Lou Didelot is a Junior Research Fellow with the NATO Association of Canada. She is a second-year undergraduate student at McGill University majoring in Political Science, with double minors in Anthropology and Sociology. Her interests focus on international security, climate-related risks, and global governance. Having lived in several countries, she brings a comparative perspective and is fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
For most of its history, NATO’s credibility rested on assets it could command: troops, bases, weapons systems, and integrated military planning. Deterrence depended on capabilities that were clearly owned, coordinated, and deployable under alliance authority. Today, however, the foundations of collective defence increasingly lie outside NATO’s direct control. Undersea data cables, satellite networks, commercial cloud Read More…
Extreme weather is no longer a distant concern for defence planners. Across the Euro-Atlantic region, flooding has damaged military infrastructure, rising temperatures have affected personnel and equipment, and the accelerating loss of Arctic ice has begun to reshape strategic geography. As climate impacts intensify, they increasingly intersect with NATO’s core security priorities. Rather than constituting Read More…
