  {"id":6859,"date":"2015-09-18T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?p=6859"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:01","slug":"canadian-russian-relations-and-harpers-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/2015\/canadian-russian-relations-and-harpers-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian \u2013 Russian Relations and Harper\u2019s Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Canadian \u2013 Russian Relations and Harper\u2019s Foreign Policy\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Please join us for <strong>a special guest lecture<\/strong> given by <strong>Canadian Ambassador Chris Westdal <\/strong>on<strong><em> Canadian \u2013 Russian Relations and Harper\u2019s Foreign Policy<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Drawing on decades of diplomatic experience, Ambassador Westdal will share his insights into the state of Canadian-Russian relations, with an eye to the greater context and nature of Canadian foreign policy under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will take place <strong>Thursday September 24, 2015 from 3:00-5:00pm in the MacOdrum Library (ML), Room 482, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Campus.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker biography: Chris Westdal<\/strong> was Canadian Ambassador to Russia 2003-06; the UN in Geneva and the Conference on Disarmament 1999-2003; Ukraine 1996-98; South Africa 1991-93; and Bangladesh and Burma 1982-85. He earlier worked for CIDA in Tanzania, India and Nepal. In Ottawa, he worked at CIDA, DFAIT and the PCO. He studied political science at St John&#8217;s College (BA 1970) and public administration at the University of Manitoba (MBA 1970). Now a consultant and occasional commentator on international affairs, he has served on corporate boards with interests in Russia and Ukraine and is a director of Silver Bear Resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is co-sponsored by the <em>Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies<\/em> (EURUS) and the <em>Centre for Governance and Public Management <\/em>(CGPM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/September24_Canadian_RussianRelations.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/September24_Canadian_RussianRelations-240x320.jpg\" alt=\"September24_Canadian_RussianRelations\" class=\"wp-image-6858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/September24_Canadian_RussianRelations-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/September24_Canadian_RussianRelations-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/September24_Canadian_RussianRelations-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/September24_Canadian_RussianRelations-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/September24_Canadian_RussianRelations-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/September24_Canadian_RussianRelations.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For directions: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/campus\/map\/\">http:\/\/carleton.ca\/campus\/map\/<\/a><br>\n<\/strong>Event poster available for download here:<br>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for a special guest lecture given by Canadian Ambassador Chris Westdal on Canadian \u2013 Russian Relations and Harper\u2019s Foreign Policy.&nbsp; Drawing on decades of diplomatic experience, Ambassador Westdal will share his insights into the state of Canadian-Russian relations, with an eye to the greater context and nature of Canadian foreign policy under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6883,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions\/6883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}