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 New York and Sciences Po Paris. Before that he served with the United Nations in various field missions. He is the author of Rivalités pour la paix - Géopolitique de l'ONU (Armand Colin, Septembre 2025) and The UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) - Peacekeeping Caught in the Geopolitical Crossfire (Palgrave Macmillan, Octobre 2024), holds a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton University and a PhD in…
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 an assistant professor at the Royal Military College of Saint-Jean and co-director of the Research Chair on Reserve Forces. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2011), which he earned with a dissertation on identity reconstruction in post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. He previously taught at UQAM and the University of Ottawa. In 2015, he co-founded the Eurasia Observatory with Jacques Lévesque and joined the Strategic Analysis Network in 2020. His research focuses primarily on Russian foreign policy, nationalism, identity politics, and Eurasian geopolitics. Among his major publications are Russia…
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
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…
Emerging Scholar
Laurent Charbonneau is a master's student in political science at the Université de Montréal. Specializing in security issues and defence cooperation in the European context, he has worked in the political section of the Canadian Mission to the European Union and will soon be joining NATO's Strategic Foresight Branch. His master's thesis analyzes the emergence of the concept of European strategic autonomy, under the supervision of Frédéric Mérand. His research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES), and the Jean Monnet Center Montréal (JMCM). Laurent previously graduated…
Emerging Scholar
Daphné Charotte is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University (Netherlands). Her research examines the conditions explaining military receptiveness to NGO advocacy on the protection of civilians (PoC) in conflict. Her research project focuses of four case studies: Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and is co-funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany) and Maastricht University. Daphné obtained a Research Master in European Studies (cum laude) from Maastricht University in July 2022. Her research master thesis explored NATO burden-sharing, more specifically the relationship between NATO member states’ exposure to migration and…
