A Norm in the Making: Banning the Global Trade in Tools of Torture
By Ezgi Yildiz – International law prohibits torture, but not the tools used to torture. The Global Alliance for Torture Free Trade aims to change that.
Order, orders, ordering
By Stephanie Hofmann – In a world seemingly in flux, who and what is providing order to international relationships?
Negotiating the role of interpreters in the multilateral system
By Max Crisp – Interpreters play a crucial (yet often underappreciated) role in the processes of global governance.
Global Governance 2.0: Enriching the Regional Content in Global Development Programmes
By Anita Prakash – Are regionally-orientated solutions to global problems the key to achieving sustainable development?
Assessing the BRICS Johannesburg Summit, potential enlargement
By Selçuk Çolakoğlu – Continuing to support multilateralism, the BRICS are now considering enlargement and Turkey is an interesting prospect.
The Anatomy of Legal Change
By Ezgi Yildiz – How can we study legal change globally? A focus on the depth and pace of change could reveal important patterns.
The “Sovereign Debt Sanction”: How monetary policy can be used as foreign policy
By Ramon della Torre – Using sovereign debt securities as instruments to help mitigate conflicts has been largely underestimated.
The Entanglement of Global Legal Order
By Francesco Corradini & Lucy Lu Reimers – New tools are required to understand the complex normative interactions through which the global legal order is being constructed.
The identity-solidarity link: a key challenge for global governance
By Emmanuel Dalle Mulle – The rise of populist and radical parties, accompanied by austerity, poses fundamental challenges to creating truly inclusive social systems.
Why Synchronise National Electoral Cycles?
By Grégoire Mallard –
With voters increasingly dissatisfied with their political leaders and institutions, it’s time to re-think national elections.
Is WTO Dispute Settlement Really “Busier Than Ever”?
By Joost Pauwelyn – In Geneva trade circles one often hears that WTO dispute settlement is “busier than ever”, “a victim of its own success”. A new paper double-checks those claims.
Has MIKTA augmented the global governance role of middle powers?
By Selcuk Colakoglu – The new informal partnership of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey, and Australia hints at trend in global governance.
Tracing the effects of IO financing reforms
Last April Cecilia Cannon was among the many Graduate Institute professors and researchers who went to San Francisco to contribute to the 2018 Annual Convention of…
How to Uphold Multilateralism and Defy Protectionism: Listen More to Developing Economies
By Anita Prakash – Global governance bodies must be inclusive and bring in the voices from developing economies, which are practitioners of open and rule based trade relations.
Regime Interactions and the Dual Legality of EU Law: The case of Slovak Republic v. Achmea
By Lorenzo Gasbarri – In this case, the ECJ explicitly refers to EU law as being international law and at the same time forming an internal legal system. What does this mean, and are there consequences for the interactions between legal regimes?
