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| Nation-Building through Compulsory Schooling |
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| Gender-Inclusive Governance for E-Commerce |
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| Frame Contestation and Collective Securitisation |
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| Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's Autocracy |
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| Crypto-Miners: Digital Labor and Blockchain Technology |
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| Urban Safety and Peace-building |
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| Ideologies of Racial Mixing in Brazil and Mexico |
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| Sustainable Resource Valuation |
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| Armed Groups and Smugglers along Libya's Southern Border |
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Environment and Natural Resource
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ARTICLEThe Farming of Trust: Organic Certification and the Limits of TransparencyIn a paper for the American Ethnologist (vol. 4, no. 4, November 2018), Shaila Seshia Galvin shows how certification inspectors in the Doon Valley of Uttarakhand, confronted with the limits of document keeping and inspections, come to understand organic farming as “the farming of trust”.
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ArticleFood Certification, Domestic Politics and International Trade: The US Compliance Response in Three WTO DisputesHow do domestic coalitions influence US compliance with WTO rulings in disputes involving food certification? PhD Candidate Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar proposes a framework centred on domestic preferences and tests it on the tuna-dolphin, shrimp-turtle and country-of-origin labeling disputes (in Environmental Politics, 2019).
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ArticleThe Contemporary Law of International Watercourses: Some Aspects and ProblemsThis article by Lucius Caflisch (in Swiss Review of international and European Law, vol. 28, no. 3, 2018) outlines the genesis and some features of the modern law of international watercourses, especially the principle of reasonable and equitable utilisation and the do-no-harm rule, as well as the relation between them.
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ARTICLEApprentissage et classification automatiques pour améliorer la pertinence d’un corpus d’articlesCherchant à quantifier le développement des politiques environnementales et climatiques sur les quatre dernières décennies, Joëlle Noailly, Laura Minu Nowzohour et al. construisent puis exploitent un corpus d’articles de presse relatifs à cette thématique (in Revue électronique suisse de science de l'information, no 19, déc. 2018).
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PORTRAITBeatrice Weder di Mauro, New Professor of International EconomicsThe President of CEPR and Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute speaks on her recent work and what shaped her early interest in international macroeconomics.
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ArticleNation-Building through Compulsory Schooling during the Age of Mass MigrationBetween 1850 and 1914, US states adopted compulsory schooling laws as a nation-building tool to instil civic values to culturally diverse migrants, as evidenced by Martina Viarengo and colleagues in The Economic Journal (vol. 129, no. 617, 2019).
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BOOK CHAPTERExclusion as a Liberal Imperative: Culture, Gender, and the Orientalization of MigrationEvangelos Karagiannis and Shalini Randeria open their analysis of exclusion as a liberal imperative (in Migration: Changing Concepts, Critical Approaches, De Gruyter, 2018) with a text from a video put online by a leader of the Austrian right-populist party FPÖ.
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PhD THESIS“There is Death in lmmobility”: An Auto-Ethnography of the Identification Process of Transnational Young HazarasWhat does it mean today to be exposed to multiple expulsions and constantly on the move? In her study of young Hazaras in Iran, Afghanistan and Europe, Khadija Abbasi opens new windows in understanding human mobility.
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WORKING PAPER
Gender-Inclusive Governance for E-Commerce
In the intersection of trade policy and digital technologies, this paper (CTEI 2018-07) by Amalie Giødesen Thystrup, visiting research fellow at CTEI, examines how electronic commerce can work towards gender equality and presents a framework for understanding the multiplicity of gender gaps in e-commerce models.
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ARTICLEEngendering the Right to Food? International Human Rights Law, Food Security and the Rural WomanJoanna Bourke Martignoni, coordinator of the DEMETER project, examines the dominant narratives being constructed about gendered food insecurity and unequal land rights at the international level and the manner in which these are embodied through discussions of the role and status of rural women (in Transnational Legal Theory, January 2019).
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Colombia’s Constitutional Debate on Gender Quotas: The Link between Representation, Merit, and DemocracyThe centrality of merit in the constitutional debate on gender quotas is fundamentally flawed, for it ignores the subjective nature of merit, limiting the type of experiences and potential that matter in democratic representation. So argues Felipe Ruiz Jaramillo, IR/PS PhD candidate affiliated to the Gender Centre, in Desafíos (vol. 31, no. 1, January 2019).
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Career Dynamics and Gender Gaps among Employees in the Microfinance SectorUsing a unique panel dataset of employees from Latin America’s largest microfinance institutions, Martina Viarengo, Ina Ganguli and Ricardo Hausmann (in Towards Gender Equity in Development, Oxford University Press, 2018) show that gender gaps favouring men for promotion exist primarily in the sales division, while there is a significant gender wage gap in the administrative division.
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ARTICLEFrame Contestation and Collective Securitisation: The Case of EU Energy PolicyEU energy policy has been subject to repeated collective and national securitisation attempts. However, as energy can be framed as a security, market or even environmental issue, collective securitisation outcomes have been contested, argue Stephanie Hofmann and Ueli Staeger in West European Politics (online, 2018).
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PhD THESISThe Principle of Coherence in International Law: A Study on Investment Arbitration.The lack of coherence in how judicial decisions resolving investment disputes turn out is a major concern. But, as argued by Charalampos Giannakopoulos, achieving coherence in law may be less of a fixed or easily identifiable destination and more of a continuous process.
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Post-War Societies (Middle East)After the First World War, nation-states and nation-state movements crystallised as the dominant political choice throughout the Middle East, but nation-state building was complex and infused with transnational and international dimensions, as shown by Cyrus Schayegh in 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War (2018).
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COMMENTARYThe Institute of International Law's Resolution on State Succession and State Responsibility
This article-by-article commentary by Marcelo Kohen and Patrick Dumberry explores the resolution adopted in 2015 by the Institute of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
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ARTICLEStrategic Ignorance and Global Governance: An Ecumenical Approach to Epistemologies of Global PowerEarlier scholarship tends to assume an ignorance‐knowledge binary relationship that associates ignorance with powerlessness and knowledge with power. Disputing this view, Grégoire Mallard and Linsey McGoey call for greater recognition of the constitutive role played by ignorance in operations of power (in British Journal of Sociology, vol. 69, no. 4, 2018).
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Democracy and Civil Society
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ARTICLEMohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Autocracy: Governmental Constraints, 1960s–1970sThis paper by Cyrus Schayegh (in Iranian Studies, vol. 51, no. 6, 2018) shows how government officials managed to maintain some autonomy vis-à-vis the shah when he became an autocrat. Their strategies included self-effacement, the agreement on a unified cabinet policy position before a royal audience, resignation threats, open pushback, and gifts to third parties.
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Development Policies and Practices
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ARTICLECrypto-Miners: Digital Labor and the Power of Blockchain TechnologyDrawing from interviews with cryptocurrency enthusiasts, blockchain advocates and developers, participation in online and offline discussions, and a survey with small-scale crypto-miners, Filipe Calvão (in Economic Anthropology, vol. 6, no. 1, 2019) takes on the material and technoscientific valuation of crypto-mining to understand how a future of open, decentralised accountability implicates human labor alongside automated processes.
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PhD THESISRomanian Nation-Building and American Foreign Assistance (1917–1940)
Looking at the case of American humanitarianism and philanthropy in Romania, Doina Anca Cretu explores the reception of international aid diffusion in Central and Eastern Europe during the First World War and in the interwar period.
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THÈSE DE DOCTORATLa protection des investissements en temps de violence: l’apport du DIH, du DIDH et du droit de la responsabilité internationaleEn temps de conflit armé et de troubles internes, le droit international des investissements se voit disputer sa réglementation par d’autres corpus juridiques. Bienvenu Venceslas Ouedraogo a consacré sa thèse aux rapports complexes entre ces divers régimes et aux nouvelles normes qui en découlent.
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Conflict, Dispute Settlement and Peacebuilding
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EDITED BOOKUrban Safety and Peacebuilding: New Perspectives on Sustaining Peace in the City
Edited by Achim Wennmann and Oliver Jütersonke, this book (Routledge, 2018) reflects on the advances on urban safety and peacebuilding to help address the rapidly increasing risk of conflict and insecurity in cities.
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ARTICLEInternational Adjudication, Rhetoric and StorytellingAndrea Bianchi (in Journal of International Dispute Settlement, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018) considers that legal professionals involved in dispute settlement might greatly benefit from taking a look at literature and learning more about storytelling and rhetoric. These techniques can indeed provide legal arguments with enhanced persuasive force.
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BOOK CHAPTERGangs Violence in Latin America
This chapter by Dennis Rodgers provides an overview of the gang phenomenon in Latin America, focusing in particular on Central America and Brazil (in The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development, ed. by J. Cupples, M. Palomino-Schalsha and M. Prieto, 2018).
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WORKING PAPERDécentraliser dans la Tunisie post-autoritaire: l’émergence d’un pouvoir local face aux limites imposées par le consensus sécuritaireDans ce working paper du CCDP (no 13, 2018), Souhaïl Belhadj montre qu’en dépit de la crise sécuritaire en Tunisie, il ne s’est pas formé de consensus en faveur d’un «changement profond de l’organisation, des pratiques et de l’action sécuritaire de l’État».
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Culture, Identity and Religion
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Comparing Ideologies of Racial Mixing in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico
This paper by Graziella Moraes Silva and Emiko Saldivar (in Sociologia and Antropologia, vol. 8, no. 2, 2018) observes the ways in which racial mixture impacts racial formations in Latin America, looking at Brazil and Mexico, two of the largest countries in the region, and also those with the largest Afro-descendent and indigenous populations in the continent. For comparison, they analyse survey data from the PERLA project.
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTERThe Rise and Fall of Pan-ArabismWas pan-Arabism essentially but a phase in the political history of the Middle East and North Africa? Yes, concludes Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou after retracing the history of the movement in his contribution to the Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations (ed. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Patricia Daley, 2018).
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BOOK CHAPTERAfghanistan as a Critical Lens in Current Challenges for Anthropology and SociologyThis chapter by Alessandro Monsutti and Nick Miszak is part of Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia (Orient BlackSwan, 2018), which, believing that disciplinary histories, even while engaging with the local and the national, are influenced by larger regional forces, calls for a more complete understanding of history and culture in the region.
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Trade and Economic Integration
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PhD THESISSustainable Resource Valuation: A Political Economy Assessment of Energy Pricing Reform in the Context of Changing Social ContractsEnergy-pricing reforms are indispensable for asserting the real economic value of natural resources and the transition to sustainable development, but they often impact the livelihoods of many and lead to protests. In a holistic approach, Tom Moerenhout considers both what determines the likelihood of their implementation and the constraints they place on the social contract.
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WORKING PAPERGlobal Value Chains and Technology Transfer: Net Evidence from Developing CountriesThis CTEI Working Paper (no. 6, 2018) by Davide Rigo, research assistant at CTEI, uses the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys as a sample of 18 developing and emerging economies to investigate the causal relationship between global value chains and the transfer of technology (particularly the licensing of foreign technology) to manufacturing firms in developing nations.
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REPORTLost in Trans-Nation: Tubu and Other Armed Groups and Smugglers along Libya’s Southern BorderThis Small Arms Survey report authored by Jérôme Tubiana and Claudio Gramizzi (2018) explores the role of Tubu militias before and since the fall of the Qaddafi regime; the roles and alliances of Chadian and Sudanese combatants in the border area; the Agadez–Fezzan corridor, placing particular weight on recent changes in migrant smuggling and drug trafficking; and data and analysis of regional weapons flows.
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EDITED BOOKComparative Methodology in the Era of Big Data and Global NetworksThe World Yearbook of Education 2019, edited by Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Radhika Gorur and Sam Sellar (Routledge, 2019), explores the challenges of digital methodologies, data visualisation and computer-based learning for scholars in educational research. With a contribution by Professor Steiner-Khamsi: “Impacts: Randomized Controlled Trials: League Leader in the Hierarchy of Evidence?”
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Diasporas and International LawInternational Law Colloquium with Larissa van den Herik, Leiden University |
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Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of WorkLunch Briefing organised with CTEI, with Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics, author of The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work (Orion, January 2019). Registration ❯ |
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Market Measures for Sustainable FishingCIES Lunch Seminar with Visiting Fellow Eva van der Marel, PhD candidate at the The Artic University of Norway (Tromso). Lunch is provided, so please register here ❯ |
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After Empire: Teleology, Nation-States and Imperial BreakupThis event of the International History Department with Michael Goebel marks the launch of the International History Forum, a regular series of discussions that will regularly welcome international historians for an exchange of views with the Institute community on their research and work. |
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Predatory Accumulation in the US Inner City: The Carceral and Psychiatric Mismanagement of Globalized Narcotics Markets and Rising Social InequalityANSO Seminar with Philippe Bourgois, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). More info ❯ |
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Public Launch of the "Gangs, Gangsters, and Ganglands" (GANGS) ProjectAn interactive panel debate about the global gang phenomenon with Dennis Rodgers, Philippe Bourgois, Mo Hume, and Gareth A. Jones to mark the launch a new 5-year, ERC-funded project aiming to develop a global comparative ethnography of gangs. |
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Effectiveness of Partnerships for Advancing the Sustainable Development GoaCIES Lunch Seminar with Dario Piselli, PhD candidate in International Law and research assistant at CIES. Lunch is provided, so please register here ❯ |
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Capitalism and Jurisdiction over Time: The Case of Extraterritorial JurisdictionInternational Law Colloquium with B.S. Chimni, Jawaharlal Nehru University. |
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Global Social History: Class and Social Transformation in World HistoryInternational History Forum with Christof Dejung, Professor of History, University of Bern. |
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| Throughout the year |
| Publishing grants at the Graduate Institute |
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| 19 February 2019 |
| NORFACE “Democratic Governance in a Turbulent Age” |
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| 25 March 2019 |
| Innovation starting grants for the MENA region |
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| 31 March 2019 |
| ZHAW mobility grants with South Asia and Iran |
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SPIRIT – new SNSF programme promoting cross-border research
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The UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and protecting the Right to Seeds in EuropeThe Geneva Academy has been granted CHF 118,860 by Fondation Salvia for the second phase of this project (January 2019–December 2020), whose ultimate goal is that European laws and policies are amended so as to accord with the UN Declaration. More info ❯ |
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Disability and Armed ConflictStarting in November 2018, this six-month project of the Geneva Academy, funded by Diakonia (60,000 CHF), adds an outreach component to a three-year ongoing project on the rights of persons with disabilities during and in the immediate aftermath of armed conflict. It allows for the collaboration with British photographer Giles Duley, and exhibition at Quai Wilson.
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Overview of UNESCO’ Work, Organizations and Track RecordThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has granted 12,500 CHF to NORRAG to analyse the landscape of technical agencies and donors in education (17 December 2018–31 March 2019).
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Lars-Erik Cederman Awarded the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science PrizeLast November Lars-Erik Cederman, professor at ETH Zurich and an alumnus of the Graduate Institute, received the most prestigious science prize awarded in Switzerland (CHF 250,000) for his work on political peace-building and the inclusion of ethnic minorities. More info ❯ |
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Essays on Financial Stability and Macroprudential PolicyBy Mehmet Ziya Gorpe, International Economics. Jury: Cédric Tille, thesis director, Ugo Panizza and J. Franklin Allen, Professor, The Brevan Howard Centre, Imperial College London, UK. |
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Migration Intermediaries: Implications and Mechanisms on Migrant's Networks among Pakistani in Hong Kong (China)By Akram Mohamed, Anthropology and Sociology of Development. Jury: Alessandro Monsutti, thesis director, Grégoire Mallard, Biao Xiang and Ellen Hertz. |
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 February–June 2019
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Coming from the Bank of Albania, Meri Papavangjeli is hosted at the BCC and works with Ugo Panizza on “ A Forecast Combination Analysis for Inflation in Albania”. |
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February–June 2019 |
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Coming from the Central Bank of Colombia, Paola Morales Acevedo is hosted at the BCC and works with Steven Ongena (UZH) on “Spillover Effects of Foreign Monetary Policy on the Foreign Indebtedness of Financial and Non-financial Companies”. |
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11 March 2019–11 February 2020 |
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Coming from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Gabriela Costa Chaves will be hosted at GHC and work with Suerie Moon on “The Analysis of Patenting Approaches to Obtain Exclusivity of Biological Medicines in Brazil”. |
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March–November 2019 |
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Coming from The New School for Social Research/UNCTAD, Monica Hernandez will be hosted at CFD and work with Ugo Panizza on “Unintended Effects of (un)coordinated international monetary policy on the financial situation of countries in Central America” |
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March–October 2019 |
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Coming from the Center for Non-Traditional Security and Peaceful Development Studies, Zhejiang University, Mengting Wang will be hosted at the IR/PS Department and work with Anna Leander on “Security Privatisation and Protecting China's Overseas Interests”. |
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March–April 2019 |
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Coming from Oxford University, Ezekiel Lein will be hosted at the IL Department and work with Marcelo Kohen on “International Human Rights Law”. |
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