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Rob served as an intelligence officer in the Canadian Army retiring as a Brigadier-General. While serving in the military He was deployed on overseas operations to Croatia as part of a United Nations mission, several times to Bosnia with NATO, and also to Kabul, Afghanistan as part of the ISAF Headquarters in 2004.

Owing to his linguistic ability he has travelled extensively in Eastern and Central Europe. Rob completed a PhD in 2017 at Queen’s focused on the experience of the 1st Polish Armoured Division under Canadian command in Northwest Europe in late 1944 and challenges in the achievement of a shared common intent in coalition operations resulting from language and cultural differences. He currently teaches graduate courses in War Studies as a sessional instructor at RMC.

Research Interests

• Multinational Coalition Warfare;
• Eastern and Central Europe history; and
• Military Intelligence

Recent Publications

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Dr. Sokolsky is a Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC).  He holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. A native of Toronto, Dr. Sokolsky earned his Honours BA from the University of Toronto and an MA from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. From 2008 to 2013, he was Principal (Provost) of RMC.  Prior to this appointment, Dr. Sokolsky was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Head of the Department of Political Science and Chair of the War Studies Committee. He is a Senior Fellow at the Queen’s University Centre for International and Defence Policy and holds an appointment with the Queen’s Department of Political Studies. He is a Senior Analyst with Wikistrat.com. Dr. Sokolsky has served as a consultant to several government offices and represented Canada on the Secretariat Working Group of the NATO/Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes.

Research Interests

• Canadian foreign and defence policy;
• International security relations; and
• American foreign and defence policy.

Recent Publications

• Christian Leuprecht and Joel J. Sokolsky  Multilateral Unilateralism: Europe’s Second Chance…on America’s Terms  Ottawa, Konrad Adenhauer Shiftung 2021.
• Joseph T. Jockel and Joel J. Sokolsky, Canada in NATO, 1949-2019, Montreal , McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021.
• Joel J. Sokolsky,  “Canada: Very Civil Relations,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, January 2021  https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-1801
• Joel J. Sokolsky, “The International Fraternity of the Uniform: Implications for Civil–Military Relations,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, March 2021 https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-1875
• Joel J. Sokolsky, “Canada’s NATO: Seventy Years of Commitment and Re-Commitment,”  in Murray, Robert W., Gecelovsky, Paul (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Canada in International Affairs,  New York, Palgrave, 2021

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Dr. Grazia Scoppio is Professor Emerita, Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), cross-appointed in the Queen’s University Department of Political Studies and a fellow at the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s. She was a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Peace and War Studies at Norwich University, in Vermont, USA.  She was Dean of Continuing Studies at RMC from 2017 to 2020 after having served as Associate Dean. Between 2002 and 2013 she held appointments at the Canadian Defence Academy and the Canadian Forces Leadership Institute. In 2018 she was a member of the first Halifax Peace with Women Fellowship Selection Committee for the Halifax International Security Forum. Due to her expertise Dr. Scoppio is often contacted to provide contributions to the media and testify before Parliamentary committees. She is an active member of various academic societies and a member of the Editorial Boards of two bilingual journals, the Canadian Military Journal and Comparative and International Education Journal. She has over two decades of experience conducting interdisciplinary research on issues related to military personnel including diversity and gender in military organizations, indigenous participation in the military, immigrants in the armed forces, military education, organizational culture, and lessons learned.

Research Interests

• Military Personnel
• Immigrants in the Armed Forces
• Indigenous Peoples Participation in the Military 

Recent Publications

• Scoppio, G. (2024). “Teaching gender to soldiers: Experiences from a Canadian educator.” In Scoppio, G. (Ed.) Opportunities and challenges for Integrating Gender Perspectives in Military Education: Experiences from the US and Canada [Special Issue]. On Track journal, Vol. 33. https://cdainstitute.ca/volume-33-challenges-and-opportunities-for-integrating-gender-perspectives-in-military-education-experiences-from-the-us-and-canada/

• Scoppio, G. & Lagerlof, B. (2024). “The first Partnership for Peace Consortium workshop on Women Peace and Security in Professional Military Education: reflections, considerations and the way ahead.” Canadian Military Journal, Volume 24.1. http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/cmj-article-en-page57.html 

• Caso, F. & Scoppio, G. (2024). “Indigenous participation in the Canadian Armed Forces: Efforts towards Reconciliation?” Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University, Policy Brief, Volume 9, Issue 6. https://www.queensu.ca/cidp/sites/cidpwww/files/uploaded_files/CIDP%20-%20POLICY%20BRIEF%20Scoppio-Caso%209-6.pdf 

• Scoppio, G., Vieira, A., Baidoo-Anu, D. & Guo, J. (2024). “Immigrants in the Canadian Armed Forces: Second Acts and New Canadians”. Journal of Military and Strategic Studies. Vol 23, No. 2 https://jmss.org/article/view/77480 

• Scoppio, G. & Greco, S. (Eds). (2022). The Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces: International Perspectives on Immigrant Participation in the Military. McGill-Queen’s University Press. (Peer reviewed). https://www.mqup.ca/the-power-of-diversity-in-the-armed-forces-products-9780228011101.php

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Professor emeritus of political studies, Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University. Author of a number of works on Canadian foreign and defence policy. Latest book is Canada Along: Navigating the Post-American World (Dundurn Press, 2023)

Research Interests

• Canadian foreign and defence policy

Recent Publications

• Canada Along: Navigating the Post-American World (Dundurn Press, 2023)
• KRN, Stéphane Roussel et Stéphane Paquin, Politique internationale et défense au Canada et au Québec, deuxième édition enrichie et mise à jour (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2023)

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• Bluesky: @kimnossal.bsky.social

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Educated at Bishop's University, RMC, and King's College London.  Has served as Director, Faculty Services, Chair Military & Strategic Studies, Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities (Faculty); and Chair War Studies.  Current research is on the measurement of national power.

Research Interests

• Power
• Transatlantic defence & security relations
• Coercion

Recent Publications

• “Pressure, Threat, Dependence: Assessing NATO Member-State Defence Spending?” Journal of Transatlantic Studies.  December 2022. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42738-023-00105-z.

• with Pierre Jolicoeur, Christian Breede, and Ali Dizboni.  “Educating the Ideal Canadian Lieutenant”. Parameters, Spring 2022.

• “Canada and NATO: hopes and ambitions”, in Michele Testoni, Ed., NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century,(London: Routledge, 2021).

• “Shaped by Loss: Culture and Casualties in Canada”, in H. Christian Breede, Ed.  Culture and the Soldier: Identities, Values, and Norms in Military Engagements, (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019).

• “How transatlantic is the Trump Administration?”, Journal of Transatlantic Studies.  October 2019.  DOI: 10.1057/s42738-019-00030-0,  532-553. 

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Justin Massie is a professor and Head of the Department of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is also Co-director of the Network for Strategic Analysis, and Co-director of Le Rubicon. He was the 2019 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the global power transition, multinational military interventions, and foreign and defence policy. His work has been published in several journals, including International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Security, International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Contemporary Security Policy, Comparative Strategy, Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Journal (winner of the best article published in 2017), Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (winner of the best article published in 2008) and Études internationales (winner of the best article published in 2011). He is the author of Francosphère : l’importance de la France dans la culture stratégique du Canada (PUQ, 2013), and co-editor of Paradiplomatie identitaire : Nations minoritaires et politique extérieure (PUQ, 2019), America’s Allies and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony (Routledge, 2019), and Intelligence Cooperation in a Multipolar World: Non-American Perspectives (UTP, 2024).

Research Interests

• International Security
• Foreign and Defence Policy
• Military Interventions

Recent Publications

• Justin Massie $ Barbora Tallová, “Friends in Need, Friends Indeed? Explaining Variation in Military Support to Ukraine,” European Journal of International Security (2025).
• Justin Massie & Barbora Tallová, “Suckers and Free Riders:  The Determinants of Military Burden-Sharing in the Russo-Ukrainian War,” Contemporary Security Policy (2025).
• Philippe Lagassé & Justin Massie, “Canada’s Un-strategic Defence Policy,” in Norman Hillmer, Philippe Lagassé & Vincent Rigby (eds.), Canada Among Nations 2023: Twenty-First Century National Security, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 : 143-163.
• Thomas Juneau, Justin Massie & Marco Munier (eds.), Intelligence Cooperation in a Multipolar World: Non-American Perspectives, University of Toronto Press, 2024.
• Justin Massie, Jonathan Paquin & Kamille Leclair, “Contested Strategic Cultures: Anglosphere Participation in the Coalition Against the Islamic State,” International Studies Quarterly 67:2 (2023).

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• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/justin-massie-96057885

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I am a former member of the Canadian military, having divided my service between the Air Force and Army. I served in Armour and Search & Rescue before being commissioned as an Intelligence officer, where I worked in NDHQ, Brigade HQ, and within Special Operations Forces Command. I have operational deployments to Cyprus (UN), Bosnia (NATO), Kosovo (NATO), and two tours in Afghanistan (Special Operations Command). I retired as a Reserve Infantry Officer.

After receiving a BA in Politics (Manitoba) and a MA in War Studies (RMC), I completed my PhD in Military History (Queen’s) in 2004, with a dissertation on Intelligence Support to Peacekeeping. This was followed by Post-Doctoral research in Terrorism (William & Mary) and Intelligence (Carleton/Norman Patterson School of International Relations)

Research Interests

• Intelligence
• Violent Radicalization and Disinformation
• Canadian Arctic

Recent Publications

• “From the Kremlin to the Klan: Russian Nesting Dolls of Right-Wing Hate,” in Bernd Horn, James Kiras, and Emily Spencer, eds., The Invisible Hand: Strategic Sabotage, Case Studies. Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, 2021.

• “Beliefs: What Motivates Insurgents,” in Robert Engen, H. Christian Breede, and Allan English, eds., Why We Fight: New Approaches to the Human Dimension of War. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.

• “Anger in the Peaceable Kingdom: An Overview of Canada’s Violent Extremist History,” in in Stéfanie von Hlatky, ed., Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Assessing Domestic and International Strategies, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

• “Radicalization in Mali: A Primer.” Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy, Policy Brief, 4 (5), November 2018.

• Domestic Operations: A Canadian Army Perspective. (Editor and contributor) Kingston: Canadian Army Publication Office, 2006.

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Stéphanie Martel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. Her research is on multilateral diplomacy and regional security governance, with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Asia/Indo-Pacific. Dr. Martel’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Perspectives, PS: Political Science & Politics, and The Pacific Review, among others. She is the author of Enacting the Security Community: ASEAN’s Never-Ending Story (2022, Stanford University Press). Dr. Martel regularly represents Canada in various expert diplomacy mechanisms and policy dialogues on issues of Indo-Pacific security, including the ASEAN Regional Forum's Eminent and Expert Persons Group and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. She is a member of the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security.

Research Interests:

• Multilateral diplomacy, global security, and the role of discourse in international relations;
• Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific

Recent Publications:

• Stéphanie Martel, "ASEAN-Canada Relations at Forty-Five: A Mixed Scorecard," Canadian Journal of Foreign Policy (2023).
• Stéphanie Martel, Enacting the Security Community: ASEAN’s Never-Ending Story (Stanford University Press, 2022). 
• Stéphanie Martel and Aarie Glas, “The contested meaning-making of diplomatic norms: competence in practice in Southeast Asian multilateralism,” European Journal of International Relations (2022). 
• Stéphanie Martel, Jennifer Mustapha, Sarah E. Sharma, “Women, Peace and Security governance in the Asia–Pacific: a multi-scalar field of discourse and practice,” International Affairs (2022). 
• Stéphanie Martel, “The Polysemy of Security Community-Building: Toward a ‘People-Centered’ Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?,” International Studies

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• Twitter/X: @st_martel