Emerging Scholars
Jeanne Milot-Poulin is a master's student in political science at the Université de Montréal and an associate of the Centre Jean Monnet de Montréal. She is writing a dissertation under the supervision of Magdalena Dembinska, with support from SSHRC and FRQSC. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science with distinction from Université Laval. She is fluent in French and English, and has completed a microprogram in Russian at Université Laval. She is interested in Russian-speaking minorities in Eastern Europe, and more broadly in relations between Europe and Russia.
Emerging Scholar
Pierre-Antoine Mondoloni is a student in European Public Affairs and Policies at the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw, Poland), where his research focuses on the Europeanization of the French nuclear deterrent. He graduated in public law from the University of Bordeaux, in history and international relations from Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and Paris II Panthéon-Assas, where his final dissertation focused on France's foreign legal policy regarding its nuclear deterrent. This work is now part of a doctoral project in public law. His sociological approach to international law has led him to mobilize not only specialized legal expertise but also…
Fellow researcher
Pierre Morcos is a visiting fellow in the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. His research focuses on European security, transatlantic relations and French defence policy. A career diplomat with the French Foreign Service, he most recently served as deputy head of the Strategic Affairs and Cybersecurity Division, focusing on NATO and European defense issues. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the École Nationale d'Administration, Pierre Morcos also studied for a year in the United States at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Researcher
David Morin is Associate Professor at the School of Applied Politics of the University of Sherbrooke. His expertise and professional experience address national and international security. He co-founded the Observatory on Radicalization and Violent Extremism (OSR), a centre bringing together researchers and experts to observe, document, understand and analyze the phenomena of radicalization and violent extremism. Since 2018, he is an expert member of the Working Group for the establishment of the Réseau francophone de prévention de la radicalisation et de l’extrémisme violents (Francoprev) of the International Organisation of La Francophonie. His research projects focus on international and national security,…
Emerging Scholar
Yannick Morrisson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval in Quebec City under the supervision of Jonathan Paquin. He holds a Master's degree in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada. His research focuses on the relations between the great powers and Africa. He is also interested in defence and security issues between these two entities, as well as in intelligence.
Fellow researcher
Gauthier Mouton, who holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Quebec in Montreal, is a researcher at the Institute of East Asian Studies (École normale supérieure de Lyon). He has taught international relations and Asian geopolitics at the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon, where he directed the university-level diploma program on the contemporary Far East. He currently teaches at the Catholic University of Lyon and at EM Lyon Business School. During his studies at UQAM, he served as coordinator of the East Asia Observatory and later as scientific director of the Montreal Institute of International Studies.…
Emerging Scholar
Justine Mulin is currently a second year student in the International Security and Defense Master's program at the University Jean Moulin Lyon III. She holds a bi-disciplinary degree combining history and political science from the Institut Catholique de Paris and a university degree in Arabic language and culture from the Université Jean Moulin Lyon III. Interested in human security issues, she is currently working on her thesis directed by Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé on local appropriation of peacebuilding strategies.
Emerging Scholar
Marco Munier is a doctoral student in political science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). Before arriving in Canada and joining the University of Quebec in Montreal, he worked in the French Ministry of the Interior in the National Police from 2010 to 2015. His research focuses on Intelligence Studies, in particular on the identification of a national intelligence culture in Canada and on the evolution of the intelligence devices of Canada, Italy and Australia since September 11, 2001, as well as on multinational military interventions and western defense policies.
Fellow researcher
Josaphat Musamba, a Congolese researcher, is a Ph.D. student at Ghent University. He is affiliated with the Group for Studies on Conflicts and Human Security (GECSH), a research unit of CERUKI-ISP/Bukavu, and also with ISDR/Mbandaka. With previous experience as a staff member in several NGOs, Josaphat Musamba has worked as a research, monitoring, and evaluation consultant at Benevolencija RDC. He has also served as a liaison officer in the security and safety department of Handicap International and as a Congolese staff member in the United Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016-2017 mandate). Josaphat Musamba…
Researcher
Costanza Musu is Professor and Director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on international security, conflict, terrorism financing, and Western foreign policy toward the Middle East. A significant part of her recent work examines the security implications of the illicit trafficking of cultural heritage, including its links to armed conflict, terrorism financing, and organized crime, as well as national and international policy responses to these threats. Her latest book, Art for War: Heritage Looting, Blood Antiquities, and the International Fight Against Terrorism Financing, is published by Stanford University Press in…
