Thomas Juneau

Thomas Juneau is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, specializing in Middle Eastern security and intelligence policy. His research examines Iranian/Yemeni geopolitics, Canadian defence strategy, and intelligence-policy interfaces.

He has authored significant works including Squandered Opportunity: Neoclassical realism and Iranian foreign policy (Stanford, 2015) and Le Yémen en guerre (2021), while co-editing policy-focused volumes like Canadian Defence Policy in Theory and Practice (2019) and Top Secret Canada (2021).

With publications in leading journals including International Affairs and Survival, he bridges academic analysis with practical expertise from his tenure (2003-2014) as Middle East policy analyst at Canada's Department of National Defence. He maintains research affiliations as Non-Resident Fellow at Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies.