Global Challenges
Special Issue no. 3 | October 2025
Arts and the Study of the International
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What is Global Challenges?
Global Challenges
Special Issue no. 3 | October 2025
Arts and the Study of the International

What does the experience of combining art and science bring to the study of international relations? Why blend sensibility with reason to think about the evolution of the world? How does aesthetic and/or creative performance nourish the production of academic knowledge? If thinking about creation and integrating art with the Humanities and Social Sciences is nothing new, the challenges of the 21st century call for new analyses and creative approaches that give a voice to frequently neglected perspectives, and contribute to a more nuanced and multidimensional understanding of the world. The dialectic of art and research can be approached through the artistic dimension of the object of study, proximity to artists, experimentation with new forms of fieldwork and writing, or through the cultural mediation of the results. In this special issue of the digital magazine Global Challenges, jointly produced by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva Graduate Institute) and the Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po), the contributors shed light on the role of art in research.

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What is Global Challenges?

Global Challenges is a series of dossiers designed to share with a broader, non-specialist audience the ideas, knowledge, opinions and debates produced at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. The underlying rationale is that in the spirit of a “science for the city”, social sciences and humanities bear the responsibility to provide the general public with answers to the pressing issues and concerns of our time.

The objective of Global Challenges is to examine, in a reader-friendly and comprehensive way, the major issues of the modern world by combining the rigour of academic thought with the techniques and communication methods of an innovative scientific journalism inspired by new web technologies.

Global Challenges capitalises on the breadth of the Graduate Institute’s research community, showcasing contributions and findings from its over 450 professors, researchers and PhD students, and complementing them with inputs from guest writers, state-of-the-art maps, interviews, videos and infographics.

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