Christian Leuprecht

Christian Leuprecht est professeur titulaire en science politique au Collège militaire royal du Canada ainsi qu’au Département d’études politiques et à l'École des Politiques Publiques de l’Université Queen’s. Il est chercheur au Centre for International and Defence Policy, à l’Institut des relations intergouvernementales, et chercheur Munk en sécurité et défense à l’Institute Macdonald Laurier.  Il est membre du Collège des nouveaux chercheurs de la Société royale du Canada. Il été nommé membre du comité exécutif du Conseil de direction du Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada par le gouverneur en conseil. Il est président du comité de recherche 01 : forces armées et résolution des conflits de l’Association internationale de sociologie, expert de structure de la sécurité auprès des Nations Unies, chercheur associé au Centre Frost d’Études canadiennes et autochtones de l’Université Trent, et il est régulièrement invité de témoigner devant des comités du parlement.

Il a publié en anglais, français, allemand et espagnol neuf livres et de nombreux articles qui sont parues dans Electoral Studies (2016), Government Information Quarterly (2016), Armed Forces and Society (2015), Global Crime (2015, 2013), la Revue canadienne de politique étrangère (2014, prix Maureen Molot pour le meilleur article), Administration publique canadienne (2014), la Revue canadienne de science politique (2012, 2003), Regional and Federal Studies (2012), and Terrorism and Political Violence (2011, 2016).  Ses éditoriaux apparaissent régulièrement dans les journaux canadiens et il intervient fréquemment dans les médias canadiens et internationaux.

Leuprecht était professeur invité au Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institut d’études avancées (2016), à l’Université Helmut-Schmidt de la Bundeswehr (2016), à l’Université Grenoble Alpes (2015), à l’Université d’Augsburg (2011), à l’Université de défense suédoise (à plusieurs reprises), à l’Académie européenne, et il était Professeur agrégé bicentenaire aux Études canadiennes à l’Université Yale (2009-2010).  Il est chercheur au National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (depuis 2005), le Network for Terrorism, Security, and Society (depuis 2012) le Centre International de Criminologie Comparée à l’Université de Montréal où il co-dirige le Réseau intégré sur la cybersécurité (depuis 2014), le Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations internationales du Canada et du Québec (depuis 2015), l’Observatoire sur la radicalisation et l’extrémisme (depuis 2015), l’Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (depuis 2010), le Solomon Ash Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict à l’University of Pennsylvania et Bryn Mawr College (2003), et le World Population Program à l’International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis (2002).  Le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines lui a accordé une bourse doctorale (2001-2003) et postdoctorale (2003-2005).  Il a obtenu son doctorat de l’Université Queen’s (2003), est diplômé de deuxième cycle en science politique (1998) et français (1999) de l’Université de Toronto et de l’Institut d’Études Politiques de l’Université Pierre Mendès-France à Grenoble (1997).

Il a été doyen associé à la Faculté des Arts du CRMC, directeur adjoint du Département de Science Politique et d’Économie.  À plusieurs reprises il a été nominé pour le prix d’excellence en enseignement.  Il fait partie des comités de lecture de Armes Forces & Society, Eurolimes, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, la série des manuscrits de Current Sociology, et la série Springer en Advances in Science and Technologies for Security Applications.  Il a également été éditeur associé à la série Queen’s Policy Studies publié par McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Manuscrits 

En préparation

Leuprecht, C, et al. Borders in Globalization: Security.  Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, Policy Series.

Volumes édités et co-édités 

À venir 

Leuprecht, C, Koelling, M and Hataley1, T. Public Security in Federal Polities.

2012

Leuprecht, C, Hataley, T1 and Nossal, KR1. 2012. Evolving Transnational Threats and Border Security: A New Research Agenda. Kingston: Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy, 125 pp.

Leuprecht, C, Hataley, T1 and Nossal, KR1. 2012. Évolution des menaces transnationales et sécurité frontalière : Un nouveau programme de recherche. Kingston: Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy, 147 pp.

2011

Leuprecht, C and Russell, PH1. 2011. Essential Readings in Canadian Constitutional Politics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press Higher Education, 512 pp.

Courchene, T1 and Allan, J1, Leuprecht, C, Verrelli, N. 2011. The Federal Idea: Essays in Honour of Ronald L. Watts. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 500 pp.

Szvirczsev Tresch, T2 and Leuprecht, C. 2011. Europe without Soldiers? Recruitment and Retention among Europe’s Armed Forces. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 288 pp. (Reviewed in Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 19(2) 2013, Armed Forces & Society 38(4) 2012: 683-685, Parameters Summer 2012: 139-141, Journal of Slavic Military Studies 24 2011: 712-713)

2010

Leuprecht, C, Troy, J and Last, D1. 2010. Mission Critical: The Role of Smaller Democracies in Global Stability Operations. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 250 pp.  Awarded the 2011 Canada-Prize.

Leuprecht, C. 2010. Defending Democracy and Securing Diversity. Abingdon: Routledge, 191 pp. (Reviewed in Journal of Peace Research 2011 48(1): 132, Democracy and Security 8(1) 2012: 97-99, Security and Defence Studies Review 11 Fall-Winter: 195-196.)

Articles académiques revus par les pairs 

À venir

Walther, O2, Leuprecht, C and Skillicorn, DB1. Wars Without Beginning Or End: Violent Extremist Organizations and Irregular Warfare in the Sahel-Sahara.  Political Geography. Special Issue on Subnational Governance and Conflict.

2016

Skillicorn, DB1, and Leuprecht, C. Incumbency effect in US presidential campaigns: Language patterns matter. Electoral Studies 43: 95-103.

Skillicorn, DB1, Leuprecht, C and Tait, V. Beyond the Castle Model of Cybersecurity.  Government Information Quarterly 33(2): 250-257.

Abridged and revised portions of this article subsequently appeared as Computing in Compromised Environments: Beyond the Castle Model of Cyber-Security. In Exploring the Security Landscape: Non-Traditional Security Challenges. Ed. Anthony Masys. New York: VS Springer: 249-265.

Initial draft version published by the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy as Working Paper No. 4, July 2015.

Porges, M and Leuprecht, C. 2016. Abstenerse de terror: el caso de desconcierto de la resistencia no violenta en el Sáhara Occidental. Revista CIDOB d’Afers internationcionals no. 112. April: 149-172.

Co-published in English as The Puzzle of Nonviolence in Western Sahara. Democracy and Security 2016 12(2): 65-84.

Leuprecht, C, Aulthouse, A and Walther, O2. The puzzling resilience of transnational organized crime networks. Police Practice & Research 17(4): 376-387. Special Issue on Policing Drug Markets, eds. Christopher Birkbeck and Eduardo Paes-Machado.

Leuprecht, C, Walther, O2, Skillicorn, DB1, and Ryde-Collins, H. 2016. Hezbollah’s Global Tentacles: The Party of God’s Convergence with Transnational Organized Crime. Terrorism and Political Violence.

2015

Skillicorn, DB1, Leuprecht, C, Stys, Y3 and Gobeil, R3. 2015. Prisoner Radicalization: Structural Differences among Violent Extremists. Global Crime 16(3): 238-259.

Skillicorn, DB1, Leuprecht, C. 2015. Deception in Speeches of Candidates for Public Office. Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities.

Skillicorn, DB1 and Leuprecht, C. 2015. Clustering Heterogeneous Semi-Structured Social Science Datasets. Procedia Computer Science (International Conference on Computational

Science), 51: 2888-2892.

Leuprecht, C. and Sokolsky, JJ1. 2015. Defence Policy, ‘Walmart Style’: Canadian lessons in ‘not-so-grand’ strategy. Armed Forces & Society 41(3): 541-562.

2014

Leuprecht, C. 2014. Political Demography of Canada-US co-dependence in defence and security. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 20(3): 291-304.  Recipient of the Maureen Molot Prize for Best Article.

Hataley, T1 and Leuprecht, C. December 2014. Asymmetric decentralization of the administration of multilevel security governance in the Canadian federal political system. Canadian Public Administration 57(4): 507-526.

Leuprecht, C and Aulthouse, A. December 2014. Guns for Hire: Mapping Canada-US cross-border gun trafficking networks. Journal of Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society 15(3): 57-74.

2015-2016

The armed forces confronted with the Millennial general: Implications for recruitment. Swiss Military Academy/ETH Zürich. 12-13 July 2016.

Emerging Challenges to Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. Notre Dame Law School.  South Bend, IN, 29 April 2016.

Are Islamists special?  Nuances in transborder terror networks between Canada and the United States.  Confronting Terror in Canada and the United States: Domestic and International Dimensions.  Fulbright Foundation.  University of Hawaii at Manoa. 24-26 Feb 2016.

Wars Without Beginning or End: Violent Extremist Organizations and Irregular Warfare in the Sahel-Sahara. EUBorderScapes, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 28-29 January 2016.

Clustering Heterogeneous Semi-Structured Social Science Datasets.  International Conference on Computational Science, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1-3 June 2015.

Member, Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists (2016-2023)

Joint Special Operations University, Commandant’s Coin for Excellence (2015)

Maureen Molot Prize for Best Article, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (2014)

Royal Military College of Canada Commandant’s Commendation for exceptional service (2014)

Teaching Excellence Award, Royal Military College of Canada (nominee 2008, 2012; finalist 2013, 2014, 2015)

United States Military Academy, Commandant’s Coin for Excellence (2014)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Solomon Ash Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict.

European Union DEMOG Research Network Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.

Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria.

NATO’s Russian strategy must look beyond a Baltic mission. Globe and Mail. 30 June 2016.

What does Ottawa know about the F-35s that the Danes don’t? Toronto Star. 8 June 2016

Canada Revenue Agency needs a new playbook. Globe and Mail. 5 May 2016.

Is proportional representation a good model for Canada? Globe and Mail. 19 March 2016.

To meet the refugee crisis. National Post. 14 December 2015.

Why intelligence fails. Globe and Mail. 25 November 2015.

Complacent Canada could face same troubles as France. Sun newspaper syndication. 21 November 2015.

A refugee crisis? The case for a principled response. Sun newspaper syndication. 10 September 2015.

Extremist travellers aren’t about to go away. Globe and Mail, 12 August 2015.

Let First Nations Tax Tobacco. Sun newspaper syndication, 21 March 2015.

Done right: C-51 can balance freedom and security. The Globe and Mail, 16 March 2015.

Read and Vote: Will protect or imperil Canadians. The Globe and Mail, 10 March 2015.

Arresting runaway costs in Toronto Police Services, The Toronto Star, 5 Feburary 2015.

Canada’s contraband problem is about much more than lost revenue, The Toronto Star, 10 December 2014.

Police are pricing themselves out of business, The Sunday Star, 6 April 2014.

Jóvenes, radicales e inadaptados La Razón (Spanish daily), 2 February 2014, p. 33.

El ‘plan B’ de Hizbulá, La Razón (Spanish daily), 28 December 2013, p. 26.

Getting the Message Across, Kingston Whig-Standard, 16 August 2011, p. 5.

City-dwellers pay so rural residents can keep their schools, Kingston Whig-Standard, 4 May 2007.

The dilemma of dual citizenship, Kingston Whig-Standard, 22 July 2006, p.7

Universities Miss Mark on Funding, Toronto Star, 7 September 2005, A15