EDITED BOOK

Sexual Violence against Men in Global Politics

Sexual violence against men is widespread in conflict and post-conflict zones, yet efforts to understand its causes and reduce it have been hampered by a dearth of theoretical engagement. This book co-edited by Elisabeth Prügl and Paula Drumond tackles this gap by combining theorisation of sexual violence with empirical data (Routledge, June 2018). Read more ❯

BOOK

Gender Training: A Transformative Tool for Gender Equality

In the first academic publication specifically dedicated to gender training, Lucy Ferguson, Research Associate at the Gender Centre, takes the topic beyond its often technocratic form towards pragmatic solutions to the prevailing challenges and tensions of the field (Palgrave Macmillan).
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ARTICLE

Born in the USA: Citizenship Acquisition and Transnational Mothering in Turkey

Özlem Altan-Olcay, research fellow at the Gender Centre, investigates the practice of giving birth in the US for the purpose of obtaining US citizenship for newborn children among mothers from upper- and upper-middle-class families in Turkey (with Evren Balta, in Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2016). Interview ❯

ARTICLE

Feminist International Relations: Some Research Agendas for a World in Transition

As they identify these research agendas, Elisabeth Prügl and J. Ann Tickner affirm the continued importance of a critical stance and of asking feminist questions (in European Journal of Politics and Gender, July 2018). Access ❯

EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

In The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations (eds. A. Gofas, I. Hamati-Ataya and N. Onuf, SAGE, August 2018):

Counter-Mapping the Discipline: The Archipelago of Western International Relations Teaching

Publishing in flagship journals continues to serve as the most popular indicator of IR’s trajectory and configuration in the emergent literature. Jonas Hagmann and Thomas Biersteker challenge this focus. Publisher ❯

EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

In The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations (eds. A. Gofas, I. Hamati-Ataya and N. Onuf, SAGE, August 2018):

International Relations Expertise at the Interstices of Fields and Assemblages

Anna Leander argues that conventional expertise is profoundly challenged by transgressive expert practices and that because of the uncertainty regarding expertise, conventional conceptions of expertise are likely to remain with us.
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ARTICLE

The Eurasian Economic Union’s Multiple Integration Logics

Regional economic integration in the post-Soviet space stands in a complex relation with the EU’s integration process. PhD Candidate in IR/PS Uli Staeger and alumnus Cristian Bobocea (MA 2017) show through the Eurasian Economic Union how bureaucracies mobilise their technocratic authority in a process of mimesis that reconciles multiple internal and external integration logics (in The International Spectator, July  2018).
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LIVRE

Ordre juridique et désordre international

Parmi ses nombreux écrits, le professeur honoraire Pierre-Marie Dupuy a rassemblé ici une quinzaine d’articles traitant de l’ordre juridique international et qui, espère-t-il, «ont un peu mieux résisté à la marche inexorable du temps» (Pedone, mai 2018). Éditeur ❯

ARTICLE

Too Many Butterflies? The Micro-Drivers of the International Investment Law System

Jorge Viñuales argues that the legal analysis of international investment law and arbitration should focus not on treaties, rules or cases, but on certain conceptual positions on specific questions that act as “micro-drivers” of the dynamics of the entire system (in Journal of International Dispute Settlement, July 2018). Article ❯

WORKING PAPER

Stabilizer, Servant and Seductress: Economic Nationalism and the Use of Law

PhD Candidate Lys Kulamadayil explores the nuanced use of international law by the World Bank in its 2017 World Development Report (paper for the ESIL 2018 Research Forum, Jerusalem, published in the SSRN Working Paper Series, September 2018). Paper ❯

PAPER

Illiberal Democracy: The Return of the Authoritarian Spectre

In this paper for the Fondation Pierre du Bois, Dominic Eggel, research advisor at the Institute, addresses the paradox of democratic success and liberal decline and reflects on the likely persistence of illiberal democracy as a model of governance (Current Affairs in Perspective no. 6, July 2018). Paper ❯

CONFERENCE PAPER

Do Democracies Become Garrison States? Cross-national Trends

In 1941, Harold Lasswell argued that structural tendencies led “specialists on violence” to become the most powerful group in society. In this paper for the EPSA annual conference (June 2018), David Sylvan, Ashley Thornton, Juliette Ganne and Laura Schenker reports findings of a research project on garrison state trends, which suggest that Lasswell was indeed correct. Available from ❯

CHAPITRE D’OUVRAGE COLLECTIF

Le monde rural

Émancipé de ses alliés et ennemis d’hier, le Viêt Nam poursuit sa recherche de l’équilibre entre la Chine et l’Occident pour mieux préserver ses intérêts nationaux. Dans Histoire du Viêt Nam de la colonisation à nos jours (dir. B. de Tréglodé, Sorbonne, mars 2018), Christophe Gironde renouvelle notre regard sur le monde rural vietnamien.  Éditeur ❯

EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

Arms Control and Disarmament

Keith Krause provides a comprehensive account and review of the ways in which the UN has contributed to global disarmament since its establishment (in The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, July 2018). Interview ❯

DATABASE

Capital Markets of the World

Until September 2018 Professor Schiltz was a lecturer in International History and the digital curator of “Capital Markets of the World”, a database of a large financial history archive hosted at the Library. He is now working for the Modern Japanese Studies Program at Hokkaido University, Japan. Read more on his past and ongoing research ❯

WORKING PAPER

Busier Than Ever? A Data-Driven Assessment and Forecast of the WTO's Caseload

Conventional wisdom has it that the legalised mechanism of dispute settlement before the WTO has recently been “busier than ever”. Joost Pauwelyn and Weiwei Zhang use count data to assess the WTO’s current caseload and examines how it has evolved since the WTO’s creation in 1995 (CTEI Working Paper no. 2, April 2018). Access ❯

BOOK CHAPTER

The International Economic Law Clinic at the Graduate Institute in Geneva

Joost Pauwelyn and Mattia Salamanca Orrego trace the evolution and progress of the Geveva clinic in their contribution to Reinventing Legal Education: How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe (Cambridge University Press, May 2018). Publisher ❯

EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

Health and Infectious Disease

Gian Luca Burci has contributed to the second edition of The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (eds. T.G. Weiss and S. Daws, OUP, July 2018) of this major reference work on the key international organisation. Publisher ❯

EDITED BOOK

Global Climate Policy: Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges

Professor Emeritus Urs Luterbacher (CIES and CFD) and Carla Norrlof (CCDP Research Associate) have edited this collection of analyses of the international climate change regime, which consider the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation (MIT Press, August 2018). Publisher ❯

ARTICLE

Macroeconomic Impact of Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets

Climate change is not a prisoner’s dilemma, as shown by Jorge E. Viñuales et al. in Nature Climate Change (June 2018). Using a non-normative integrated assessment model of the world economy, technology diffusion and the global climate system, they find that demand for fossil fuels is going to decline by 2035, even if no new climate policies are adopted to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement.
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PAPER

Environmental Impact Assessment for Climate Change Policy with the Simulation-Based Integrated Assessment Model E3ME-FTT-GENIE1

Jorge Viñuales et al. introduce a fully descriptive, simulation-based integrated assessment model designed specifically to assess policies and use this combined model to create a detailed global and sectoral policy map and scenario that sets the economy on a pathway that achieves the goals of the Paris Agreement with 66% probability of not exceeding 2 °C of global warming (in Energy Strategy Reviews, vol. 20, April 2018). Access ❯

EDITED BOOK and INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER

The Comparative Politics of Transnational Climate Governance

Liliana Andonova, Thomas Hale and Charles Roger have edited and introduced this exploration of how domestic political, economic and social forces systematically shape patterns of non-state actor participation in transnational climate initiatives (Routledge, May 2018).
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MONOGRAPHIE

La tragédie de la croissance

Comment sortir de l'impasse d'une croissance infinie sur une planète finie? En restaurant la notion de biens communs, en réhabilitant la réciprocité, en en finissant avec l’endettement, en renouant le dialogue avec la nature, selon le professeur honoraire Gilbert Rist dans son ouvrage paru en mai aux Presses de Science-Po. Interview ❯

ARTICLE

Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India

Access to banks is rapidly increasing worldwide, and allows account-based instead of cash transfers. Vincent Somville and Lore Vandewalle conduct a randomised experiment documenting the impact of the payment method on savings behavior (in The American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2018; previously published as International Economics Department Working Paper 02-2016). Access ❯

ARTiCLE

Can Countries Rely on Foreign Saving for Investment and Economic Development?

Eduardo Cavallo, Barry Eichengreen and Ugo Panizza show that financing growth and investment out of foreign savings, while not impossible, is risky and too often counterproductive (in Review of World Economics, May 2018). Access ❯

ARTICLE

Penser la dimension de commun de la monnaie à partir de l’exemple des monnaies complémentaires locales

Jean Michel Servet et Sophie Swaton (in Revue Interventions économiques, janvier 2018) montrent que l'application des communs au-delà du champ de l'environnement permet sa redécouverte et son application, y compris au champ monétaire. Journal ❯

PhD THESIS

Guarantees of Non-Repetition for Violation of Human Rights

In her PhD thesis, Nita Shala studies the impact of human rights law on the notion of guarantees of non-repetition and demonstrates a developing and diverging approach regarding guarantees of non-repetition in international human rights law compared to the law on state responsibility in response to internationally wrongful acts, where the origin of this obligation lies. Interview ❯

PORTRAIT

Michael Goebel: from Latin American History to Urban Ethnic Studies

Newly arrived at the International History Department, Professor Goebel talks about his research interests, the publications that have inspired him, and his motivation for joining the Institute.
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

Stateless, Floating People: The Rohingya at Sea

PhD Candidate in ANSO Sucharita Sengupta has contributed to The Rohingya in South Asia: People without a State (Routledge, 2018), analysing what is it in the sea that allures, and why is journey in boats most dreaded yet acceptable. Publisher ❯

CONFERENCE PAPER

Understanding Immigration Attitudes among Immigrants: A Survey Experiment on Political and Economic Drivers

Melanie Kolbe has presented this paper to the EPSA annual conference in June 2018. A copy available upon request  to author ❯

EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

Simulation and ABM in Foreign Policy

David Sylvan and Ravi Bhavnani review the two main streams of simulation work in FPA: human-based and computer-based, and conclude with a speculative discussion of what happened to simulation in FPA and what the future may hold (in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis, ed. Cameron Thies, vol. 2, OUP, April 2018). Publisher ❯

Gangs, Gangsters, and Ganglands: Towards a Comparative Global Ethnography

Newly appointed Professor Dennis Rodgers has been awarded a CHF 2.5 million ERC Advanced Grant. Starting in January 2019, his four-year project will compare gang dynamics in Nicaragua, South Africa, and France in order to better understand why gangs emerge, how they evolve over time, whether they are associated with particular urban configurations, how and why individuals join gangs, and what impact this has on their potential futures.

New Business Models for Governing Innovation and Global Access to Medicines

Suerie Moon and Ilona Kickbusch have won a CHF 1.3 million SNSF PRIMA grant. Starting in September, this five-year project aims to deepen understanding of the political, economic and organisational factors required to implement new business models of medicines R&D that will jointly achieve innovation and global access to medicines.

Armed Groups’ Institutionalisation in Civil Wars: The Case Study of Ahrar al-Sham in Syria

Jérôme Drevon has received an SNSF Advanced Postdoc.Mobility (CHF 123,000, July 2018–June 2019) to work with K. Krause on the construction and influence of armed groups’ institutional frameworks beyond the prevailing reliance on rational choice paradigms and sole focus on their ideologies.

African Futures: Digital Labor and Blockchain Technology

Filipe Calvão has won an SNSF grant starting next December to study the contemporary effects of digital transformations in Africa. This CHF 36,500 one-year project involves a multi-sited survey in six African countries on platform-based services and blockchain initiatives designed to enhance mineral traceability in order to assess emergent transformations in the world of labor.