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 non-resident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (Washington D.C.), focusing on the Indo-Pacific region. Cleo works with academia, government, the defense community and others in order to better understand, explain, anticipate and resolve today’s complex challenges. She is particularly interested in the strategic implications of the intersection of geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geophysical change. Cleo Paskal's affiliations include: Visiting Fellow, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM); Senior Fellow, Usanas Foundation (India); International Board of Advisors, Global Counter Terrorism Council (India). She has lectured or briefed at a wide range…
Researcher
Alexandre Pelletier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval. Dr. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, his work focuses on civil wars and political violence, with a particular interest in Southeast Asia, where he has been conducting research since 2012. He is currently a fellow at the Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars Network, co-director of the CERIUM Human Rights Observatory, and an affiliate researcher at the Postcor Lab at the University of Toronto. His research on Indonesia and Myanmar has been published in various journals, such as Comparative Politics, Asian Policy & Politics, Asian…
Emerging Scholar
Victoria Perak is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Bishop’s University pursuing an Honours in Political Studies, Major in International Studies with a minor in North American Studies. She chaired the Board of Student Representatives and was a Senator on the Bishop’s University Senate. She was a Head Delegate for the Model United Nations Practicum, under the supervision of Prof. Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, where she aided students in their understanding of United Nations Rules of Procedures. She is currently working on a research project on the topic of gender issues in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Emerging Scholar
Léa Pérémarty graduated from the University of Western Brittany in Brest (France) with a Bachelor of Law degree with honours. She was an exchange student in England at the University of Nottingham, where she developed her interest in public international law and the use of force. Today, Léa Pérémarty is a Master's candidate in international law and politics at the Université de Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). She specializes in international security issues and the law of armed conflict. She is currently doing an internship at the Strategic Analysis Network.
