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THREE NEW PUBLICATIONS ON TERRORISM AND VIOLENCE
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Portrait
Anna Leander on propaganda videos of terrorist groups
Prof. Leander has recently published on the politics of DAESH recruitment videos. Newly arrived at the Institute, she is interested in the commercialisation of military/security matters. |
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We need to bring history back into the study of terrorism
For Prof. Mohamedou, rigorous historical analysis is crucial to understanding a phenomenon that, as shown in his recent book on ISIS, is more social than religious. |
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MONOGRAPHIE
Violence et religion en Afrique
Le chassé-croisé de la violence et de la religion doit être analysé au cas par cas, à l’échelle des terroirs historiques, explique Jean-François Bayart dans son nouveau livre (Karthala). |
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Trade and Economic Integration
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LUNCH BRIEFING
“Bitcoin, blockchain and all that jazz”
Honorary Professor and former Director of the Institute Alexandre Swoboda assesses the potential for virtual currencies to serve as money in a significant sense.
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ARTICLE
Mobility as a political act
This article by Alessandro Monsutti (in Ethnic and Racial Studies) follows Thomas Faist's invitation to analyse the prominence that migration issues have acquired in European and North American political discourses and public perceptions.
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Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Action
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EDITED BOOK
For a Humanist Dialogue between Chinese and Western Thoughts on World Order
The European and Chinese traditions of thought on world order are generally considered to be widely different. Is there a way to organise a much-needed humanist dialogue between them? This question is at the core of a book coedited by Janne Nijman and Anthony Carty.
Interview ❯ |
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BRIEFING
No One Will Be Left Behind
In this Academy Briefing (no. 11, January 2018), Christophe Golay, Research Fellow and Strategic Adviser on economic, social and cultural rights at the Geneva Academy, focuses on the role of UN Human Rights mechanisms in monitoring the ESCR-related SDGs.
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PhD THESIS
Knowledge Practices in the Monitoring of UN Sanctions
Political knowledge is commonly assumed to be the product of a coherent political strategy. Aurel Niederberger finds it to be rather the product of a clash of strategies at different social and political levels.
Interview ❯ |
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ARTICLE
The Expanding Overlap of Imperial, International and Transnational Political Activities, 1920s-1930s: A Belgian Case Study
Cyrus Schayegh explores (in International Politics, October 2017) how Belgium responded to perceived new threats to its African colonies from communists, revisionist Germany and Italy, and the League of Nations.
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ARTICLE
Rules and Monitoring Systems – Complementary or Conflicting Logics? A Response to Fleur Johns
Grégoire Mallard (in AJIL Unbound) responds to Fleurs Jones's “Data, Detection, and the Redistribution of the Sensible in International Law” (in AJIL).
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PhD THESIS
Altruism in International Law
Jason Rudall explores the emergence of legal relationships between states and individuals in other countries and what this entails for the states in terms of national policymaking, international action, and preservation of human rights.
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PhD THESIS
Towards a new approach to treaty interpretation
The inconsistency that exists in the interpretive practice of international adjudicative bodies relying on Article 31 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties forms the underlying question of Katayoun Hosseinnejad’s research.
Interview ❯ |
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EDITED BOOK AND BOOK CHAPTER
Global Perspectives on Stem Cell Technologies
This collection (Palgrave Macmillan) edited and introduced by Aditya Bharadwaj explores personal and professional multidisciplinary perspectives on stem cell research and clinical application.
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CASE STUDIES BOOK
Progressing the Sustainable Development Goals through Health in All Policies
Arising from the International Conference on Health in All Policies (HiAP) in Adelaide, this book of case studies (Government of South Australia) is edited by Ilona Kickbusch and Vivian Lin.
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BOOK CHAPTER
Tutela della salute ed evoluzione della sicurezza collettiva
Gian Luca Burci has contributed to La tutela della salute nel diritto internazionale ed europeo tra interessi globali e interessi particolari (Editoriale Scientifica) edited by Laura Pineschi.
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REPORT
The World Drug PERCEPTION Problem: Countering Prejudices about People Who Use Drugs
2017 Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, an Associated Programme of the Institute.
Read the report ❯
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CHAPITRE
Economie solidaire et féminisme: autre économie, autre politique?
Isabelle Guérin, Isabelle Hillenkamp et Christine Verschuur apportent leur éclairage à Mouvements sociaux et économie solidaire (dir. Jean-Louis Laville et al., Desclée de Brouwer), un livre de dialogue entre les spécialistes des mouvements sociaux et de l'économie solidaire
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WORKING PAPER
Dynamic Mean-Preserving Spreads
Moving away from the assumption of normality in economics, Jean-Louis Arcand and others find that there is only one functional form that satisfies the famous Rothschild and Stiglitz definition of risk.
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WORKING PAPER
Fiscal Multipliers for Bosnia and Herzegovina
This International Economics Dep. paper by Dragana Stanišić and Belma Hadžihalilović-Kasumović is the first attempt to determine the size of fiscal multipliers (spending and tax multipliers) for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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CHAPITRE
Les liens économiques entre la Suisse et le monde: une situation en pleine évolution
Contribution de Cédric Tille à Monetary Economic Issues Today: Festschrift in honour of Ernst Baltensperger (Orell Füssli).
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WORKING PAPER
Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions in Times of Globalisation
Associate Professor Rahul Mukherjee presents his findings on the financial determinants of FDI in the case of liquidity-constrained target firms, and more generally his SNSF project that aims at providing a precise quantification of the gains from cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
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WORKING PAPER
Acquirers and Financial Constraints: Theory and Evidence from Emerging Markets
In this International Economics Depart. Working Paper, Rahul Mukherjee and Christian Proebsting analyse how financial frictions shape the set of acquirers, how much they acquire, and how long they keep ownership.
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ANALYSIS
A European Monetary Fund?
The creation of a European Monetary Fund seems a natural next step to improve upon the European Stability Mechanism. In this scrutiny paper (Economic Dialogues with the President of the Eurogroup in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee), Charles Wyplosz argues that such a step is neither necessary nor desirable, for many reasons.
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CHAPITRE
Les limites des politiques monétaires non conventionnelles
Contribution de Charles Wyplosz à Monetary Economic Issues Today: Festschrift in honour of Ernst Baltensperger (Orell Füssli).
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ARTICLE
Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo exploit spatial anomalies in school funding policy in England to provide new evidence on the impact of resources on student achievement in urban areas (in Journal of the European Economic Association).
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Environment and Natural Resource
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EDITED BOOK and BOOK CHAPTER
Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe
Amalia Ribi Forclaz has coedited this book (Routledge) and contributed a chapter, “Guardians of the Countryside: The Associated Country Women of the World ACWW and the Conceptualization of Rural Internationalism in the Interwar Years.”
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EDITED BOOK AND INTRODUCTION
Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in South America
Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira and Susanna Hecht have edited this book (Routledge) and written its introductory chapter, “Sacred Groves, Sacrifice Zones and Soy Production: Globalization, Intensification and Neo-nature in South America.”
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PhD THESIS
Trade and Environment Governance at the WTO
Manuel Teehankee reviews the work processes and outputs of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment throughout the 21 years of its existence.
Interview ❯ |
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policy brief
How Trump's Climate Agenda Threatens Clean Innovation
Joëlle Noailly assesses in this CIES Policy Brief (no. 1, 2017) what the Trump administration’s environmental rollback implies for innovation in clean technologies, not only in the US but also worldwide.
Read the brief ❯
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research brief
The Impact of Energy Prices on Product Innovation: Evidence from the UK Refrigerator Market
In this CIES Research Brief (no. 1, 2017), François Cohen and others examine the impact of electricity prices on the characteristics of the products actually sold on the market and derive the impact on the energy consumption of sold appliances.
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Development Policies and Practices
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ARTICLE
Towards a Renewed Vision of Development Studies
This article by Gilles Carbonnier and others (in International Development Policy) presents the outcome of a multi-site consultation process on the understanding and evolution of international development studies in Europe and emerging economies.
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Democracy and Civil Society
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REPORT
Synchronizing National Electoral Cycles and Improving Democracy in Europe
This report by Grégoire Mallard (Oct. 2017) on the “European Election Day Exploratory workshop” concludes that whatever its exact form and even though it is not a miracle solution to all problems, organising “in-sync national elections” can improve democracy in Europe.
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Culture, Identity and Religion
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ARTICLE
Defining Race and the Struggle for Equality in Brazil
Graziella Moraes Silva and Brenna Powell look into how technocrats in the Brazilian Census Bureau negotiated race categories from 1970 to 2010 with an authoritarian military government, academic experts and black movements (in Journal of Latin American Studies).
Interview ❯ |
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MONOGRAPHIE
État et religion en Afrique
Comment démêler l’écheveau des interactions entre religion et politique en Afrique? En s’inscrivant dans une perspective de sociologie historique et comparée, et en montrant que l’État, sur le continent, est une cité cultuelle, tout comme il le fut en Europe, répond Jean-François Bayart dans ce nouveau livre (Karthala).
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ARTICLE
History after the Global Turn: Perspectives from Rim and Region
Ever since the “global turn” in historical scholarship, the question of what the “global” means from the perspective of individual places or regions has never been far from the surface, says Gopalan Balachandran (in History Australia).
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Conflict, Dispute Settlement and Peacebuilding
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ARTICLE
From Europe’s Past to the Middle East’s Future: The Constitutive Purpose of Forward Analogies in International Security
Grégoire Mallard (in American Journal of Cultural Sociology) analyses how policymakers and experts draw on “forward analogies” to advance diplomatic negotiations over the Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone.
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BOOK CHAPTER
Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v USA) (1984 to 1986)
Robert Kolb has written a chapter of Landmark Cases in Public International Law (Hart Publishing) which examines decisions that have contributed to the development of international law into an integrated whole, whilst also creating specialised sub-systems that stand alone as units of analysis.
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PHD DEFENCE
No Good Deed Goes Undisputed: Property Relations and Insurgency in the Periphery
By Daniel Norfolk, International Relations/Political Science. Jury: Keith Krause (director), Anna Leander and Benedikt Korf, University of Zurich. 15 January 2018. |
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REPORT
Global Violent Deaths 2017: Time to Decide
In this report of the Small Arms Survey, Claire McEvoy and Gergely Hideg show that while the global conflict death rate declined, the global homicide rate increased for the first time since 2004.
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The Future of Governance
Panel discussion co-organised by CIES, CTEI and GGC.
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The Affects of Democracy
Public lecture organised by the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy with Chantal Mouffe, Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London.
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Dep. of International Economics Research Seminar
With Veronica Rappoport, London School of Economics. |
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World Bank Report on the Changing Wealth of Nations
Organised by the Centre for Finance and Development with the World Bank and Indosuez.
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Green Industrial Policies for Transformative Change
Panel discussion co-organised by CIES and UN Environment.
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Dep. of International Economics Brown Bag Lunch
Weekly event where professors and doctoral students are invited to present their ongoing research. |
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Dep. of International Economics Research Seminar
With Claudio Lucifora, Uni Cattolica Milan. |
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CIES Econ seminar
With Timo Goeschl, Professor of Environmental Economics, Heidelberg University. Title to be announced. |
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Dep. of International Economics Research Seminar
With Kenza Benhima, University of Lausanne. |
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 Mardi 6 mars
 18:30 - 20:00
 Auditorium A2
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Prophétisme, formation de la nation et cultures de rente en Côte d’Ivoire
Organisé par le Département d'anthropologie et sociologie, avec Jean-Pierre Dozon, EHESS et Fondation de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme, Paris.
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CIES Lunch Seminar
With Karine Peschard, postdoc Hirschman Centre on Democracy. |
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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture
CIES Econ Seminar with Douglas Collin, Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford. |
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| 28 February |
| Graduate Institute’s Publishing Grants |
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| 13 March |
| Diverse H2020 calls |
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| 31 March |
| Mobility grants with South Asia and Iran |
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| 1 July |
| ECSA Suisse Best Article Prize. |
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| Until 2020 |
| Opportunity grants with China, Japan, South Korea and the ASEAN region |
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Contextualising “Radicalisation”: Violence, Politics and Ideology
This new International Research Consortium led by Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou and colleagues will constitute an international academic platform where national research and experiments on radicalisation can be compared, confronted and critiqued. Partners are CCDP, CNRS, EHESS, Northwestern University (USA) and University of Saint-Joseph (Beirut, Lebanon). |
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Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation, and the Right to Food
Led by Elisabeth Prügl with Christophe Gironde and Fenneke Reysoo, this SDC- and SNSF-funded project has been granted additional funding to complete its second phase (2018–2020). |
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How to Break the Gridlock in Global Health Governance
Led by Ilona Kickbusch, this SNIS project has been granted an additional funding for six months to complete its second phase (October 2015–March 2018). |
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Innovation, Equity and the New Economy of Health
Led by Ilona Kickbusch with Michaela Told, this SNIS project has been granted an additional funding for one more year (end: December 2018). |
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International Development Policy
This journal (editor-in-chief: Ugo Panizza) has been granted an 18-month extension of its funding contract (until June 2019) by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). |
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The Euromissile Crisis: An Arms Control Debacle, 1969–1979
Dr Andrea Chiampan (PhD 2017 “The Euromissile Crisis: An Arms Control Debacle, 1969–1979”) has been awarded a postdoc by the SNSF. He will be spending about nine months at King's College, London, and another nine months at MIT in Cambridge, MA. |
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Three research grants (Doc.CH) awarded to Graduate Institute students
- Matthew Bamber for “The State of the Islamic State: An Assessment of ISIS’s State-Building Project in its Iraqi and Syrian Territory” (31 months, Political Science)
- Thomas Gidney for “A League of Anomalies? Colonial Membership of the League of Nations” (31 months, History)
- Efrat Gilad for "The Politics of Meat: Contested Consumption in Tel Aviv and Jaffa under the British Mandate, 1920s-1940s” (24 months, History)
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Ethnographic research on international norms on prostitution and trafficking
Mira Fey, PhD candidate in International Relations/Political Science, has been awarded a SNSF Doc.Mobility grant. From March 2018 until February 2019, she will finish her PhD dissertation at the Center for Ethnographic Research, University of California, Berkeley. |
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2017 BISA African Affairs Postgraduate Paper Prize
Graduate Institute student Ueli Staeger has been awarded this prize by the British International Studies Association (BISA) for his paper titled “External Actor Involvement at the African Union: Organization, Resources and Practices”’. |
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Coming from the University of Zurich, Laura Páez is hosted at the CTEI and works under the supervision of Theresa Carpenter. |
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Coming from the University of Oxford, Elena Butti is hosted at the CCDP and works under the supervision of Keith Krause. |
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23 January–14 December 2018
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Coming from the Universidad EAFIT, Juan-Felipe Mejia is hosted at the CCDP and works under the supervision of Keith Krause. |
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Coming from the University of Ghana, Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey is hosted at the Gender Centre and works under the supervision of Elisabeth Prügl. |
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