Team Member
Dr. Andrea Charron
Network Co-Lead, Professor, Political Studies, University of Manitoba
Dr. Charron is the Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies and Professor in Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. She has written extensively on Arctic security and continental defence issues, and regularly testifies on these subjects to parliamentary committees. She also lectures frequently at Canadian Forces College. Her recent articles and book chapters include “The Solidification of the Arctic Sovereignty Meme: Assessing Harper’s Arctic Foreign Policy”; “Beyond NORAD and Modernization to North American Defence Evolution”; “Russian National Interests and the Arctic: Foreign Policy Implications for Canada” in Canadian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World; and “Canada, the Arctic and NORAD: Status Quo or New Ball Game?” She is co-author of NORAD: In Perpetuity and Beyond (MQUP, 2022).
- Engage Series: Shielding North America: Canada’s Role in All-Domain Continental Defence Modernization, edited by Nancy Teeple and Ryan Dean, March 2021
- Special Report: Understanding the Future Arctic Security Environment: Applying NATO Strategic Foresight Analysis to Canadian Arctic Defence and Security, November 2020. [also available in high resolution (58MB) version]
- Quick Impact: Responding to the Hardening the SHIELD: A Credible Deterrent and Capable Defense for North America, by Andrea Charron, September 2020
- Reading List: Canada-U.S. Defence and NORAD, by Andrea Charron, May 2020
- Quick Impact: 2% or else, by Andrea Charron and Jim Fergusson, January 2020
- Engaged Series: Возможно ли растопить ледяной занавес? Россия, Канада и вопросы безопасности в меняющейся Арктике, под редакцией П. Уитни Лакенбауэра и Сюзанн Лалонд, Перевод на русский язык под редакцией Андрея Тодорова (May 2020) [Russian translation of Breaking the Ice Curtain? Russia, Canada, and Arctic Security in a Changing Circumpolar World, edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Suzanne Lalonde (Calgary: Canadian Global Affairs Institute, 2019)
- Policy Brief: The Case for a Reimagined NWS, by Andrea Charron, October 2019