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.
Emerging Scholar
Marco Munier is a doctoral student in political science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). Before arriving in Canada and joining the University of Quebec in Montreal, he worked in the French Ministry of the Interior in the National Police from 2010 to 2015. His research focuses on Intelligence Studies, in particular on the identification of a national intelligence culture in Canada and on the evolution of the intelligence devices of Canada, Italy and Australia since September 11, 2001, as well as on multinational military interventions and western defense policies.
Collaborator
Josaphat Musamba, a Congolese researcher, is a Ph.D. student at Ghent University. He is affiliated with the Group for Studies on Conflicts and Human Security (GECSH), a research unit of CERUKI-ISP/Bukavu, and also with ISDR/Mbandaka. With previous experience as a staff member in several NGOs, Josaphat Musamba has worked as a research, monitoring, and evaluation consultant at Benevolencija RDC. He has also served as a liaison officer in the security and safety department of Handicap International and as a Congolese staff member in the United Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016-2017 mandate). Josaphat Musamba…
Researcher
Costanza Musu is Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs at University of Ottawa. She was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and Assistant Professor of International Relations at Richmond University (London-UK). She has been a consultant for the Military Center for Strategic Studies – Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CeMiSS-CASD), the think tank of the Italian Ministry of Defence. Her current research, supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant, focuses on the fight against the illicit trafficking of antiquities looted from conflict areas in the Middle East. She is the author of European Union…
Collaborator
2023-2024 Harvard Weatherhead Foreign Policy Fellow, Thematic Expert, Academic Researcher. Canadian public servant. Previously Senior Advisor in Climate Security working on NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate Security (Global Affairs Canada) and Senior Advisor Climate Security CGIAR Climate Security. PhD Candidate (Utrecht U.) Adjunct Professor. 25 years of public administration and international experience covering the UN, NATO, World Bank, Canadian diplomacy, and private sector ventures. Diego has worked globally on diplomatic/political and economic matters, climate change-conflict/adaptation policy, as well as institutional/social reconstruction, civil-military coordination, and humanitarian issues. He has deployed to Afghanistan, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Indonesia (Banda…
Collaborator
Falk Ostermann is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. His research interests are French security and defence policies, identity, NATO, European defense, and the party politics of foreign policy. He has published, inter alia, in European Political Science Review, West European Politics, European Security, and International Relations. He is the author of Security, Defense Discourse and Identity in NATO and Europe. How France Changed Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2019).
Collaborator
Dr. Zachary Paikin is deputy director of the Better Order Project and research fellow in the Grand Strategy Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also senior fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD), a Canadian international affairs think tank. Previously, Dr. Paikin was researcher in EU Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels from 2021 to 2023 and senior researcher in the International Security Dialogue Department at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) from 2023 to 2024. Among other affiliations, Paikin was a member of the Cooperative Security…
Collaborator
Alice Pannier is Assistant Professor in the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University. She is a an Associate Research Fellow at the Security Studies Center of the French Institute of International Relations, IFRI. Alice Pannier is an expert on European security. Her research interests cover security and defense cooperation in Europe, transatlantic relations, and contemporary military interventions, with a particular focus on the defense policies of France, the UK and Germany. Her work has appeared, inter alia, in International Affairs, the Journal of Strategic Studies, European Security, and Global Affairs. She is the author of Rivals in…
Director
Jonathan Paquin is professor of Political Science at Université Laval. He has written numerous articles on foreign policy and international relations in Cooperation and Conflict, Foreign Policy Analysis, Mediterranean Politics, the Canadian Journal of Political Science and International Journal, among others. He is also the co-editor of America’s Allies and the Decline of US Hegemony, Routledge, 2020; the coauthor of Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; the co-editor of Game Changer: The Impact of 9/11 on North American Security, UBC Press, 2014; and the author of A Stability-Seeking Power: US Foreign Policy and Secessionist Conflicts, McGill-Queen’s, 2010. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University and was…
