Graduate Institute Publications: 93 books
by Saul Friedländer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This ePaper, History and Memory: lessons from the Holocaust, presents the original text of the Leçon inaugurale delivered by Professor Saul Friedländer on 23 September 2014 at the Maison de la Paix, which marked the opening of the academic year of the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The lecture highlights...
From Communism to Anti-Communism
Photographs from the Boris Souvarine Collection at the Graduate Institute, Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Boris Souvarine moved from communism, in the first years of the Soviet régime, to anti-communism by the 1930s and throughout the rest of his long life. This book gives us a new and original perspective on the period that runs from the Russian Revolution to the 1950s and allows us to better understand...
by Christiane Ahlborn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This paper examines the ambivalent influence of the UN Security Council’s practice on the development of international refugee protection since the early 1990s. While the international refugee protection regime did not originally foresee a role for the Security Council, the increasingly complex...
Le village piégé
Urbanisation et agro-industrie sucrière en Côte d'Ivoire
Language: French
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Ce Cahier n’est ni un ouvrage sur l'industrie du sucre, ni une critique du modèle de développement de la Côte-d’Ivoire. Il ne s’agit pas davantage d’un essai sur la pratique des architectes. Notre propos, plus modeste, est de faire converger vers une problématique concrète des réflexions...
Une économie solidaire peut-elle être féministe ?
Homo oeconomicus, mulier solidaria
Language: French
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Partout dans le monde, des femmes et des hommes se mobilisent pour faire de l’économie autrement, une économie citoyenne qui ne soit pas au service du profit mais de l'intérêt collectif, et fondée sur la solidarité. L'économie solidaire concerne-t-elle un secteur de seconde zone, tout juste...
Ingérence économique
La mécanique de soumission
Language: French
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Ce cahier traite de l’“ingérence économique” des acteurs internationaux, définie ici comme l’intervention autoritaire des gestionnaires de l’économie mondiale dans la gestion des économies nationales. Ce phénomène est à la fois salué et violemment critiqué. Ce dossier contradictoire...
Les mots du pouvoir
Sens et non-sens de la rhétorique internationale
Language: French
Release Date: January 7, 2017
L’intention initiale était de proposer quelques règles générales pour déconstruire la rhétorique internationale en mettant en lumière les différents procédés qu’elle utilise pour s’imposer. Montrer, par exemple, comment le discours qui se prétend référentiel et qui est donc censé...
The Evolving Patterns of Lebanese Politics in Post-Syria Lebanon
The Perceptions of Hizballah among Members of the Free Patriotic Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This work aims to shed light on the evolution of the Lebanese political arena after the withdrawal of Syrian troops in April 2005 by analyzing the perceptions of Hizballah among members of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), as the alliance between the two groups enters its fourth year. Hizballah is...
Indian Villages
Achievements and Alarm Bells, 1952–2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book presents a unique testimony on the evolution of the Indian peasant's world over more than sixty years. Its originality lies in part in the unique trajectory of its author, Gilbert Étienne, an exceptional man, all at once scientific traveller, thinker of the North/South relationships and...
The SWIFT Affair
Swiss Banking Secrecy and the Fight against Terrorist Financing
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The story broke in 2006: Since 9/11, US intelligence services have had access to practically any international money transfer data by infiltrating the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) network. Banks worldwide transfer money orders and personal customer data through...
Pashtun Traditions versus Western Perceptions
Cross-Cultural Negotiations in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Cross-cultural interactions take place every day in contemporary Afghanistan between locals and the thousands of foreigners working in the country as diplomats, officials from international organisations and humanitarian aid workers. As their work requires them to interact with Afghans in manifold...
Exporting Legality
The Rise and Fall of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Ottoman Empire and China
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
How did two radically different legal cultures, those of the Ottomans and the Chinese, gradually acquire a legal architecture analogous to that of Europe? This Paper attempts to answer this question by providing a comparative study in legal history of the rise and demise of extraterritorial consular...
Decentralisation Hybridized
A Western Concept on its Way through South Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
South Sudan is undergoing a process of internationally-supported state building of which decentralisation forms part. For the people, decentralisation is understood as a right to self-rule based on native–stranger dichotomies and as a means of appropriating and incorporating an abstract and distant...
The Negotiations of a Tax Agreement between Switzerland and Germany
Double Trouble in Double-Level Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This ePaper analyses the negotiations of an agreement on tax cooperation between Switzerland and Germany in 2012. The paper looks at the importance of the balance of power and reveals how domestic constraints and a shrinking win-set can affect double-level negotiations. It also offers an illustration...