Researcher
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,…
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 co-supervision of Jonathan Paquin (Université Laval) and Alexander Lanoszka (University of Waterloo). He is an emerging scholar at the Network for Strategic Analysis (NSA) and a member of two other research centers, the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Global Governance (CIRGoM) and the Roméo Dallaire Chair on Civil Conflicts and Sustainable Peace. His research interests focus on foreign and defense policy, alliance dynamics, and strategic studies. Specifically, his dissertation examines alliances politics in the context of strategic uncertainty, with a focus…
Fellow researcher
A native of Quebec City, J. Michael Cole has been based in Taipei, Taiwan, since 2005 and is a researcher specializing in security and geopolitics. The author of several books on Taiwan and China and more than 1,000 articles, Cole has worked in journalism, research, and government. He serves as a consultant on geopolitics and security for the private sector and certain governments. His latest book, *The Taiwan Tinderbox: The Island-Nation at the Center of the New Cold War*, was published in 2025. He served as Senior Advisor at the International Republican Institute (U.S.) for its Countering Foreign Authoritarian…
Fellow researcher
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…
Researcher
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…
Researcher
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.
