{"id":11540,"date":"2021-01-05T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=11540"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:16","slug":"sarty-leigh","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/people\/sarty-leigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarty, Leigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Leigh Sarty is a proud EURUS alumnus, graduating with an M.A. in 1985 when it was the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies. Following a Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science and the Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia University (1991), Sarty undertook postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto and at NPSIA at Carleton before joining the Department of External Affairs in 1993. He has served abroad at the Canadian Embassy in Moscow (Second Secretary, 1996-1999, and Deputy Head of Mission, 2012-2016) and in Beijing (Counsellor and Head of the Political Section, 2003-2007). At headquarters, he was Director for Russia and East Europe (2007-2012) and Director General for Europe (2016-2018) prior to his appointment as Global Affairs Canada Scholar in Residence in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As GAC Scholar in Residence, Sarty has engaged in both policy work and independent research focused on Russia, China and the evolution of the rules-based international order. His article \u201cThe Fragile Authoritarians: China, Russia and Canadian Foreign Policy\u201d was published on-line by <em>International Journal<\/em> in December 2020; a related piece titled \u201cUs and Them: East-West Relations Reconsidered\u201d is currently under review. Soon after his appointment as Scholar in Residence, Sarty was named a Senior Fellow at NPSIA, where he has taught a seminar on \u201cChina and Russia in Contemporary World Politics\u201d since Fall 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11541,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Leigh","cu_people_last_name":"Sarty","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-11540","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Professor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. (Columbia University) 1991","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"leigh.sarty@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/11540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/11540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11544,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/11540\/revisions\/11544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=11540"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=11540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}