Researchers from the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies are available to comment on the troop withdrawal from Iraq.

 Dr. Lasha Tchantouridzé, Centre for Defence and Security Studies, department of political studies.§

Research areas: Foreign and defence policy analysis, strategic considerations, international political economy, international security and conflict management

• Contact: 204-474-6400, or 204-230-0204 (tchantou@cc.umanitoba.ca)

Dr. James Fergusson, director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, department of political studies.

Research areas: international relations, foreign and defence policy, and strategic studies, Canadian foreign and defence policy, insurgency, strategic stability

• Contact: 204-474-6606 (ferguss@cc.umanitoba.ca)

 Dr. Paul Buteaux, Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, department of political studies.

Research Areas: NATO, European Security, Canadian Defence Policy and East-West relations

• Contact: 204-474-9172 (pebuteux@cc.umanitoba.ca)