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2024 Cold War Speaker Series: Canada and NATO during the Cold War

Name: 2024 Cold War Speaker Series: Canada and NATO during the Cold War
Start: 2024-11-14T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-11-14T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Virtual

November 14 @ 7:00 pm. – 8:30 pm.

We invite you to join us this fall for the Diefenbunker’s Cold War Speaker Series! In this series of free events, hear from experts on a variety of topics to bring you new perspectives on Cold War themes and events.

Event 3

Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. ET
Location: Virtual
Cost: Free

Topic: Canada and NATO during the Cold War
Speaker: Dr. Susan Colbourn

Details:
– Hosted virtually on Zoom. Advance registration is required to receive the Zoom link.
– Includes a presentation followed by a Q&A.
– Session will be recorded for educational purposes and made available after the event.

This event is made possible through the support of CSS Building Inc.

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Overview

Canada and NATO: Past, Present, and Future
This talk will consider Canada’s role in the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the evolution of Ottawa’s relationship with the alliance throughout the Cold War, and NATO’s role in Canadian foreign policy today.

This event is in recognition of the 75th anniversary of NATO, established on April 4, 1949.

About the speaker

Dr. Susan Colbourn is Associate Director of the Program in American Grand Strategy and Associate Research Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. A historian of international relations since 1945, she has written widely about transatlantic relations, nuclear weapons, and the past and present of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). She is the author of Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO (Cornell University Press, 2022).