Researcher
Alexandre Pelletier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval. Dr. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, his work focuses on civil wars and political violence, with a particular interest in Southeast Asia, where he has been conducting research since 2012. He is currently a fellow at the Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars Network, co-director of the CERIUM Human Rights Observatory, and an affiliate researcher at the Postcor Lab at the University of Toronto. His research on Indonesia and Myanmar has been published in various journals, such as Comparative Politics, Asian Policy & Politics, Asian…
Student Collaborators
Victoria Perak is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Bishop’s University pursuing an Honours in Political Studies, Major in International Studies with a minor in North American Studies. She chaired the Board of Student Representatives and was a Senator on the Bishop’s University Senate. She was a Head Delegate for the Model United Nations Practicum, under the supervision of Prof. Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, where she aided students in their understanding of United Nations Rules of Procedures. She is currently working on a research project on the topic of gender issues in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Emerging Scholar
Léa Pérémarty graduated from the University of Western Brittany in Brest (France) with a Bachelor of Law degree with honours. She was an exchange student in England at the University of Nottingham, where she developed her interest in public international law and the use of force. Today, Léa Pérémarty is a Master's candidate in international law and politics at the Université de Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). She specializes in international security issues and the law of armed conflict. She is currently doing an internship at the Network for Strategic Analysis.
Emerging Scholar
Nicolas-François Perron is a doctoral student at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He is interested in decision-making in the context of foreign and security policies. His research focuses on issues related to norms, beliefs, and practices in international security. His thesis project examines the constraints on the emergence of strategic counter-cultures through an analysis of cases in Canada, Italy, and Germany. He holds a master's degree in international relations from Université Laval and an additional dual-degree master's in international law and transatlantic relations from the University of Bordeaux. His professional experiences have led him to work on nuclear…
Collaborator
Brigadier General Pesme (Rted) is a French combat engineer officer, who specialized during the first part of his career in underwater reconnaissance and river-crossing operations (1987-1995). He then developed an expertise in European defense issues and the transatlantic relationship through various assignments: in France, at the Joint Staff (2003-2006 and 2015-2018) and the Delegation for Strategic Affairs, where he was head of the North America desk (2008-2011); at NATO, first at Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk as Executive Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (2013-2015) and then at the NATO’s International Military Staff in Brussels, where he was Deputy…
Emerging Scholar
Falk Petegou is a post-doctoral fellow at the Chair in International Francophonie Research on Political Aspirations and Movements in Francophone Africa at the University of Ottawa. He was a lecturer at the Université Protestante d'Afrique Centrale, where he taught the following courses, among others: Conflict theory and typology, Peace building approaches, Identities and conflicts in Africa, Conflict resolution practice. He has also provided consultancy services to a number of institutions, including UNICEF, the Service Civil pour la Paix and was a visiting researcher at the Frankfurt Institute for Peace Research in Germany (HSFK) between 2014 and 2015. His work focuses…
Emerging Scholar
Maxime Philaire is a PhD student in International Studies at Laval University's École supérieure d'études internationales under the supervision of Prof. Anessa Kimball, after completing a master's degree in political science at Laval University with a thesis on strengthening the legitimacy of the Russian Federation regime through the construction of national identity. Prior to this, he obtained a Bachelor's degree in International Relations at ILERI Paris, with a semester at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Parallel to his studies, he is an administrative assistant at ESEI's Centre for International Security and has been President of the NATO…
Emerging Scholar
Pauline Pic graduated from her PhD in Geography in the spring of 2022. In October 2022, she started a postdoctoral fellowship at the Graduate School of International Studies, Université Laval. She is collaborating with Jean-Frédéric Morin’s research chair and is interested in the political processes at work in the global commons. More specifically, her project aims to examine the power dynamics at work in the governance of shared spaces, particularly the central Arctic Ocean and outer space. Her doctoral research, directed by Frédéric Lasserre and Stéphane Roussel, focused on the scales of security in the Arctic. It was rewarded by…
Collaborator
Joël Plouffe is advisor for the Arctic Council Secretariat. He is also a researcher at CIRRICQ (Center for Interuniversity Research on the International Relations of Canada and Québec) at the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) in Montréal, managing editor of the Arctic Yearbook. His research interests include security and defense, geopolitics of the Arctic, regions of the circumpolar North, Northern Québec, and U.S.-Canada relations and foreign policy. Mr Plouffe has conducted research in the Arctic regions of Russia, the US (Alaska), Norway (Svalbard and mainland), Finland, Sweden and Canada (Nunavik, Northwest Territories). He is a Fellow of The Canadian Global…
Researcher
Maria Popova is an Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, the Scientific Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Center Montreal and Editor of the Cambridge Elements Series on Politics and Society from Central Europe to Central Asia. She held the Jean Monnet Chair “Europe and the Rule of Law” in 2017-2021. Her work focuses on rule of law and democracy in Europe. Her award-winning book Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies (Cambridge UP, 2012) examines the weaponization of law to manipulate elections and control the media and the obstacles to judicial independence in Russia and Ukraine in the late-1990s-early 2000s.…
