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Michael Shurkin is the Director of Global Programs at 14 North Strategies and the founder and President of Shurbros Global Strategies. He works on security in West Africa (Sahel), but also on European and American defence strategies, force structures, security assistance and institutions. Previously, he worked for RAND, where he was a senior policy analyst, and for the CIA, where he was a policy analyst. He holds a PhD in history from Yale University and studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).
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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…
Emerging Scholar
Katerina Sviderska is a Master's candidate in Political Science at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Magdalena Dembińska. Her research focuses on historical myths in identity construction and their use in processes of legitimizing genocidal violence in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. More broadly, she is interested in the politics of memory and nation-building in Eastern Europe. A member of the Ukrainian Studies Chair at the University of Ottawa, Katerina is also active with several Ukrainian human rights and cultural protection organizations. She regularly travels to the field, and speaks Ukrainian, Russian, French, English and…
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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 Scholar
Louis-Charles is currently completing his Master's degree in Political Studies at Memorial University, after finishing his Bachelor's degree at the University of New Brunswick in the same field. He is particularly interested in political conflict, and how environmental issues and political communications affect political conflict. Most of his work, covered by a case study conducted in New Brunswick, focused on political and social conflicts related to the implementation of renewable energy projects.
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.
