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Emerging Scholar
Gianmarco Fontana

Gianmarco Fontana

Emerging Scholar
Gianmarco is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Laval University. His research is supervised by Professor Francesco Cavatorta and co-supervised by Professor Jonathan Paquin. He holds a Master's degree in International Relations with a specific focus on the Middle East and North Africa from the University of Turin, Italy. His research focuses on the international dimension in democratisation processes in the region, with a particular focus on the clash between authoritarian regimes as external agents. He is particularly interested in international relations (especially in the Middle East and North Africa), interstate rivalries, foreign policy analysis, and political…

Jacob Fortier

Emerging Scholar
Jacob Fortier is a doctoral student at Northwestern University in Chicago. His research interests include secession conflicts, foreign policy and political violence. Prior to his doctoral studies, he completed a Master's degree in Political Science at the University of Montreal. His thesis, supervised by Professor Lee JM Seymour, explored the influence of radical factions within the Quebec independence movement. He also worked in the Ministry of the Executive Council as an information officer. He previously attended Laval University (distinction) and the University of Mannheim, Germany.  

Maxandre Fortier

Collaborators
Maxandre Fortier is a Foreign Service Officer with Global Affairs Canada, where he works in the Israel, West Bank and Gaza Division. He completed his master's degree in international relations at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) under the supervision of Justin Massie. His research, funded by SSHRC and FRQSC, focused on how American allies - mainly Canada and Australia - perceive the decline of the United States and the rise of China, and the strategies they are putting in place to cope with this transformation. His policy briefs on the UK's Integrated Review and Taiwan's loss of diplomatic…
Michel Fortmann

Michel Fortmann

Scholar
Michel Fortmann (Ph.D., Montréal) is professor emeritus of political science at Montreal University. He was director and founder of the Centre d’études sur paix et la sécurité internationale (CEPSI). His research focuses on weapons control, nuclear strategy, war history, foreign affairs. He is the author, with Albert Legault, of Une diplomatie de l’espoir, le Canada et le désarmement de 1945 à 1988 (Presses de l’Université Laval, 1990), and the English version (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992) was nominated for the Gelber Prize. He is co-director of Balance of Power, Theory and Practice in the 21st Century (University Press, 2004) and Le…
Philippe Frowd

Philippe M. Frowd

Scholar
Philippe M. Frowd is Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He received his PhD from McMaster University in 2015. His research focuses on the transnational governance of security in the Sahel region of West Africa, with an emphasis on interventions around transnational organized crime, irregular migration, and border control. More generally, Philippe’s work focuses on techniques and technologies of security and the professionals who interact with them. He is the author of Security at the Borders: Transnational Practices and Technologies in West Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and his work has appeared in journals…
Frédérick Gagnon

Frédérick Gagnon

Scientific Board
Frédérick Gagnon is the Chairholder of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair, Director of the Observatory of the United States and Director of the Observatory of multidimensional conflicts. He is Professor of political science at University of Québec in Montréal. He received a Fullbright scholarship in 2014-2015. He has published, alone or in collaboration, books on american foreign policy (Théories de la politique étrangère américaine, with Charles-Philippe David, dir., Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2012 et 2018), the US Congress (Les sénateurs qui changent le monde, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2013; Le Congrès des États-Unis, dir., Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2006), the…

Brigadier-General Richard Giguère (ret.)

Advisory Board
Having accumulated more than 35 years of varied experience with the Canadian Army (career in the infantry with the Royal 22e Régiment), BGen (ret'd) Richard Giguère has worked in operational environments in Canada and abroad (Germany, Oka Crisis, Haiti, Kabul, Kandahar), diplomacy (military attaché in Washington) and academics. He commanded the Second Battalion of the Royal 22e Régiment and the Citadelle de Québec, the Land Force Quebec Sector (now the 2nd Canadian Division) and Joint Task Force (East), and the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, whose mission is to prepare senior military and civilian leaders (Canadian and foreign) to tackle…

Will Greaves

Co-director | Climate Change and the Environment
Will Greaves is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Victoria. His research examines global security theory and politics with respect to climate change, resource extraction, and Indigenous peoples; Canadian foreign policy and Canada-US relations; and the politics of the circumpolar Arctic. Professor Greaves is the author of more than twenty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has co-edited two books: One Arctic: The Arctic Council and Circumpolar Governance and Breaking Through: Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic. His monograph on Arctic security and climate change is forthcoming from University of Toronto Press. He is a Coordinator of the…

Marianne Grenier

Emerging Scholar
Marianne Grenier is currently in her final year of her Master's degree in Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. Her principal areas of research are cyber threats to critical infrastructure, nuclear terrorism prevention and international security regimes. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Security and Policing Studies from the University of Montreal. Recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master's Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to pursue her research on a comparison of treaties to prevent nuclear terrorism, she is particularly interested in the study of new and evolving security challenges resulting from emerging technologies.  
Zachary Griffiths-Julien

Zachary Griffiths-Julien

Student Collaborators
Zachary Griffiths-Julien joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 2017 as an Infantry Soldier. In 2019, he deployed on OP PRESENCE as a member of the Force Protection team. Currently in his final year of undergraduate studies at Bishop’s University, honours in International Studies and Major in Political science, he interests himself in questions concerning terrorism and intelligence studies. In the past, Zachary has worked on the Conseils de sécurité Podcast, a coproduction between the Network for Strategic Analysis and the Canadian Defence and Security Network, under the supervision of Dr. Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé. Recently, he collaborates with the Équipe de recherche…