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Christian Leuprecht

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Christian Leuprecht
Nationality Canadian
Occupation Professor of Political Science
Employer Royal Military College of Canada, Queen's University
Known for Expert on terrorism, political science, and Canadian security policy
Title Fellow at Macdonald-Laurier Institute


As of January 2024, Christian Leuprecht is a professor of Political Science at Royal Military College and Queen’s University,[1] and a fellow of the MacDonald Laurier Institute,[2][3] whose opinions on politics, terrorism and counterterrorism have been frequently sought by the popular press.[1][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Academic career

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Academic career[3][11]
year degree field institution
1996 Bachelor of Arts
  • Political Science
  • French language
  • History
 University of Toronto
1997 Diplôme des Etudes Approfondies
  • French language
 Université Pierre-Mendès France
1998 Master of Arts
  • French language
 University of Toronto
1999 Master of Arts
  • Political Science
 University of Toronto
2003 PhD
  • Political Studies
 Queen's University
2003-2005 Post-doctoral fellowship Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Leuprecht joined the faculty of Canada's Royal Military College in 2005.[3] He was made an Associate Dean in 2014. He is an Adjunct Professor at nearby Queen's University.[11] He has enjoyed visiting fellowships at Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study, (Bremen, Germany); Université Grenoble Alpes; Ukrainian National Defence University; University of Augsburg Institute for Canadian Studies; European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano|European Academy; Swedish National Defense College; University of Graz. During the 2009-2010 academic year he was Bicentennial Associate Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University.

Public life

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On January 13, 2016, CBC News quoted comments Leuprecht, of Canada's Royal Military College and Queen’s University.[4][1] He suggested the Taliban had released Colin Rutherford (a Canadian who was visiting antiquities in Afghanistan, released after being a Taliban prisoner for 6 years) as a sign of good faith, in order to win a place at the peace talk table. He pointed out the brutal way Daesh executes prisoners, and asserted the Taliban wanted to remind those negotiating peace that they weren't brutal in the same way they were.

“[The release of Rutherford] is a tacit way for the Afghan Taliban to signal that 'We’re not just the bad guys anymore. We might have taken him hostage, but we didn’t execute him, we didn’t mistreat him.’ It's a way of signalling to the world community that, look, 'Maybe you should be talking to us.’”[4][1]

On January 6, 2016, CTV News quoted Leuprecht about the accidental leak of one thousand classified documents.[12] Leuprecht urged a restrained reaction, asserting secret documents often didn't merit classification.

On November 14, 2015, the Calgary Herald quoted Leuprecht's opinion on how Canadians would react to a recent massacre of innocent civilians by radical Islamist radicals, in Paris, France.[13] Leurecht predicted it would make Canadians "rethink our schedule" on admitting refugees. He urged consideration of slowing the rate of admission of refugees, and consideration of detaining all refugees, once they arrived in Canada, to allow a further security checks. Andrew Mitrovica devoted a column to challenging Leuprecht.[14]

Publications

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  1. Christian Leuprecht, David M. Last, Jodok Troy (2010). Mission Critical: Smaller Democracies' Role in Global Stability Operations. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 9781553392446. Retrieved 2016-01-14.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Peter H. Russell, Christian Leuprecht (2011). Essential Readings in Canadian Constitutional Politics. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442603684. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  3. John R. Allan, Thomas J. Courchene, Christian Leuprecht (2006). Canada: The State of the Federation. Institute of Intergovernmental Relations. Retrieved 2016-01-14.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Municipal-federal-provincial Relations in Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press. 2006. ISBN 9781553390152. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  5. Christian Leuprecht (2003). Political Demography of Ethno-nationalist Violence. University Microfilms International. Retrieved 2016-01-14.

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Taliban release of Colin Rutherford could be linked to peace talks". Yahoo News. 2016-01-13. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  2. ↑ "Christian Leuprecht". MacDonald Laurier Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Christian Leuprecht". Study of Terrorism And Responses to Terrorism. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 John Paul Tasker (2016-01-13). "Taliban release of Colin Rutherford could be linked to peace talks: Toronto man set free the same day Afghan peace talks began in Islamabad". CBC News. Retrieved 2016-01-14. The Taliban's release of Rutherford, and other hostages such U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (who faces a court martial in the United States for desertion and is the subject of an investigation by the Serial podcast), could be seen as an attempt to curry favour with Western powers and secure a seat at talks to decide the fate of the country they've long tried to control, Leuprecht said.
  5. ↑ Christian Leuprecht, Sean Speer (2015-12-14). "Christian Leuprecht & Sean Speer: To meet the refugee crisis". National Post. Retrieved 2016-01-14. Christian Leuprecht is a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University, and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Sean Speer is a senior fellow at Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
  6. ↑ Christian Leuprecht (2015-11-25). "Pointing fingers won't prevent intelligence failures". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-01-14. Christian Leuprecht is a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University, and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
  7. ↑ Christian Leuprecht (2015-11-20). "Complacent Canada could face same troubles as France". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  8. ↑ Christian Leuprecht (2015-03-16). "Done right, C-51 can balance freedom and security". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-01-14. Christian Leuprecht is associate dean and associate professor at the Royal Military College of Canada, affiliated with Queen’s University.
  9. ↑ Christian Leuprecht (2015-09-09). "A refugee crisis? The case for a principled response". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 2016-01-14. Dr. Christian Leuprecht is professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University, and a senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute.
  10. ↑ Christian Leuprecht (2015-09-26). "Extremist travellers aren't about to go away". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Curriculum vita: Christian Leuprecht". Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  12. ↑ Michael MacDonald (2016-01-05). "Imprudence, not malice, led to alleged military security breach: rear admiral". CTV News. Retrieved 2016-01-14. Christian Leuprecht, a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ont., says documents labelled secret or confidential do not always contain sensitive information. "I have long argued that we classify way too much documentation as secret, confidential, classified or for Canadian eyes only," said Leuprecht, an expert on security threats who also teaches at Queen's University.
  13. ↑ Ian MacLeod (2015-11-14). "Paris massacre raises the refugee resettlement stakes". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 2016-01-14. “I think it will make people think twice” about Canada’s resettlement timetable, added Christian Leuprecht, a terrorism expert at the Royal Military College and Queen’s University, speaking Saturday from Lyon, France.
  14. ↑ Andrew Mitrovica (2015-11-30). "Can we please stop blaming terrorism on civil libertarians?". iPolitics.ca. Retrieved 2016-01-14. Last week, Leuprecht penned a column for the Globe and Mail that was rife with inaccuracies, offered a vacuous defence of Bill C-51 and made the breathtakingly absurd suggestion that “self-righteous” critics of the “surveillance state” (presumably including journalists like yours truly) have prevented the forces of order from “leveling the playing field with the bad guys” responsible for the Paris atrocities.
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