Christian Leuprecht

Visiting Fellow

Professor Christian Leuprecht (Ph.D. Queen’s) is Visiting Fellow at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, specialising in transatlantic defence and security policy. He is an award-winning professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University, Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Military Journal, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute in Canada, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security.

A former Bicentennial Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University (2009-2010), Matthew Flinders Fellow at Flinders University of South Australia (2017-2018), Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College (2019), and Fulbright Research Chair in Canada–US Relations at John Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (2020), he is an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada, recipient of the Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research at the Royal Military College of Canada and past president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution. 

His recent books include Military Operations in Response to Domestic Operations and Global Pandemics (Springer, 2025), Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press), Security. Cooperation. Governance. The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox (University of Michigan Press, 2023), Patterns in Border Security: Regional Comparisons (Routledge, 2023), Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures (University of Calgary Press, 2022), and Intelligence as Democratic Statecraft (Oxford University Press, 2021).