Europe, NATO, and Russia: Competitors? Partners? Does NATO have a Future? What is Russia’s Future?

Lecture | November 9 | 12-1:15 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Jeremy Kinsman, Diplomat, former Canada's ambassador in Moscow

Sponsors: Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Institute of (ISEEES), International Studies, Institute of

One of Canada's most experienced diplomats, Jeremy Kinsman was born in Montreal and educated at Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, before joining the Canadian Foreign Service in 1966. In the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, after service as Chairman of Policy Planning and later Political Director, he was named Canada's Ambassador in Moscow in 1992. He was subsequently Ambassador in Rome (1996-2000), High Commissioner in London (2000-2002), and Ambassador to the EU in Brussels (2002-2006). Earlier postings abroad included being Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York and Minister for Political Affairs in Washington. From 1985 to 1989 he was the senior federal official responsible for Cultural Affairs and Broadcasting where he was responsible for preparing the still-current Broadcasting Act, on which he continues to consult.

Today Ambassador Kinsman is a regular commentator for CBC News (cbc.ca/news), a Contributing Writer for Policy Options magazine, and is published widely elsewhere. A frequent speaker and lecturer in Europe and North America, he is at present Diplomat in Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., where he headed a project for the Community of Democracies and has recently produced a Diplomat's Handbook on Democracy Development Support (www.diplomatshandbook.org )

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