Emerging Scholar
Antonin Blanchard is a master's student in political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He studies international relations and world politics, specializing in security and defense issues. He has also worked on Egypt's foreign policy and political system. His previous research focused on analyzing the strategic surprise of the October 7, 2023 attack, as well as Egypt's foreign policy in Africa and the conflict in Ukraine. Today, Antonin Blanchard is working on the issues surrounding nuclear deterrence in Europe, and on the notion of neutrality and its various models. His master's thesis focuses on the definition of neutrality…
Communications coordinator
Alice Bonardi-Igout is a PhD student in international studies at Université Laval, under the supervision of Jonathan Paquin and Frédéric Lasserre. Her research interests include the dynamics of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its policy of deterrence. Her PhD research focuses on strategic issues related to NATO partnerships in the Indo-Pacific. She is a participant in the 2025 NATO Field School, an intensive training program organized by Simon Fraser University. Alice began her studies in France, where she is originally from, by completing a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences - Applied Human Sciences at Grenoble Alpes University. Arriving…
Collaborator
Antoine Bondaz, PhD, is a researcher at the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS), where he heads the Observatoire du multilatéralisme en Indo-Pacifique for the French Ministry of Defence, as well as the Korea and Taiwan programmes. He advises government departments (including defense, foreign affairs, and nuclear commissariat), government officials and public and private companies, and takes part in numerous high-level dialogues with government officials in the Indo-Pacific region. He has appeared before the French National Assembly and Senate, the European Parliament, the Canadian House of Commons, the OECD, NATO and the UN. He has taken part in several invitation…
Emerging scholar
A postdoctoral researcher at the École Nationale d'Administration Publique, Laurent Borzillo co-hosts RAS's French-language Security Council podcast, with Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brulé. A member of RAS, he is a research associate of the following university centres: CCEAE (Canadian Centre for German and European Studies) at the Université de Montréal, CJMM (Centre Jean Monnet de Montréal), CESICE (Centre d'Études sur la Sécurité Internationale et la Coopération Européenne) at the Université de Grenoble, and the GRHG (Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de la Guerre). Founder of the French association Forum de Défense et de Stratégie, he holds a PhD in political science from the…
Researcher
Jean-Christophe Boucher is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and at the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. His current work focuses on applied machine learning to understand how the digital world shapes our society. He is currently holding grants from the Department of National Defence (DND) to study information operations; the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to understand civil-military relations in Canada; and holds grants from Alberta Innovates, the Vaccine Confidence Fund and Merck to study vaccine hesitancy on social media to develop better communications strategies and tools to increase vaccine…
Researcher
Yolande Bouka is (Ph.D. American University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. She has worked with and offered support to USAID, the UK Department for International Development, the United Nations, the African Union, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the United States Institute of Peace. Her research and teaching focus on gender, African politics and security, political violence, and field research ethics in conflict-affected societies. Her current research is a multi-sited historical and political analysis of female combatants in Southern Africa. Her previous research which is now a book manuscript In…
Emerging Scholar
Guillaume Boulianne is a master's student in International Studies, International Security profile, at the École supérieure d'études internationales of Laval University. He holds a bachelor's degree in music from the Conservatoire de musique de Saguenay. His career as a military reservist in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve led him to develop a passion for national and international security issues. His master's thesis, directed by Prof. Eytan Tepper and BGen(ret) Richard Giguère, deals with the inadequacies of international space law in the area of space weaponry.
Collaborator
Arthur Boutellis is a Non-resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute, where he was Director of the Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations, and teaches a graduate-level seminar at Columbia University. In addition to IPI, Arthur has worked with the UN missions in Burundi (BINUB), Chad and the Central African Republic (MINURCAT), Haiti (MINUSTAH), and Mali (MINUSMA) where he supported the 2014-15 Mali peace negotiations as part of the UN Mediation Team. His prior work with humanitarian NGOs and think tanks focused on the Middle East and Africa. He holds a master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow…
Researcher
Yann Breault is Assistant Professor at Royal Military College of St-Jean. He has previously worked at University of Québec in Montréal. He is co-founder, with Jacques Lévesque, and current co-director of the Observatoire de l’Eurasie (ODE). His research focuses on foreign policy (Russia, ex-USSR States), nationalism, geopolitics. He is co-author with Jacques Lévesque and Pierre Jolicoeur of La Russie et son ex-Empire, reconfiguration géopolitique de l’ancien espace soviétique (Science Po, 2003). He has contributed to the recent collective work The Return of the Cold War : Ukraine, the West and Russia (Routledge, 2016). He has published in many academic journals,…
Collaborator
Camille Brugier is a consultant and an Associate Researcher on contemporary China at the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) in Paris and the Network for Strategic Analysis in Montreal. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence) and has since worked for the ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and the French Ministry of Armed Forces’ research center, IRSEM. She grew up in China and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. She specializes in Chinese trade, technology and scientific policy and their impact on China’s relations with the West. She has published in the Asia-Europe Journal and for…
