Emerging Scholar
Alexandra is a doctoral student at the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Professor Marie-Joëlle Zahar. Her research focuses on what undermines peacebuilding efforts in the Central African Republic. Through this research, Alexandra explores how the government’s exclusionary practices hinder the country’s prospects for peace following its 2013-2014 Civil War. Her research also seeks to illustrate how the international community’s disproportionate focus on large milestones such as peace accords, elections, and reform promises has led them to ignore the widespread exclusion. Prior to starting her Ph.D., Alexandra worked on issues related to conflict, peacebuilding, forced displacement, and humanitarian need…
Publications Manager
Émile is a doctoral student and Joseph-Armand Bombardier (CGS-D) Scholar in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, studying International Relations and Security. He has been granted the Desjardins Scholarship, the G.G. Baron Van der Feltz Award for best master’s dissertation in International Relations, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS; twice). Émile’s research is primarily focused on NATO deterrence, nuclear weapons proliferation, and nuclear latency. Additionally, he works on Canadian foreign and defence policy. Émile has authored or co-authored articles, book chapters, and book reviews that have been published in International Affairs, Defence Studies, the Journal of Strategic and Military…
Collaborator
Mathieu Landriault obtained his doctorate from the University of Ottawa in 2013. He currently teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa as well as at the School of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University. He is also director of the Observatory for Arctic Policy and Security (OPSA), associate researcher at the Interuniversity Research Center on International Relations of Canada and Quebec (CIRRICQ) and researcher with the Defense Network and North American and Arctic Security (RDSNAA). His research interests focus on the analysis of media and public opinion in Canada, particularly in the context of arctic…
Researcher
Andrea Lane is a strategic analyst with Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) - Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA). Prior to this, she taught for two years at the Canadian Forces College. Andrea is also a PhD candidate in political science at Dalhousie University; her dissertation is a Marxist feminist analysis of the Elsie Initiative. She holds an MA in International Affairs from Carleton University (NPSIA), where her thesis focussed on radicalization into non-Islamic terrorism. Prior to joining DRDC in July 2021, Andrea was a frequent media commentator on issues such as Canadian defence policy, military sexual misconduct,…
Co-director | Publications
Alexander Lanoszka is an associate professor of International Relations at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on military alliances and European security. He has published articles in International Security, International Affairs, Security Studies and the Journal of Strategic Studies. He is also the author of Atomic Assurance: The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation (Cornell, 2018) and Military Alliances in the Twenty-first Century (Polity, 2022).He received his PhD from Princeton University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining the Department of Political Science at Waterloo, he was at City,…
Researcher
Frédéric Lasserre is professor in the Department of Geography at Laval University, researcher at the École supérieure en Études internationales (ESEI) and at the Institut Hydro-Québec en Environnement, Développement et Société (IEDS), and director of the Conseil québécois d'études géopolitiques (CQEG). Frédéric Lasserre holds a Master's degree in Commerce (ESC Lyon), an MBA (York U.), a DEA in Geopolitics (U. Paris VIII) and a PhD in Geography (U. Saint-Étienne). His research focuses on strategic issues of water management, law of the sea issues, borders, the Canadian Arctic and climate change. His work has been published in the journals Polar Geography,…
Emerging Scholar
Camille Laty is a Master's candidate in political science, with a joint degree from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble (IEPG). Her research interests include emerging technologies and civil resistance in armed conflict, with a particular focus on the war in Ukraine. At Sciences Po Grenoble, Camille is taking the Politics and Practices of International Organizations course, which enables her to deepen her knowledge of international security issues, particularly in the context of NATO policy. With a bachelor's degree in international relations and international law from UQAM, Camille enriched her academic career…
Researcher
Marion Laurence joined the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie in 2024. Her research interests include international relations theory, global security governance, and learning and change in international organizations. Her work centres on norm and practice change in global governance, with a primary focus on normative and ethical dilemmas in multilateral peace and stability operations. Her book, Intrusive Impartiality: Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations, will be published by Oxford University Press in November 2024. She holds affiliations with the Network for Strategic Analysis, Le Rubicon, and the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security. Dr.…
Researcher
Chantal Lavallée is Associate Professor of International Studies and Director of the Centre for Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC) at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in Canada. She was a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Olso (PRIO, 2021-24). She is co-researcher of the research project RegulAIR: The integration of drones in the Norwegian and European Airspaces, directed by Bruno Oliveira Martins at PRIO and funded by the Research Council of Norway (2021-2025). She is an associate researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research of the Paris-based École Militaire (IRSEM, Paris), the Jean Monnet Center Montreal and GRIP (Brussels).…
Collaborator
James Lee is an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He is also an Affiliated Researcher of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). He received his PhD in Politics from Princeton University in 2018 and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the European University Institute in Florence and the University of California, San Diego. In the fall of 2023, he will be an Eisenhower Defense Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome, where he will study the lessons of the Russian invasion of Ukraine for…
