Collaborator
Anne-Laure Mahé is a Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Montreal and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Montreal Center for International Studies (CERIUM) and the East Africa researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) within the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. She is an associate researcher at the African Worlds Institute (IMAF) and at the Center for Social, Legal and Economic Studies and Documentation in Sudan (CEDEJ-Khartoum). Situated at the intersection of comparative politics, international relations…
Student Collaborator
Michelle is entering her fourth year of undergraduate studies at McGill University, pursuing a degree in Honours Political Science with a minor in Communications Studies. She is particularly interested in international law and its influence on global economic and power relations, as well as the media's role in shaping Canadian outlooks on foreign policy issues. At the CIDP, Michelle focuses on research with the NSA on global power relations. Through her work with the Canadian Council for Refugees, Michelle has researched the impact of Canada’s virtual refugee hearing process, and helped to establish a service-provision framework for Canadian organizations by…
Researcher
Stéphanie Martel is Assistant Professor of Political Studies – specializing in International Relations – at Queen’s University, where she is the Director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy. She is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. She serves as a Canadian representative in informal diplomacy dialogues such as the ASEAN Regional Forum’s Expert and Eminent Persons Group and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. Her research focuses on multilateral diplomacy, security regionalism, and the role of discourse in the social construction of world politics, with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific. He recent…
Researcher
Maria Martin de Almagro is assistant professor in the political science department at Université de Montréal. She studies gender politics, international political economy and the micro-dynamics of war to peace transitions from a poststructuralist and postcolonial perspective. Her research agenda revolves around 3 topics: 1) a multi-modal discourse approach to analyze the life cycle of international norms and their implementation in development and post-conflict environments; 2) the link between UN security and development policies; 3) transnational social movements and the production of knowledge on gender and race underpinning security and development policies. She has been Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at…
Co-director | Capacity Building
Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé is Full Professor at Bishop’s University and Non-Resident Fellow at the International Peace Institute, New York. She is the Deputy Director of the Centre FrancoPaix. In 2018–2019, she was the Canada Fulbright Research Chair for Peace and War Studies. In 2021, she was awarded the 3M National Teaching Fellowship. She is an associate faculty member of the Center for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) and of the Montreal Center for International Studies (CERIUM). Her research focuses on peacekeeping-intelligence, peace operations and security issues related to intra-state wars. Her most recent publications include “Competing for Trust: Challenges in UN Peacekeeping-Intelligence“. Author of the…
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 | Le Rubicon and Great Powers
Justin Massie is a professor and Head of the Department of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is also 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 interventions, and foreign and defence policy. His work has been published in several journals, including International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Security, International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Contemporary Security Policy,…
Researcher
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.
Researcher
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…
