Collaborator
Since graduating in 1979, Moustapha Soumaré has had over 40 years of extensive experience in several policy, management and leadership positions of increasing responsibility both in his country and at international level in several countries across Africa, Europe and the UN HQ in the USA. Moustapha Soumaré is currently member of the Board of Directors of the Peace Operations Training Institute (POTI). From 2015 to 2020 he served as the Deputy Special Representative (Political) for the UN Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS). From 2012 to 2015 he was the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the…
Emerging Scholar
Arthur Stein holds a PhD in political science from the Université de Montréal, under the co-direction of Marie-Joelle Zahar and Lee J. M. Seymour. His doctoral research focuses on whether and how the publicity of external support for rebels influences their use of violence against civilians during civil wars. More broadly, his research focuses on the transnational dimensions of civil conflict and violence against civilians. He is mainly interested in internal wars in the Middle East and Africa. Prior to his doctoral studies, he obtained a master's degree in political science from the Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg (France). He…
Collaborator
Thierry Tardy is Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Previously he held senior research and management positions at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), and the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. His fields of expertise include NATO’s policy and adaptation, the European Union Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), NATO-EU relations, the politics of crisis management, UN peace operations, and French security and defense policy. He has published six books and more than 100 articles or book chapters. His most recent book is…
Emerging Scholar
Ludwine Tchatat currently works as a scientific advisor at the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP). She holds a master's degree and a bachelor's degree with honours in political science from the Université de Montréal. She conducted research for her dissertation on the impact of rebel victories in civil conflicts on the improvement of socio-economic conditions of the population. Her work was supervised by Professor Théodore Mclauchlin with whom she also worked as a research assistant on projects related to military training and capacity building.
Emerging Scholar
Vincent Tourret is a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Justin Massie at the Department of Political Science of the University of Quebec in Montreal. He holds a Master's degree in International Relations from the University of Paris II Assas and in History from the University of Paris IV. He was a research fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique from 2018 to 2022, where he remains a research associate. His work has focused on the "techno-operational" analysis of armed conflicts, which consists in assessing the impact of doctrinal and capability innovations on military apparatuses, at the level…
Emerging Scholar
Gabriel Turmel is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He is particularly interested in security policies. His research focuses on the adoption of different forms of capabilities-based planning (CBP) in the security and defence infrastructure of Western states, particularly in the United States and France. He currently works as a senior analyst in the Government of Canada’s national security community, as well as in military intelligence within the Canadian Armed Forces. Before joining the doctoral program in January 2022, Gabriel completed a bachelor’s degree in history at Université Laval…
Emerging Scholars
Stéphanie Veillette is in her final year of a Master's degree in International Studies, majoring in International Security, at Université Laval. Her research interests focus mainly on security and defence issues in the Euro-Atlantic region; her final MA essay examined Germany's defence policies and recent military investments following the conflict in Ukraine. She also has a particular interest in NATO and military coalitions. Over the past year, she has had the opportunity to research these two topics in support of subsequent publications.
Scholar
Srdjan Vucetic is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Co-Director (Security) in the Canadian Defence and Security Network (CDSN-RCDS). Before joining the School, Srdjan was Randall Dillard Research Fellow in International Studies at Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, Senior Visiting Fellow at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and Senior Visiting Fellow at Institute for Defense and Security Analysis, New Delhi. His work has been published in several academic journals, including Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis,…
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Magali Vullierme, PhD in political science, is a post-doctoral researcher in the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN, Trent University). She is also an associate researcher at the Observatory for Arctic Policy and Security (OPSA, University of Ottawa), at CEARC (Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ) and at the Observatoire de l'Arctique (directed by the Fondation for Strategic Research on behalf of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, France). Finally, she is a member of the Arctic GDR (CNRS, France). Her research aims to understand better the interrelationships between, on the one hand, the indigenous and local populations of the…
Emerging Scholar
Jana Walkowski (she/her) is a doctoral student in the department of Political Studies at Queen’s University working under the supervision of Dr. Susanne Soederberg. She holds a master’s degree in Political Science with a specialization in Development Studies from McGill University and a bachelor’s degree in Global Development Studies from Queen’s University. Her master’s thesis at McGill explored the trend in EU policy making to merge its migration governance with its development governance through an empirical study of the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa Instrument. This project was funded by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship and a 2021…
