Team Member

Dr. Ryan Dean
Network Coordinator
Dr. Ryan Dean had the pleasure of joining the NATO Field School Team in May of 2024. Before this, he was an Assistant Professor in the Public Policy and Governance program at St. Francis Xavier University. He also worked as the Research and Policy Coordinator (2021 – 2023) for the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) at Trent University where he also held a Postdoctoral Fellowship. Ryan received his PhD from the University of Calgary in 2022 where he was generously supported by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier (CGS) Doctoral Scholarship. Ryan currently is a Network Coordinator for NAADSN as well as the Managing Editor of Documents on Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security hosted by the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies (CMSS) and Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) in Calgary.
His recent works include the report “Military Threats In, To, and Through the Arctic East of Greenland and Implications for Canada” in August 2023, the 2022 Polar Journal article “Speaking Security: Constructing Canada’s 2009 Northern Strategy,” his 2022 dissertation “(De) Securitizing the Arctic? Prepping the intersubjective policy terrain of Canada’s northern security agenda,” and the 2021 edited volume with Nancy Teeple Shielding North America: Canada’s Role in All-Domain Continental Defence Modernization.
- NAADSN Quick Impact: Beginning NORAD’s Next Chapter? by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Ryan Dean, June 2022
- NAADSN Quick Impact: Russian International Aggression and the Arctic: Why Strong, Secure, Engaged Remains Relevant, by Ryan Dean and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, March 2022
- Special Report: Canada and the Origins of the Arctic Council: Key Documents, 1988-1998, edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Ryan Dean, September 2021. Documents on Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security (DCASS) Number 18, 2021. In partnership with the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies and the Arctic Institute of North America.
- Engage Series: Shielding North America: Canada’s Role in All-Domain Continental Defence Modernization, edited by Nancy Teeple and Ryan Dean, March 2021
- Policy Brief: An Undeserved Reputation: Revising Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty and Security under the Harper Government, by Ryan Dean, A Brief from Breaking Through: Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic, 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]
- Event Report: NORAD Modernization Forum Third Report: JADC2/JADO, by Ryan Dean and Nancy Teeple, October 2020
- Event Report: NORAD Modernization Forum Second Report: Defeat Capabilities, CDA Institute, by Ryan Dean and Nancy Teeple, September 2020
- Event Report: NORAD Modernization Forum First Report: Awareness and Sensors, CDA Institute, by Ryan Dean and Nancy Teeple, September 2020
- Quick Impact: We Cannot Deter What We Cannot Detect, by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Ryan Dean, May 2020
- Strategic Perspective: China’s Arctic Gambit? Contemplating Possible Strategies, by Ryan Dean and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, April 2020
- Quick Impact: Blackjack Diplomacy, by Ryan Dean and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, March 2020
- Reading List: China and Arctic Security, by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Ryan Dean, May 2020
- Policy Brief: Arctic Ironies: American Shaping of an Arctic Regime, by Ryan Dean, January 2020
- Event Report: Fieldnotes from Attending MASS: Report on the 2019 Maritime & Arctic Security & Safety Conference “People & Technology: Making the Connection”, by Ryan Dean, November 2019