Society for International Development
Ottawa-Gatineau Chapter

The Society for International Development - Ottawa-Gatineau Chapter (SID-OG) is pleased to invite you to a presentation and discussion on:

"Small Island Developing States: Fragility in a Globalizing World Gone Off-Track"

May 6, 2009 from 7:00 until 8:45pm

Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities
314 St. Patrick St. (at Cumberland)

$5 for students, $10 for members of SID-OG, $20 for non-members
(light refreshments included). Payable at the door.

David Carment is a Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University and Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI). He serves as the principal investigator for the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy Project (CIFP). He is the recipient of a Carleton Graduate Student's teaching excellence award, SSHRC fellowships and research awards, Carleton's Research Achievement Award, and a Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award. Professor Carment has held fellowships at the Kennedy School, Harvard University and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He currently heads a team of researchers that evaluates policy effectiveness in failed and fragile states (see Country Indicators for Foreign Policy).

Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy is Assistant Professor and Acting Associate Director of the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Dr. Samy holds a PhD in Economics, and his fields of specialization are international trade, international finance and economic development. Some of his recent and ongoing research interests include trade and labor standards, debt relief, political economy of foreign direct investment, state fragility and its implications for aid allocation and aid effectiveness, and small island developing states. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Applied Economics, the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, Foreign Policy Analysis, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and the Journal of Economic Integration.

Please RSVP to no later than May 5th, 2009, should you wish to attend.