PhD THESIS

The Role of Litigation on Norm Transformation: Human Rights and Environmental Protection

Given the rising significance of courts in global politics, and the mounting number of environmental cases before human rights courts, Defne Gonenc analyses how litigation contributes to norm transformation in human rights approaches to environmental protection.
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RESEARCH BRIEF

Gender-Responsive Due Diligence for Business Actors: Human Rights-Based Approaches

This study conducted at the Geneva Academy by Joanna Bourke Martignoni and Elizabeth Umlas aims to map the contours of business due diligence responsibilities and the way in which these articulate with international human rights standards on gender equality and non-discrimination.
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PhD Thesis

Reorienting the Nation: Perspectives from Soviet Central Asia in the 1920s

Central Asians used the nation as a label in their negotiations with representatives of Soviet power in the 1920s. So argues Vsevolod Kritskiy, who links this Central Asian history with the global spread of the nation-state form in the colonial world in the interwar period.
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LECTURE

Democracy from and at the Margins

During his visit to the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Professor Adelman, author of Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman, gave a talk about his deep interest in narratives and explanations of processes that transcend familiar national or local boundaries.
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

Imperial and Transnational Developmentalisms: Middle Eastern Interplays, 1880s–1960s

In his contribution to The Development Century: A Global History (CUP), Cyrus Schayegh goes beyond the dominant view that the world of development is composed of colonies/postcolonial countries and imperial/postimperial metropoles to analyse the interplays of developmentalisms in the region in all their complexity and subtlety.
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Article

The Limits of Securitized Peace: The EU’s Sponsorship of Palestinian Authoritarianism

CCDP research associate Alaa Tartir argues (in Middle East Critique, November 2018) that, far from being a neutral process grounded within the building of capacities, Security Sector Reform (SSR) has strengthened the the foundations of Palestinian authoritarianism.
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PAPER

Approaching Difference, Inequality, and Intimacy in Tourism: A View from Cuba

Based on ethnography of touristic encounters in Cuba, the article by Valerio Simoni (in Journal of Anthropological Research) reflects on competing approaches to difference, inequality, and intimacy in tourism and in anthropology.
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PAPER

Ten Years after the Financial Crisis, What Have We Learnt?

This paper by Cédric Tille, presented during the Bern Alumni Chapter’s 14th annual Alumni Reunion, held on 3 December, presents several insights from the crisis learnt by academics and policymakers.
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EDITED BOOK

Research Handbook on Global Health Law

The effect of globalisation on health has attracted the attention of scholars and policymakers across multiple disciplines. But it is the first time that a research handbook (Edward Elgar) presents a comprehensive coverage of contemporary issues in global health law and governance.
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coeditor of the handbook with Brigit Toebes.

EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

Governing Capital, Labor and Nature in a Changing World

Gopalan Balachandran and Grégoire Mallard have coordinated this chapter of the three-volume report on Rethinking Society for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which explores the nature and meanings of “global governance”, and its unfolding tensions.
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PHD THESIS

Collective Non-State Entities in International Law

According to the mainstream international law doctrine, collective non-state entities are essentially excluded from the regulatory reach of binding international law. Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg explores adaptations of international law to a globalised environment with respect to those entities, and finds a discrepancy between doctrine and practice.
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