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Andrea Charron is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CDSS) at the University of Manitoba. She is a member of the Department of National Defence's Advisory Board and is asked regularly to provide guest lectures at Canadian Forces College and to provide testimony to Senate and House of Commons' committees. Dr. Charron worked for various federal departments including the Privy Council Office in the Security and Intelligence Secretariat. Her research projects focus extensively on the Arctic, NORAD, Canadian Defence Policy and the Security Council. She has published in academic journals such as International Journal,…
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Stéphanie Chouinard is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Royal Military College (Kingston) since 2017. She does research in the fields of language rights, minority and Aboriginal rights, law and politics, Canadian Federalism, Minority and Language Rights and Politics (Canada; UK). Her current research focuses on the Supreme Court of Canada's impact on the evolution of official-language rights and Aboriginal self-determination rights. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh.She has published in Ethnopolitics, the Language Rights…
Emerging Scholar
Judith Clech is an undergraduate student at Sciences Po Paris on exchange at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She specializes in political science, constitutional and international law, and international relations. She is part of the North America minor at Sciences Po as she is willing to open her academic path to the United States of America and Canada. At Sciences Po, her commitments range from diplomacy to consulting and journalism. She organizes conferences and writes for the Foreign Affairs section of the student newspaper The Sundial Press. As a volunteer in associations helping migrants, she is passionate about…
Emerging Scholar
Pierre Colautti is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Laval University in Quebec City under the supervision of Jonathan Paquin. He studies International Relations, with a focus on alliance dynamics and states’ foreign and defence strategies. He is particularly interested in the strategic behaviour of formal hegemon allies in times of great power rivalry and the transformation of the international order. The FRQSC funds his research. He holds an M.A. in international studies from the Graduate School of International Studies at Laval University.
Fellow Researchers
Jeffrey F. Collins is a Canadian defence and foreign policy analyst whose work bridges academic research, public service, and strategic leadership. A national expert in defence procurement and industrial policy, he has published dozens of articles and reports on Canada’s military capabilities, acquisition challenges, and emerging security partnerships, as well as two books: Reassessing the Revolution in Military Affairs (2015) and Canada’s Defence Procurement Woes (2024). Collins is the inaugural Director of the Palmer Institute for Canadian Leadership at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown. He previously held senior policy roles with Canada’s Department of National Defence and…
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W. R. Nadège Compaoré is an Assistant Professor of International Relations (IR) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her work lies at the intersection of (Pan)African politics, IR theory, International Law, global extractivism, gender and race in IR. She is co-editor of New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa (Palgrave) and her work has been published in academic outlets such as International Theory, International Studies Review, International Studies Perspectives, Études Internationales, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, Oxford Handbook on Environmental Politics, Canadian Journal of African Studies, as well as several book chapters and policy reports. Her latest research is…
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Isabelle Côté is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2014 and was a postdoctoral fellow at KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) in Leiden, the Netherlands. Prior to that, she held several visiting research positions in China, Indonesia, Sweden, and Denmark. Her research focuses primarily on the role of demographic factors in general—and internal population movements in particular—in intra-state conflicts, nativist movements, and contentious politics around the world, with a special emphasis on East and Southeast…
Emerging Scholar
Alexandre Courtemanche is a master's student in political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal under the supervision of Justin Massie. At the same university, he obtained his bachelor's degree by completing the Honor's program in the political science department, with a concentration in international relations, before continuing his studies at the graduate level. During this final, exclusive stage of his undergraduate studies, he developed an interest in issues linking international security to global warming. His thesis project focuses on the impact of climate change on Canada's defence posture in the Arctic.
Fellow Researchers
Jean F. Crombois has been Lecturer in European Politics at the American University in Bulgaria since 2005. A historian and political scientist, Jean F. Crombois holds a PhD in contemporary European history from the Université libre de Bruxelles [Belgium] and a post-graduate diploma in political science from the University of Essex [UK]. His academic career has led him to hold the following positions: Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Balliol College and in the Department of Modern History at Oxford University from 1999 to 2002; Lecturer in International Politics at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco from 2004 to 2005; Visiting Research…
