Canada Talks Series: Canada, the Middle East, and a Multipolar World with Dr. Jeremy Wildeman

Friday, March 8, 2024 from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm

• In-person event
• 1216, Dunton Tower, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

• Contact
• Donna malone, donna.malone@carleton.ca, 613-520-2366

Canada is at a crossroads in international affairs, as the world returns to a state of multipolarity, following a brief period of global American hegemony. In that time, the United States was able to dominate the geopolitically sensitive and energy-rich Middle East: culturally, politically, and militarily. In this lecture, we will look at the role the Middle East is playing in this new global system and what this means for Canada. This is done bearing in mind the very close ties Canada has with the United States and Israel, and the deepening ties Canada has at a people-to-people level with rapidly growing Arab and Muslim communities in Canada, whose views are distinctly not represented in contemporary Canadian foreign policy circles.