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
Mariana is a master’s student in political science at Université de Montréal. Her research focuses on Canadian Arctic foreign policy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies, specializing in peace and security, and recently completed a microprogram in Russian language and culture, which informs her interest in Russian foreign policy. She also studied European affairs on exchange at Sciences Po Strasbourg. In February 2026, she presented her research on competing definitions of the Indo-Pacific as a marker of rival strategic interests at the annual conference of the CÉRIUM’s Asian and Indo-Pacific Studies Chair. Through her participation in United Nations…
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.
Practitioner
Brigadier General Pesme (Rted) is a French combat engineer officer, who specialized during the first part of his career in underwater reconnaissance and river-crossing operations (1987-1995). He then developed an expertise in European defense issues and the transatlantic relationship through various assignments: in France, at the Joint Staff (2003-2006 and 2015-2018) and the Delegation for Strategic Affairs, where he was head of the North America desk (2008-2011); at NATO, first at Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk as Executive Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (2013-2015) and then at the NATO’s International Military Staff in Brussels, where he was Deputy…
Emerging Scholar
Falk Petegou is a post-doctoral fellow at the Chair in International Francophonie Research on Political Aspirations and Movements in Francophone Africa at the University of Ottawa. He was a lecturer at the Université Protestante d'Afrique Centrale, where he taught the following courses, among others: Conflict theory and typology, Peace building approaches, Identities and conflicts in Africa, Conflict resolution practice. He has also provided consultancy services to a number of institutions, including UNICEF, the Service Civil pour la Paix and was a visiting researcher at the Frankfurt Institute for Peace Research in Germany (HSFK) between 2014 and 2015. His work focuses…
Emerging Scholar
Maxime Philaire is a Ph.D. candidate in International Studies at Laval University’s École supérieure d’études internationales under the supervision of Prof. Anessa Kimball, having previously completed a master’s degree in political science at Laval University with a thesis on strengthening the legitimacy of the Russian Federation’s regime through the construction of national identity and the militarization of youth. Prior to that, he earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations at ILERI Paris, including a semester at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Alongside his studies, he served as President of the OTAN Laval association, which participates annually in…
Emerging Scholar
Pauline Pic holds a Ph.D. in geography and is a certified high school teacher of geography. Her dissertation, completed at Laval University, focused on the scales of security in the Arctic region. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the École supérieure d'études internationales, where she worked on the governance of global commons, particularly the Central Arctic Ocean and outer space. As holder of the Transforming Climate Action Research Chair in the Geopolitics of Seas and Oceans, she joined the Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Geography at UQAR to continue her research on ocean governance. She is interested in the…
Researcher
Abel Pli is a specialist in international relations and populism issues. With a PhD in political science from the École nationale d’administration publique de Montréal, he shows how populist rhetoric in the West is impacting transatlantic relations. Populism brings with it a new worldview based on the defense of egocentric national interests, economic protectionism, unilateralism, bilateralism, and isolationism. Such a worldview runs counter to the values of the liberal international order. His research argues that the questioning of liberal values such as collective identity, economic interdependence, and multilateralism, which are rejected by populist discourse, weakens NATO's cohesion. By analyzing the…
