Maxime Duchâteau – PhD student in political science (UdeM)

Maxime Duchâteau is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Montreal, specializing in International Relations. He graduated with a double bachelor’s degree in Arabic and Russian Studies from the University of Geneva (2015), as well as with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Politics from the University of Montreal (2018). In June 2020, he completed a master’s degree in International Relations, majoring in Russian studies, from the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris – France). Thanks to this background, Maxime is fluent in Russian, and has a thorough knowledge of the Arabic language. His main research interests lie in the processes of communication and representations of the Self and the Other in the foreign policy of States, through diplomatic practices, as well as through more intangible tools such as “soft-power”. More specifically, Maxime’s doctoral reserch aims to better understand the discursive processes underlying the construction of French foreign policy towards Russia since 1991, from a critical perspective in International Relations Theory.