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2019-present Ryan Atkinson, “Cyberwarfare and Terrorism,” defence expected 2023
2013-2020 Sakhi Naimpoor, “NATO and Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan,” successfully defended July 24, 2020
2006-2013 Cameron Harrington, “Fluid Identities: Towards a Critical Security of Water” Political Science, successfully defended September 27, 2013
2015 Peter Kikkert "Grasping for the Ends of the Earth: Framing and Contesting Polar Sovereignty, 1900-1960,” defended December 16, 2015, History Department.
2015 Andrew Chater, “Explaining the Evolution of the Arctic Council,” defended August 29, 2015, Political Science Department.
2014 Trista Grant, “Soldiers First: The evolution of training for peacekeeping in the Canadian armed forces 1956-2000,” defended April 2014, History Department.
2010 “US Foreign Policy Re-examined,” defended May 2010, History Department
2009 Jeff McLaughlin, “Ignoring ‘Nosey Charlie’: the Kennedy Administration’s response to the Gaullist critique of American policy in Vietnam, 1961-1963,” defended spring 2009, History Department.
2008 Piedro Pitrani, “From Economic Sanctions to Military Intervention in the Former Yugoslavia: A Comparison of Germany and Italian Case-studies,” defended spring 2006, Political Science Department
2020 Ryan Atkinson
2015 Sakhi Naimpoor
2014 Christopher Rastrick
2013 Bojan Ratkovic
2007 Cameron Harrington
Professor Simpson has extensive experience as a graduate supervisor and mentor at the Master’s level, particularly in the Politics Department at Western University where she has spent twenty-three years. Professor Simpson has attracted the interest of graduate students, proving an excellent mentor and team player, as in the MRPs of other scholars including the following MRPs and theses:
2019-2020 Shannen Iris Stroe, “Institutionalizing Women, Peace, and Security (WPS): Why NATO Could Need More Women in Peace and Security,” expected 12/2020
2017-2018 Thayaalan, Sivakamy, “The Responsibility to Protect: An Examination of the Merits of R2P and the Challenges to its Implementation” 08/2018
2016-2017 Costa, Chantal “Examining the Merits and Demerits of Drone Use in Theatres of Conflict: A United States Case Study” 08/2017
de Oliveira, Vitor Rodrigues “State Terrorism in Latin America” 08/2017
2015-2016 Abraham, Philip “The South China Sea” 08/2016
Singh, Manpreet Abrol “North Korea’s nuclear policy” 08/2016
2014-2015 Javed, Usman “Iran’s nuclear policy” 08/2015
2014-2014 Alam, Tazrian “Arctic Security: Militarization and Nuclearization with Policy Recommendations” 08/2014
Zambito, Matthew “A Review of the International Trade and Economic Legal Regulation Governing Food Security in the South from 1994-2014” 08/2014
2012-2013 Greco, Sarah “Consistent Inconsistency around the midpoint of the engagement- disengagement spectrum: The United States of America’s foreign policy vis-à-vis the Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea” 08/2013
Sarenac, Andrea “Organized Crime in the Former Eastern European Countries” 08/2013
2011-2012 DiClimente, Nicolas “Threats to North American security and measures to ameliorate them” 08/2012
Chambers, Shakir “The rise of China in a new American century: Implications for Asia- Pacific security and America’s global position” 08/2012
2010-2011 Stuart-Ross, Amanda “Biological Terrorism” 08/2011
2009-2010 Summers, Matt “Evolutionary Terrorism: Global Jihadism, Self-Radicalization, and the Debate over the Al-Qaeda Threat” 08/2010
2008-2009 Burrows, Justin “Neorealism and Threats: The Confounding Case of International Terrorist
Networks” 12/2009
Kowalski, Adam “Liberal Peacebuilding and its Limitations: Evaluation United Nations’ Transitional Administration” 08/2009
2007-2008 Cameron, Keith “Risk, Cost and Control in NATO Burdensharing: Apportioning Atlas’ Load” 08/2008
2006-2007 Gregoire, Matthew “Terrorism and Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Twenty-first Century” 08/2007
2005-2006 Al-Shikarchy, Mariam “Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East: An Examination of Iran and Israel’s Nuclear Rationales” 08/2006
DaPonte, Andie “Missing Pieces in the Nuclear Puzzle: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and a Nuclear Weapons Convention” 08/2006
2004-2005 Harrington, Cameron “Living Rooms and Battlefields: Struggles between News Media, Public Opinion, and War” 08/2005
McLaren, Josh “The Evolution of American Nuclear Weapons Policy” 08/2005
Wettlaufer, Brian “The Evolution of the North Korean Nuclear Program and the Implications for Japan’s Defence Policy” 08/2005
*After 2002, students wrote a Master’s Research Paper (MRP) rather than defended a thesis.
2001-2002 Circone, Miguel “Confidence-Building Measures in the Middle East” 07/2002
2000-2002 McHale, Chris “Voluntary Accession by the United States and Canada to the Chemical Weapons Convention” 07/2002
1999-2000 Davidson, Elizabeth “The New European Security Framework: NATO and the OSCE Transformed?” 09/2000
Mathai, Ben “Alliance Theory, East Asia and the Japan-US Security Relationship” 09/2000
1997-1998 Dart, Kelly “Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament in South Africa and Ukraine: A Level of Analysis Approach” 09/1998
Shariff, Michael “Modelling the Adaptation of Canadian Forces Peace Support Training on the Basis of Operational Change” 09/98
1995-1996 O’Connor, Rory “Impediments to Successful UN Intervention” 09/1996
Ro, Wendy “Fears of Abandonment and Entrapment: An Inquiry into Western European Relations with the United States in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization” 05/1996
*The 30 names and titles are not included in this document.
2005-2011 Canadian Forces College (CFC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*The names and titles of officers that Professor Simpson taught in the CFC program are not included in this document nor are the titles of their MA papers. She delivered an annual 1-day seminar over 6 years in the graduate program for Canadian officers. She was also invited to deliver the plenary lecture on NATO.
