The Missing Link Between Foreign Policy and Information Integrity
Foreign influence begins abroad, but it succeeds by exploiting weaknesses in Canada’s domestic information environment.
Marie Lamensch
Global Affairs Director and Co-Founder, Montreal Institute for Global Security
Marie Lamensch is the Director of Global Affairs at the Montreal Institute for Global Security. Her research and policy interests include international security and human rights, foreign influence and interference, gendered disinformation, emerging technologies, transnational repression, and digital authoritarianism. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history (Concordia University) and a master’s degree in conflict, security, and development (King’s College London, Department of War Studies). Marie is the former Coordinator of Program and Outreach at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University. Marie has also given training courses to diplomats, journalists, and students, and has done several consultancies for NGOs and government agencies. Finally, she regularly gives conferences and media interviews in English and French in Canada and abroad.
Marie writes for Centre for International Governance Innovation. She is affiliated to the Observatoire de géopolitique & Observatoire des conflits multidimensionnels at the Chaire Raoul Dandurand and a member of the Network for Strategic Analysis. She is also the former president of the Canadian International Council’s Montreal Branch.
Most Recent Posts
Australia’s slow progress on Indigenous rights
We know progress on Indigenous rights can be stunted, but, as Marie Lamensch observed recently in Australia, without care it also be reversed.
Is there such thing as a singular Canadian foreign policy?
In this essay, Marie Lamensch explores the ways Quebec
and other regions within Canada pursue their own global agenda, undermining the
myth of a unified national interest.
Why We Fight: How female combatants factor into Kurdish state-building
Women fighting ISIS on behalf of Kurdish forces
have diverse reasons for taking part in the war — but is their participation
being used to romanticize the effort?
The dangerous myth of the female victim-fighter
Though their role within ISIS may differ, women’s motives for joining the group are just as diverse as men’s.
“This is Ethnic Cleansing in Action”
An interview with Matthew Smith, executive director of Fortify Rights, about the plight of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Conflict Minerals in the DRC: Why Western Legislation Isn’t the Only Answer
The situation in the DRC is incredibly complicated. The solutions will need to be just as sophisticated says Marie Lamensch.