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The West and Russia

Building a New Strategic Engagement

29 - 30 November 2007
Paris

In cooperation with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Brussels, this conference brought together some 70 participants, including senior policy chiefs from across Europe , business and banking leaders, politicians and analysts. The meeting aimed to foster a more harmonised understanding of Russia's internal dynamics and to see how they affect Russia's longer term interests and international policy. The discussions exposed wide-ranging views and reflected a central dilemma of whether values or interests should dictate relations between Europe and Russia. However, there was full agreement that Europe must act together to develop a strategy towards Russia for effective engagement to occur.

Agenda

Vanessa Redgrave, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2012, speaking at the University of Oxford, February 2012.
Lord Weidenfeld and Sir Ronald Grierson, co-founders of the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme, April 2010
Jonathan Powell, former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, addresses the inaugural Turkey Workshop, London, September 2011
CEDAR Chair Ahmed Larouz, addressing the Social Innovation and Social Action Conference, Lambeth Palace, November 2011
Leading activists from pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, speaking at a Weidenfeld Debate, February 2012
HE Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Foreign Minister, addresses an invited audience at an ISD policy breakfast, October 2011
Historian Saul Friedlander, Inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography at the University of Oxford, May 2012
Journalist and blogger Sunny Hundal, delivering a presentation at ISD's Social Media and Intolerance workshop, April 2012
Peter Kellner, President of YouGov and Dr David Muir, Faith in Britain, at the launch conference of the Phoenix Initiative, October 2010