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…
Practitioner
Diego Osorio developed Canada’s national training framework for peacekeeping and humanitarian action. He is co-founder of the CGIAR Climate Security Initiative—now the world’s leading platform linking science and policy on climate, food systems, and conflict. He brought 34 Colombian political leaders, business executives, civil society leaders, and government officials to Northern Ireland to show them firsthand that a peace process can succeed—in direct preparation for the 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement. He has been published in The Lancet Planetary Health and the International Review of the Red Cross. He trains the next generation of policymakers at six institutions across three countries.…
Fellow researcher
Falk Ostermann is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. His research interests are French security and defence policies, identity, NATO, European defense, and the party politics of foreign policy. He has published, inter alia, in European Political Science Review, West European Politics, European Security, and International Relations. He is the author of Security, Defense Discourse and Identity in NATO and Europe. How France Changed Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2019).
Practitioner
Dr. Zachary Paikin is deputy director of the Better Order Project and research fellow in the Grand Strategy Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also senior fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD), a Canadian international affairs think tank. Previously, Dr. Paikin was researcher in EU Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels from 2021 to 2023 and senior researcher in the International Security Dialogue Department at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) from 2023 to 2024. Among other affiliations, Paikin was a member of the Cooperative Security…
Fellow researcher
Alice Pannier is Assistant Professor in the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University. She is a an Associate Research Fellow at the Security Studies Center of the French Institute of International Relations, IFRI. Alice Pannier is an expert on European security. Her research interests cover security and defense cooperation in Europe, transatlantic relations, and contemporary military interventions, with a particular focus on the defense policies of France, the UK and Germany. Her work has appeared, inter alia, in International Affairs, the Journal of Strategic Studies, European Security, and Global Affairs. She is the author of Rivals in…
Co-director
Jonathan Paquin is professor of Political Science at Université Laval. He has written numerous articles on foreign policy and international relations in Cooperation and Conflict, Foreign Policy Analysis, Mediterranean Politics, the Canadian Journal of Political Science and International Journal, among others. He is also the co-editor of America’s Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony, Routledge, 2020; the coauthor of Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; the co-editor of Game Changer: The Impact of 9/11 on North American Security, UBC Press, 2014; and the author of A Stability-Seeking Power: US Foreign Policy and Secessionist Conflicts, McGill-Queen’s, 2010. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University and was…
Fellow researcher
Cleo Paskal is a Research Fellow at the Future Security Initiative, Arizona State University, Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council and Senior Fellow at Usanas Foundation. She is on the International Board of Advisors of the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies and the Global Counter-Terrorism Council. She has testified before the U.S. Congress, U.K House of Lords and Canadian Parliament. From 2006 to 2022, Paskal was an Associate Fellow at Chatham House (a.k.a. Royal Institute of International Affairs) and she led a multi-year research project based at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de…
