Fellow researcher
Arthur Boutellis is a Non-resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, where he was Director of the Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations, and teaches a graduate-level seminar at Columbia University. In addition to IPI, Arthur has worked with the UN missions in Burundi (BINUB), Chad and the Central African Republic (MINURCAT), Haiti (MINUSTAH), and Mali (MINUSMA) where he supported the 2014-15 Mali peace negotiations as part of the UN Mediation Team. His prior work with humanitarian NGOs and think tanks focused on the Middle East and Africa. He holds a master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow…
Emerging Scholar
Maya Bouton is a master’s student in political science pursuing a dual degree between Sciences Po Grenoble and the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is interested in international relations, with a specialization in security and defense studies. Under the supervision of Justin Massie, her research focuses on defense industry strategy, as well as the dynamics of strategic partnerships in Canada and North America. More broadly, she is interested in issues of strategic autonomy, industrial dependence, and the legitimization of defense policies. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Sciences Po Grenoble, with a specialization in European…
Researcher
Yann Breault is Assistant Professor at Royal Military College of St-Jean. He has previously worked at University of Québec in Montréal. He is co-founder, with Jacques Lévesque, and current co-director of the Observatoire de l’Eurasie (ODE). His research focuses on foreign policy (Russia, ex-USSR States), nationalism, geopolitics. He is co-author with Jacques Lévesque and Pierre Jolicoeur of La Russie et son ex-Empire, reconfiguration géopolitique de l’ancien espace soviétique (Science Po, 2003). He has contributed to the recent collective work The Return of the Cold War : Ukraine, the West and Russia (Routledge, 2016). He has published in many academic journals,…
Fellow researcher
Camille Brugier is a consultant and an Associate Researcher on contemporary China at the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) in Paris and the Strategic Analysis Network in Montreal. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence) and has since worked for the ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and the French Ministry of Armed Forces’ research center, IRSEM. She grew up in China and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. She specializes in Chinese trade, technology and scientific policy and their impact on China’s relations with the West. She has published in the Asia-Europe Journal and for French…
Practitioner
Kerry Buck was most recently Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Board, Economic Sector, from 2018 to 2021. Prior to that, she was Canada's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to NATO from 2015 to 2018. Ms. Buck is a career diplomat who was Political Director and Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security and Political Affairs, and served in Assistant Deputy Minister positions on Afghanistan, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Director General for the Middle East and Maghreb. Earlier in her career she was posted to the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. Ms. Buck led Canadian…
Researcher
Isabelle Caron is Assistant Professor at the School of Public Administration in Dalhousie University. She is a former senior policy analyst with the Canadian Government. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion, management in public organizations, comparative public administrations, administrative reforms, accountability mechanisms, control in public organizations. She has published in academic journals Administration publique du Canada, Journal of Agricultural Studies, Food Protection Trends. She is the author of many reviewed book chapters : « Entre ouverture et transparence: situer le cas canadien » in Savard, Jean-François & Jean-Patrick Villeneuve (eds.), L’État et le citoyen. Analyses et expériences au Canada…
Emerging Scholar
Rémy Carugati is currently an MBA student in Strategy and Economic Intelligence at the Paris School of Economic Warfare. Passionate about strategic studies, he worked as a research assistant in the political science department under the direction of Professor Jonathan Paquin when he was a student in the Master of International Studies - International Security (2020-2022). Rémy also completed an internship at the RAS where he worked on the Taiwan issue under the supervision of Justin Massie, whom he also accompanied as a research assistant at the RAS after his internship.
Researcher
Roromme Chantal, a specialist in international relations and Chinese issues, is a professor of political science at the École des hautes études publiques (HEP) of the Moncton University. His new book Comment la Chine conquiert le monde : le rôle du pouvoir symbolique was published by Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal (PUM) in November 2020. He is also the co-author, with Professor Mamoudou Gazibo of the Université de Montréal, of the book Un nouvel ordre mondial made in China? (PUM, 2011). His other publications include an article (with Professor Jean-François Thibeault) in the journal L'Observateur des Nations Unies (vol.…
Researcher
Bruno Charbonneau (PhD Queen’s University) is Full Professor of International Studies, and Director of the Centre for Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC) at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. He is also founder and Director of the Centre FrancoPaix in Conflict Resolution and Peace Missions of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Since 2015, he has been an editorial board member of the academic journal International Peacekeeping. His work examines the power politics of and interactions between international interventions and armed conflicts. In particular, he analyses the regional and international dynamics of conflict management and resolution in the Francophone…
