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Anessa Kimball (prof/they/she) is professor of Political Science at Laval University. Kimball is the Director of the Centre for International Security (CSI) at the École supérieure des études internationales (ETI), co-director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network (CDSN), and a member of the Defence & Security Foresight Group, North American team. Professor Kimball received their PhD in Political Science from the State University of New York-Binghamton, USA. Their research interests include the interdependence of domestic and foreign policy, defense and security, U.S. foreign policy and elections, international cooperation, and the economics of defense and military procurement. Kimball directs two…
Emerging Scholar
Nicolas Klingelschmitt is a PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Université du Québec à Montréal, under the supervision of Professor Issiaka Mandé. His doctoral research, supported by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec en Société et Culture (FRQSC), focuses on African multilateral cooperation, in particular collective security on the continent. He studies African state relations, regional organizations and international partners within the African peace and security architecture. He is researcher-in-residence and coordinator of the Centre FrancoPaix of the Raoul Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, and a member of the Groupe Interuniversitaire d'Études et…
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Michael Kofman serves as Director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses and a Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on the Russia and the former Soviet Union, specializing in the Russian armed forces, military thought, capabilities, and strategy. Previously, he served at National Defense University as a research fellow, and subject matter expert, advising senior military and government officials on issues in Russia and Eurasia. Mr. Kofman is also a Contributing Editor at War on the Rocks, where he regularly authors articles on strategy, the Russian…
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Dominika Kunertova works as a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich. She researches weaponization of emerging and disruptive technologies, trends in military robotics, innovation in arms control, transatlantic defence and security cooperation, and armaments dynamics in Europe. Her previous work experience includes strategic foresight at NATO Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, VA, capability development at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, and military unmanned systems at the Center for War Studies in Denmark. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Université de Montréal with specialization in Security Studies and Canadian Politics. She has published articles and research…
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Martin Laberge is Professor of the History of International Relations in the Department of Social Sciences at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, where he teaches European history and international relations. A specialist in the history of war and peace, his research analyzes the role of citizens and political and military decision-makers in redefining the international system after the Great War. His current research focuses on three areas: France and the limitation of naval armaments in the 1920s; French political and strategic objectives in the Mediterranean in the 1930s; and France and the construction of the Canadian Vimy Memorial. He…
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Jean Lachapelle is an Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal's (UdeM) Department of Political Science. He previously worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Oslo's Department of Political Science (2021-2022), and as a research fellow at the University of Gothenburg's Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute (2019-2021), the University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (2017-2019), and Harvard's Middle East Initiative (2014-2015). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. His research examines the causes and consequences of state violence in authoritarian regimes. His current book project theorizes the link between repression and…
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Whitney Lackenbauer, Ph.D., is Canada Research Chair in the Study of the Canadian North and a professor in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University. He is also director of the Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo. He is also co-editor of the Documents on Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security (DCASS) series. His current research includes histories of Arctic sovereignty and security policies and practices since the Second World War, Aboriginal-state relations, and contemporary circumpolar affairs. He has published in academic journals Journal of Military and Strategic Studies,…
Emerging Scholar
Louis-Benoit Lafontaine holds a Master's degree in International Studies (International Security) and is completing a Master's degree in International and Transnational Law. During the fall of 2021, he acted as an intern at the Network for Strategic Analysis. He also worked as a research assistant in international law at Laval University. His research interests include the space occupied by international law in the foreign policy of states and the economic impact of international security issues.
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Philippe Lagassé is associate professor and the Barton Chair 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 he is currently a member of the Independent Review Panel for Defence Acquisition within the Department of National Defence. 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. He has published in academic journals Parliamentary Affairs, West European…
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Camie Lamarche (she/her) works at Global Affairs Canada on the Korean Peninsula file. She is a practitioner with a public policy background having worked for a Member of Parliament and the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on LGBTQ2 issues, the Minister of International Trade Diversification, and at Canada’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. Camie earned a B.A. with Honours in International Relations and Political Economy from Bishop’s University, and an M.A in International Affairs with a concentration in Health, Displacement and Humanitarian Policy from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.
