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Vincent Pouliot

Vincent Pouliot

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Political Science

D-Index
37
Citations
7328
World Ranking
639
National Ranking
29

Overview

Vincent Pouliot is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and specializes in the social sciences with a focus on political science and international relations. Their research spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, development, history, and philosophy. The main themes of their work concentrate on international relations and foreign policy, global peace and security dynamics, peacebuilding and international security, international development and aid, political conflict and governance, history, culture and diplomacy, as well as military history and strategy.

They have contributed scholarly articles to various academic journals. Recent papers include "The Gray Area of Institutional Change: How the Security Council Transforms Its Practices on the Fly" (2020, Journal of Global Security Studies), "Thinking with Diplomacy: Within and Beyond Practice Theory" (2021, International Political Sociology), "Global Governance in the Age of Epistemic Authority" (2020, International Theory), "Historical Institutionalism Meets Practice Theory: Renewing the Selection Process of the United Nations Secretary-General" (2020, International Organization), and "Agency is Positionally Distributed: Practice Theory and (Post)Colonial Structures" (2024, International Studies Quarterly).

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Jean-Philippe Thérien
  • Scott Robert Patterson
  • Frédéric Mérand
  • T. V. Paul
  • Costas M. Constantinou

Their research outputs have appeared in journals and publication venues such as:

  • Global Studies Quarterly
  • Études internationales
  • Journal of Global Security Studies
  • International Political Sociology
  • International Theory

Vincent Pouliot has also published a book titled Global Policymaking in 2023 with Cambridge University Press, which has been cited in related academic literature.

Best Publications

  • The Logic of Practicality: A Theory of Practice of Security Communities

    Vincent Pouliot

  • International practices

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  • International security in practice : the politics of NATO-Russia diplomacy

    Vincent Pouliot

  • “Sobjectivism”: Toward a Constructivist Methodology

    Vincent Pouliot

  • Power in practice: Negotiating the international intervention in Libya

    Rebecca Adler-Nissen;Vincent Pouliot

  • International Pecking Orders: The Politics and Practice of Multilateral Diplomacy

    Vincent Pouliot

  • Practice theory and the study of diplomacy: A research agenda:

    Vincent Pouliot;Jérémie Cornut

  • The Global Compact: Shifting the Politics of International Development?

    Jean-Philippe Thérien;Vincent Pouliot

  • Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics

    Ole Jacob Sending;Vincent Pouliot;Iver B. Neumann

  • International Practices: International practices

    Emanuel Adler;Vincent Pouliot

  • Untimely Russia: Hysteresis in Russian-Western Relations over the Past Millennium

    Iver B. Neumann;Vincent Pouliot

  • The essence of constructivism

    Vincent Pouliot

  • The Future of Diplomacy: Changing Practices, Evolving Relationships

    Ole Jacob Sending;Vincent Pouliot;Iver B. Neumann

  • The Alive and Well Transatlantic Security Community: A Theoretical Reply to Michael Cox:

    Vincent Pouliot

  • Process Tracing: Practice tracing

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  • “Things of Networks”: Situating ANT in International Relations

    Daniel H. Nexon;Vincent Pouliot

  • Le monde de Pierre Bourdieu : Éléments pour une théorie sociale des Relations internationales

    Frédéric Mérand;Vincent Pouliot

  • The materials of practice: Nuclear warheads, rhetorical commonplaces and committee meetings in Russian–Atlantic relations

    Vincent Pouliot

  • Adaptation and Indigenous peoples in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

    James Ford;Michelle Maillet;Vincent Pouliot;Thomas Meredith

  • Bourdieu’s concepts

    Vincent Pouliot;Frédéric Mérand

  • Multilateralism as an End in Itself

    Vincent Pouliot

  • How much is global governance changing? The G20 as international practice

    Andrew F Cooper;Vincent Pouliot

  • Global Governance in Practice

    Vincent Pouliot;Jean-Philippe Thérien

  • Hierarchy in practice: Multilateral diplomacy and the governance of international security

    Vincent Pouliot

  • The politics of inclusion: Changing patterns in the governance of international security

    Vincent Pouliot;Jean-Philippe Thérien

  • Adaptation and indigenous peoples in the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change : post-print version

    James D. Ford;Michelle Maillet;V. Pouliot;T. Meredith

Frequent Co-Authors

Iver B. Neumann
Iver B. Neumann Fridtjof Nansen Institute
Jason Dittmer
Jason Dittmer University College London
Daniel H. Nexon
Daniel H. Nexon Georgetown University
Merje Kuus
Merje Kuus University of British Columbia
Fiona McConnell
Fiona McConnell University of Oxford

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