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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,…
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Alexander Lanoszka is an assistant 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,…
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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,…
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Marion Laurence is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College. Her research focuses on global security governance, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, protection of civilians, and the political sociology of international organizations. Her current book project draws on fieldwork she conducted in Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, and New York City to investigate changes in how United Nations peacekeepers interpret the norm of impartiality on a day-to-day basis. The book is under contract with Oxford University Press. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the…
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Chantal Lavallée is Assistant Professor of International Studies and Assistant Director of Centre for Security and Crisis Governance (CRITIC) at Royal Military College Saint-Jean. Prior to this, she was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, 2017-2019) working on “The European Commission in the Drone Community: A New Cooperation Area in the Making”. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She conducted postdoctoral research at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI, 2010-2012) with a scholarship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec –…
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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…
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Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay is a Fellow and the Communications and Partnerships Adviser of the Montréal Center for International Studies (CÉRIUM). Previously, he was a reporter and international columnist for Le Devoir, L'actualité, Radio-Canada and has collaborated with several other Quebec and Canadian media. Holder of a Master's degree in International Relations (UQÀM), he has taught this subject at the Université de Sherbrooke and the Université de Montréal, where he launched CÉRIUM's summer schools on political risk analysis. He is a Fellow of the Action Canada public policy leadership program and of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, and was Public Policy…
Emerging Scholar
After completing a Bachelor's degree in social, economic and political sciences at the Catholic University of Paris (ICP), I am currently finalizing my Master's degree at the University of Montreal in International Studies, specializing in Cultures, Conflicts and Peace. As part of my Master's degree, I did my internship at the French Ministry of the Defense, at the French Navy's Headquarter, as a Europe - Americas - NATO officer in the International Relations Office.
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Nicolas Lemay-Hébert is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations, and the Department’s Director of Research at Australian National University (ANU). Prior to joining ANU in 2019, Nicolas worked as an invited professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal and senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Nicolas is co-editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and the Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding. His current research interests include statebuilding and intervention issues in Asia/Pacific and beyond. He is particularly interested in local resistance to international interventions and the political economy of interventions. Nicolas has co-edited four…
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Zachary is an undergraduate student at the Université de Montréal in the political science department, following a stint at the University of Ottawa where he specialized in philosophy. He is currently taking part in a research project as part of the Bourse d'initiation à la recherche, focusing on Russian disinformation. As part of this project, he is also co-organizing a colloquium scheduled for autumn 2024.
