Stéphanie Martel

Research Interests

International institutions; international security; global governance; security regionalism; multilateral diplomacy; the role of discourse and practice in world politics; Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific. 

Stéphanie Martel would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of International Relations Theory; constructivist/interpretativist/critical approaches to IR; multilateral diplomacy; regional governance; international/regional institutions; international security; IR in the Global South; security communities; the role of discourse and practice in world politics; discourse analysis; Southeast Asia; and Asia-Pacific IR.

Brief Biography

Stéphanie Martel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. Her research is on multilateral diplomacy and regional security governance, with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Asia/Indo-Pacific. Dr. Martel’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Perspectives, PS: Political Science & Politics, and The Pacific Review, among others. She is the author of Enacting the Security Community: ASEAN’s Never-Ending Story (2022, Stanford University Press). Dr. Martel regularly represents Canada in various expert diplomacy mechanisms and policy dialogues on issues of Indo-Pacific security, including the ASEAN Regional Forum's Eminent and Expert Persons Group and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. She is a member of the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security.

Teaching

For detailed information about political studies courses and instructors, please refer to the Undergraduate and Graduate pages. 

Service (2024/2025)

On leave

Selected Publications

• Stéphanie Martel, "ASEAN-Canada Relations at Forty-Five: A Mixed Scorecard," Canadian Journal of Foreign Policy (2023).
• Stéphanie Martel, Enacting the Security Community: ASEAN’s Never-Ending Story (Stanford University Press, 2022). 
• Stéphanie Martel and Aarie Glas, “The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism,” European Journal of International Relations (2022). 
• Stéphanie Martel, Jennifer Mustapha, Sarah E. Sharma, “Women, Peace and Security governance in the Asia–Pacific: a multi-scalar field of discourse and practice,” International Affairs (2022). 
• Stéphanie Martel, “The Polysemy of Security Community-Building: Toward a ‘People-Centered’ Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?,” International Studies Quarterly (2020). 
• Stéphanie Martel, “From Ambiguity to Contestation: Discourse(s) of Non-Traditional Security in the ASEAN Community,” The Pacific Review (2017).