ARTICLE

Rethinking the Ontology of Peacebuilding: Gender, Spaces and the Limits of the Local Turn

Christelle Rigual, from the Gender Centre, analyses the question of the “local turn” to problematise its gender-blindness as well as its implicit reproduction of hierarchisation between the international and the local, and points to potential areas for synergies between different discursive formations of peacebuilding (in Peacebuilding, March 2018).
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BOOK CHAPTER

Faire naître une nation moderne: genre, orientalisme, hétéronationalisme en Iran au 19e siècle

Lucia Direnberger, membre du Centre genre, analyse les politiques sexuelles élaborées par les orientalistes français et françaises et celles déployées par les nationalistes modernistes iraniens au 19e siècle (in Raisons politiques, vol. 69, no 1, 2018).
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RESEARCH PAPER

Non-Analytical Obstacles to Stateless Law

Thomas Schultz reviews legal scholars’ key prudential and moral reasons to oppose the view that law can exist without the state (King’s College London Dickson Poon School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-40, October 2017).
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ARTICLE

UN Targeted Sanctions Datasets (1991–2013)

This article by Thomas Biersteker, Sue Eckert, Marcos Tourinho and Zuzana Hudáková (in Journal of Peace Research, March 2018) introduces the Targeted Sanctions Consortium (TSC) quantitative and qualitative datasets, which encompass all UN targeted sanctions imposed between 1991 and 2013, or 23 different country regimes broken into 63 case episodes for comparative analysis.
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RESEARCH BRIEF

The Rights to Food Sovereignty and to Free, Prior and Informed Consent

Christophe Golay, from the Geneva Academy, presents the protection of these rights at international, regional and national levels and defines the main elements of the rights that could be included in the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.
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ARTICLE

Understanding Business Interests in International Large-Scale Student Assessments: A Media Analysis of The Economist, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal

Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Margaret Appleton and Shezleen Vellani find that the growing interest in international large-scale assessment is noticeable in all three English language media outlets (in Oxford Review of Education, March 2018).
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PhD THESIS

The Legality of the Use of Force in Armed Conflict and Occupation

Ka Lok Yip finds widespread conflation among different concepts of “legality”, serious abuse of “legal techniques” to reach politically convenient outcomes, and a fundamental disconnect between the dominant interpretation of the law and the reality of war that the law tries to regulate.
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REPORT

Preventing Violence through Inclusion

Thania Paffenholz and al. analyse when, how, and under what conditions the inclusion of a broad range of actors in peace and political transition processes contributes to the prevention of violence and armed conflict.
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

Anthropological Perspectives on the Limits of the State

Andrew Brandel and Shalini Randeria delineate how anthropology nuances various conceptions of limits of state power, particularly those that structure the binaries of West and non-West, public and private, state and non-state, formal and informal, national and trans- or supranational (in The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood, March 2018).
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PhD thesis

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon: Peacekeeping or Pacification?

Susann Kassem describes a disjunction between UNIFIL policy and practice, largely resulting from a misguided conceptual framework that has limited operational effectiveness.
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

Who Decides Matters: The Legitimacy of WTO Adjudicators versus ICSID Arbitrators

Contribution by Joost Pauwelyn to Legitimacy and International Courts (Cambridge University Press, May 2018).
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WORKING PAPER

Things Have Changed (or Have They?): Tariff Protection and Environmental Concerns in the WTO

Petros Mavroidis and Damien Neven find that the practical significance of the APEC agreement should not be overestimated as it involves modest tariff concessions over a subset of goods which are not heavily traded (International Economic Department Working Paper no. 4, 2018).
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WORKING PAPER

Global Health Leadership: Electing the WHO Director-General

Ilona Kickbusch and Austin Liu assess the extent to which WHO’s new process for appointing its Director-General supports the identification of leadership qualities of the candidates by discussing its openness, transparency, inclusiveness, fairness and legitimacy (Global Health Centre Working Paper 16, 2017).
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ARTICLE

The Expansion of Modern Agriculture and Global Biodiversity Decline: An Integrated Assessment

Bruno Lanz, Simon Dietz and Timothy Swanson consider the macro-economic consequences of the continued expansion of particular forms of intensive, modern agriculture (in Ecological Economics, February 2018).
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ARTICLE

Emerging Markets and Private Governance: The Political Economy of Sustainable Palm Oil in China and India

CIES Research Assistant Yixian Sun and Philip Schleifer, from the University of Amsterdam, observe that sustainable palm oil is beginning to gain momentum in China, whereas uptake in India remains much weaker (in Review of International Political Economy, January 2018).
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ARTICLE

Nonlinearities in the Relationship between Finance and Growth

Ugo Panizza reviews the empirical literature on the links between finance and growth, with a special focus on the literature that has shown that the marginal contribution of financial depth to economic growth becomes negative in countries with large financial sectors (in Comparative Economic Studies, March 2018).
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REVIEW

“Brain Drain” within the European Union from the Perspective of Investment in Education

This ad hoc review prepared by Martina Viarengo for the European Commission (March 2017) assesses the costs of brain drain in EU Member States in terms of loss of initial investment in tertiary graduates, with a reference to the intra-EU migration of highly skilled workers.
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

The Many Fields of (German) International Law

In recent years, interest in comparative approaches in the study of international law has grown. Nico Krisch contributes to this endeavor with a focus on the particularities of academic international law in Germany, but also with an interest in methodology and a broader argument for attention to a particular set of factors behind differences in the interpretation and application of international law (in Comparative International Law, OUP, Feb. 2018).

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EDITED BOOK

The United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary

Frank Haldemann and Thomas Unger, from the Geneva Academy, have edited this first systematic analysis (OUP, 2018) of the UN Set of Principles for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights through Action to Combat Impunity.
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