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January–February 2019 Research Bulletin graduateinstitute.ch/research Outputs Environment and Natural Finance and Development Resources Beatrice Weder di Mauro The Farming of Trust Migration and Refugees Gender Nation-Building through Gender-Inclusive Compulsory Schooling Governance for E-Commerce Governance Democracy and Civil Society Frame Contestation and Mohammad Reza Shah Collective Securitisation Pahlavi's Autocracy Conflict, Dispute Settlement and Development Policies and Practices Peacebuilding Crypto-Miners: Digital Labor Urban Safety and Peace- and Blockchain Technology building Culture, Identity and Religion Trade and Economic Integration Ideologies of Racial Mixing Sustainable Resource in Brazil and Mexico Valuation Miscellaneous Armed Groups and Smugglers along Libya's Southern Border Agenda Lectures Upcoming Upcoming Grants Prizes Visitors and Seminars Deadlines PhD Defences Outputs Environment and Natural Resource ARTICLE The Farming of Trust: Organic Certification and the Limits of Transparency In 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”. Interview › ARTICLE ARTICLE ARTICLE Food Certification, The Contemporary Apprentissage et Domestic Politics and Law of International classification International Trade: Watercourses: Some automatiques pour The US Compliance Aspects and améliorer la Response in Three Problems pertinence d’un WTO Disputes This article by Lucius corpus d’articles How do domestic coalitions Caflisch (in Swiss Review Cherchant à quantifier le influence US compliance of international and développement des with WTO rulings in European Law, vol. 28, no. politiques disputes involving food 3, 2018) outlines the environnementales et certification? PhD genesis and some features climatiques sur les quatre Candidate Rodrigo of the modern law of dernières décennies, Joëlle Fagundes Cezar proposes international watercourses, Noailly, Laura Minu a framework centred on especially the principle of Nowzohour et domestic preferences and reasonable and equitable al. construisent puis tests it on the tuna-dolphin, utilisation and the do-no- exploitent un corpus shrimp-turtle and country- harm rule, as well as the d’articles de presse relatifs of-origin labeling disputes relation between them. à cette thématique (in (in Environmental Politics, Publisher › Revue électronique suisse 2019). de science de l'information, Link to article › no 19, déc. 2018). Accès › Top Finance and Development PORTRAIT Beatrice Weder di Mauro, New Professor of International Economics The 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. Interview › Top Migration and Refugees ARTICLE Nation-Building through Compulsory Schooling during the Age of Mass Migration Between 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). Access › BOOK CHAPTER PHD THESIS Exclusion as a Liberal “There is Death in lmmobility”: Imperative: Culture, Gender, and An Auto-Ethnography of the the Orientalization of Migration Identification Process of Evangelos Karagiannis and Shalini Transnational Young Hazaras Randeria open their analysis of exclusion What does it mean today to be exposed to as a liberal imperative (in Migration: multiple expulsions and constantly on the Changing Concepts, Critical Approaches, move? In her study of young Hazaras in De Gruyter, 2018) with a text from a video Iran, Afghanistan and Europe, Khadija put online by a leader of the Austrian Abbasi opens new windows in right-populist party FPÖ. understanding human mobility. Access › Interview › Top Gender 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. Access › ARTICLE ARTICLE BOOK CHAPTER Engendering the Colombia’s Career Dynamics and Right to Food? Constitutional Debate Gender Gaps among International Human on Gender Quotas: Employees in the Rights Law, Food The Link between Microfinance Sector Security and the Representation, Using a unique panel Rural Woman Merit, and Democracy dataset of employees from Joanna Bourke The centrality of merit in Latin America’s largest Martignoni, coordinator of the constitutional debate on microfinance institutions, the DEMETER project, gender quotas is Martina Viarengo, Ina examines the dominant fundamentally flawed, for it Ganguli and Ricardo narratives being ignores the subjective Hausmann (in Towards constructed about gendered nature of merit, limiting the Gender Equity in food insecurity and unequal type of experiences and Development, Oxford land rights at the potential that matter in University Press, 2018) international level and the democratic representation. show that gender gaps manner in which these are So argues Felipe Ruiz favouring men for embodied through Jaramillo, IR/PS PhD promotion exist primarily in discussions of the role and candidate affiliated to the the sales division, while status of rural women (in Gender Centre, in Desafíos there is a significant gender Transnational Legal Theory, (vol. 31, no. 1, January wage gap in the January 2019). 2019). administrative division. DOI › DOI › Publisher › Top Governance ARTICLE Frame Contestation and Collective Securitisation: The Case of EU Energy Policy EU 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). Interview with Ueli Staeger › PHD THESIS ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY The Principle of Coherence in Post-War Societies (Middle East) International Law: A Study on After the First World War, nation-states Investment Arbitration. and nation-state movements crystallised The lack of coherence in how judicial as the dominant political choice decisions resolving investment disputes throughout the Middle East, but nation- turn out is a major concern. But, as state building was complex and infused argued by Charalampos with transnational and international Giannakopoulos, achieving coherence in dimensions, as shown by Cyrus law may be less of a fixed or easily Schayegh in 1914-1918 Online: identifiable destination and more of a International Encyclopedia of the First continuous process. World War (2018). Interview › Access › COMMENTARY ARTICLE The Institute of International Strategic Ignorance and Global Law's Resolution on State Governance: An Ecumenical Succession and State Approach to Epistemologies of Responsibility Global Power This article-by-article commentary by Earlier scholarship tends to assume an Marcelo Kohen and Patrick Dumberry ignorance‐knowledge binary relationship explores the resolution adopted in 2015 by that associates ignorance with the Institute of International Law powerlessness and knowledge with power. (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Disputing this view, Grégoire Mallard Publisher › 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). Access › Top Democracy and Civil Society ARTICLE Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Autocracy: Governmental Constraints, 1960s–1970s This 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. Access › Top Development Policies and Practices ARTICLE Crypto-Miners: Digital Labor and the Power of Blockchain Technology Drawing 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. Access › PHD THESIS THÈSE DE DOCTORAT Romanian Nation-Building and La protection des American Foreign Assistance investissements en temps de (1917–1940) violence: l’apport du DIH, du Looking at the case of American DIDH et du droit de la humanitarianism and philanthropy in responsabilité internationale Romania, Doina Anca Cretu explores the En temps de conflit armé et de troubles reception of international aid diffusion in internes, le droit international des Central and Eastern Europe during the investissements se voit disputer sa First World War and in the interwar period. réglementation par d’autres corpus Interview ›
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