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…
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 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 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…
