Emerging Scholar
Michelle is entering her fourth year of undergraduate studies at McGill University, pursuing a degree in Honours Political Science with a minor in Communications Studies. She is particularly interested in international law and its influence on global economic and power relations, as well as the media's role in shaping Canadian outlooks on foreign policy issues. At the CIDP, Michelle focuses on research with the NSA on global power relations. Through her work with the Canadian Council for Refugees, Michelle has researched the impact of Canada’s virtual refugee hearing process, and helped to establish a service-provision framework for Canadian organizations by…
Researcher
Stéphanie Martel is Assistant Professor of Political Studies – specializing in International Relations – at Queen’s University, where she is the Director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy. She is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. She serves as a Canadian representative in informal diplomacy dialogues such as the ASEAN Regional Forum’s Expert and Eminent Persons Group and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. Her research focuses on multilateral diplomacy, security regionalism, and the role of discourse in the social construction of world politics, with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific. He recent…
Emerging Scholar
Quentin Martel is currently a student at the University of Sherbrooke, where he is pursuing a master’s degree in applied political studies, with a concentration in security and intelligence. This program will enable him to gain greater expertise in national security and national defense in Canada. He completed most of his studies in France, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in law with a concentration in public law from the University of Savoie Mont-Blanc. In 2023, he decided to take a gap year to pursue a minor in political science at the University of Quebec in Montreal. This experience had…
Researcher
Maria Martin de Almagro is assistant professor in the political science department at Université de Montréal. She studies gender politics, international political economy and the micro-dynamics of war to peace transitions from a poststructuralist and postcolonial perspective. Her research agenda revolves around 3 topics: 1) a multi-modal discourse approach to analyze the life cycle of international norms and their implementation in development and post-conflict environments; 2) the link between UN security and development policies; 3) transnational social movements and the production of knowledge on gender and race underpinning security and development policies. She has been Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at…
Co-director
Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé is Full Professor at Bishop’s University and Non-Resident Fellow at the International Peace Institute, New York. She is the Deputy Director of the Centre FrancoPaix. In 2018–2019, she was the Canada Fulbright Research Chair for Peace and War Studies. In 2021, she was awarded the 3M National Teaching Fellowship. She is an associate faculty member of the Center for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) and of the Montreal Center for International Studies (CERIUM). Her research focuses on peacekeeping-intelligence, peace operations and security issues related to intra-state wars. Her most recent publications include “Competing for Trust: Challenges in UN Peacekeeping-Intelligence“. Author of the…
Emerging Scholar
Johanna Masse is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for International and Defence Policy (CIDP) at Queen's University. She is conducting a research project on gendered representations and military women in Canadian Army combat units. More generally, she is interested in women's participation in political violence and armed conflict.
Director
Justin Massie is a professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Director of the Strategic Analysis Network. he is also Co-director of Le Rubicon. He was the 2019 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the global power transition, international security, alliance politics, and foreign and defence policy. His work has been published in several journals, including International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Security, International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Contemporary Security Policy, Comparative Strategy, Canadian Journal of…
Researcher
Pascale Massot is an associate professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is also John H. McArthur Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada in Vancouver, non-resident Honorary Fellow, Political Economy at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis in New York, a Canadian Global Affairs Institute Fellow and a Non-resident Fellow, Center for China Analysis, National Taiwan University. Dr. Massot is the author of China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets (Oxford University Press, 2024) – Winner of the 2025 Best Book Award in International…
Practitioner
Jonathan is a graduate of the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal under the direction of Professor Theodore McLauchlin (University of Montreal) and is a member of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS). His research interests include defense and national security issues. He also holds a B.A. from McGill University in political science, and two graduate certificates in national security from the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Jonathan now works in the federal public service and also serves as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces.
