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,…
Collaborator
Camille Brugier is a consultant and an Associate Researcher on contemporary China at the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) in Paris and the Network for Strategic Analysis 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…
Advisory Board
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…
GBA+ Officer
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…
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…
