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Finance Finance International Negotiation Oil and Gas Leadership LA REVUE DE L’INSTITUT | THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE REVIEW Acteurs politiques suisses Development | FINANCE Practices Advocacy Projets de développement AND DEVELOPMENT Development Policies Global Health Policy- | CAMPUS DE LA PAIX Making Asian Affairs Crisis Management Projets de développement Acteurs politiques GLOBEN10 Automne | Autumn 2012 suisses Global Health Multilateralism Oil and Gas Leadership International Negotiation Global Health Advocacy ProjetsADVANCE de développement Policy- YOUR Making Asian Affairs Development Policies Oil and Gas Leadership Acteurs politiques suisses Development Practices MultilateralismCAREER Global IN Health International Negotiation Global Health Advocacy Projets de INTERNATIONALdéveloppement Policy- Making Asian Affairs Development Policies Oil and Gas Leadership ActeursAFFAIRS politiques suisses Development Practices Multilateralism Asian Affairs Acteurs politiques suisses Global Health Advocacy Projets de développement Policy-Making Oil and Gas Leadership Development Policies Asian Affairs International Negotiation Development Practices Multilateralism Oil and Gas Leadership Acteurs politiques suisses Development Policies Bring your career to the next level by joining an Executive Education Programme Automne I Autumn 2012 I Autumn Automne at the Graduate Institute. 10 N I GLOBE I REVIEW More information graduateinstitute.ch/executive ≥ GRADUATE INSTITUTE GRADUATE THE I INSTITUT LA REVUE DE L’ LES COLLOQUES CONFERENCES http://graduateinstitute.ch/events SOUTENEZ NOS ÉTUDIANTS ! ≥ Bourses et prix Au moment où s’approche l’inauguration de la Maison de la paix, Conférence publique Opening Year Lecture Conférence annuelle nous adressons un appel aux anciens et aux amis de l’Institut pour L'ONU et la Suisse What’s the Use Pierre du Bois financer des bourses et des prix. dans un monde qui of Economics? L’évolution change Amartya Sen, Professor, Harvard des médias à l’âge Ban Ki-moon, Secrétaire général des University; Nobel Memorial Prize de la globalisation Nations Unies Laureate in Economic Sciences 1998 Roger de Weck, Directeur général Anciens de l’Institut Didier Burkhalter, Conseiller fédéral, The firstEdgar de Picciotto de la Société suisse de radiodiffusion Vous qui avez fait dans nos murs des études marquantes, donnez à des jeunes gens chef du Département fédéral des International Prize will be awarded et télévision (SSR) prometteurs la possibilité de faire une expérience aussi mémorable que la vôtre. affaires étrangères to Professor Sen at this event Mercredi 7 novembre Centre International de conférences Amis de l’Institut Lundi 10 septembre, 16:45 Wednesday 3 October, 6 pm Uni Dufour Council Room, World Trade Genève (CICG) Vous qui nous connaissez, aidez-nous à rayonner en soutenant la formation des futurs Organization, Geneva Organisée en partenariat avec acteurs internationaux qui défendront nos valeurs de coopération et de paix. 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Financial Fourth Annual Conference Sous le développement, Development, Stability Government Debt le genre and Growth Crises: Politics, Jeudi 27 Thursday 25 and Friday 26 October Economics and History et vendredi 28 septembre Auditorium Jacques-Freymond Salle Bungener Friday 14 Organised by the Centre for Trade and Saturday 15 December Organisé par le programme Genre, and Economic Integration (CTEI) and http://graduateinstitute.ch/fonds-bourses-prix globalisation et changements the State Secretariat of Economic Organised by the Graduate Institute Affairs (SECO) and the Pierre du Bois Foundation for ≥ Current History 57 SOMMAIRE | CONTENTS Objectifs 2013-2016 | 2013-2016 Objectives – Philippe Burrin 2 Le Campus de la paix prend corps 4 TRIBUNE | OPINION 6 Academia and Business – Rolf Soiron 6 L’I N V I T É | THE GUEST 7 Le CICR, son action et les nouveaux défis – Jakob Kellenberger 7 ÉCLAIRAGES | PERSPECTIVES 8 Finance and Development 8 La création du Centre finance et développement 9 Hang on for the Ride! The New Centre for Finance and Development – Jean-Louis Arcand 10 Knightian Uncertainty, Risk and the Nano-Finances of the Poor – Jean-Louis Arcand 11 Can Financial Systems Become Too Large ? – Ugo Panizza 14 Women’s Micro-Finance as a Poverty-Alleviating Strategy – Martina Viarengo 16 CHF 12 Million Assistance Programme for Central Banks – Cédric Tille 18 Economic Coordination in the Brave New Globalised World – Charles Wyplosz 19 RIO + 20 20 Le futur du « développement durable » après Rio – Jorge Viñuales 20 LA GENÈVE INTERNATIONALE | INTERNATIONAL GENEVA 22 Geneva as a platform for Conflict Prevention – Achim Wennmann 22 Les villes, laboratoires du futur : rencontre de maires de tous les continents – Marlyne Sahakian 24 LA VIE DE L’INSTITUT | INSTITUTE NEWS 25 Ouverture de l’année académique 25 Les nouveaux enseignants | New Faculty Members 26 Shalini Randeria, Gian Luca Burci, Ilona Kickbusch, Giacomo Luciani, Ugo Panizza, Lore Vandewalle, Yi Huang, Aurélie Elisa Gfeller Les départs | Departing Faculty 31 Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Jean-Luc Maurer Le réseau international | Outreach 33 Joint LL.M. with Georgetown University 33 L’Institut, un lieu d’accueil pour des universitaires du Sud 34 Brain Gain: Exchange Programme with Harvard Law School 35 Visiting Fellows Programme: A Global Meeting Place for Researchers 36 Les étudiants | Students 37 The Gauthier Family, Andréa Joëlle Kundig, Reza Nasri Alumni 40 Piero Gleijeses, Setsuko Ono La recherche | Research 42 Archives et « open access » – Yves Corpataux 42 L’exploitation des eaux du bassin de l’Oronte – Ronald Jaubert 44 Statelessness in International Law: Which Regime(s) for Which Right(s) – Vincent Chetail 45 Arab Spring: New Research Project 46 La formation continue | Executive Education 47 LES PUBLICATIONS | NEW PUBLICATIONS 49 LES COLLOQUES | CONFERENCES 57 OBJECTIFS 2013-2016 2013-2016 OBJECTIVES Philippe Burrin, directeur | Director ’heure est venue de renouveler la convention d’objec- Sur quelques points, la Commission a relevé le besoin Ltifs quadriennale qui lie l’Institut à ses deux princi- d’améliorations et fait des recommandations. Outre la paux financeurs, la Confédération helvétique et le canton question du bilinguisme et son prolongement, la diversité de Genève. Au début de l’année, une Commission d’ex- des approches, elle a épinglé le besoin de mieux structurer perts, composée de MM. Stephan Bieri (président), la gestion de la recherche. Elle a appelé, en outre, à mieux Bertrand Badie et Raymond Torres, a évalué la manière utiliser les « opportunités » de la « Genève internationale » dont l’Institut a rempli les engagements de sa première et à renforcer la coopération avec l’Université de Genève. convention d’objectifs. Ces recommandations sont judicieuses et vont à la ren- contre des objectifs stratégiques de l’Institut. Elles donne- Le rapport des experts dresse un bilan « tout à fait positif » ront lieu à un examen attentif et à des plans d’action. du travail accompli. La réussite de la fusion est constatée, la « haute qualité » de l’enseignement et de la recherche Par le moyen de la Convention d’objectifs 2013-2016, Philippe Burrin. soulignée ; l’Institut, dans son autonomie et avec son pro- l’Institut cherche en premier lieu à garantir les conditions fil ciblé, est jugé digne du soutien des autorités publiques. qui ont permis son essor récent. Comme auparavant, il Tout cela atteste le succès du pari initial : la création veut mettre l’accent sur l’exigence de qualité dans l’ensei- d’une institution sélective, spécialisée sur le global et l’in- gnement et la recherche, sur l’efficacité et l’utilité des ternational, capable d’innovation et d’agilité, faisant fond services offerts au monde extérieur (expertise, formation sur une stratégie de partenariat public-privé. continue notamment) et sur l’objectif de rayonnement à travers le monde au service de Genève et de la Suisse. L’Institut compte sur ses collaborateurs, ses amis et ses anciens pour le soutenir dans cette nouvelle phase. 2 he time has come to renew the quadrennial There were some areas where the Commission noted the T“Convention d’objectifs” which binds the Institute to need
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