{"id":201,"date":"2017-01-30T22:30:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T03:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eureast\/?post_type=cu-events&#038;p=201"},"modified":"2017-01-30T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T03:30:54","slug":"eu-russia-belarus-after-the-russian-presidential-election-where-now","status":"publish","type":"cu-events","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eureast\/cu-events\/eu-russia-belarus-after-the-russian-presidential-election-where-now\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-Russia-Belarus after the Russian Presidential Election: Where Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roundtable Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Speakers and Topics:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Putin Presidency and Russia\u2019s Relations with the EU and the West <\/em>(25 minutes) by\u00a0<strong>Sergei Plekhanov<\/strong>, York University<\/p>\n<p><em>Recent Developments in Belarus and the Belarus-EU-Russian Relationship <\/em>(25 minutes) by\u00a0<strong>David Marples<\/strong>, University of Alberta.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prospects for the EU\u2019s Relations with Belarus and Russia <\/em>(15 minutes) by\u00a0<strong>Joan DeBardeleben<\/strong>, Carleton University<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Discussion: <\/em><\/strong>40 minutes<\/p>\n<p>This roundtable discussion focused on recent developments in the EU\u2019s relations with the Russian Federation and with Belarus in the wake of the most recent Russian presidential election.\u00a0 While President Putin proposes to continue efforts to develop closer ties with the European Union, he also has put forth the notion of a Eurasian Union, of which Belarus would be a key member. At the same time efforts to negotiate a new broad-ranging partnership agreement between the EU and Russia have stalled, while the EU\u2019s efforts to encourage liberalization in Belarus have been fraught with difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>This event brought together experts on the EU, Russia, and Belarus to discuss the implications of the most recent Russian elections for relations between the EU and these important actors, and to consider what kinds of approaches the EU might take to improve relations with both countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sergei Plekhanov,<\/strong> a leading expert on Russian foreign policy, is a professor at York University in Toronto and Coordinator of the Post-Communist Studies Program at York Centre for International and Security Studies. <strong>David Marples<\/strong> is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Alberta and a leading expert on Belarusian politics.\u00a0 <strong>Joan DeBardeleben<\/strong> is Chancellor\u2019s Professor at Carleton University and a holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in the EU\u2019s Eastern Neighbourhood Relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"daevent-type":[24],"event-audience":[],"event-featured":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EU-Russia-Belarus after the Russian Presidential Election: Where Now? 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