Event Date: January 30, 2013 - 1:00 pm
Location: FSS4007, University of Ottawa, 120 University, Ottawa
Book launch and discussion.
PAUL ROBINSON & JAY DIXON, University of Ottawa.
Presented by CIPS as part of the International Development Week, organized by the Political Science Student Association.
Free. In English. Registration not required.
This event will mark the publication of Aiding Afghanistan: A History of Soviet Assistance to a Developing County (Columbia/Hurst & Co.). The book investigates the Soviet Union’s economic and technical assistance programs from the mid-1950s to the regime’s collapse in 1991. It connects these programs’ approaches to both Soviet-era development theory and more modern ideas about the role of institutions in fostering economic growth, and identifies the strengths and ultimate weaknesses of these programs, with findings that have wide implications for the future of international aid.
Paul Robinson is a professor at the Graduate School of Public and International affairs at the University of Ottawa. He served as a regular officer in the British Army Intelligence Corps from 1989 to 1994. He also worked as a media research executive in Moscow in 1995. His research focuses generally on military affairs.
Jay Dixon currently works for Industry Canada, researching the determinants of Canada’s economic growth, and lectures on macroeconomic policy in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.