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12 February 2019

Buyer-Seller Relationships in the Bangladeshi Garment Industry

Bangladesh is known for its fast-growing clothing industry. How do its firms trade with international buyers? How do these relationships impact the country’s development strategy? As she details below,...

31 January 2019

The Rise and Fall of Pan-Arabism

Pan-Arabism was essentially but a phase in the political history of the Middle East and North Africa. So argues Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou in his chapter for the Routledge “Handbook of South-South...

31 January 2019

The Farming of Trust: Organic Certification in Uttarakhand

In a paper for “American Ethnologist”, Shaila Seshia Galvin shows how certification inspectors, confronted with the limits of document keeping and inspections, come to understand organic farming as “the...

31 January 2019

Sustaining Peace in Cities

Considering the increasing risk of urban conflict and insecurity, a recent Routledge volume edited by Achim Wennmann and Oliver Jütersonke, from the CCDP, provides new perspectives on sustaining peace...

29 January 2019

Portrait of Beatrice Weder di Mauro, New Professor of International...

The president of CEPR speaks on her recent work and what shaped her early interest in macroeconomics.

24 January 2019

“There is Death in Immobility”: The Identification Process of...

What does it mean today to be exposed to multiple expulsions and constantly on the move?

17 January 2019

La protection des investissements en temps de violence: l’apport...

En temps de conflit armé et de troubles internes, le droit international des investissements, qui apparaît comme le régime «spécial» gouvernant la protection des investissements, se voit disputer sa réglementation...

16 January 2019

Achieving Coherence in International Investment Law: A Continuous...

Debates are underway internationally on reforming the international investment protection regime. Among the concerns that have been identified as meriting reform, is the lack of coherence in how judicial...

14 January 2019

Securitisation in European Union Energy Policy

Has the European Commission become an agent of collective securitisation in EU energy policy? Stephanie Hofmann, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute, and...

07 January 2019

Romanian Nation-Building and American Foreign Assistance (1917–1940)

In her recent PhD thesis, Doina Anca Cretu looks at the case of American humanitarianism and philanthropy in Romania to broadly explore the reception of international aid diffusion in Central and Eastern...