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Global Challenges
Issue no. 12 | November 2022
The Weaponisation of Economics
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Global Challenges
Issue no. 12 | November 2022
The Weaponisation of Economics

The multipolar world succeeding US hegemony in the early 21st century, the financial crisis of 2007 and the corollary decline of liberalism seem to have ushered in an era of economic nationalism. States are increasingly left to fend for themselves as multilateral mechanisms lose traction and international economic relations gain in toxicity. The sanctions, embargoes and retaliations arising from the war in Ukraine, but also an accelerating struggle for dwindling natural resources, have pushed these logics to new heights. This Dossier assesses ongoing geoeconomic transformations and their potentially devastating consequences.

Articles for this issue

The Weaponisation of Economics
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    War by Other Means? Geoeconomics in the 21st Century

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    Grégoire Mallard, Director of Research and Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
    Dominic Eggel, Research Adviser at the Research Office
    Marc Galvin, Executive Director of the Research Office
    Geneva Graduate Institute

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    Globalisation: The Danger of Safe Spaces

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    Rui Esteves
    Professor of International History and Economics
    Geneva Graduate Institute

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    Risky Interdependence: The Impact of Geoeconomics on Trade Policy

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    Joost Pauwelyn
    Professor and Head of the Department of International Law; Co-director of the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
    Geneva Graduate Institute

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    A New Page in Global Sanctions Practice: The Russian Case

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    Erica Moret
    Senior Researcher at the Global Governance Centre and the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies
    Coordinator of the Graduate Institute’s Sanctions and Sustainable Peace Hub
    Geneva Graduate Institute

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    The Politicisation of the Commodities Trade

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    Giacomo Luciani
    Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Programme
    Geneva Graduate Institute

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    Sanctions against Russia and the Role of the United Nations

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    Thomas Biersteker
    Gasteyger Professor honoraire
    Geneva Graduate Institute

     

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    Global natural resources commodity trade with exchange of futures contracts on commodities

    A Renewed Neocolonial Scramble for Resources?

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    Gilles Carbonnier, Professor of Development Economics
    Rahul Mehrotra, Research Fellow in Development Economics
    Geneva Graduate Institute

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    The Rise of Geoeconomics

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    By Zakaria Imessaoudene
    PhD Researcher in International Relations/Political Science
    Geneva Graduate Institute

     

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    Debt as a Political Weapon?

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    By Carlo Edoardo Altamura
    SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow
    Department of International History and Politics
    Geneva Graduate Institute

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    Global Sanctions: A Bibliography from the Graduate Institute

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    Marc Galvin
    Executive Director of the Research Office
    Geneva Graduate Institute

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Issue no. 7 | April 2020
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Global Governance in Peril?
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Issue no. 7 | April 2020
Global Governance in Peril?

The present Dossier takes stock of the current state of the multilateral system and its future prospects. It aims to explore to what extent global governance is in crisis as the global geopolitical order is undergoing fundamental shifts and liberal universalism is losing traction. It assesses potential of reform in extant institutions as well as emerging trends, tools and forums that are reshaping multilateral practice on a daily basis.
Note – The dossier was drafted before the Covid-19 world crisis.

Issue no. 4 | October 2018
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Epidemia of Walls in an (Un)free World
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Issue no. 4 | October 2018
Epidemia of Walls in an (Un)free World

We currently face a baffling paradox. While since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 a seemingly inexorable process of globalisation has been foreshadowing a peaceful and frontierless world, the number of walls across the world has been rising at a steady pace. Liberal and open societies buttressed by trade, international law and technological progress were supposed to implacably contribute to the erosion of frontiers and walls between nations. However, in a context of surging populist discourses, securitarian anxieties and identitarian politics as well as concomitant flows of migration alimented by climate change, conflict and poverty, nations have recently started to barricade themselves behind new walls.