Thomas Juneau

Thomas Juneau is an associate fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme. He is also a professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

His research focuses on the Middle East, in particular Iran and Yemen, on the role of intelligence in national security and foreign policy making, on Canadian foreign and defence policy, and on international relations theory. Thomas’ previous experience is with Canada’s Department of National Defence.

He is the author of Squandered Opportunity: Neoclassical realism and Iranian foreign policy (2015) and of Le Yémen en guerre (2021). Thomas is also co-author of Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making: The Canadian Experience (2021), and co-editor of Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and Practice, vol. 1 (2019) and vol. 2 (2023), Intelligence Co-operation under Multipolarity: Non-American Perspectives (2023), Middle Power in the Middle East: Canada’s Foreign and Defence Policies in a Changing Region (2022), Top Secret Canada (2021), and Iranian Foreign Policy Since 2001: Alone in the World (2013).