Philippe Lagassé is full professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, at the Carleton University. Between 2012-2014 he served as a member of the Independent Review Panel overseeing the evaluation of options to replace Canada’s CF-18 fighter aircraft, and was a member of the Independent Review Panel for Defence Acquisition within the Department of National Defence from 2015 to 2022. His research focuses on defence policy and military procurement, as well as civil-military relations and the role of institutions in international policymaking in the Westminster tradition.
Expertise
- Defence Policy and Military Procurement
- Civil-Military Relations
- Westminster System
Selected Publications
- Philippe Lagassé, “Cooperating to contrôle: French senators as defence overseers and civil-military actors“, European Security (2022).
- Philippe Lagassé, “Parliament and the War Prerogative in the United Kingdom and Canada: Explaining Variations in Institutional Change and Legislative Control,” Parliamentary Affairs 70:2 (2017): 280-300.
- Philippe Lagassé & Stephen Saideman, “Public Critics or Secretive Monitors: Party Preferences and Legislative Oversight of the Military in Canada,” West European Politics 40:1 (2017) 119:138.
- Marie-Eve Desrosiers & Philippe Lagassé, “Military Frames and Canada’s Conservative Government: Shifting Perceptions of Canadian Identity,” Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 54:3 (2016): 288-311.
- Philippe Lagassé & Paul Robinson, “Reviving Realism in the Canadian Defence Debate,” Martello Papers 34 (2008).
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