ARTICLE

Immigration Policies and the Choice between Documented and Undocumented Migration

What determines whether a temporary migrant chooses to go abroad as a documented worker or as an illegal alien? In Economina (Nov. 2017), Slobodan Djajić and A. Vinogradova address the question from a theoretical perspective by focusing on how immigration policies, aimed at both documented and undocumented foreign workers, influence the choice between the two modes of migration.
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Research presentation

Contemporary Fantasies of the Colombian Nation: Beauty, Citizenship, and Sex

In the context of the Gender Seminar Series, Isis Giraldo, University of Lausanne, presented her research about urban hegemonic Colombian media and culture. She focuses on media and its connection with the political field and provides a first study on the cultural components of the neoliberal ethos.
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Chapitre

Devenir experte genre: trajectoires et stratégies au Tadjikistan

A l'image du livre La globalisation du genre: mobilisations, cadres d'actions, savoirs (Presses universitaires de Rennes) dans lequel est publié ce chapitre, Lucia Direnberger, du Centre genre, interroge à travers un exemple concret les modalités de la légitimation et de la circulation d'un concept désormais globalisé.

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PhD THESIS

How Do We Strengthen the Fight against Impunity?

Patryk Labuda argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the International Criminal Court’s mandate, known colloquially as complementarity, is not an effective method of encouraging states to hold perpetrators of international crimes to account.

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EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

On a Certain Blindness in Economic Theory: Keynes’ Giraffes and the Ordinary Textuality of Economic Ideas

Carolyn Biltoft (in New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, eds. Sophus Reinert and Robert Fredona, Palgrave Macmillan) conducts a close textual analysis of the essay “The End of Laissez-Faire”.
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ARTICLE

Comity: The American Development of a Transnational Concept

Thomas Schultz and Niccolò Ridi contribute to the elucidation of the notion of comity as it is understood in the United States – the jurisdiction where the greatest importance is attached to the concept (in Yearbook of Private International Law, vol. 18, 2016/2017).
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ARTICLE

Papal Diplomacy by Proxy, 1922–1939

Alumnus Cormac Shine has published a part of his MA thesis (in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, March 2018) which reevaluates the Vatican's role in the construction and contestation of interwar multilateralism.
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INTERVIEW

Civil Rights to Human Rights: the Geopolitics of Malcolm X

The geopolitical thinking of Malcolm X has seldom been the focus of academic research, which privileged his personal journey and militancy. Moshik Temkin, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, discusses these issues and more in this interview with Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou. 

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CHAPTER

Security and “Security Studies”

Keith Krause and Michael Williams provide a comprehensive account of what security means and how “security studies” has evolved in the disciplines of political science and international relations (in The Oxford Handbook of International Security, eds. Alexandra Gheciu and William Wohlforth, OUP, 2018).
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BOOK

Organising Rebellion

As non-state actors are involved in the vast majority of today’s armed conflicts and crises, an urging question has to be raised as to whether, and at what point, these groups are bound by international law and thereby accountable for their acts. In a book published by OUP and adapted from his PhD thesis at the Graduate Institute, alumnus Tilman Rodenhäuser addresses this major issue.
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CHAPTER

Defense as Security

Hannah Dönges and Stephanie Hofmann’s contribution to the Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies, which provides a review of defence studies in terms of policy, security and war, but also looks forward to new challenges to existing conceptions of defence and how this is changing as states and their militaries also change (eds. David J. Galbreath and John R. Den, Feb. 2018).
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ARTICLE

Winners and Losers from EU Sanctions on Russia

In February Visiting Professor Francesco Giumelli, University of Groningen, was invited by the Dep. of International Relations/Political Science to deliver a lecture on his latest article (in the Journal of Common Market Studies, 2017).
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CHAPTER

Foucault and the Historical Sociology of Globalization

Jean-François Bayart is one of the authors brought together in Foucault and the Modern International: Silences and Legacies for the Study of World Politics, which questions four of the most self-evident characteristics of our contemporary world – “international”, “neoliberal”, “biopolitical” and “global” (eds. P. Bonditti, D. Bigo and F. Gros, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

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RESEARCH DOSSIER

Globalisation 4.0: Evolution or Revolution?

Has globalisation reached its apex after centuries of growth? Are global exchanges restructuring concomitantly with the fourth technological revolution and the expansion of the digital economy? This Graduate Institute Research Dossier (no. 3) approaches these questions by observing the nature and evolution of the principal flows that characterise globalisation.
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CHAPTER

Identifying “Restrictions of Competition”: Some Comments from a Law and Economics Perspective

Damien Neven has contributed to The Notion of Restriction of Competition: Revisiting the Foundations of Antitrust Enforcement in Europe (ed. B. Meyring, D. Gerard and M. Merola, Bruylant, 2017), which revisits the notion of restriction of competition in the framework of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU.
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ARTICLE

Investor Diligence in Investment Arbitration: Sources and Arguments

Jorge Viñuales conceptualises the main sources of investor diligence or, in other words, the main ways of defining standards and making them operate legally in an investment arbitration context (in ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, May 2017).
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ARTICLE

Credit Markets with Imperfect Information: Risk-Aversion versus Pessimism

In Economics Letters (vol. 165, April 2018), Jean-Louis Arcand and Stuart McDonald study the Stiglitz-Weiss model of credit rationing using RDEU axiomatics, and find that sufficient pessimism or sufficient risk-aversion by borrowers may eliminate adverse selection.
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Nineteenth-Century “Interventions d’Humanité” and the Question of Responsibility: A Very Short Historical Overview

Davide Rodogno has contributed to International Responsibility: Essays in Law, History and Philosophy, the outcome of a doctoral colloquium organised under the auspices of the Doctoral Programme CRUS Law, Ideas and Politics of Europe (ed. S. Besson, Schulthess, July 2017, p. 33–50).
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ARTICLE

Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Infections before and after Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV

Use of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV raises concerns about sexually transmitted infection (STI) incidence because of decreased condom use among MSM. Vinh-Kim Nguyen and others (in AIDS, vol. 32, no. 4, Feb. 2018) examine whether PrEP is associated with STIs in the 12 months following PrEP prescription relative to the 12 months prior to PrEP and if STI rates are higher among PrEP users relative to individuals receiving postexposure prophylaxis.
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EDITED BOOK

Environmental and Energy Law

Edited and introduced by Jorge Viñuales and Emma Lees, this three-volume research collection (Edward Elgar, 2017) covers the main topics of environmental and energy law in their international (vol. 1), European (vol. 2), and comparative and transnational dimensions (vol. 3).
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ARTICLE

An International Law Approach to Food Regime Theory

Anne Saab argues that food regime theory – an analytical tool developed and used mostly in the field of sociology – can provide a useful means through which to better lay bare the role of international law in constituting global food relations (in Leiden Journal of International Law, published online Feb. 2018).
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