Educating a Quantum Audience on the Role of Women, Peace and Security (WPS)
Nov. 4, 2025 | New Dispatch > Educating a Quantum Audience on the Role of Women, Peace and Security (WPS)
Nahian Khan
Nahian Khan
RMC Intern
Military Strategic Studies
Royal Military College of Canada
About
Naval Cadet Khan N. is a Bachelor of Arts student in Military Strategic Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. As a future Naval Warfare Officer, Khan is particularly interested in the policy aspects of warship procurement, focusing on how government decisions, defence priorities, and public accountability shape major naval acquisitions.
Research Interests
- Defence Policy and Strategy Studies
- Procurement Governance and Decision-Making
- Industrial and Economic Policy
Discussions On Defence: Defence Spending - because losing will always cost
Date
Thursday November 27, 20255:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Robert Sutherland Hall Room 448
The CIDP is pleased to present its discussion on Defence for November Defence Spending led by one of our Visiting Defence Fellows, Canadian Armed Forces Col Dave Forbes. This event offers undergraduate students the opportunity to learn from fellows as part of our mentorship program, engaging them in the defence and security community.
Haiden Dyck
Haiden Dyck
RMC Intern
Political Science
Royal Military College of Canada
About
Haiden is a BA student in Political Science at The Royal Military College of Canada, where he will graduate as an Artillery Officer in 2027. Currerntly, he i the vice-president of RMC's Debate and International Affairs Society, where he mentors his peers in public speaking and diplomacy. He is interested in hybrid threats, the state, and African security.
Patrick Marsalek
Patrick Marsalek
RMC Intern
History
Royal Military College of Canada
About
Patrick Marsalek is an Undergraduate Student at the Royal Military College of Canada Majoring in History and taking a Minor in English, Culture, and Communication. He is also a Human Resource Administrator at the Princess of Wales' Own Regiment. Patrick is currently researching the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan between 2010-2011. Some of his other interests include Canadian Reserve Readiness as well as Strategic Studies.
James Lawson
James Lawson
RMC Intern
Economics
Royal Military College of Canada
About
James is a fourth-year undergraduate student studying Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada. His research interests are defence, security, and healthcare economics in Canada.
John Douglas (J.D.) Comegys
John Comegys
RMC Intern
History
Royal Military College of Canada
About
JD is a fourth-year Honours History student at the Royal Military College of Canada. He has been recognized for both academic excellence and leadership potential, receiving the Frank R. Kossa ANAVICUS scholarship as the top third-year cadet in these areas. He has also been awarded the Department of History Award for highest academic achievement in his 2nd year. His current thesis research examines the quality of Canadian Infantry Reinforcements during the Second World War. In addition to his thesis research, JD is collaborating with Royal Canadian Air Force officers to support the development of a functional brief on RCAF organizational structures that aims to support future institutional growth during a period of modernization.
Call for Applicants - Postdoctoral Fellow - Gender, Radicalisation, and Extremism
Oct 29, 2025 | Call for Applicants | Post-Doctoral Fellow - Gender, Radicalisation, and Extremism
Jessica West PhD
Jessica West
Senior Researcher
Project Ploughshares
About
Dr. Jessica West is a Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares and a leading voice on space security and global governance. She works at the intersection of emerging technologies, conflict, and peacebuilding, and is actively engaged in United Nations processes shaping the future of outer space security.
Research Interests
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National defence and security
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Space security/emerging tech
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Climate change and security/defence
Recent Publications
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Hidden Harms: Human Insecurity in space - https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63e066081ef50cb16a3f4157/668ea0d3c5a5c98229cfb55c_Feminist%20consultation%20Final%20Report.pdf
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Myth of peaceful use in space - https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/56003/chapter/440989269
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Climate change in Canadian defence - https://ploughshares.ca/at-the-crossroads-climate-change-canadian-defence-and-the-arctic-through-a-systems-lens/
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Grey zones in space governance - https://www.cigionline.org/publications/clearing-the-fog-the-grey-zones-of-space-governance/
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Norms for outer space - https://unidir.org/files/2022-04/UNIDIR-Space_Dossier_7.pdf
Online
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Twitter/X: @JessicaWestPhD
Book talk — China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets
Date
Friday November 14, 202512:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Queen’s University, Robert Sutherland Hall Rm. 334 | Online via Zoom
"China’s Vulnerability Paradox,” recently published by Oxford University Press, is the winner of the 2025 IPE Best book award from the International Studies Association and the 2025 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize.
The book presents an original framework to explain the uneven transformations in global commodity markets resulting from China’s contemporary, dramatic economic growth. At times, China displays vulnerabilities towards global commodity markets because of unequal positions of market power. Why is it that Chinese stakeholders are sometimes unable to shape markets in their preferred direction? Why have some markets undergone fundamental changes while other similar ones did not, including uneven liberalization dynamics across markets? And what does this mean for current debates around critical minerals and economic security? At a time of deepening US-China economic tensions, this book provides an alternative, granular understanding of the interacting dynamics between the political economy of Chinese and global markets.
Bio:
Pascale Massot is an associate professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is also non-resident Honorary Fellow, Political Economy at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis in New York, a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada in Vancouver and a non-resident Fellow with the Centre for China Studies, National Taiwan University in Taipei.
Dr. Massot is the author of China’s Vulnerability Paradox: How the World’s Largest Consumer Transformed Global Commodity Markets (Oxford University Press, 2024) – Winner of the 2025 Best Book Award in International Political Economy from the International Studies Association, and the 2025 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize.
In 2022, she was a member of the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs’ Indo-Pacific Advisory Committee. She also served as the Senior Advisor for China and Asia in the offices of various Canadian Cabinet ministers, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, at different points between 2015 and 2021.
Her research interests include the global political economy of China’s rise, China’s impact on global extractive commodity markets—including debates around de-risking, critical minerals and economic security, Canada-China relations, China narratives, and the advent of Indo-Pacific strategies around the world.
She was a Taiwan fellow and visiting professor at the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies (GIEAS), National Chengchi University (NCCU) in the winter of 2025. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.