Emerging Scholar
Johanna Masse is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for International and Defence Policy (CIDP) at Queen's University. She is conducting a research project on gendered representations and military women in Canadian Army combat units. More generally, she is interested in women's participation in political violence and armed conflict.
Co-director
Justin Massie is Full Professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Co-director of the Network for Strategic Analysis, and Co-director of Le Rubicon. He was the 2019 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the global power transition, multinational military coalitions, and Canadian foreign and defence policy. His work has been published in several journals, including International Studies Quarterly, International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Contemporary Security Policy, Comparative Strategy, Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Journal (winner of the…
Scholar
Pascale Massot is an assistant professor at the School of Political Studies of the University of Ottawa. In 2022, she was a member of the Indo-Pacific Advisory Committee to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was also the senior advisor on China and Asia to various Canadian ministers, including in the offices of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of International Trade, at various times between 2015 and 2021. Her research interests include the global political economy of China's rise, China's impacts on the governance of international natural resource markets, Canada-China and Canada-Asia relations, and Canadian public…
Collaborator
Jonathan is a graduate of the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal under the direction of Professor Theodore McLauchlin (University of Montreal) and is a member of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS). His research interests include defense and national security issues. He also holds a B.A. from McGill University in political science, and two graduate certificates in national security from the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Jonathan now works in the federal public service and also serves as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces.
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Theodore McLauchlin is Associate professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Montreal and Director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS). Theodore received his PhD in Political Science at McGill University in 2013. His research, which lies in the spheres of security and international and civil conflicts, focuses on the organization and the political lives of state as well as non-state military forces. He has published in academic journals such as Journal of Conflict Resolution, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Comparative Politics, and Security Studies. He is the author of Desertion: Trust and…
Collaborator
Hugo Meijer is CNRS Research Fellow at Sciences Po, Center for International Studies (CERI, Paris) and the Founding Director of The European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS), a Europe-wide network of scholars that share the goal of consolidating a truly European field of Security Studies. He is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS), in Brussels, and Honorary Researcher at the Centre for War and Diplomacy, Lancaster University. Previously, he was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence), Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London and a Researcher at the Institute…
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Frédéric Mérand (Ph. D., Berkeley) is professor of political science and scientific director of the University of Montreal Centre for International Studies (CÉRIUM). Specialized in European politics and International Relations, he was visiting professor at Sciences Po Paris, McGill University and at the universities of Toronto, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Lille and Guido Carli in Rome. Previously, he worked as foreign policy advisor for the Canadian government. His current research projects focus on relations between Europe and Russia, European political economy and the decline of great powers. He is the author of European Defence Policy: Beyond the Nation State (Oxford University Press,…
Emerging Scholars
Jeanne Milot-Poulin is a master's student in political science at the Université de Montréal and an associate of the Centre Jean Monnet de Montréal. She is writing a dissertation under the supervision of Magdalena Dembinska, with support from SSHRC and FRQSC. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science with distinction from Université Laval. She is fluent in French and English, and has completed a microprogram in Russian at Université Laval. She is interested in Russian-speaking minorities in Eastern Europe, and more broadly in relations between Europe and Russia.
Emerging Scholar
Geneviève Minville is a PhD student in Human Geography at York University in Toronto and a social worker (member of OTSTCFQ). She holds a Master's degree in International Development and Globalization, a Certificate in International Cooperation and a Bachelor's degree in Social Work. She also holds a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Her research projects focus on forced migration, particularly in the context of climate and environmental change, and on disasters. She is interested in structural and systemic issues related to social and climatic injustice, including the consequences for the health and…
Collaborator
Pierre Morcos is a visiting fellow in the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. His research focuses on European security, transatlantic relations and French defence policy. A career diplomat with the French Foreign Service, he most recently served as deputy head of the Strategic Affairs and Cybersecurity Division, focusing on NATO and European defense issues. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the École Nationale d'Administration, Pierre Morcos also studied for a year in the United States at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
