Professor Christian Leuprecht

Hon. B.A., D.É.A., M.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Queen's)

Dr. Christian Leuprecht is a Distinguished Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Military Journal. Recent books include Military Operations in Response to Domestic Operations and Global Pandemics: Implications for Civil-Military Relations (Springer, 2025), Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023), Security. Cooperation. Governance. The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox (University of Michigan Press, 2023), Patterns in Border Security: Regional Comparisons (Routledge, 2023), Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures (University of Calgary Press, 2022), and Intelligence as Democratic Statecraft (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is a senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute, director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University and is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security at Charles Sturt University. A former Bicentennial Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University (2009-2010), Matthew Flinders Fellow at Flinders University of South Australia (2017-2018), Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College (2019), Fulbright Research Chair in Canada–US Relations at John Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (2020), and at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies (2025) in Brussels, he is an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada, recipient of the Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research at the Royal Military College of Canada and past president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution. He holds Ontario provincial appointments as chair of the Ontario Research Fund Advisory Board and to the Kingston Police Services Board; as well as to the scientific advisory board of the World Customs Organization, the UK’s Polar Institute and the OneSocietyNetwork. He is series editor of the long-standing Canada: State of the Federation series, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press and section co-editor of Oxford University Press Intersections: Borders.

Expertise

Arctic Security, Borders, Canada-US relations: Continental Security and NORAD, Cyber Security, Defence, Federalism, Financial and Economic Crime, Intelligence and National Security, NATO and Transatlantic Relations, Policing and Police Governance, Political Demography, Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism, Transnational Organized Crime.

Recent Books

Military Operations in Response to Domestic Emergencies and Global Pandemics

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Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada

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Intelligence as Democratic Statecraft

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Patterns in Border Security

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Security. Cooperation. Governance.

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Lessons from the Enhanced Forward Presence, 2017-2020

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Recent Articles

Detecting, disrupting and deterring sexual exploitation of trafficked persons: leveraging beneficial ownership registries to reduce criminogenic information asymmetry and raise public expectations

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The Europe–Canada Schicksalsgemeinschaft: Transatlantic interdependency in the new North Atlantic triangle

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Linguistic Models of Abusive Language

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Linguistic Models of Abusive Language

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New Opportunities in Common Security and Defence Policy: Joining PESCO

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Coalition Strategic Cyber Campaigns: Functional Engagement as Cyber Doctrine for Middle Power Statecraft

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Link Analysis of Conflict through Signed Spectral Embedding: The Russo-Ukrainian War

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The Demographic Security Dilemma

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Determinants of Cross-Border Cooperation

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Virtual Money Laundering: Policy Implications of the Proliferation in the Illicit Use of Cryptocurrency

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Tracking Transnational Terrorist Resourcing Nodes And Networks

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Recent Chapters

Terror on the Blockchain: The Emergent Crypto-Crime-Terror Nexus

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Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of Political Violence in North and West Africa

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Networks and Spatial Patterns of Extremist Organizations in North and West Africa

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Exit, Voice, or Loyalty? Functional Engagement as Cyber Strategy for Middle Power Statecraft

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The Canadian Armed Forces and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief: Defining a Role

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Networks and Spatial Patterns of Extremist Organizations in North and West Africa

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The Crime-Crypto Nexus: Nuancing Risk Across Crypto-Crime Transactions

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Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of Political Violence in North and West Africa

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The United States–Canada Security Community: a Case Study in Mature Border Management

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Terror on the Blockchain: The Emergent Crime-Crypto-Terror Nexus

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The Crime-Crypto Nexus: Nuancing Risk Across Crypto-Crime Transactions

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Podcasts and Webinars

The Right Mind #34 C. Leuprecht on Crisis of Transatlantic Relations

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Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Lessons for a Proactive and Resilient Supply Chain Future

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Assessing the Designation of Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)

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Cullen Commission Recommendations to Strengthen the BC Government's Anti-Corruption Capabilities

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The RFA Conundrum: Continued Canadian Armed Forces Domestic Commitments

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Left Out in the Cold? Reviving US-Canada Relations

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Canada and Germany: From Free-Riding Laggards to Re-engaged Teammates?

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Listen Now: New Fashioned Laundry: Cryptocurrency and the proceeds of crime

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$100 Billion a year?!? Financial Crime in Canada: Christian Leuprecht and Alexander Dalziel for Inside Policy Talks

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Dirty Money, Financial Crime in Canada: Aaron Wudrick and Christian Leuprecht for Inside Policy Talks

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National Security Expert Christian Leuprecht | Canadian Foreign Intelligence Service

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The China Threat: Could the World Become More Peaceful or More Dangerous?

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Featured Recent Books Include

Military Operations in Response to Domestic Emergencies and Global Pandemics

Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada

Winner of Outstanding Paper from the Emerald Awards Literati 2024

Virtual money laundering: policy implications of the proliferation in the illicit use of cryptocurrency

Purpose: This study aims to explain how cryptocurrency is leveraged for illicit purposes across the global financial system. Specifically, it establishes how cryptocurrency has been changing the nature of transnational and domestic money laundering (ML). It then assesses the effectiveness of conventional anti-money laundering (AML) policy and legislation against the proliferation of crypto laundering, using Canada as a critical case study.

Listen Now: New Fashioned Laundry: Cryptocurrency and the proceeds of crime

"Does Cryptocurrency change how we should understand money laundering? Dr. Christian Leuprecht, Caitlyn Jenkins and Rhianna Hamilton join us to discuss their recent paper “Virtual money laundering: policy implications of the proliferation in the illicit use of cryptocurrency" Vanessa Henri answers the question can lawyers say whatever they want?"

Watch Now: The Impact of Financial Crimes in Canada

Watch Now: $100 Billion a year?!? Financial Crime in Canada: Christian Leuprecht and Alexander Dalziel for Inside Policy Talks

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Podcasts and Webinars

Featured Recent Books Include

Military Operations in Response to Domestic Emergencies and Global Pandemics

Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada

Winner of Outstanding Paper from the Emerald Awards Literati 2024

Virtual money laundering: policy implications of the proliferation in the illicit use of cryptocurrency

Listen Now: New Fashioned Laundry: Cryptocurrency and the proceeds of crime

Watch Now: The Impact of Financial Crimes in Canada

Watch Now: $100 Billion a year?!? Financial Crime in Canada: Christian Leuprecht and Alexander Dalziel for Inside Policy Talks