Co-director
Dr. Thomas Hughes is an Assistant Professor at Mount Allison University, and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba. His research focuses on North American and Arctic defence, NATO, threat perception, and confidence-building measures. Dr. Hughes is the author of Military Exercises and Threat Perception in Europe (2026), co-edited the volume North American Strategic Defense in the 21st Century, and has published research on Arctic defence and trust in international relations, including a chapter in International Competition in the High North (published by the U.S. Army War College) and articles…
Emerging Scholar
Charline Hutin is a French student who speaks four languages and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation at Aix-Marseille University. Her academic and international background has centered on issues of defense, international security, crisis management, and military cooperation. She has had the opportunity to study in several countries, including Turkey, Italy, and Canada, allowing her to gain a comparative understanding of strategic, military, and diplomatic environments. With a particular interest in military issues, European crisis management, and counterterrorism, Charline is now pursuing a military career, with the goal of applying her academic, linguistic, and international skills to…
Emerging Scholar
Anvesh Jain is a Juris Doctor student at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. He holds an honours degree in International Relations from the University of Toronto, with a focus in Canadian Foreign and Security Relations. His work examines grand strategy trends within the South Asian and Euro-Atlantic contexts, and he has been published by the Columbia SIPA Journal of International Affairs, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, the Stimson Center, and the U.S Air University’s Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, among others. He is currently affiliated with both the NATO Association of Canada and the Canada Tibet Committee, as well as the…
Emerging Scholar
Tancrède Jankowski holds a bachelor’s degree in law and political science from the Institut Catholique de Paris and a master’s degree in international studies from the University of Montreal. Specializing in the study of armed conflicts, he currently serves as International Security Advisor at La Poste Group. He began his career as an analyst at the Strategic Analysis Network (RAS/NSA), before serving as Communications Manager for the partner platform Le Rubicon and then as a Research Officer with the French Air and Space Force. He then spent more than two years as a Geopolitical Monitor at OFPRA (French Office for…
Strategic steering committee
Daniel Jean served as National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada (2016-18). Previously, he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (2013-2016) and Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage (2010-2013). From 2007 to 2010, he held a number of critical deputy minister positions first as Associate Secretary at the Treasury Board and later on as Deputy Secretary (Operations) at the Privy Council Office. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Minister in 2007, Daniel had a stimulating career in international and migration related issues both in Canada and abroad that included two postings in Haiti, two separate assignments in…
Practitioner
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer is the French Ambassador to Vanuatu and the French Ambassador-Designate to the Solomon Islands, after having served as director of the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) at the French Ministry of the Armed Forces (2016-2022), and as a Policy officer on “Security and Global Affairs” at the Policy Planning Staff (CAPS) of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013-2016). He has held positions at the Faculty of Law at McGill University, Canada (2011-2013), at the department of War Studies of King’s College London (2010-2011), at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University…
Fellow researcher
Joseph T. Jockel is Piskor Professor and Chair of Canadian Studies at St. Lawrence University. He is also co-editor of International Journal, the scholarly publication of the Canadian International Council, Toronto. His research has focused on the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). He is the author of two books, No Boundaries Upstairs: Canada, the United States and the Origins of North American Air Defence, 1945-1958 (1987) and Canada in NORAD, 1957-2007: A History (2007) as well as an article, “NORAD Does Not Need Saving” (2015). His most recent monograph is Canada and the Netherlands in Afghanistan (2014). Jockel is…
Researcher
Pierre Jolicoeur is Full Professor at the Department of Political Science at Royal Military College of Canada. Specialist of the former Soviet Union and South Eastern Europe, his research focuses on secessionist movements, foreign policy, federalism and cybersecurity. At RMCC, he teaches international relations and comparative politics. Through NATO programs, he also taught in Moldova and in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Author or co-author of 2 books, 10 articles in Peer review journals, 23 chapters in university press, his publications, both in French and English, appeared in Études internationales, Journal of Borderland Studies, Canadian Journal of Foreign Policy,…
