Research team

After serving three years as in Infantryman on the American 101st Airborne Division (AASLT), Jean-Sébastien Rioux studied World Politics at the California State University at Los Angeles, then obtained his PhD in Political Science from the Florida State University in 1996. Prior to his current appointment as Canada Research Chair in International Security at Laval University, he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Research Group in International Security at McGill University/Université de Montréal from 1997-1998, and Associate Professor of International Affairs at Vesalius College in Brussels, Belgium, from 1999-2001. His research interests focus on the determinants of foreign policy behavior, conflict processes and third party intervention in conflict.

Dr. Rioux has extensive field experience, having traveled and studied the interventions and peacekeeping policies in Bosnia and Afghanistan, as well as being involved with the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre's African Peacekeeping Training Centre in Koulikoro, Mali, as an instructor since 2003. He has published his research in several academic journals, such as the Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Politics, the Political Research Quarterly and Études Internationales. He is also regularly called to provide analysis of international politics on the French-language TVA television network, on several radio stations as well as in Québec's daily newspaper Le Soleil.

Papa Camara is a Ph.D. student studying political science at Université Laval. He worked as a research assistant for the Chair on Knowledge Transfer and Innovation and in the Center of analysis of the public policies of Université Laval. He also worked as a research assistant for the Research Group working on the social images and representations of the department of communication and information of the same university. At present, he is a consultant for the multicultural Training center of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MAECI) and also for the organizations Club 2/3 and the Foundation Paul Gérin-Lajoie.

Hugo Genest holds a bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Modern Languages (option: Political Science/languages: Spanish and German) from Laval University.  He is now a graduate student at the Institut québécois des hautes études internationales at Laval University.  Since the beginning of his university studies, he has worked as an intern doing research for a project sponsored by the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique/Urbanisation, Culture et Société.  He has also worked as an article and press review writer at the Inter-American Studies Center at Laval University.  Furthermore, Hugo lived in Germany for a semester during an inter-university student exchange.  His M.A. thesis deals with the Europeanisation of the Finnish and Swedish foreign policies.