Anessa L. Kimball

Anessa L. Kimball is an associate professor of political science at Université Laval. Professor Kimball is Director of the Centre for international security at the École supérieure d’études internationales at Université Laval as well as co-director, Security, of the Canadian Defense and Security Network (2019-2026). Kimball employs quantitative methods to study international defense and security cooperation as well as the design of defense and security agreements using rational institutionalist and delegation approaches. Her research on international alliances has appeared in the Journal of Peace Research. Her recent article in International Journal (2017) provides an analysis of Canada-US non-treaty defense and security cooperation based on an original dataset of more than 80 bilateral agreements from 1950. In 2017, Kimball contributed a chapter legal/institutional features of the NORAD agreement and its adaptation for strategic defense in the 2018 edited volume North American defense in the 21st century by Hughes, Leuprecht & Sokolsky (eds.) with Springer-Verlag Press. Her most recent publication (2019) examines NATO at 70yrs and appears on the University of Calgary, School of Public Policy Research Paper series.

Kimball received B.A. (magna cum laude) with Honors in International Relations with a minor in North Atlantic Security Studies from Kent State University, OH (USA) in 2000. She completed graduate studies at Binghamton University, SUNY with specializations in world politics and comparative politics (MA, 2004 & PhD 2006).