Collaborator
Dr. Yvan Yenda Ilunga is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island (USA), teaching undergraduate, master, and Ph.D. level courses. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Joint Civil-Military Interaction (JCMI) Research and Education Network, coordinating strategic partnerships, research, and training key stakeholders on policies and operations related to civil-military interactions in fragile countries. Dr. Ilunga conducts policy-relevant research and studies on Africa’s security, development, and governance issues. More specifically, he focuses on questions related to peace operations, civil-military interactions, natural resources-based conflicts, and regional cooperation in his writing…
Emerging Scholar
Anvesh Jain is a Juris Doctor student at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. He holds an honours degree in International Relations from the University of Toronto, with a focus in Canadian Foreign and Security Relations. His work examines grand strategy trends within the South Asian and Euro-Atlantic contexts, and he has been published by the Columbia SIPA Journal of International Affairs, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, the Stimson Center, and the U.S Air University’s Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, among others. He is currently affiliated with both the NATO Association of Canada and the Canada Tibet Committee, as well as the…
Emerging Scholar
Tancrède Jankowski holds a bachelor's degree in Law and Political Science from the Catholic Institute of Paris and is completing a master's degree in international studies with a concentration in cultures, conflicts and peace at the University of Montreal. Now at the end of his university studies, he will write his internship essay under the direction of Professor Marie-Joëlle Zahar. Tancrède grew up in Paris where he began his university studies and then moved to Canada to continue his studies. Passionate about journalism and international security, he was able to combine his passions by joining university journals specialized in those…
Advisory Board
Daniel Jean served as National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada (2016-18). Previously, he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (2013-2016) and Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage (2010-2013). From 2007 to 2010, he held a number of critical deputy minister positions first as Associate Secretary at the Treasury Board and later on as Deputy Secretary (Operations) at the Privy Council Office. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Minister in 2007, Daniel had a stimulating career in international and migration related issues both in Canada and abroad that included two postings in Haiti, two separate assignments in…
Advisory Board
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer is the French Ambassador to Vanuatu and the French Ambassador-Designate to the Solomon Islands, after having served as director of the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) at the French Ministry of the Armed Forces (2016-2022), and as a Policy officer on “Security and Global Affairs” at the Policy Planning Staff (CAPS) of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013-2016). He has held positions at the Faculty of Law at McGill University, Canada (2011-2013), at the department of War Studies of King’s College London (2010-2011), at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University…
Collaborator
Joseph T. Jockel is Piskor Professor and Chair of Canadian Studies at St. Lawrence University. He is also co-editor of International Journal, the scholarly publication of the Canadian International Council, Toronto. His research has focused on the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). He is the author of two books, No Boundaries Upstairs: Canada, the United States and the Origins of North American Air Defence, 1945-1958 (1987) and Canada in NORAD, 1957-2007: A History (2007) as well as an article, “NORAD Does Not Need Saving” (2015). His most recent monograph is Canada and the Netherlands in Afghanistan (2014). Jockel is…
Scholar
Pierre Jolicoeur is Full Professor at the Department of Political Science at Royal Military College of Canada. Specialist of the former Soviet Union and South Eastern Europe, his research focuses on secessionist movements, foreign policy, federalism and cybersecurity. At RMCC, he teaches international relations and comparative politics. Through NATO programs, he also taught in Moldova and in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Author or co-author of 2 books, 10 articles in Peer review journals, 23 chapters in university press, his publications, both in French and English, appeared in Études internationales, Journal of Borderland Studies, Canadian Journal of Foreign Policy,…
Scholar
Thomas Juneau is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) at the University of Ottawa. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, he worked for the Department of National Defence from 2003 to 2014, chiefly as a strategic analyst covering the Middle East. His research focuses mostly on the Middle East, in particular on Iran and Yemen. He is also interested in Canadian foreign and defence policy, in the relationship between intelligence and policy, and in international relations theory. He has published in academic journals such as International Affairs, International Studies Perspectives, Political Science…
Scholar
Anessa Kimball (prof/they/she) is professor of Political Science at Laval University. Kimball is the Director of the Centre for International Security (CSI) at the École supérieure des études internationales (ETI), co-director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network (CDSN), and a member of the Defence & Security Foresight Group, North American team. Professor Kimball received their PhD in Political Science from the State University of New York-Binghamton, USA. Their research interests include the interdependence of domestic and foreign policy, defense and security, U.S. foreign policy and elections, international cooperation, and the economics of defense and military procurement. Kimball directs two…
Emerging Scholar
Nicolas Klingelschmitt is a PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Université du Québec à Montréal, under the supervision of Professor Issiaka Mandé. His doctoral research, supported by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec en Société et Culture (FRQSC), focuses on African multilateral cooperation, in particular collective security on the continent. He studies African state relations, regional organizations and international partners within the African peace and security architecture. He is researcher-in-residence and coordinator of the Centre FrancoPaix of the Raoul Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, and a member of the Groupe Interuniversitaire d'Études et…
