Senior Non-Resident Associate Fellow
Jean-François Belanger
His current research projects use wargaming as a data generating tool to study the causes of nuclear escalation, the effect of sleep on decision-making, Russian naval strategy in the Mediterranean, and NATO’s MDO concept.
He’s a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies at SDU, and a non-resident fellow at the Cornell University Brooks Tech Policy Institute. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo (2020-2023), and at the International Security Studies at Yale University (2018-2020).
A Canadian national, Jean-François holds a PhD in Political Science from McGill University, an MA fin Political Science from Dalhousie University, and an honor’s degree in Political Science from Concordia University.