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Professor Anessa Kimball

Anessa Kimbal

Full Professor

Department of Political Science

Université Laval

Anessa.Kimball@pol.ulaval.ca

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About

Anessa L. Kimball (prof/they/iel) is a professor of political science in international relations at Université Laval, Québec, Canada, where they have been on faculty for nearly two decades. Since 2019, Kimball has directed the Canadian Defence and Security Network, a federally funded partnership research network. Their research combines rational institutional design and collective action approaches with different statistical methods and machine-coded (interview and international agreement) content analysis to examine how states resolve strategic problems (distribution, commitment, uncertainty) through the design of informal defence and security arrangements alongside NATO and issues of defence burden sharing, procurement, and international cooperation. Kimball’s research has been published in academic journals as well as on both university and scholarly press. Professor Kimball has served as the co-organiser and co-host of the Annual Rencontre Université-Défense at Université Laval since 2018 and has organised multiple academic conferences and workshops over the years. Kimball’s 2023 book on NATO burden sharing offered the first solo-authored book-length contribution by a non-male identifying scholar statistically examining the subject and their current research explores international security organisations as public policy agents.

Research Interests

  • Bargaining & security/defence cooperation
  • Defence economics and public policy
  • International security and foreign affairs

Recent Publications

  • A. Kimball & C. Picard. 2025. “Trudeau’s minority governments performance on national defence electoral promises: an international politics perspective,” eds. Birch, L. et al. Assessing Justin Trudeau’s minority governments (2019-2025): Navigating through 697 promises in times of crisis, Presses UL.

  • A. Kimball & P. Ouellette. 2025. “An international politics perspective on Trudeau’s foreign policy and international trade promises,” Eds. Birch, L. et al. Assessing Justin Trudeau’s minority governments (2019-2025): Navigating through 697 promises in times of crisis, Presses ULaval.

  • Kimball, A. 2024. “,” Defence Studies, 24(4): 559-600. Open access.

  • Kimball, A. 2023. “,” Politique amĂ©ricaine, special issue, « Le Canada face aux États-Unis: InterdĂ©pendance asymĂ©trique - Politiques Ă©conomiques - GĂ©opolitique et sĂ©curitĂ© » 41(2): 62-81.

  • Kimball, A. 2023. , 247 pages, Palgrave-Macmillan, Series: Canada & International Affairs, ISBN: 9783031221576.

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