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| International Environmental Law |
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| Competition, Coordination, and Friendship among INGOs |
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| Comparing Contract Teacher Policies in Two States of India |
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| Les Italiens, de gentils occupants |
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| Unravelling the Concept of “World Anthropology” |
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| New Insights on Competition and Innovation |
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| Políticas y programas de salud mental en México |
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| Europe and the People without History |
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| Standards of Proof in Sequential Merger Control Procedures |
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| The Justiciability of Economic and Social Rights |
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Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia
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BOOKInternational Environmental LawPierre-Marie Dupuy and Jorge Viñuales provide a concise and conceptually clear introduction to a complex subject that engages with technical aspects that some books avoid to ensure full understanding (2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, June 2018).
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTERWhen Does an Investment Treaty Arise? An Excursus on the Anatomy of the Cause of ActionZachary Douglas revisits the nature of the cause of action in investment treaty arbitration with a view to defining its constituent elements and examines certain temporal problems in investment treaty arbitration (in Jurisdiction in Investment Treaty Arbitration, JurisNet, November 2017).
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTERAbout the Definition of an International Investment: The Requirement of a Contribution to the Economic Development of the Host StatePierre-Marie Dupuy demonstrates that after more than thirty years of ICSID case law, the true meaning of “investment” remains unclear, despite the fact that it remains so central to the discipline (in Jurisdiction in Investment Treaty Arbitration, JurisNet, November 2017).
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CHAPITRE D’OUVRAGE COLLECTIFLes espaces marins attachés à des îles ou rochersLucius Caflisch a contribué à la troisième partie du Traité de droit international de la mer (dir. M. Forteau et J.-M. Thouvenin, Pedone, 2017), consacrée à la présentation des différents espaces maritimes.
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PhD THESISForeign State Immunity and Denial of Justice: Jurisdictional Rules, Rights and ConflictIn his thesis supervised by Marcelo Kohen, Thiago Braz Jardim Oliveira submits that the concept of denial of justice, sanctioned by international practice, gives rise to an internationally recognised basis of jurisdiction capable of displacing the requirement of jurisdictional immunity (April 2018).
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The “Duty of Care,” Justifying, Extending, and Perpetuating the Public-in-the-Private Forms of ProtectionAnna Leander explores the place of formal legal arrangements in the politics surrounding the hybrid, enmeshed public-in-the-private forms of authority this special issue of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (Winter 2018) focuses on.
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Article and monograph projectAnti-Geneva: European Inter-Imperial Cooperation, 1920s-1930sThe interwar years saw an increasing interplay and indeed a blending of imperial, international, and transnational political activities among imperial powers. This evolution is at the core of Cyrus Schayegh’s recent article and monograph project.
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Democracy and Civil Society
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ARTICLEJust Part-Time Lovers? Competition, Coercive Coordination, and Friendship among International NGOsClara Egger, from CERAH, offers a typology of inter-INGO relations showing the structural factors that lead INGOs to compete with one another to survive. Yet cooperation is vital for both their survival and their operational success (in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, online January 2018).
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Development Policies and Practices
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTER (UNE)Comparing Contract Teacher Policies in Two States of India: Reception and Translation of the Global Teacher Accountability ReformGita Steiner-Khamsi and Arushi Terway explore why global education policies resonate and what they mean in a given context (in International Handbook of Teacher Quality and Policy, ed. M. Akiba and G.K. LeTendre, Routledge, 2017).
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTEREliminating the Stavka System in Kyrgyzstan: Rationale, Impact, and Resistance to Change in the Post-Soviet EraRaisa Belyavina and Gita Steiner-Khamsi use a recently attempted teacher salary reform in Kyrgyzstan to show the limitations of transnational policy transfer between educational systems that are structurally different (in International Handbook of Teacher Quality and Policy, ed. M. Akiba and G.K. LeTendre, Routledge, 2017).
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Conflict, Dispute Settlement and Peacebuilding
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CHAPITRE D’OUVRAGE COLLECTIFLes Italiens, de gentils occupantsDavide Rodogno débusque une des idées reçues qui encombrent et déforment la perception de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (in Les mythes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, vol. 2, dir. O. Wieviorka et J. Lopez, Perrin, septembre 2017).
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VIDEO INTERVIEWMahmoud Mohamedou on the Development and Nature of ISISOn 3 June Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou talked about ISIS, the subject of his latest book, in the RT America show On Contact with Pulitzer Prize-winning host Chris Hedges.
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Culture, Identity and Religion
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTERLocations and Locutions: Unravelling the Concept of “World Anthropology”Andrew Brandel, Veena Das and Shalini Randeria argue that despite the well-intentioned gestures behind such categorical innovations as “world anthropology”, a serious discussion of the theoretical inputs from places outside the US and Western Europe is still lacking (in Post-Western Sociology: From China to Europe, ed. L. Roulleau-Berger and Li Peilin, Routledge, June 2018).
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PhD THESISLife, Love and Death in a Settler Colonial Order: Palestinians’ Lived ExperiencesIn his thesis supervised by Riccardo Bocco, Rami Salameh aims to understand the sense of Palestinians’ lifeworld under a colonial order by examining how they perceive colonial experiences through their bodies (April 2018).
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Trade and Economic Integration
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WORKING PAPERTrade with Benefits: New Insights on Competition and InnovationJaeBin Ahn, Hyoungmin Han and Yi Huang examine how Korea’s import and export linkages with China affect the innovation outcomes of Korean manufacturing firms (International Economics Department Working Paper 07/2018).
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ARTICLEIndicadores de gobernanza en políticas y programas de salud mental en México: una perspectiva de actores claveMarc Hufty, Lina Díaz-Castro, Armando Arredondo and Blanca Estela Pelcastre-Villafuerte analyse the role of Mexico's mental health system governance in the development of mental health policies and programmes, from the perspective of its own actors (in Gaceta Sanitaria, 2017).
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ARTICLEBanking for Health: The Role of Financial Sector Actors in Investing in Global HealthIlona Kickbusch and al. ferret out additional health-financing sources, acknowledging the imperative to link financial returns to the providers of capital, and create profitable, sustainable financing structures (in BMJ Global Health, May 2018).
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTERBiocrossing Heterotopia: Revisiting Contemporary Stem Cell Research and Therapy in IndiaThe contested terrain of stem cell research and therapies is an undulating landscape of utopias and dystopias into which Nayantara Sheoran Appleton and Aditya Bharadwaj engage with ethnographic immersion (in Global Perspectives on Stem Cell Technologies, ed. A. Bharadwaj, Palgrave Macmillan, November 2017).
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Environment and Natural Resource
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BOOK REVIEWEurope and the People without HistorySusanna Hecht reviews Wolf's 1982 masterwork, which “helped to undermine the reductionism and fatalism surrounding peasantries and rural populations, by helping to clarify the durability and range of rural forms, along with the natures of the connectivities and disjunctures within the broader ambits of comparative history and ethnography” (in The Journal of Peasant Studies, January 2018).
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WORKING PAPERStandards of Proofs in Sequential Merger Control ProceduresGregor Langus, Vilen Lipatov and Damien J. Neven model merger control procedures as a process of sequential acquisition of information in which mergers can be cleared after a first phase of investigation (International Economic Department Working Paper no. 5, 2018).
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WORKING PAPERInvestment Gaps in IDB Borrowing CountriesIn this International Economics Department Working Paper (03-2018), Ugo Panizza, Yue Zhou et al. use GDP per capita projections, forecasts of structural transformation, and three SDG targets (poverty, infant mortality and lower secondary school completion) to predict public investment needs in 2030 among IDB borrowing countries.
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Corporate Foreign Bond Issuance and Interfirm Loans in ChinaUsing firm-level data to document and analyse international bond issuance by Chinese non-financial corporations and the use of the proceeds of issuance, Yi Huang, Ugo Panizza and Richard Portes find that dollar issuance is positively correlated with the differential between domestic and foreign interest rates (NBER Working Paper 24513, April 2018).
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Independent Report on the Greek Official Debt
Although Greece’s third economic programme gives reason for cautious optimism, the country will require further debt relief. In this CEPR Policy Insight (no. 92, March 2018) Barry Eichengreen, Charles Wyplosz, Ugo Panizza et al. argue that any further debt relief plan should be based on realistic long-term assumptions and provide Greece with effective incentives to comply.
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PhD THESISThree Essays in Economic InequalityAndrew Silva examines the associations between the gender earnings gap and male employment in nursing occupations in the US, assesses the evolution of income inequality in urban and rural areas in the US from 1975 to 2015, and analyses the effect of geographical occupational agglomeration on local job-task homogenisation, and in turn, local income homogenisation (April 2018).
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Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Action
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PhD THESISBridging Divides: The Justiciability of Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, India and the United StatesDiya Uberoi shows how domestic courts have employed remedies to bridge the divide between national and international law and how, in doing so, have also bridged the divides among civil, political, social and economic rights.
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research briefGendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in CambodiaBased on qualitative interviews conducted during field visits in Ratanakiri, Kratié and Kampong Thom, Saba Joshi shows how commercialisation affects women’s access to the land and the commons, gender division of labour, and violence against women in three regions in Cambodia (DEMETER Research Brief 1/2008).
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Migration: The Challenges AheadA lecture organised by the Global Migration Centre and the Permanent Mission of Portugal to the UN Office in Geneva and given by António Vitorino, a candidate for the post of Director General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Register here ❯ |
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The Role of the Private Sector in Crisis Prevention and Resolution in Emerging CountriesAn event part of the CFD/World Bank Series on Financing for Development in Action, with Philippe Le Houérou, Chief Executive Officer of International Finance Corporation (IFCA). Free entrance, but registration required ❯ |
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Sexual Violence against Men in Global PoliticsA Gender Centre panel discussion to mark the launch of Sexual Violence against Man in Global Politics (coed. Elisabeth Prügl, Taylor and Francis), with Maria Stern, University of Gothenburg, Marysia Zalewski, Cardiff University, Henri Myrtinnen, International Alert, United Kingdom, and Paula Drumond, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Register here ❯ |
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Does Our Alarming Climate Crisis Demand Border Adjustments Now?An event coorganised by CTEI and CIES with John S. Odell, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Southern California. Register here ❯ |
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Geneva Launch of UNESCO's Quick Statistical Guide on SDG 4 IndicatorsNORRAG Brown Bag Lunch with Friedrich Huebler, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. This event aims at providing stakeholders in Geneva and beyond with an opportunity to get familiar with the requirements and frameworks for monitoring SDG 4 targets. More information and registration ❯ |
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Understanding Data Sources to Measure SDG 4: Using Household Surveys to Monitor SDG 4 TargetsNORRAG Brown Bag Lunch with Sheena Bell, Education Specialist, UNICEF ECARO. This event aims at providing stakeholders in Geneva and beyond with an opportunity to get familiar with the requirements and frameworks for monitoring SDG 4 targets. More information and registration ❯ |
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| 14 July 2018 |
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Seed Funding Grants with the CIS Region |
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Postdoc.Mobility
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ERC Advanced Grants
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| Graduate Institute Publishing Grants |
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SSH Aspects of the Clean-Energy Transition |
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MSCA Individual Fellowships |
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MSCA Cofunding of Fellowship and Doctoral Prog. |
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Profs Sylvan and Arcand Win a Sinergia ProjectTogether with James Henderson, Senior Researcher at Idiap Research Institute, they have been granted CHF 2,285,446 by the SNSF to work on a four-year project titled “Automated Interpretation of Political and Economic Policy Documents: Machine Learning Using Semantic and Syntactic Information”. |
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Françoise Grange Omokaro Cowinner of an SNSF-SDC r4d GrantTogether with Dominique Malatesta, main applicant (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland), Fatou Diop (University Gaston Berger, St Louis, Sénégal), Désiré Manirakiza (Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroun) and Béatrice Bertho, project coordinator, she has been co-awarded CHF 592,000 for a four-year project starting in September and titled “Kick It Like a Girl! Young Women Push Themselves trough Football in the African Public Space”.
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Graduate Institute’s Seed Money GrantsAt the June 2018 session of its seed money scheme the Graduate Institute awarded a total amount of CHF 29,710 respectively to Carolyn Biltoft, Aidan Russell, Melanie Kolbe, Graziella Moraes Silva and Amalia Ribi Forclaz. Seed money grants are designed to support early career faculty in preparing and submitting a proposal for external funding within one year of the start of the award.
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6 August - 5 October 2018 |
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Coming from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Christina Angeli will be hosted as Visiting Fellow at the Global Health Centre and will work with Prof. Ilona Kickbusch.
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15 August 2018 - 15 February 2019 |
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Coming from Qingdao University, China, Prof. Qingqing Xu will be hosted as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Development and will work with Prof. Huang Yi on “A Study on the Path of Labor-Capital Cooperation with Chinese Characteristics” |
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September 2018 - May 2019 |
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Coming from Kadir Has University, Turkey, Prof. Ayse Belma Ozturkkal will be hosted as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Development and will work with Prof. Ugo Panizza on “Political Economy of Bank Lending and Deposits in an Emerging Market”. |
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Tuesday 12 June
18:15 - 19:30
Auditorium Ivan Pictet A
