 2007 International Studies Association Annual Convention (Winter - 2007)
Doucet Marc. "Human Security and the Securing of Human Life : Tracing Empire’s Sovereign and Biopolitical Rule", PSST Department of Political Science Seminar talk (Fall - 2007)
Doucet Marc. "The Alter-globalization movement and the Question of Democracy", Mobilizations and Engagements conference held at Mount Allison University (Winter - 2007)
Doucet M.. "Defining the Discursive Imaginary of Transnational Democracy", World Social Forum (Winter - 2005)
Doucet Marc, Pessoa Carlos. "Empire and the Possibility of Democracy", International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference (Winter - 2005)
Doucet Marc. "La démocratie et le concept de la multitude chez Hardt et Negri", Congrès annuel de la société québecoise de science politique (Spring - 2005)
Doucet M.. "The Democratic Paradox and Cosmopolitan Democracy", Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Fall - 2004)
Doucet M.. "Theorising Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Radical Democracy and the World Social Forums", The 45th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (Winter - 2004)
Doucet Marc. "Theorizing Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Radical Democracy and the World Social Forums", International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference (Winter - 2004)
Doucet Marc. "Cosmopolitan Democracy and the Problem of Territoriality", Interdisciplinary Colloquium: Crossing the Borders of Territoriality (Fall - 2003)
Doucet Marc. "Deterritorialising the Democratic Imaginary: The Hemispheric Social Alliance and its Alternatives for the Americas", Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) 75th Annual Meeting (Spring - 2003)
Doucet Marc. "What’s Up at the WTO?", Panalist for the World Café on the WTO organised by the Trading Options Coalition (Fall - 2003)
Doucet Marc. "Les facteurs structurelles et conjoncturelles de la crise Irakienne", Conference organised by the Conseil communautaire du Grand-Havre (Winter - 2003)
Doucet Marc. "Searching for New Politics at the World Social Forum", talk organised for the Halifax Branch of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) (Winter - 2003)
Doucet Marc. "Reading Humanitarian Interventions through Contemporary Political Theory", One-Day Conference of the Halifax Branch of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) (Winter - 2003)
Doucet Marc. "Theorising Globalisation as a Discourse on the Social", Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) 73rd Annual Meeting (Spring - 2001)
Doucet Marc. "Terrorism and the Politics of Dissent: the Anti-Globalisation Movement Post- September 11th, Roundtable: “Terrorism, Canadian Foreign Policy and the Politics of Dissent”", Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) (Fall - 2001)
Doucet Marc. "Turning Democracy on its Head: The Possibility of Deterritorialising Democracy and the Civil Society Opposition to the FTAA", Roundtable, After NAFTA: Contested Space in North America, The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) (Fall - 2001)
Doucet Marc. "The Possibility of Deterritorialising Democracy: Agonistic Democratic Politics and the APEC NGO forums", Joint Meetings: Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) 72nd Annual Meeting and Société québecoise de science politique (SQSP) Annual Meeting (Summer - 2000)
Doucet Marc. "Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Parallel ‘People’s Summits' : Theorizing the Political and Democracy in International Theory", Dalhousie University, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies speaking series (Winter - 2000)
Doucet Marc. "Can We Stand Nowhere? Navigating the Third Route on the Question of Foundation in International Theory", Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) 70th Annual Meeting (Spring - 1998)

Editorial Work

Doucet Marc, Larrinaga Miguel. (Ed.) (2010) Security and Global Governmentality: Globalization, Governance and the State. London: Routledge

Other Publications

Doucet Marc, de Larrinaga Miguel. "Straddling the PhD. Candidate/ Sessional Lecturer Divide: Politicizing the Undefined Status Created In-Between the Future and the “Future is Now”"
CPSA Bulletin 28, no.1: pp.28-31 (Summer - 1999)

Service: Institutional Committees

Member of the Curriculum Committee , 2007/03 - 2008/03 (430)
Member, Programme Committee, International Development Studies, 1999/03 - None (Member)

Service: Professional or Disciplinary

Board of Directors, Canadian Political Science Association 2012/03 - 2014/03
Chair , International Studies Association Canada Graduate Student Paper Prize Jury 2012/03 - 2014/03
Past-President, International Studies Association Canada region 2011/03 - 2012/03
President, International Studies Association Canada region 2010/03 - 2011/03
Vice-President, International Studies Association Canada region 2009/03 - 2010/03
Chair, Conference Fee Committee, International Studies Association Canada region 2009/03 - 2010/03
Chair, Canadian Political Science Association International Relations prize jury 2009/03 - 2010/03
Founding Member , Canadian Critical Security Studies Group 2008/03 - Present
Board of Directors, Canadian Political Science Association 2007/03 - 2009/03
President , Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association 2007/03 - 2008/03
Member at Large, Executive of the International Studies Association 2007/03 - 2008/03

Biography

<p>Marc G. Doucet is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Mary&rsquo;s University, Halifax, Canada. His current research explores the police-security project of contemporary forms of international intervention. He is the co-editor of <em>Security and Global Governmentality </em>and his recent authored and co-authored publications have appeared in Salter and Mutlu, <em>Research Methods in Critical Security Studies;&nbsp;</em>Bachmann, Bell and Holmqvist,&nbsp;<em>War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention; </em>Chandler and Hynek,&nbsp;<em>Critical Perspectives on Human Security;&nbsp;International Studies Review;&nbsp;Review of Constitutional Studies; </em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Security Dialogue.</em></p>