Jean-Frédéric Morin
@jfmorin.bsky.social
Prof, Université Laval (Québec) | International institutions and global environmental governance / Institutions internationales et gouvernance mondiale de l'environnement | il/he | https://www.chaire-epi.ulaval.ca/en/jean-frederic-morin
✅ Être marathonien!
Un peu moins de 4 heures pour un gars qui a un peu moins de 50 ans: pas si mal pour une première fois! 🦚
J’avais surestimé le fameux mur des 30 km… mais sous-estimé les deux derniers km !
Un peu moins de 4 heures pour un gars qui a un peu moins de 50 ans: pas si mal pour une première fois! 🦚
J’avais surestimé le fameux mur des 30 km… mais sous-estimé les deux derniers km !
October 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
✅ Être marathonien!
Un peu moins de 4 heures pour un gars qui a un peu moins de 50 ans: pas si mal pour une première fois! 🦚
J’avais surestimé le fameux mur des 30 km… mais sous-estimé les deux derniers km !
Un peu moins de 4 heures pour un gars qui a un peu moins de 50 ans: pas si mal pour une première fois! 🦚
J’avais surestimé le fameux mur des 30 km… mais sous-estimé les deux derniers km !
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📊 Launch of the Earth System Governance Data Directory
A living and collaborative open-access resource to help researchers and practitioners find and share existing and upcoming datasets relevant to global environmental governance.
🔗 www.earthsystemgovernance.org/news/launch-...
A living and collaborative open-access resource to help researchers and practitioners find and share existing and upcoming datasets relevant to global environmental governance.
🔗 www.earthsystemgovernance.org/news/launch-...
October 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
📊 Launch of the Earth System Governance Data Directory
A living and collaborative open-access resource to help researchers and practitioners find and share existing and upcoming datasets relevant to global environmental governance.
🔗 www.earthsystemgovernance.org/news/launch-...
A living and collaborative open-access resource to help researchers and practitioners find and share existing and upcoming datasets relevant to global environmental governance.
🔗 www.earthsystemgovernance.org/news/launch-...
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Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations
International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statis...
www.tandfonline.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
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About twenty leading scholars came together at ENAP to reflect on the future of AI and emerging technologies governance. Here’s what it looks like when they answer my questions for you (in French and English). 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6s...
Gouverner l'IA et les nouvelles technologies | Guillaume Beaumier et invité·es | Rétroaction
YouTube video by ENAPtv
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
About twenty leading scholars came together at ENAP to reflect on the future of AI and emerging technologies governance. Here’s what it looks like when they answer my questions for you (in French and English). 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6s...
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Le CIRGoM est fier d'avoir soutenu cette vidéo sur la gouvernance mondiale des technologies, produite par notre membre associé @gbeaumier.bsky.social (avec la participation d'autres membres, dont @prleblond.bsky.social et @jfmorin.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6s...
Gouverner l'IA et les nouvelles technologies | Guillaume Beaumier et invité·es | Rétroaction
YouTube video by ENAPtv
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Le CIRGoM est fier d'avoir soutenu cette vidéo sur la gouvernance mondiale des technologies, produite par notre membre associé @gbeaumier.bsky.social (avec la participation d'autres membres, dont @prleblond.bsky.social et @jfmorin.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6s...
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🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨
We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.
We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.
We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.
We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.
September 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨
We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.
We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.
We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.
We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.
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🚨 New paper: Will global environmental governance survive Trump?
@rakhyunkim.bsky.social and I argue that its high complexity makes it more resilient than other governance systems. We give hegemonic stability theory a complexity science twist.
📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/1758...
@rakhyunkim.bsky.social and I argue that its high complexity makes it more resilient than other governance systems. We give hegemonic stability theory a complexity science twist.
📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/1758...
Too Complex to Fail: The Stability of Global Environmental Governance Beyond Hegemony
The recent US disengagement from global governance has revived concerns—first theorized in the 1970s and 1980s—about the vulnerability of international institutions to hegemonic decline. While these ...
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🚨 New paper: Will global environmental governance survive Trump?
@rakhyunkim.bsky.social and I argue that its high complexity makes it more resilient than other governance systems. We give hegemonic stability theory a complexity science twist.
📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/1758...
@rakhyunkim.bsky.social and I argue that its high complexity makes it more resilient than other governance systems. We give hegemonic stability theory a complexity science twist.
📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/1758...
📢 CfA: Two fully funded PhD positions on China’s Science Silk Road and the new geopolitics of knowledge. One on environmental issues🌱, the other on outer space 🚀
🎓 Competitive stipend
🌍 Intl project (Québec–Berlin–Oslo)
Encourage your MA students to apply!
www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/call-applica...
🎓 Competitive stipend
🌍 Intl project (Québec–Berlin–Oslo)
Encourage your MA students to apply!
www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/call-applica...
Call for Applications: Two Scholarships to Start a PhD in Sept 2026
www.cirgom.ulaval.ca
September 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
📢 CfA: Two fully funded PhD positions on China’s Science Silk Road and the new geopolitics of knowledge. One on environmental issues🌱, the other on outer space 🚀
🎓 Competitive stipend
🌍 Intl project (Québec–Berlin–Oslo)
Encourage your MA students to apply!
www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/call-applica...
🎓 Competitive stipend
🌍 Intl project (Québec–Berlin–Oslo)
Encourage your MA students to apply!
www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/call-applica...
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📣Appel à candidatures: Deux bourses💰 pour commencer un doctorat👩🎓 en sept 2026 sur la Route de la soie scientifique de la Chine et la nouvelle géopolitique de la production de connaissances. 🌏🔬https://www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/appel-candidature-deux-bourses-pour-commencer-un-doctorat-en-septembre-2026
Appel à candidature: Deux bourses pour commencer un doctorat en septembre 2026
www.cirgom.ulaval.ca
September 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
📣Appel à candidatures: Deux bourses💰 pour commencer un doctorat👩🎓 en sept 2026 sur la Route de la soie scientifique de la Chine et la nouvelle géopolitique de la production de connaissances. 🌏🔬https://www.cirgom.ulaval.ca/appel-candidature-deux-bourses-pour-commencer-un-doctorat-en-septembre-2026
The UNFCCC and the Paris Agr are not the only game in town. Hundreds of non-climate treaties (incl. on freshwater and oceans) generate climate-related decisions. In this IDOS policy brief, A. Olivier and I explore their contributions to climate governance. www.idos-research.de/policy-brief...
Climate mainstreaming in environmental treaties
www.idos-research.de
September 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The UNFCCC and the Paris Agr are not the only game in town. Hundreds of non-climate treaties (incl. on freshwater and oceans) generate climate-related decisions. In this IDOS policy brief, A. Olivier and I explore their contributions to climate governance. www.idos-research.de/policy-brief...
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Le premier colloque étudiant du CIRGoM fut un franc succès. 14 présentations sur différents aspects de la gouvernance mondiale, incluant la sécurité humaine, l'environnement, les alliances et les conflits territoriaux. Bravo à tous/tes les participant/e/s!!
September 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Le premier colloque étudiant du CIRGoM fut un franc succès. 14 présentations sur différents aspects de la gouvernance mondiale, incluant la sécurité humaine, l'environnement, les alliances et les conflits territoriaux. Bravo à tous/tes les participant/e/s!!
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Louise Fréchette, ancienne vice-secrétaire générale des Nations unies, était conférencière invitée pour inaugurer le Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la gouvernance mondiale
@cirgom.bsky.social @jfmorin.bsky.social @jpaquin.bsky.social
@cirgom.bsky.social @jfmorin.bsky.social @jpaquin.bsky.social
Vers la fin du multilatéralisme?
Louise Fréchette, ancienne vice-secrétaire générale des Nations unies, était conférencière invitée pour inaugurer le Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la gouvernance mondiale
nouvelles.ulaval.ca
September 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Louise Fréchette, ancienne vice-secrétaire générale des Nations unies, était conférencière invitée pour inaugurer le Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la gouvernance mondiale
@cirgom.bsky.social @jfmorin.bsky.social @jpaquin.bsky.social
@cirgom.bsky.social @jfmorin.bsky.social @jpaquin.bsky.social
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📢 Heads up! The Association of Law & Political Economy is accepting submissions for our first-ever conference starting THIS Friday 🎉
August 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📢 Heads up! The Association of Law & Political Economy is accepting submissions for our first-ever conference starting THIS Friday 🎉
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Entre janvier et juin, la Chine a installé plus du double de la capacité en énergie solaire que l’ensemble des autres pays du monde. Et je ne suis pas sûr qu’on prenne la mesure de ce qui est en train de se jouer. 1/..
September 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Entre janvier et juin, la Chine a installé plus du double de la capacité en énergie solaire que l’ensemble des autres pays du monde. Et je ne suis pas sûr qu’on prenne la mesure de ce qui est en train de se jouer. 1/..
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So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org
110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org
110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
110 top experts from around the world
13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change
A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this
Will be free online Oct 14 1/x
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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ICYMI, it may too late for the polar ice sheets ...
Paris Agreement Target for Warming Won’t Protect Polar Ice Sheets, Scientists Warn - Inside Climate News
New research suggests the Earth will pass multiple dangerous tipping points at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, the U.N. limit exceeded for much of the last two years.
insideclimatenews.org
August 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
ICYMI, it may too late for the polar ice sheets ...
📢 Student essay competition on environmental agreements 🌱📝. Submit your paper using the IEADB dataset; You could win the $500 R Mitchell Prize 🏆.More info at www.iea.ulaval.ca/en/essay-com...
Essay Competition
www.iea.ulaval.ca
August 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
📢 Student essay competition on environmental agreements 🌱📝. Submit your paper using the IEADB dataset; You could win the $500 R Mitchell Prize 🏆.More info at www.iea.ulaval.ca/en/essay-com...
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Another piece I’ve been working on for a while… many parts of North America used to burn as much (or even more) than present, but climate change is also making wildfires worse… so how do we explain this? I spoke to experts and dive into the details:
August 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Another piece I’ve been working on for a while… many parts of North America used to burn as much (or even more) than present, but climate change is also making wildfires worse… so how do we explain this? I spoke to experts and dive into the details:
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In a recent article, @jfmorin.bsky.social and I argued that the rise of private space organizations like SpaceX was not primarily driven by ingenious tech entrepreneurs. At its heart, their rise was made possible by the support of public organizations like NASA 👩🚀
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The organizational ecology of the global space industry
The global space industry is booming. While governmental agencies used to dominate outer space activities, private space organizations (PSOs) now launch rockets, operate strategic satellites, and e...
www.tandfonline.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In a recent article, @jfmorin.bsky.social and I argued that the rise of private space organizations like SpaceX was not primarily driven by ingenious tech entrepreneurs. At its heart, their rise was made possible by the support of public organizations like NASA 👩🚀
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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"In an act of hubris, NASA gave life to a creature called SpaceX, believing it could help achieve humanity’s loftiest ambitions. But, as in all great parables about technology, the creation eclipsed the creator." 🛰️🧵
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline
The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.
www.theatlantic.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"In an act of hubris, NASA gave life to a creature called SpaceX, believing it could help achieve humanity’s loftiest ambitions. But, as in all great parables about technology, the creation eclipsed the creator." 🛰️🧵
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor … then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." https://scim.ag/4lt1Ru0
August 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"For half an hour, I vented everything I had been holding in for months … my supervisor … then calmly offered a line I’ll never forget: 'You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.' That one sentence landed softly, but it cracked something open." https://scim.ag/4lt1Ru0
Is there a discernible pattern to how states structure the sequence of their binding and non-binding agreements?
@paulinepic.bsky.social and I explore this question in a new @internatltheory.bsky.social paper, available in Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@paulinepic.bsky.social and I explore this question in a new @internatltheory.bsky.social paper, available in Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sequencing binding and non-binding agreements: the case of outer space governance | International Theory | Cambridge Core
Sequencing binding and non-binding agreements: the case of outer space governance
www.cambridge.org
August 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Is there a discernible pattern to how states structure the sequence of their binding and non-binding agreements?
@paulinepic.bsky.social and I explore this question in a new @internatltheory.bsky.social paper, available in Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@paulinepic.bsky.social and I explore this question in a new @internatltheory.bsky.social paper, available in Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🌠 Le CIRGoM dans Le Soleil !
« Les satellites sont utiles, mais ils transforment notre ciel nocturne », rappelle Jean Frederic Morin, le directeur de CIRGoM.
Avec Cynthia Couette, membre étudiante, il éclaire les enjeux d’un ciel étoilé face à la prolifération des satellites. 💫
« Les satellites sont utiles, mais ils transforment notre ciel nocturne », rappelle Jean Frederic Morin, le directeur de CIRGoM.
Avec Cynthia Couette, membre étudiante, il éclaire les enjeux d’un ciel étoilé face à la prolifération des satellites. 💫
Les étoiles filantes éclipsées par les satellites
Entre le 11 et le 14 août, éloignez-vous des lumières de la ville et tournez le regard vers le ciel. Le spectacle des Perséides, une pluie de météores, se produira sous vos yeux.
www.lesoleil.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🌠 Le CIRGoM dans Le Soleil !
« Les satellites sont utiles, mais ils transforment notre ciel nocturne », rappelle Jean Frederic Morin, le directeur de CIRGoM.
Avec Cynthia Couette, membre étudiante, il éclaire les enjeux d’un ciel étoilé face à la prolifération des satellites. 💫
« Les satellites sont utiles, mais ils transforment notre ciel nocturne », rappelle Jean Frederic Morin, le directeur de CIRGoM.
Avec Cynthia Couette, membre étudiante, il éclaire les enjeux d’un ciel étoilé face à la prolifération des satellites. 💫