Emerging Scholar
Alexandra is a doctoral student at the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Professor Marie-Joëlle Zahar. Her research focuses on what undermines peacebuilding efforts in the Central African Republic. Through this research, Alexandra explores how the government’s exclusionary practices hinder the country’s prospects for peace following its 2013-2014 Civil War. Her research also seeks to illustrate how the international community’s disproportionate focus on large milestones such as peace accords, elections, and reform promises has led them to ignore the widespread exclusion. Prior to starting her Ph.D., Alexandra worked on issues related to conflict, peacebuilding, forced displacement, and humanitarian need…
Emerging Scholars
Émile is a doctoral student and Joseph-Armand Bombardier (CGS-D) Scholar in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, studying International Relations and Security. He has been granted the Desjardins Scholarship, the G.G. Baron Van der Feltz Award for best master’s dissertation in International Relations, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS; twice). Émile’s research is primarily focused on NATO deterrence, nuclear weapons proliferation, and nuclear latency. Additionally, he works on Canadian foreign and defence policy. Émile has authored or co-authored articles, book chapters, and book reviews that have been published in International Affairs, Defence Studies, the Journal of Strategic and Military…
Fellow researcher
Marie Lamensch is the Director of Global Affairs at the Montreal Centre for Global Security. Her research and policy interests focus on international security and human rights, foreign influence and interference, gendered disinformation, emerging technologies, transnational repression, and digital authoritarianism. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history (Concordia University) and a master’s degree in Conflict, Security, and Development (King’s College London, Department of War Studies). Previously, Marie served as program and outreach coordinator at the Montreal Institute for Global Security. Marie provides training to diplomats and journalists and has conducted numerous consultations for NGOs and government agencies. She also…
Researcher
Andrea Lane is a strategic analyst with Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) - Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA). Prior to this, she taught for two years at the Canadian Forces College. Andrea is also a PhD candidate in political science at Dalhousie University; her dissertation is a Marxist feminist analysis of the Elsie Initiative. She holds an MA in International Affairs from Carleton University (NPSIA), where her thesis focussed on radicalization into non-Islamic terrorism. Prior to joining DRDC in July 2021, Andrea was a frequent media commentator on issues such as Canadian defence policy, military sexual misconduct,…
Co-director
Alexander Lanoszka is an associate professor of international relations in the School of Social, Political, and Historical Research as well as the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on military alliances and European security. He has published articles in International Security, International Affairs, Security Studies and the Journal of Strategic Studies. He is also the author of Atomic Assurance: The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation (Cornell, 2018) and Military Alliances in the Twenty-first Century (Polity, 2022). He received his PhD from Princeton University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute…
Researcher
Frédéric Lasserre holds a master’s degree in business (ESC Lyon), an MBA (York University, Toronto), a DEA in geopolitics (University of Paris VIII), and a Ph.D. in geography (University of Saint-Étienne). He worked as a consultant at the European Observatory of Geopolitics (Lyon), then as an international affairs advisor at the Quebec Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and later at Investissement Québec. He has been a professor in the Department of Geography at Laval University (Quebec City) since 2001 and heads the Quebec Council for Geopolitical Studies (CQEG) and the Research Chair in Indo-Pacific Studies (CREIP). He has conducted extensive…
Researcher
Marion Laurence is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. Her research interests include international relations theory, global security governance, and learning and change in international organizations. Her work centres on norm and practice change in global governance, with a primary focus on multilateral peace and stability operations. She is the author of Intrusive Impartiality: Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations (Oxford University Press, 2024) and co-author of Norms, Practices, and Social Change in Global Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Before taking up her position at Dalhousie, she held research and…
