Researcher
Mark Purdon is an expert in the emerging field of comparative climate change politics, which combines elements of comparative politics, comparative public policy and international relations. He is particularly interested in the relationship between decarbonization and political economy, and has extensive research experience in both developing and developed countries in areas of climate finance, renewable energy, transportation, forestry and land-use. His goal is to develop a bottom-up understanding of global climate change politics through rich and contextualized comparative research, as well as to rethink international relations theory in order to better inform domestic politics and public policy. Mark earned a…
Collaborator
Maud Quessard is a senior lecturer on North American civilization, a graduate from Sciences Po, and an American foreign policy specialist. She is currently teaching at Université Paris 2-Panthéon Assas and taught until 2017 at the University of Poitiers and at the Institute for Political Studies (IEP) of Bordeaux. Maud is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Euratlantic Area at the Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School. Her research focuses on public diplomacy, American soft power, information warfare and influence strategies. She was a beneficiary of the research support program of the IHEDN, and a visiting fellow…
Student Collaborators
Matthew Rainsford is a fifth year undergraduate student at Bishop’s University, pursuing an honours in Political Studies and a major in International Relations. Matthew was a part of the 2020 Model United Nations Delegation and represented Bishop’s University at the Political Science Games for the first through third years of his studies. Matthew runs the Bishop’s University Debate society, while also being the director of human resources at Bishop’s university’s entrepreneurship club; Enactus. In the fourth year of his studies, Matthew was hired to be a coordinator for the fourth edition of the Quebec Undergraduate Security Conference under the supervision…
Emerging Scholar
Lou Raisonnier holds a master's degree in international security from the School of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris and a bachelor's degree in political science and Islamic studies from McGill University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in political science (comparative politics and political theory) at the University of Ottawa's École d'Études Politiques, under the supervision of Frédéric Vairel. Her doctoral thesis focuses on how French institutions (both security and administrative) deal with the return of women involved in the Islamic State organization in the Iraqi-Syrian zone. Having lived in New Zealand, France and Canada, Lou is fluent in…
Collaborator
Camille Raymond is a Policy Officer in the Assistant Deputy Minister (Policy) organization of the Department of National Defence. She holds a master's degree in Political Science from the University of Quebec in Montreal, under the supervision of Justin Massie. Her master's research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Department of National Defence's MINDS program. Her thesis focused on the adaptation of Canadian defence and foreign policy to power transitions. Her research interests include Canadian foreign and defence policy, NORAD modernization, Canada-US relations, and Canadian military contributions. She has also worked…
Collaborator
Yf Reykers is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Leuven International and European Studies Institute at KU Leuven. He studies issues relating to the accountability of multinational military operations, rapid response mechanisms and inter-organizational dynamics. His work has been published in, amongst others, Cooperation and Conflict, Contemporary Security Policy, European Security, International Peacekeeping and Parliamentary Affairs. He is co-editor of the volume Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms: From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation (2019, Routledge Global Institutions Series).
Scientific Board
Dr. Gaëlle Rivard Piché is a strategic analyst with Defence Research and Development Canada where she works closely with the Canadian Armed Forces, providing direct decision-making support through evidence-based research on a wide range of topics. She is currently a fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Carleton University), where she completed her Ph.D. in International Affairs in 2017. She is also a guest lecturer at the Canadian Forces College and works as a consultant for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on security sector reform and peace operations. During her doctoral studies, Dr. Rivard Piché was a Fulbright…
Collaborator
Rhita Ronda is a Policy Officer in the Assistant Deputy Minister's Branch of the Department of National Defence. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Public Affairs and International Relations from Laval University and a Master's degree in International Studies with a concentration in cultures, conflicts and peace from the University of Montreal. She completed her internship under the supervision of Professor Marie-Joëlle Zahar. Before starting her master’s degree, she completed an intership at the Bureau of the United Nations and International Organizations of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She also worked as a research assistant at Queen's University and…
Emerging Scholar
Emmanuelle Rousseau is a PhD student in Political Science at the Université de Montréal. She is also a Junior Fellow of the Defence and Security Foresight Group at the University of Waterloo. Her doctoral project, financed by the Quebec Research Fund – Society and Culture, deals with diplomatic contestation in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the East-West dynamics in cooperative security within the OSCE region. She holds a master's degree in International Relations Governance and a Diploma of political studies in conflict management from Science po Toulouse, a BA in Russian Studies from the Université de…
Researcher
Stéphane Roussel is Professor of political science at Ecole nationale d’Administration publique (ENAP). From 2002 to 2012, he was Professor at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) and Canada Research Chair on Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy. His research interests relate to Canadian foreign and defence policy, with particular emphasis on the relations with the United States and European countries. He has also developed an expertise in related fields, such as international relations theory and military history. His work has been published in several journals, including American Review of Canadian Studies, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, International Journal, Paix et…
