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Pierre Colautti is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Laval University in Quebec City under the supervision of Jonathan Paquin. He studies International Relations, with a focus on alliance dynamics and states’ foreign and defence strategies. He is particularly interested in the strategic behaviour of formal hegemon allies in times of great power rivalry and the transformation of the international order. The FRQSC funds his research. He holds an M.A. in international studies from the Graduate School of International Studies at Laval University.
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W.R. Nadège Compaoré is an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Toronto. Her main research is concerned with claims of sovereignty by African states and communities affected by oil and mining extraction. Nadège’s work lies at the intersection of International Relations theory, African politics, global resource/environmental politics, as well as gender and race in global politics. Nadège is also currently developing a research project on the links between Pan-Africanism and Black female internationalism. She has co-edited a book on natural resource governance in Africa, and her various research projects have been published…
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Jérémie Cornut is Assistant Professor of political science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He has also worked as a scholar at McGill University, Southern California University, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo and University of Québec in Montréal. His research focuses on practical diplomacy, international relations theory, and foreign policy (Canada). His research on diplomacy are currently supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). He has published in academic journals Diplomacy & Statecraft, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of International Relations and Development, Cooperation and Conflict, American Review…
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Isabelle Côté is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2014 and was a postdoctoral student at KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) in Leiden, the Netherlands. Prior to that, she held several visiting scholar positions in China, Indonesia, Sweden and Denmark. Her research focuses on the role of demographic factors in general, and internal population movements in particular, on intra-state conflicts, nativist movements and contentious politics in Asia. She has published in numerous academic journals,…
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Alexandre Courtemanche is a master's student in political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal under the supervision of Justin Massie. At the same university, he obtained his bachelor's degree by completing the Honor's program in the political science department, with a concentration in international relations, before continuing his studies at the graduate level. During this final, exclusive stage of his undergraduate studies, he developed an interest in issues linking international security to global warming. His thesis project focuses on the impact of climate change on Canada's defence posture in the Arctic.
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Jean F. Crombois has been Lecturer in European Politics at the American University in Bulgaria since 2005. A historian and political scientist, Jean F. Crombois holds a PhD in contemporary European history from the Université libre de Bruxelles [Belgium] and a post-graduate diploma in political science from the University of Essex [UK]. His academic career has led him to hold the following positions: Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Balliol College and in the Department of Modern History at Oxford University from 1999 to 2002; Lecturer in International Politics at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco from 2004 to 2005; Visiting Research…
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Cindy is a PhD student in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University, supervised by Dr. Stéfanie von Hlatky. Her research focuses on the organization and membership of the Canadian Armed Forces, including elements such as gender, civil-military relations, international security, organizational identity and culture, and international relations. She has a multidisciplinary background with a Bachelor's degree in Criminology, Sociology and a Master's degree in Sociology. Cindy has worked in the public service for over 8 years, as a security analyst at Public Service and Procurement Canada (PSPC) and as a senior policy analyst at the Department of National…
Emerging Scholars
Satcha de Henning Michaëlis is a Master's candidate in Public and International Affairs under the direction of Marie-Joëlle Zahar at the University of Montreal and has obtained a Bachelor's degree with honors in International Studies at the same university. During her university studies, she specialized in international security and Arab studies. She is currently the editor-in-chief of Saha magazine and works as an intern at the Strategic Analysis Network. Today, she wishes to evolve in research in order to study the impact of information, internet, and new technologies in general, both on the conduct of war and on the security…
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Igor Delanoë is Deputy Head of the French-Russian Analytical Center Observo (CCI France-Russia, Moscow) and a PhD in history from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. His expertise covers the geopolitics of Russia, the Russian presence and interests in the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and Russian security and defense issues, particularly the navy. In 2013, he did a post-doctorate at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), within the National Security Program. He is an associate researcher at the Center for International and European Studies (Kadir Has University, Istanbul), at the Center for Modern and…
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Laurence Deschamps-Laporte is an invited professor of political science and research fellow at l'Université de Montréal and the Montreal Centre for International Studies (CERIUM). She has advised three Canadian foreign ministers and was recently the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada. Previously, she was a consultant with Mckinsey & Company where she primarily served philanthropic and public sector organizations worldwide. Ms Deschamps-Laporte holds a DPhil and an MPhil from the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She was also a Morehead-Cain scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She…
