Experts

Collaborator

Hugo Meijer

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…

Frédéric Mérand

Researcher
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,…
Jeanne Milot Poulin

Jeanne Milot-Poulin

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.

Geneviève Minville

Emerging Scholar
Geneviève Minville is a PhD student in Human Geography at York University in Toronto. 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 well-being of populations. She is also interested…
Pierre-Antoine Mondoloni

Pierre-Antoine Mondoloni

Student Collaborator
Pierre-Antoine Mondoloni is a student in European Public Affairs and Policies at the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw, Poland), where his research focuses on the Europeanization of the French nuclear deterrent. He graduated in public law from the University of Bordeaux, in history and international relations from Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and Paris II Panthéon-Assas, where his final dissertation focused on France's foreign legal policy regarding its nuclear deterrent. This work is now part of a doctoral project in public law. His sociological approach to international law has led him to mobilize not only specialized legal expertise but also…

Pierre Morcos

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.
David Morin

David Morin

Researcher
David Morin is Associate Professor at the School of Applied Politics of the University of Sherbrooke. His expertise and professional experience address national and international security. He co-founded the Observatory on Radicalization and Violent Extremism (OSR), a centre bringing together researchers and experts to observe, document, understand and analyze the phenomena of radicalization and violent extremism. Since 2018, he is an expert member of the Working Group for the establishment of the Réseau francophone de prévention de la radicalisation et de l’extrémisme violents (Francoprev) of the International Organisation of La Francophonie. His research projects focus on international and national security,…

Emolo Aka Yannick Morrisson

Emerging Scholar
Yannick Morrisson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval in Quebec City under the supervision of Jonathan Paquin. He holds a Master's degree in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada. His research focuses on the relations between the great powers and Africa. He is also interested in defence and security issues between these two entities, as well as in intelligence.  

Gauthier Mouton

Collaborator
Gauthier Mouton is a professor-researcher at the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon, where he is the director of the East Asian Studies degree (DEMEOC). He is also responsible for international mobility programs between SciencesPo Lyon and universities in Taiwan. As an expert who holds a PhD in Political Science (UQAM) and a Master’s degree in International Relations (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Gauthier Mouton specializes in China’s domestic and foreign policy, energy transition processes, as well as natural and strategic resource management issues, particularly in East and Southeast Asia. His doctoral research – which offers a unique perspective on/a novel analysis of…

Justine Mulin

Emerging Scholar
Justine Mulin is currently a second year student in the International Security and Defense Master's program at the University Jean Moulin Lyon III. She holds a bi-disciplinary degree combining history and political science from the Institut Catholique de Paris and a university degree in Arabic language and culture from the Université Jean Moulin Lyon III. Interested in human security issues, she is currently working on her thesis directed by Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé on local appropriation of peacebuilding strategies.