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Blended Development Finance and the New Industrial Policy |
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The Role of Litigation on Norm Transformation |
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Gender-Responsive Due Diligence for Business Actors |
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Reorienting the Nation: Perspectives from Soviet Central Asia in the 1920 |
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Democracy from and at the Margins |
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Imperial and Transnational Developmentalisms |
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The EU’s Sponsorship of Palestinian Authoritarianism |
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Difference, Inequality and Intimacy in Tourism |
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Ten Years after the Financial Crisis, What Have We Learnt? |
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Research Handbook on Global Health Law |
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Governing Capital, Labor and Nature in a Changing World |
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Collective Non-State Entities in International Law |
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCEBlended Development Finance and the New Industrial PolicyNancy Birdsall, Andrew Powell and other participants share ideas and specific work discussed during this conference jointly hosted by the Centre for Finance and Development, the Center for Global Development and the CDC Group on 8–9 November 2018. More info and access to cited conference papers ❯ |
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Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Action
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PhD THESISThe Role of Litigation on Norm Transformation: Human Rights and Environmental ProtectionGiven the rising significance of courts in global politics, and the mounting number of environmental cases before human rights courts, Defne Gonenc analyses how litigation contributes to norm transformation in human rights approaches to environmental protection. Interview ❯ |
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RESEARCH BRIEFGender-Responsive Due Diligence for Business Actors: Human Rights-Based ApproachesThis study conducted at the Geneva Academy by Joanna Bourke Martignoni and Elizabeth Umlas aims to map the contours of business due diligence responsibilities and the way in which these articulate with international human rights standards on gender equality and non-discrimination. Access ❯ |
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PhD ThesisReorienting the Nation: Perspectives from Soviet Central Asia in the 1920s
Central Asians used the nation as a label in their negotiations with representatives of Soviet power in the 1920s. So argues Vsevolod Kritskiy, who links this Central Asian history with the global spread of the nation-state form in the colonial world in the interwar period. Interview ❯ |
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Edited book chapter
Senegal: A New West African Leader in a Globalized World?Dêlidji Eric Degila, Research Associate at the CCDP, and Charles Amegan (in Diplomatic Strategies of Nations in the Global South: The Search for Leadership, Palgrave, 2017) explain why and how, since independence in 1960, Senegal has been playing a major role in the regional scene and has emerged as one of the main builders of “state PanAfricanism”. Access ❯ |
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Democracy and Civil Society
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LECTURE
Democracy from and at the MarginsDuring his visit to the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Professor Adelman, author of Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman, gave a talk about his deep interest in narratives and explanations of processes that transcend familiar national or local boundaries. More info ❯
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COLLOQUIUM
Is the Transition Over?
“Transition” has become a convenient trope or “buzzword” expressing both uncertainty and hope. On 6–7 December, a joint colloquium, coorganised with the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and placed under the scientific responsibility of Andre Liebich, explored the multiple shades of this concept. More info ❯ |
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Development Policies and Practices
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTERImperial and Transnational Developmentalisms: Middle Eastern Interplays, 1880s–1960s In his contribution to The Development Century: A Global History (CUP), Cyrus Schayegh goes beyond the dominant view that the world of development is composed of colonies/postcolonial countries and imperial/postimperial metropoles to analyse the interplays of developmentalisms in the region in all their complexity and subtlety. Read more ❯ |
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Accra’s Decongestion Policy: Urban Clearance or Bulldozing Approach?
In his coauthored contribution to International Development Policy (no. 10, 2018) – a journal published by the Graduate Institute and headed by Ugo Panizza – George Owusu (University of Ghana) argues that decongestion may temporarily address the challenges of rapid urbanisation, but with damaging consequences in the long run. Interview ❯ |
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Conflict, Dispute Settlement and Peacebuilding
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ArticleThe Limits of Securitized Peace: The EU’s Sponsorship of Palestinian AuthoritarianismCCDP research associate Alaa Tartir argues (in Middle East Critique, November 2018) that, far from being a neutral process grounded within the building of capacities, Security Sector Reform (SSR) has strengthened the the foundations of Palestinian authoritarianism. Access ❯ |
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Culture, Identity and Religion
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PAPERApproaching Difference, Inequality, and Intimacy in Tourism: A View from CubaBased on ethnography of touristic encounters in Cuba, the article by Valerio Simoni (in Journal of Anthropological Research) reflects on competing approaches to difference, inequality, and intimacy in tourism and in anthropology. Interview ❯ |
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CHAPITRE D’OUVRAGE COLLECTIFLook, it’s Trying to Think: Le néo-orientalisme et l’archéologie de la soumissionUne contribution de Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou dans Orientalismes/Occidentalismes: À propos de l’œuvre d’Edward Said (Hermann, 2018). Info de l’éditeur ❯ |
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Article“Shouldn't You Be Teaching Me?” State Mimicry in the CongoThis article by GGC and CCDP affiliate Stéphanie Perazzone (in International Political Sociology, oly023) investigates the transformational dynamics of routinized micro-interactions between street-level bureaucrats and ordinary citizens in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, and Goma. Access ❯ |
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Trade and Economic Integration
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PAPERTen Years after the Financial Crisis, What Have We Learnt?This paper by Cédric Tille, presented during the Bern Alumni Chapter’s 14th annual Alumni Reunion, held on 3 December, presents several insights from the crisis learnt by academics and policymakers. Read more ❯ |
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EDITED BOOKResearch Handbook on Global Health LawThe effect of globalisation on health has attracted the attention of scholars and policymakers across multiple disciplines. But it is the first time that a research handbook (Edward Elgar) presents a comprehensive coverage of contemporary issues in global health law and governance. Interview with Gian Luca Burci ❯ coeditor of the handbook with Brigit Toebes. |
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTBMJ Special Supplement: Global Health DisruptorsThis supplement is part of a series commissioned by The BMJ based on ideas discussed with members of the Global Health Centre. It look back at global health disruptors of the past two decades and looks forward at what will shape global health in the future. Access ❯ |
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BrochureTen Years of Shaping Global Health: Milestones of the Global Health Centre 2008–2018On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the Global Health Centre describes its activities in research, convening policy debates and executive education in the past ten years. Access ❯ |
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Environment and Natural Resources
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTERGoverning Capital, Labor and Nature in a Changing WorldGopalan Balachandran and Grégoire Mallard have coordinated this chapter of the three-volume report on Rethinking Society for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which explores the nature and meanings of “global governance”, and its unfolding tensions. More information from the authors ❯ |
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ARTICLE
Interspecies Relations and Agrarian Worlds
Shaila Seshia Galvin (in Annual Review of Anthropology, October 2018) explores how contemporary scholarship renews anthropological attention to questions of domestication, relatedness, agency, and personhood and how it charts new ground by engaging theories of biopolitics, biocapital, biosemiotics, and plant ontologies. Access ❯ |
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PAPERAdvancing the International Regulation of Plastic Pollution beyond the UN Environment Assembly Resolution on Marine Litter and MicroplasticsTogether with Giulia Carlini, an alumna of the Institute's LLM programme, Konstantin Kleine, PhD Candidate in International Law, wrote (in RECIEL, Nov. 2018) about plastic pollution and the work of the UN Environment Assembly. Access ❯ |
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PHD THESIS
Collective Non-State Entities in International LawAccording to the mainstream international law doctrine, collective non-state entities are essentially excluded from the regulatory reach of binding international law. Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg explores adaptations of international law to a globalised environment with respect to those entities, and finds a discrepancy between doctrine and practice. Interview ❯ |
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Vilfredo Pareto Research SeminarAn event of the International Economics Department with Kalina Manova, University College, London. |
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15 January 2019 |
H2020 MSCA-ITN-2019 |
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16 January 2019 |
SNIS 2019 Call |
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31 January 2019 |
SNSF Scientific Image Competition |
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1 February 2019 |
SNSF Eccellenza |
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1 February 2019 |
SNSF Posdoc.Mobillity |
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11 January–4 February 2019 |
Call for Papers SSES 2019 Congress on Sustainable Development |
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19 February 2019 |
NORFACE Democratic Governance in a Turbulent Age |
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Graduate Institute’s Seed Money Grants
Two projects have each received CHF 7476 at the November 2018 session of this programme: - Innovation, Management Practices, and Firm Performance, led by Julia Casal Grossi,
- Estimating Powerful States’ Influence on Networks of International Institutions, led by James Hollway.
More info on seed money grants ❯ |
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Graduate Institute’s Publishing GrantsEkaterina Cupelin and Christine Pichel have each been awarded a grant from the Institute to publish their PhD thesis. More info on publishing grants ❯ |
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December 2018–December 2019 |
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Coming from the University of Cambridge, Victoria Boydell is hosted at GHC and works with Vihn Kim Nguyen. |
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December 2018–April 2019 |
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Coming from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Lia De Mattos Rocha is hosted at ANSO and works with Graziella Moraes Silva on “Militarization and Democracy in a Transnational Perspective”.
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January–December 2019 |
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Coming from Peking University, Jingjing Su will be hosted at GHC and work with Ilona Kickbusch on “The Transition from ‘International’ to ‘Global’ Health: A History of Interactions between China and the World Health Organization”. |
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7 January–30 April 2019 |
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Coming from The Open University, Tendayi Bloom will be hosted at GMC and will work with Vincent Chetail on “Noncitizenship and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration”. |
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15 January–30 December 2019 |
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Coming from CERAH, Sara Davis will be hosted at GHC and will work with Vihn Kim Nguyen on “The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health”.
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4 February–4 August 2019 |
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Coming from Kadir Has University, Turkey, Ayse Belma Ozturkkal will be hosted at CFD and will work with Ugo Panizza on “Political Economy of Bank Lending and Deposits in an Emerging Market”. |
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