Nicole is the 2025 Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security Program (MINDS) - NATO Defence College (NDC) Fellow. She will hold the research fellowship at the College starting February 2025 as part of the NDC Research Division in Rome, Italy.
Education
Ph.D. London School of Economics, Government
MSc. London School of Economics, Comparative Government
BA.(hons) University of Toronto, Trinity College, Political Science
Areas of Specialization
- Foreign and Security Policy
- Russian Foreign Policy
- International Relations of Eurasia
- Post Soviet Central Asia
- Securitization
- Regional Security Organizations
- Changing Nature of Warfare
- Hybrid Challenges and Disinformation
- Canadian Foreign and Security Policy
Research
Nicole Jackson is Associate Professor of International Studies at 丁香园AV. Previously, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Political and International Studies at The University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests lie at the intersection of foreign policy, domestic politics, and security studies. Her regional focus is the former Soviet space, primarily Russia. She has been conducting research in Russia and in post-Soviet Central Asia since 1994.
For over 20 years, 闯补肠办蝉辞苍鈥檚 research has primarily addressed the evolution of Russian foreign policy, including the role of ideas and elite perceptions and the processes and results of foreign and security policy making. Most recently, she has written on Canadian and Western government perceptions and policy responses to Russia. Her aim is to contribute to academic debates and contextualized empirical studies, as well as to the practical consideration of existing and alternative policy options for a more secure and peaceful world.
闯补肠办蝉辞苍鈥檚 research includes three major lines of inquiry. These address, in various ways, state securitization and the relationship between foreign policy ideas and perceptions, policy output and actions (diplomatic and military). First, she has a longstanding interest in analysing Russia鈥檚 state discourse and its military and hybrid (non-military) actions in civil and separatist wars in the former Soviet space. Second, she contributes to academic debates on securitization by examining states and organizations鈥� rhetorical and practical securitization of various challenges. This work has focused mostly on Russian and other actors in the post-Soviet Central Asian region and contributes to the empirical and theoretical assessment of post-Soviet Central Asian regional security challenges. Third, Jackson adds to intellectual debates about the 鈥榗hanging nature of warfare鈥� through research on Canadian and NATO rhetoric and policies towards Russia (and other) hybrid challenges, including disinformation.
You can read a detailed interview with Dr. Jackson were she touches on her research background here.
Current Research
Her research as the 2025 MINDS/NDC Fellow in Rome aims to outline and critique NATO鈥檚 approaches and options to strengthen joint responses and mitigate nuclear and other risks stemming from state actors鈥� manipulated information. She will focus on cooperation with NATO partners (including Ukraine and Canada), international and multilateral organizations (G7, UN, OEDC, EU) and external (civil society, academia, industry) actors. The project builds upon her recent participation in in a .
Publications
Single Authored Manuscript
, (London and New York: Routledge, 2003).
Refereed Articles
Nicole J Jackson 鈥溾��,&苍产蝉辫;Security and Defence Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 2, 2024 doi: 10.35467/sdq/190799
Nicole Jackson, , Defence Strategic Communications, vol.13, January 2024, pp.95-130.
International Journal, vol.76, no. 2, February 2022, pp.544-563.
, The Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, vol.19, no.4, 2019, pp.104-125.
鈥溾��, International Journal, vo.73, no. 2, June 2018.
鈥溾�� , Europe-Asia Studies, January 2014.
&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾��, Contemporary Politics, 16:1, 2010.
&苍产蝉辫;鈥淩egional Security Cooperation in Central Asia: The Cases of Narcotic Trafficking and 鈥淭errorism鈥�, Osteuropa, Fall 2007.
鈥� Security Dialogue, 37 (3), September 2006.
鈥�, Central Asian Survey, 24 (1), March 2005, pp39-52.
Referred Book Chapters
鈥淐anada鈥檚 Response to Foreign Disinformation in the Context of the Russia-Ukraine War: Collective Efforts and Performance鈥� in Eds. Shelly Ghai Bajaj and Bessma Momani, Misinformation, Disinformation and Democracy in the Digital Age: A Canadian Perspective, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2024.
Nicole Jackson, 鈥淒eterrence and Strategic Disinformation鈥� in Eds. Eric Ouellet, Madeline D鈥橝gata and Keith Stewart, Deterrence in the 21st Century: Statecraft in the Information Age, University of Calgary Press, January 2024.
鈥溾�� in ed Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Handbook of Space Security; Policies, Applications and Programs, Springer, 2020, pp385-389.
鈥溾��, in Roger Kanet, Handbook of Russian Security, Routledge, 2019.
鈥淪ecurity鈥�, in Peter Burnell, Vicky Randall, and Lisa Rakner, eds. Politics in the Developing World, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2013.
鈥淩ussia and Autocracy Promotion鈥� in Peter Burnell and Oliver Schlumberger, , Routledge, 2011.
"Security and Development Studies鈥�, in Peter Burnell and Vicky Randall, eds. Politics in the Developing World,2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2008.
鈥淗uman Trafficking and Labour Migration in Central Asia:鈥�, in Melissa Curley and Sui-lun Wong, ed., Routledge, 2008.
鈥淪ecurity Governance in Central Asia鈥�, Central Asia as a Mosaic of Power, Berlin, Wissenschafts Verlag 2008.
Other Publications
鈥溾��, Simons Papers in Security and Development, Simons paper, no. 64, September 2018.
鈥� Knowledge Synthesis Grant Report, SSHRC Imagining Canada鈥檚 Future Initiative, 2018. (23,254 words)
鈥溾��, Simons Papers in Security and Development, no.61, December 2017. 19,696 words.
鈥� Commentary, Canadian International Council, June 16, 2014
International Institutions and the Securitisation of Human and Narcotic Trafficking, IDSS Singapore, January 2005.
The Strategies and Tactics of International Institutions in Countering Clandestine Transnational Activities in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Why a Human Security Approach is Needed, Canadian Consortium on Human Security, July 2004.
Canada鈥檚 Policy Towards the Trafficking of Narcotics, Arms and People in Central Asia, Canadian Consortium on Human Security, July 2004.
Russia-NATO Relations, International Security Research Outreach Program (ISROP), Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, 2002.
Russia鈥檚 Policies and Military Actions towards Tajikistan: Are there Lessons and Warnings for American Involvement in Afghanistan? Norman Paterson School of International Affairs Occasional Papers, no. 27, 2002
Recent Media Contributions
Nicole Jackson, , The Conversation, 21 July 2024
鈥�鈥�, Policy Options, June 6, 2022. (re-printed in The Tyee June 8, 2022)
, The Conversation, May 31, 2022. (re-printed in Asia Times, June 1, 2022)
鈥� The Conversation, March 16, 2022; (reprinted The National Post, March 17, 2022)
鈥溾��, Globe and Mail, March 3, 2022.
Recent Recorded Public Talks on Ukraine in 2022
闯补肠办蝉辞苍鈥檚 , Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence, Senate of Canada, Jun2 20th, 2022.
Co-Organizer and Presenter 丁香园AV Public Square and SIS 13 April 2022.
鈥淩amifications of Russia-Ukraine War on the Post Soviet Region and Russia鈥檚 Role鈥�, (with Alex Moens and Luca Rati) April 25, 2022 丁香园AV Burnaby.
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.
Previous Years
- IS200 Historical Perspectives in Diplomacy, Security and International Law
- IS 304/Pol 349/IS808 Russian Foreign Policy
- IS 409 Global Security Governance
- IS409 Security Studies
- IS 409 Regional Security Organizations
- IS 322/IS909 Post Soviet Central Asia
- IS 412 Central Asia Security and Development
Supervision
Jackson has been supervising undergraduate honours students and graduate students from around the world since 2003. She welcomes students working on international and security issues. She is especially keen to engage with student interested in Russia and Eurasian foreign and security policy, and Canadian foreign policy towards the region. In Canada, her students have gone on to further graduate work and to jobs at Global Affairs, DND, CSIS, NATO, the UN, Canada鈥檚 Border Services amongst other government and non-governmental agencies.
Notice: She will be on sabbatical from September 2024-August 2025.